Turn to the Room offers professional development for experienced facilitators, consultants and coaches who sense that technique is no longer the edge.

This is an opportunity to refine your stance – to practise neutrality without stepping back, curiosity without performance, and hypothesising without attachment.

Great teams can work things out for themselves – and they sometimes ask for an independent facilitator with expertise in hosting executive conversations that call for collective intelligence. Turn to the Room shows you how to hold that role firmly but lightly, in a one-down position that lets clients think, talk and decide as a team.

And you? Yes, you join and work with them, primarily to offer questions, provocations, suggestions and observations that enrich their reflective, deeper and inventive thinking. You keep them on task and on time, too.

Turn to the Room expands your consulting advantage with options that include scenario planning, collective intelligence, leadership teams, or human inquiry. This is a bespoke solution for small groups working with the same organisation, or the same client.

Advanced facilitation is intuitive and unscripted – but not without thought.

Human systems – like leadership teams and organisations – are invisible. When we only have language to go on, we listen to it closely. When we know our client’s intent, we turn to the room offering carefully structured conversations that shed light, make sense and generate ideas for action.

In leadership work, the productive medium is conversation.

That’s why Turn to the Room is built on conversational insights from systemic, constructionist and narrative practices, relevant to the work of leadership teams.

We listen to make it purposeful and work collaboratively to invite, provoke and generate new insights that count. They come from the room – that’s why we turn to it.

In a world of smart technology, it’s good to be human.

Intelligent conversation will always be augmented. But strategic conversations with technical foresight, critical thinking and moral judgment need careful human thought.

Turn to the Room equips experienced facilitators to support that work. Our medium is human, too.
This is not an open programme. It is a bespoke solution for small groups who may be working together in the same organisation, or for the same client.

According to your current and foreseeable priorities, your bespoke solution could also include methodologies for scenario planning, collective intelligence, critical thinking, leadership team performance or human inquiry.

If this appeals to you, please get in touch.