Past events
Trust Scientific Meeting: The impact of refugees on the Tavistock and the work with refugee communities today
Our Trust Scientific Meetings are for our staff, students and alumni. Rumbling in the background of the past 100 years of the Tavistock’s existence...
Back to the Future: Authority, vulnerability, continuity and change: A Group Relations Conference celebrating 100 years of Tavistock thinking
NB. This conference has been postponed. However, we are currently we're trying to collect views on how and when to reschedule it via this survey:...
Exploring the complex realities of inter-agency working: a Group Relations Conference
This is an applied 3 day group relations conference exploring complexities in caring for the emotional and psychological well-being of adults,...
Refugee Week event: Imagine
Refugee Week is a UK-wide festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees. Founded in 1998 and held every year around...
Trust Scientific Meeting: On complacency
Julian Lousada will illustrate how complacency is an important but often unrecognized factor which can enter into our work with patients and also...
On whose authority? - exploring leadership in contemporary organisation, Geneva group relations conference 2020
A Group Relations Conference in Geneva
COVID-19: Vulnerability and the Fear of Vulnerability
Join us for a special Tavistock Policy Seminar about the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on vulnerable children, adults and older people. We are...
Trust Scientific Meeting: Group Relations at the Tavistock: Where from and where to?
Time: 11:30am to 12:50pm Date: 11 May 2020 Speaker: William Halton and Members of the GRC Steering Committee Chair: Tim LeLean, GRC Steering...
Trust Scientific Meeting: Under Fire in the Consulting Room
A slow match is a very slow-burning fuse presenting only a small glowing tip whereas a quick match is one - which once ignited - burns at top...
Tavistock Policy Series: The Consultant’s Act of Freedom: Isabel Menzies Lyth 60 years on
With our leading mental health experts, our Centenary Tavistock Policy Seminar series provides an opportunity to explore our latest thinking and...
Trust Scientific Meeting: Watch me play!
Watch me Play! is an intervention to support vulnerable babies and young children. Dr Jenifer Wakelyn will explore the roots of this approach in...
Courage to Connect: Navigating the Complexities of Organisational Life - a Group Relations Conference
We live and work in complex formal and informal organisational contexts. The liveliness, energy, interest and respect that we can bring to each...
Trust Scientific Meeting: 'Oedipus Wrecked’ - Constructing the unconscious phantasy through its emergence in the analyst’s mind”
In most patients, classically recognisable Oedipal themes are present and dominant, emerging symbolically in dreams, phantasies and actions – and...
Medically Unexplained Symptoms / Somatic Symptom Disorder: Improving Practice 2019
A Joint Conference Healthcare Conferences UK & The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation TrustResearched and produced in partnership with The...
On achieving a good enough work-life balance in General Practice
Thinking Space: On achieving a good enough work-life balance in General Practice
Trust Scientific Meeting: "Waiting Times: an exploration and update"
What does it mean to wait now? What does it mean to care now?
Fluidity – a retrospective of paintings by Dimitris Giannakopoulos
We are thrilled to be displaying a series of paintings from artist Dimitris Giannakopoulos in November at the Tavistock Centre.
Annual General Meeting 2019
We invite you to attend our 2019 Annual General Meeting
Trust Scientific Meeting “Strange meeting: the relevance of Tavistock history and methods to the Brexit crisis"
The Tavistock and Portman has a long tradition of democratically based working methods and management practices, which are in danger of being lost...
Discovering Leadership: The State we’re in and the State within - a group relations conference
Organizational life is more complex and difficult than ever. Globalisation, technology, and the rapid pace of environmental change sets us in a...
Identity, culture, and class in group and organisational life: a group relations conference
Join us in creating a three-day experiential learning institution, designed to explore ways in which groups, inter-groups and organisations...
Time-limited Adolescent Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: a developmentally focussed psychotherapy for young people by Stephen Briggs
There are drinks and light refreshments, and the opportunity to meet other guests. The contribution the book makes to current practice, and debates...
