In order to undertake this course, we ask that you:

• have a minimum of three years’ experience in your chosen profession
• have experience of direct involvement in the management, training or development of other professional workers, or engagement in consultative work for specific organisations
• have a first degree or equivalent, and/or professional experience commensurate with that qualification

Home

£7,650 per year (2023/24)

International

£ 15,300 per year (2023/24)

For more information about financing your studies and your fee status, please see our fees and funding area.

Please note that course fees are subject to an annual uplift of 3% or the Consumer Price Inflation as at 1 September, whichever is the greater. At its discretion, the Trust may determine a figure between these two rates.

We are happy to offer a range of ways to pay your fees, as well as some funding for specific courses.

Assessment

Over the two years of the master’s, assessment will be through four 3,000 word essays (two each year), two 2,000 essays (one each year) plus a dissertation of 14,000 words completed during the summer following year two.

There is also an element of continuous assessment provided by tutors and supervisors in the ‘Consulting and leading in practice’ module of the course, worth 50% of assessment for that module.

Attendance

• The course will take place across 11 Friday and Saturday teaching blocks per year (see dates in table below)
• There will be four six-hour sessions of group work on each day of each block, with generous breaks provided
• Friday sessions will run from 9.45am to 5.00pm, UK time
• Saturday sessions will run from 9.30am to 4.30pm, UK time

In addition, there will be a series of one-hour or one-and-a-half-hour webinars scheduled on Wednesday evenings between 6.00pm and 7.30pm, UK time (6 in Year One plus 3 additionally arranged on a day to be confirmed with tutors on observation module; 4 in Year Two).

Students in their second year should be aware that a further 11 mid-block supervision webinars will be scheduled by supervisors between January and June 2024, at times which best suit individual supervision groups.

Year One students will also be required to attend the Group Relations Conference at the Tavistock Clinic 2-5 September 2024 (TBC).

Student-led webinars:

• Wednesday 18 October 2023
• Wednesday 8 November 2023
• Wednesday 29 November 2023
• Wednesday 31 January 2024
• Wednesday 24 April 2024
• Wednesday 22 May 2024

Please note: these dates could be subject to change.

Graduates of this course have:

• come from a variety of professional backgrounds including healthcare, retail, the finance sector, technology and software development, sports and entertainment industries, charities and social services
• learned a new approach to working within and consulting to organisations, allowing them to understand unconscious group dynamics and how organisations function as systems with managed boundaries, hierarchies of roles, necessary inputs and outputs
• developed roles within organisations where they consult to processes of change, or common difficulties such as high staff turnover, evolving marketplaces or mergers
• explored how aspects of identity such as race, gender, sexuality, class or disability shape organisational functioning
• learned skills for improving diversity and inclusion in the workplace
• taken up senior management and executive leadership roles
• become self-employed as organisational consultants
• created a strong professional network and community of practice
• become ambassadors of the Tavistock approach in consultancy and the organisation