Welcome
This is the pilot hub for The Middle Ground. Whether you are running the workshop, participating in it, or considering it for your organisation — start here and follow your path.
This is a live pilot. Your data builds the evidence base.Your facilitator path
Eight steps from licence to evidence. Follow them in order for your first pilot. Each step links to exactly what you need — nothing more.
Before anything else
Get the pilot licence
The licence gives you everything: the full book, the facilitator guide, 96 sector PDFs, all print-ready materials, the corner assessment URL, and the 90-day follow-through system. One purchase. Everything included.
NZ$297 — pilot pricing. Organisation licence (up to 5 facilitators) available after your first pilot.Before the room
Read the book. Take the assessment yourself.
Parts 1 and 2 of the book are essential before you facilitate. Know which corner you are in before you try to navigate others through theirs. The room will feel it if you haven't done this work.
5 days before the workshop
Send the pre-survey to participants
The pre-survey takes participants 3 minutes. It establishes the baseline — the "before" that makes your Day 30 data meaningful. Without it, you cannot generate a pre/post comparison. This is the most important setup step.
48 hours before
Prepare the room
Your facilitator guide has a full room preparation checklist — intake survey, what to print, how to read the room architecture before you walk in. Work through it completely. The setup determines more than what happens on the day.
The workshop day
Run the workshop
The facilitator guide walks you through every minute — Opening (0–20 min), The assessment (20–50 min), Strategy by corner (50–90 min), Closing (90–120 min). Every transition is scripted. Use it.
Same day — within 2 hours
Send participants to the follow-through portal
While the room is still fresh, send participants the follow-through portal link and their cohort code. This is how the data collection continues. Every check-in and reflection they submit feeds your evidence base.
Day 7 and Day 30
Check the dashboard
The facilitator dashboard shows you everything in real time — who has checked in, whether participants used their pocket script, and at Day 30, the pre/post comparison that becomes your first evidence claim.
Day 90
Request a case study conversation
At Day 90 the system prompts participants with a final reflection and a case study invitation. The responses — with consent — become your first published evidence. Three pilots means you have enough to write a real claim and approach third-party endorsers.
Your path through the pilot
You have been invited to participate in The Middle Ground workshop. Here is everything you need to do — before, during, and for 90 days after. Each step is short. None of them are compulsory. All of them are useful.
Before the workshop — 5 minutes
Complete the pre-survey
Your facilitator has sent you a link to this. Five questions, three minutes. It asks where you are right now — not where you'd like to be. Your answers are the "before" that makes the "after" visible. You'll answer the same five questions again at Day 30.
The workshop day
Show up. That's the whole instruction.
The workshop is two hours. You do not need to prepare anything. You do not need to have read anything. You do not need to know which corner you are in before you arrive — you will find out in the room.
One thing worth knowing: some people will find this workshop heavier than others. That is not an accident. It is the point.
After the workshop — same day
Register on the follow-through portal
Your facilitator will send you the portal link and a cohort code. Registration takes 60 seconds — your name, your corner, your cohort code. No account. No password. You can return any time using the same two pieces of information.
Day 1
Read your corner. Keep the script.
Day 1 gives you your corner description, your pocket script, and one action for tomorrow — not today. Today you just need to let the workshop land. The script is one sentence. It fits in your pocket. That is all you need to start.
Days 2–7
One prompt a day. One minute to read it.
Each day this week has one small prompt matched to your corner. You do not have to do all of them. Pick the ones that land.
Day 7
First check-in — 3 minutes
Did you use your pocket script? What happened? One short form. Your responses feed the evidence base that makes this workshop credible for every team that comes after yours.
Day 30
The same five questions
The same survey you took before the workshop. The gap between your two sets of answers is your evidence. Answer honestly — not optimistically. Honest data is more useful than good data.
Day 90
Final reflection — and you're done
Three questions. What changed, what didn't, and what you're still asking of your organisation. Then — optionally — a 15-minute conversation with your facilitator about your experience. That conversation becomes evidence. It is not an obligation.
What this looks like from the inside
You are considering whether to bring this into your organisation. This section is not a sales pitch. It is a clear description of what a pilot actually involves — the time, the cost, the process, and what you will have at the end of it.
What this is
A workshop about what it costs some people to be in a room.
The Middle Ground is a two-hour facilitated workshop for workplace teams. It introduces the concept of the Cost of Entry — the unequal cost that some staff pay just to participate in normal working life — and gives everyone in the room a shared language for it.
The framework is built around four positions. Everyone in every team occupies one of them. The workshop names those positions, builds understanding across them, and gives each person one concrete action to take the next day.
What a pilot involves
One team. One workshop. 90 days.
A pilot is not a commitment to roll this out organisation-wide. It is one workshop with one team, with a structured follow-through system that runs for 90 days after. At Day 30 you have pre/post data. At Day 90 you have enough to decide whether to take it further.
What to know about approvals
What you will likely need to justify internally.
Different roles will need to answer different questions. Here is what is typically asked — and what this pilot gives you to answer them with.
What you will have at Day 30
Real data. Not a report. Data.
At Day 30 your facilitator can share a summary from the evidence dashboard showing: pre/post scores across five questions, script usage rate, and qualitative responses about what changed. This is the material you need to decide whether to run it again — or scale it.
Next step
Talk to the facilitator. Or start the pilot today.
If you have a facilitator already — internal or external — they can purchase the pilot licence directly. If you want to talk to someone first, the facilitator guide has a contact path.
There is no long-form sales process here. The product is available. The evidence is being built. You are welcome to be part of building it.