Resources and downloads

Downloads

The practice map is designed to travel with a short email. The internal consulting guide and editable worksheet support a real contracting conversation. The learning note develops the September question.

• Practice map PNG · one image
• Practice map for printing PDF · one page
• Internal consulting and triangular contracting PDF
• Consulting contract worksheet Word · editable
• Contracting for learning PDF

Start here

• Peter Block: Flawless Consulting

  Designed Learning’s checklists and worksheets for responsibility, contracting, discovery, meetings for action, and implementation. Read alongside the book; the publisher’s material has its own terms.

• Thriving in the space of service

  My account of the pressures on consultants, coaches, facilitators, and business partners.

• Peter Block on relationships, resistance, and Flawless Consulting

  The specific Messy Social Work episode discussed in September.

• Systemic consulting: rethinking the consultant’s role

  Public SysPrac25 resource: partnership, dialogue, co-creation, and a systemic consulting repertoire.

• Systems consulting and facilitation, STSP26

  March 2026 presentation connecting consulting, facilitation, humanism, agency, and intervention design.

All the September chat links

• Tradecraft

  Doug Belshaw’s recommendation on building an advisory practice.

• Nonviolent Communication overview

  The introductory reference shared in chat; a general overview rather than the specific FONT account.

• FONT and NVC

  Doug Belshaw’s account of learning with Outlandish and Abi Handley. Distinguishes observation, thought, feeling, need, and request.

• We Are Open pre-mortem, archived

  The archived resource supplied in chat. Archive availability can vary.

• Breaking the Shell

  My pre-mortem approach to surfacing what could prevent useful work.

• Dear John clip

  Comedy illustration about naming an uncomfortable shared convention. Included as a discussion prompt.

• Steve Jobs on consulting

  The clip offered as a challenge about accountability and the consequences of advice.

• Messy Social Work: Apple Podcasts

  Programme listing shared in chat.

• Messy Social Work: choose a platform

  Platform-neutral route to the programme.

• Messy Social Work: programme home

  The programme archive. The specific Peter Block episode is linked above.

• A Necessary Tangle

  Systems resources and connected writing.

• Systems thinking practice tools

  The direct practice route shared during the discussion.

• Raven

  An adjacent AI resource shared by a participant. Inclusion records the conversation; it is not a performance evaluation or recommendation.

• VSM toolkit project

  Doug Belshaw’s developing project, shared in chat. Treat it as a project to explore, not a validated consulting method.

Earlier reading and listening

• My favourite Peter Block quotes

  Provocations from Block’s work, gathered with context.

• Peter Block on contracting

  Rodger Dean Duncan’s interview from the teaching reading list.

• Peter Block on relationships

  The companion interview.

• Dirty or clean consulting

  Richard Claydon’s contrasting perspective on consulting practice.

• Peter Block on The Amiel Show

  Earlier listening on Block’s work.

• Ed Schein on The Amiel Show

  Helping and relationship as an adjacent perspective.

• Techniques to Match Our Values

  Marvin Weisbord on alignment between values and practice; historical external PDF.

• Requiem for Bethlehem

  Weisbord on learning and organisational outcomes; historical external PDF.

• Let People Be Responsible

  Weisbord and Sandra Janoff on participation and responsibility; historical external PDF.

• The Peter Block community exercise

  A practical route into participation and community.

• Dare to Un-Lead

  Céline Schillinger resource from the March teaching materials.

• Formative evaluation and transformative outcomes

  TIPC’s methodology. Added to develop the learning question; it was not a method taught in September.

Peter Block video shelf

The short videos below recur in the earlier learner guides. They are retained as a reading route, with the original platform responsible for availability. Video labels come from the teaching resource list; they are not transcripts.

• Flawless Consulting introduction
• Contracting
• Authenticity and vulnerability
• Following the steps
• It is all implementation
• Touchy feely crap
• Feedback
• Project managers
• The book is just a book
• Are you the problem?
• Aliveness
• Am I too pushy?
• Presenting problems
• I am here to fix you
• Changing a hostile work environment
• Peter Block interview

How the earlier material is incorporated

This coverage is a synthesis of the materials available for this edition. Earlier decks overlap and use different language; their ideas are consolidated rather than repeated. Public versions are linked where available. Private client material, participant details, and the September raw transcript are not republished.

Attribution and use

Benjamin P Taylor’s synthesis and practice prompts draw on Peter Block, Barry Oshry, and the other authors named alongside their work. FONT is attributed through Doug Belshaw’s account of Outlandish and Abi Handley. The five core practices and four dynamics are connected accounts in my own teaching, with their wider influences explained in the source collections.

This guide is not an accredited Flawless Consulting course and does not replace the original books or licensed materials. Linked sources retain their own authorship and terms. You are welcome to share links to this guide and the downloadable practice notes with attribution. External links may move or require an account; inclusion is not an endorsement of every claim.