Five programmes and one open-access toolkit, delivered to institutions and to individuals acting in an institutional capacity. Cohort dates, fees and evaluation data are published in full.
The Institute works from a single premise, which is itself offered rather than asserted: that exposure to a finding is an event with consequences for the person exposed, and that those consequences are currently unmanaged in professional settings.
Established practice in the professions treats a finding as a neutral object. It is delivered, it is received, and any difficulty in the receipt is treated as a deficiency in the recipient. Our position is that this is a harm-producing model, and that the duty of care sits with the disclosing party rather than with the party disclosed to. Our programmes build the capability to hold it there.
All programmes are delivered to institutions and to individuals acting in an institutional capacity. We do not work with private individuals and refer them onward.
A facilitated environment in which no premise proceeds to a conclusion without the prior consent of everyone present. Participants learn to identify the moment at which an argument is about to close, to name it, and to hold it open. Two days, fourteen contact hours, cohort of twelve. Delivered in house or at one of our certified centres.
Six modules across thirty-four contact hours, leading to certification. Covers consent architecture in analysis, the restatement of findings as perspectives, and the drafting of statements that open with feeling and do not arrive at figures. Assessed by portfolio. Cohort of twenty. Certification is valid for three years and is renewed by attendance at one clinic.
An open-access toolkit for organisations that publish figures. Forty-six templates covering advance notification, staged release, magnitude softening and the placement of comparative data outside the primary reading path. Free at the point of use under an open licence, with attribution.
A quarterly working session in which participants bring a finding they cannot contest on the merits and leave with a drafted objection to the sampling frame, the instrument or the response rate. Retained institutional members receive one standing objection per quarter as part of membership. Non-retained participants are charged per objection.
A one-day programme for boards and executive committees on the vocabulary of injury, standing and recognition, and its correct deployment in regulated disclosure, select committee appearance and published response. Eight seats, delivered in house, single sitting.
| Programme | Format | Cohort | Fee | Per participant |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Premise Pause | 2 days, 14 contact hours | 12 | 4,200 EUR per cohort | 350 EUR |
| Consent-Based Inference | 6 modules, 34 contact hours | 20 | 1,950 EUR per participant | 1,950 EUR |
| Trigger-Warned Statistics | Open-access toolkit, 46 templates | Unlimited | Nil | Nil |
| Methodology Objection Clinic | Quarterly, half day | 16 | 3,400 EUR per objection | 3,400 EUR |
| Language of Harm, board edition | 1 day, in house | 8 | 18,000 EUR per board | 2,250 EUR |
A full Consent-Based Inference cohort of twenty is 39,000 EUR. Institutional membership includes four clinic objections per year and preferential cohort access, and is priced separately.
| Stage | Content |
|---|---|
| Inputs | Certified facilitators, 89 certified environments, the register of recognised injuries, member funding |
| Activities | Cohort delivery, clinic sessions, toolkit maintenance, register administration |
| Outputs | Trained practitioners, drafted objections, certified environments, registered injuries |
| Outcomes | Findings restated as perspectives. Premises held open. Statements that open with feeling. |
| Impact | A measurable reduction in the rate at which conclusions are reached without consent |
The evaluation instrument was designed by the Institute, is administered by the Institute at the close of each session, and is published in full alongside the results so that any party may reproduce our analysis. The Institute has twice been invited to adopt an externally designed instrument. On both occasions the invitation was received as a finding about our work, was registered under EI-03, and was closed.
All published materials are open access under a licence permitting reproduction and adaptation with attribution. Translations exist in eleven languages, nine of them contributed by member institutions. We do not paywall guidance, and we do not charge for the register.
Safe spaces from syllogisms. A certified environment is a room, physical or virtual, in which the passage from premises to conclusion requires the prior agreement of every participant. Certification covers facilitation protocol, the seating and turn-taking arrangement, and the standing agenda item at which any participant may withdraw a premise already accepted. Eighty-nine environments are currently certified. Certification is annual and has never been withdrawn.</div>
Programme fees provide 62 per cent of Institute income, institutional membership 27 per cent, and restricted grants 11 per cent. No single funder exceeds 4 per cent of total income. Our accounts are published annually and our register of interests covers trustees, senior staff and clinic facilitators.
Institutions commission through a single conversation with a programme lead. We ask for the setting, the audience and the disclosure the audience is preparing for. Facilitators are not briefed on the finding itself, and independence of the facilitator from the subject matter is a condition of certification. Lead time from commission to first cohort is six weeks.