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This site is for insight workers, be they market or qualitative researchers, insight teams, planners or facilitators.The central theme of the site is insight and how to achieve it. I plan to spend the next years teaching and coaching others in what I’ve learned about how to do this.

Site Navigation:

• at the top of the page you will find clickable thumbnails of our videos containing ideas and tips for insight workers about facilitation, co-creation, making contact, paths to insight and breakthrough psychology.
• at the bottom of this page you will find the latest five posts from my blog, updated weekly.

NEWS FLASH: We have now finished our first full run of the Advanced Practitioner’s Course below – and we have six graduates, our very first! Over the next days I will post on this page some of the things they tell us about the course in their feedback. Fingers crossed it’s good!

Module 1: Psychology in Qualitative Research

Module 2: Facilitation 1, building your skills in facilitation

Module 3: Action Techniques, leading large groups and workshops.

Module 4: Paths to Insight

Module 5: Breakthrough Psychology

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Friday 12 April 2013

Concordia Forum Brief

Please double click on the thumbnail, then enter your password and follow the instructions in the 90 second video. Thank you

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Sunday 7 April 2013

Technique Mania

Students on our courses are understandably hungry for techniques They want stuff they can DO to people. If we are ruthlessly honest, there is more than one driver of this need:       A sense that you are not getting to where you need to get to with your topic guide or interviewing protocol [...]

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Body Language – what the science says

Many of us like to think we can read people – and that an advantage of face to face work is that you can see the colour of their eyes – or at least their body language. In my view this is not a simple matter. There are advantages to being present with people but [...]

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Sunday 24 March 2013

Will that Gizmo make you happy?

The UK leads the world at using new technology in everyday life. No other country buys as much online or downloads as much data onto mobiles and tablets. Almost 2/3 of 18-24 year-olds use their mobile phones to access social network sites, far more than elsewhere. More than 1/3 of TV’s sold in the UK [...]

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Sunday 10 March 2013

How about a Nudge?

According to today’s Observer, less than 20% of us believe in the austerity plan, criticsed on these pages two years ago! Most of us, including Tories, now believe it is actively harming the economy… So, if you frighten people, they either fly, freeze or fight. Most of us have fled by suspending our spending and [...]

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