The walks are free, and so is Sit & Think, and both always will be. Alongside them I am commissioned by organisations to do the same thing under contract: to design a discussion that goes somewhere, to run it well, and to leave something written behind.
The method is the one you can see in public. A room is given shared context before it is asked to think, protected speech where the subject needs it, facilitation rather than lecturing, and a written record afterwards that preserves the disagreements instead of smoothing them over. It was built over several years of running deliberative forums in Central Asia for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, in rooms where the participants did not ordinarily sit down together and the write-up was the point.
Each engagement is quoted as a whole — the design, the materials, the delivery, and the written output.
Design and facilitation of a session your organisation cannot easily run itself: a contested internal question, a consultation that needs to produce more than a survey, a public conversation on a subject where people are wary of speaking. Each engagement includes the design, the participant materials, the facilitation, and a written summary of what was argued.
Keynotes, guest lectures, and public talks on political rhetoric and persuasion, international affairs, argumentation and civil discourse, civics education, and how deliberative forums are actually built. Also chairing and moderation, which is a different skill from speaking and is usually the thing an event is missing.
In-house workshops and multi-session programmes for teams who have to persuade, present, chair, or hold a difficult conversation without it collapsing. Drawn from the SPEAK. LEAD. CONNECT. course at Onehunga High School Adult Learning Centre.
Walk & Talk and Sit & Think are free to attend, koha only, and no commercial arrangement touches them. Community organisations, schools, public libraries, and local government programmes are quoted separately and at a substantial discount, and some civic work I do at cost or for nothing, because it should exist. None of that is in tension with charging properly when the client is an organisation with a budget for exactly this.
Who is in it, and what would count as a good outcome.
A schedule of fees is sent on request.
Dr Dmitry Zavialov holds a PhD in politics. He founded Walk & Talk Auckland, co-hosts Auckland Stoics, facilitates Sit & Think at the Ellen Melville Centre, and works as a Learning Designer at Skills Institute.