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Today, NTL has approximately two hundred (200) members and we are represented in eleven (11) countries. Members are consultants, academics, and leaders from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds in Applied Behavioral Science. NTL members work at all levels of the system to further NTL's contributions to human-centered personal, inter-personal, group, and organization level development and change. Use of Self is an important component of our work and our flagship program is the Human Interaction Lab® and T-Group™ experience. Participants often describe this lab as a life-changing experience.

In 2022, NTL celebrated its 75th Jubilee Anniversary. Over these 75+ years, NTL has continued to hold its original mission and values as important touchstones, honoring human development, research, experiential learning, inclusion, diversity, social justice, and democratic values.

Today, NTL holds at the core of its mission and values the key components of Kurt Lewin's NTL legacy and 75 years of subsequent work by NTL's talented founders and members. We are proud of our history and you can read more at this link - Our Legacy. Today we continue to focus on the following approach:

• A focus on theory and learning in conjunction with action. Since 1947, NTL has attracted top scholars and practitioners of psychology, social psychology, sociology, and management. These scholar-practitioners produced the theory and practice literature that remains the basis for much of modern approaches to the development of individuals, teams, and organizations, This research, thought, and action tradition is continued by NTL through its refereed academic journal, the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science and Practising Social Change, the Institute's digital practitioners' journal that explores contemporary social-change concepts and practices worldwide. NTL's recently established book imprint relationship with Libri Publishing in the UK is providing opportunities for NTL members to publish book length contributions based on their work as thought leaders, scholars and practitioners.
• A human development orientation. NTL's work is predicated on the potential of individuals for personal growth and change. Equitable, inclusive, diverse environments, are essential for this growth and change to take place.
• A research-based belief in the power of experiential learning. The T-Group™, NTL's unique featured learning process, remains foundational in the power of experiential, collaborative learning about self and groups. It is the central learning focus for NTL's Human Interaction Laboratories® and continues to foster NTL's development of laboratory learning methods for teaching core human dynamics, organization development, leadership, and personal growth.
• A belief in the value of diversity and inclusion across differences, and the importance of social justice for individuals and groups. These beliefs were guiding forces behind the 1946 New Britain Workshop which birthed NTL. NTL remains committed to these values in its organization and its programs. In addition, many NTL members continue to do important diversity, inclusion, and multicultural work in their private consulting practices with organizations and communities in the US and throughout the world.
• A continuing emphasis on innovative thinking, thought leadership, and practice in organization development and change. NTL members, working through NTL, universities, and in their practices, are active thought-and-practice leaders for advances in collaborative approaches to change in organizations and communities. We strive to bring our legacy work into the present, developing innovative options for contemporary challenges to human relationships at all levels of system. We also seek collaboration with consonant behavioral science, research, practice, and teaching organizations to advance the mission and values of NTL.

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