Peer Consultancy – sets for facilitators and independent consultants

Peer Consultancy
“Lasting behavioural change is more likely to follow the reinterpretation of past experiences than the acquisition of fresh knowledge”
Reg Revans

Are you an experienced facilitator looking for new challenges as part of your continuing professional development or a new independent consultant who could benefit from peer support?

We run action learning sets which provide shadow consultancy and the opportunity to explore alternative approaches to facilitation and action learning and to test out the quality of your contribution to a group.

Largely made up of independent consultants and HR professionals a Peer Consultancy action learning set offers:

  • the opportunity to talk through current projects and find alternative approaches
  • the chance to get to know a small group of your peers who can offer you both support and challenge
  • demonstrable proof of investment in your continuing professional development.

Facilitated by Director, Ruth Cook, Peer Consultancy sets are made up of between five and eight consultants who meet for five days over a 12-15 month period at our central London base.

If you are interested in joining a Peer Consultancy set phone 020 7407 1971 or email for further information and costs.

“Can anyone imagine what a world this is opening for me – a partially deaf freelancer, an old hand in the arts, to be able to support and learn from a wealth of experience in an accessible form… it’s expansive!”
Sarah Scott

To find out about some of the benefits of joining an ALA Peer Consultancy read Sarah’s case study on the Disability Action Learning Initiative (DALI) website

“I have felt an increase in confidence and energy professionally. Ruth is a superb role model. Her facilitation is effortless yet acutely present. I always feel that she is completely aware of the group and is holding us without rescuing set members.”
Dawn Codrington, DCMS Consulting

"Joining an action learning set has been invaluable for me. It gives me the opportunity to re-frame or solve both my own and other people's professional issues and at the same time I am learning new group skills. I work as a sole-trading consultant and I find independent consultancy both fascinating and isolating. The most important benefit has been to give me a reference group of colleagues working in similar fields. I quite often have imaginary consultations with the other members of the set when I am working or planning on my own."
John Bayley, John Bayley Education Consultants