Trust Scientific Meeting: Mind your language: the vocabulary of higher education today
Universities have undergone dramatic changes in recent decades, especially since 2010. In this lecture, Stefan Collini discusses some of these...
Launch of 'New Discoveries in Child Psychotherapy: Findings from Qualitative Research'
The editors of the Tavistock Clinic/Routledge Book Series (Margot Waddell, Jocelyn Catty and Kate Stratton) are pleased to invite you to the launch...
The Projections Society presents: Ida
In 1962, Anna is about to take vows as a nun when she learns from her only relative that she is Jewish. Both women embark on a journey to discover...
BAME youth and their identity in hostile environments
Can psychoanalysis help adolescents from a BAME background negotiate positive identities and personality development in a hostile environment? A...
Beyond the Us and Them Conference
The Centre for Trauma, Asylum and Refugees (CTAR) of the University of Essex, UNHCR, the Tavistock Centre and the Refugee Council invite you to...
Family Origins: Childhood trauma in Harry Potter and the Clinic
The second in a new annual lecture series on “Identities in Transition”, in memory of Stephen Thomson.
Gender and Power: a Shakespearean Dialogue
Join us for an evening of dialogue about the links between psychotherapeutic approaches and Shakespeare's plays.
Book Launch: Researching the Unconscious by Michael Rustin
The Editors (Margot Waddell, Jocelyn Catty and Kate Stratton) of the Tavistock Clinic/Routledge Book Series are pleased to invite you to the Launch...
The 2019 Tavistock Doctoral Conference: ‘Making waves – influencing the professional field through practitioner research’
Join us for presentations, workshops, debate, networking, refreshments, and inspiration.
Trust Research Week
Research Week highlights the best in mental health research methodology.
Trust Scientific Meeting: Rising climate instability
Currently we see rapidly rising instability in two distinct climates: the physical and the human. It will be argued in this presentation that these...
Health and Social Care Workforce Development: Preventing Stress and Enhancing Workforce Resilience Conference
The 2019 Mental Health Workforce Development Conference.
Exploring the complex realities of inter-agency working: a group relations conference
This is an applied four-day group relations conference exploring complexities in caring for the emotional and psychological well-being of adults,...
Tavistock Policy Seminar: Reflective Social Work Practice
Tavistock Policy Seminars presents:"Reflective Social Work Practice - How it works, how it helps, does it?
Youth Violence and Knife Crime in London Today: Going beyond the superficial approaches
A Thinking Space Special Event
Nurturing Children: From Trauma to Growth Using Attachment Theory, Psychoanalysis and Neurobiology
The internationally respected clinician and trainer Dr Graham Music, tackles major issues affecting troubled children, including trauma, neglect,...
Not Knowing but Learning about Racism
A Thinking Space Special Event
Book Launch - Justice for Children and Families: A Developmental Perspective
Join us on Wednesday February 27 for the official launch of Justice for Children and Families: A Developmental Perspective, by Dr Mike Shaw and...
Strength and vulnerability: exploring authenticity and risk in contemporary organisational life
Conference Director: Lydia Hartland-Rowe
Medically Unexplained Symptoms / Somatic Symptom Disorder: National Summit 2018
Researched and produced in partnership with The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and chaired by Brian Rock, Director of Education and...
Ecology, Psychoanalysis and Global Warming - Present and future traumas
Global warming is the most important concern threatening humankind today. It can be both frightening and traumatic. It is a reality, which is often...
Understanding the emotional impact of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD): looking after nurses looking after patients
This innovative conference will address the profound impact of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) on patients and the complex emotional impact on...
Trauma, Creativity and Resistance
Trauma refers to the emotional distress we experience in response to emotionally painful circumstances often linked to experiences of oppression,...
Systemic Psychotherapy and Queer Practice – Working Alongside LGBTQ People, Relationships and Families. Otherness & Reflexivity (CPD73i)
Guest Speaker: Amanda Middleton This half day workshop will help us learn how we might better get alongside LGBT families of choice. We will look...
The science of gender: evidence for what influences gender development and gender dysphoria and what are the respective influences of nature and nurture
The 2018 European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE) science symposium