44: The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations with Dr Eliat Aram

Our guest this week is Dr Eliat Aram, CEO of The Tavistock
Institute of Human Relations (TIHR). 





Dr Eliat Aram has been the CEO of TIHR for over 13 years. The
TIHR, a not-for-profit outfit operating in the UK and abroad is
celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2022 and is a world-leading
research, evaluation, consultancy, and professional development
organisation. Believing in the abundant potential of human
relationships and love for people are the drivers in the way she
shapes the direction of the institute, the multitude of its
activities as well as her praxis.  





TIHR was established in 1947, dedicated to the study of human
relations for the bettering of working life. Eliat discusses some
of the TIHR developments over the years and shares new directions
they are pioneering, particularly in the areas of how aesthetics,
art, and place inform our working lives today.    





TIHR developed many experiential learning methodologies, drawing
on systemic thinking, anthropology, psychoanalysis, and other
social sciences, the most well-known are the Group Relations
Conferences. Eliat reflects on the importance of this innovative
learning methodology and its continued relevance in today's
disruptive world. This podcast will be of great interest to all
of us indebted to the Tavistock Institute and its positive
influence on work, organisations, and society. 





Bio


Dr Eliat Aram is a Chartered Scientist Psychologist (BPS), a UKCP
registered Gestalt Psychotherapist, and has been one of the
pioneering members of the CMC (Complexity & Management
Centre) of Hertfordshire University. Her theoretical grounding is
in complexity theory, organisational studies, Gestalt
psychotherapy theory, and systems psychodynamics. She is a keen
practitioner of Group Relations, the Tavistock enterprise’s core
‘learning through experience’ practice. She has directed many
Group Relations Conferences internationally including the
Tavistock Institute’s flagship GRC known as the ‘Leicester’
conference. She has been one of the two directors of the TIHR’s
certified courses Coaching for Leadership and Professional
Development (2014-2017) and co-founder of the Supervision for
Coaching and Consultancy course, now in its seventh cohort. She
has contributed to all TIHR Professional Development activities
and program design. Someone told her recently that perhaps
work-life balance is found when one finds their love at, and for,
work and life. Working with the dynamic of shame as an integral
part of any potentially transformative learning process has been
her quest and the tenet of her evolving thinking over the decades
of her practice. Someone told her recently that perhaps work-life
balance is found when one finds their love at, and for, work and
life. She unashamedly thinks this might just be so.