Voices
Bramble Voices is a large-group, purpose-driven dialogue experience that enables organisational decision-makers to hear and integrate powerful ‘outsider’ perspectives into their outlook and decision-making.
By integrating powerful outside perspectives, organisations and decision makers can start to address their blindspots, avoid group-think and evolve in ways that not only improve their own prospects, but also enhance the health of the wider system in which they are embedded.
We curate Voices to illuminate your changing context
Explore, listen and connect
We identify people representing important and challenging system “Voices”, from the mainstream to the margins. These Voices typically span investors/funders, customers/beneficiaries, partners, providers/suppliers, innovators/thought leaders, activists, communities and living systems. They also often include unorthodox or seldom heard Voices from within your organisation.
Prime and support Voices
Design the dialogue experience
Each Voice is primed and supported to bring to the session a powerful claim, question, idea or “awkward truth” that are vital for the organisation to grapple with, but which leaders may rarely encounter in their day-to-day roles.
Reflect and learn what has altered
After each Voices dialogue we reflect with both the organisational decision-makers, and the Voices, to understand what assumptions are changing after their encounter, and how they’d like to explore this further.
The format flexes and varies depending on the context, but a 2-3 hour session typically involves a mixed cohort (30+) of organisational leaders experiencing a kaleidoscope of small-group intimate dialogues with our invited Voices.
Organisational benefits
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Leaders gain direct exposure to perspectives they rarely encounter inside the organisation, helping them challenge assumptions, broaden situational awareness and inject bold, unorthodox and innovative thinking into decision-making.
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Through structured, psychologically safe encounters, leaders strengthen skills in listening, inquiry and perspective-taking — essential for navigating complex, value-laden issues.
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By hearing lived experiences from across the wider system - including communities, partners, activists and natural systems advocates - leaders develop a richer understanding of risks, opportunities and societal expectations, informing more responsible strategy and behaviour.
Benefits for stakeholder Voices
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Stakeholders receive an unusual opportunity to share insights, concerns and “awkward truths” directly with decision-makers in a respectful, receptive environment.
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They can humanise their own perspective and see the constraints, intentions and pressures leaders operate under, which often reduces frustration and polarisation.
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Stakeholders can help shape leaders’ mental models, challenge blind spots and contribute to more balanced, informed organisational decisions — without needing to take on the burden of persuasion or conflict.
