Three interconnected strands of practice — facilitation, democracy, and rhetoric — each a different expression of the same underlying work.
These are not separate businesses. They are different ways into the same set of ideas about what happens when people are in a room together.
A framework for facilitation built around four fundamental qualities present in every workshop. The basis of the national practitioner tour and the open-enrolment workshops for facilitators, drama teachers, directors, and people who work with groups.
Participatory and deliberative practice for civic life. Designing democratic spaces where disagreement is productive, not destructive — informed by thirty years of work with local authorities, government departments, and international partners.
Training, coaching, and consultancy in professional communication, discussion leadership, and public engagement. Grounded in classical rhetoric and practical philosophy, applied to the full range of organisational communication.