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What it costs

One afternoon, or something that sticks.

Two ways to do this. Book one session and it is the best afternoon they have had at work. Book three of the same thing and how they work together starts to move. Prices below, no call required to see them.

Two ways in

Pick the one that fits.

How many people
Hands and materials on a table

A session

£2,250

13 to 20 · ninety minutes · £113 a head, whichever room

One afternoon in your own office. We bring everything, everyone makes something, everyone takes it home, and nobody loses a morning travelling. No structure, no follow-up, no commitment.

Book a session
Finished pieces on a shelf

A programme

£2,100 a session

Three months minimum · billed £2,100 a month · £150 less a session

The same group and the same theme three times, a fortnight apart. A different craft each time, so nobody becomes the expert, and each one with less help than the last. One session is a good afternoon. Three is where how they work together starts to move, and you get a page at the end you can forward.

See how it works

How a session runs

01

The same twenty people

The same group all the way through. Part three assumes you were there for parts one and two, so this only works if the room does not change.

02

Ninety minutes, in your office

We bring everything. You give us a room, a table and an hour and a half.

03

Three sessions, a fortnight apart

Close enough together that the second one still remembers the first. One session on its own teaches nothing.

04

Each one harder than the last

We take away the help. Session one has a template, session three has nothing, and that is where the learning is.

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The programme

Which of these sounds like your team?

Each one is a set of things in a set order, because the order does work. You cannot practise disagreeing well with people who will not admit they are unsure in the first place.

Why this order

You cannot practise disagreeing well until people will admit they are unsure at all. So it starts with being visibly wrong on purpose, then giving feedback, then handling the pushback, then helping someone else do it.

How much of it

The Quiet Team · One part · 3 sessions over about 6 weeks

Each block stays on one theme and changes the craft every session. That is on purpose: keep the same craft and somebody becomes the expert, and being a beginner together is the part that does the work.

Portrait sketching
Part 1 · weeks 1–5Speaking up when you don't know
WK 1Portrait sketchingMake something in front of your partner. Every piece goes on the wall, named.
WK 3Hand-built claySame again with a constraint that guarantees a worse result. Still named, still on the wall.
WK 5WatercolourMake, then say out loud what you got wrong before anyone else can.

The same group all the way through, a different craft each session so nobody becomes the expert in the room, and one page at the end you can forward. Short enough to read, honest enough that we tell you when nothing changed.

Straight answers

The questions we actually get.

Q1

Is this a craft workshop with a better name on it?

The craft is the same craft. What you're buying is the structure around it: a named thing the session is about, deliberate pairing so nobody sits with their own team, a facilitated critique protocol, and a transfer step. Strip those out and you have an afternoon out, which is a fine thing to buy and not what this is.

Q2

Which budget does this come from?

Whichever one you already use for this. Most people book it against the same line they would have spent on an away day or a team lunch, and nobody has to approve anything new. If you want it to come out of training instead, the multi-session version is built to survive that conversation, which is what the report is for. We are not precious about where the money sits.

Q3

Can you prove it works?

We count one thing: how many people in the room each person had never properly spoken to before that afternoon. Added up, that is the number of conversations that would not otherwise have happened, and it is the thing a session actually does. You also get attendance by team, photographs, and what people wrote. We do not run a before and after survey, because twenty people rating themselves out of five cannot support a claim, and anyone selling you a percentage improvement in collaboration off ninety minutes is inventing it.

Q4

We already run offsites.

Different job. An offsite happens once and asks people to change afterwards. This is repetition, monthly, on one capability at a time, which is how skills actually move.

Q5

Our team is remote.

Then run it on the days people are already in. Being in a room together is doing real work in this format, and it does not translate to video.

Get in touch

Tell us what you need.

A session is £2,250 for a room of up to 20, anywhere in London. We reply within one working day with dates and who would be running it.

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