Technical dry runs with worked examples and answers
Alpha practice pack by Benjamin P Taylor (2026): free systems-method dry runs with worked examples and answers. Technical learning supports, but does not replace, real-world systems practice.
Library / Facilitation and systems consulting
Body of work
Facilitation and systems consulting
Helping from inside a system without pretending to stand outside it.
Material
- Systemic consulting practice guide2026 · full online guide
Contracting, inquiry, power, learning, and intervention, with the September session account, practice cases, and downloads.
- Systemic consulting: rethinking the consultant’s role2025 · SysPrac25 · SCiO public resource
Consulting as partnership, dialogue, and co-creation.
- Systems consulting and facilitation, STSP262026 · conference presentation
A later conference presentation on systems consulting and facilitation.
- Metaphor2021 · Niki Jobson and Benjamin P Taylor · SCiO
Metaphor, framing, and problem-setting.
- The Peter Block community exercisePractice note
A short exercise on community and participation.
- Large-group processes collectionInteractive collection
Search and compare whole-system and participatory methods.
Working reading lists and tools
The original documents remain available alongside the developed guides above.