Let Them Talk.
projects
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King’s Edge is a four-part interactive programme delivered in collaboration between Let Them Talk and King’s College London, exploring how communication skills and creativity can be used to depolarise difficult conversations and move beyond unproductive debate.
The programme draws on techniques from conservatoire acting training, mediation, deradicalisation initiatives, and communications coaching to create a practical, interactive space where participants can understand why conversations break down—and learn how to shift into a collaborative mode of discovery.
Each session builds progressively:
Foundations of Dialogue focuses on presence, attention, and deep listening
Finding Your Voice develops confident, authentic self-expression
Understanding Conversations explores the hidden dynamics beneath debate
Navigating Disagreement equips participants to engage constructively with challenge and difference
Through the series, participants develop the ability to listen deeply, express themselves with clarity and authenticity, and move beyond debate towards genuine curiosity and understanding. By completion, they gain greater self-awareness, stronger communication skills, and the confidence to engage in thoughtful, respectful dialogue across real-world contexts.
Interested in delivering this programme with your students, staff, or community?
We'd be happy to discuss partnerships, pilot programmes, and bespoke delivery options.
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A full-day intensive in which students apply a practical dialogue toolkit to live, student-selected issues, spanning politics, identity, culture, and social conflict. Rather than pushing participants towards consensus, the programme focuses on transforming the quality of difficult conversations by exploring why dialogue often breaks down, and what conditions make genuine understanding possible. Through structured exercises in deep listening, perspective-taking, steel-manning, and conversational analysis, students learn to navigate disagreement with greater clarity, curiosity, and intellectual honesty.
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Pilot Evaluation
Pre- and post-session questionnaires indicated increased participant confidence across every communication competency measured, including:
Expressing ideas clearly
Adapting communication style
Recognising underlying conversational dynamics
Identifying underlying objectives
Navigating opposing viewpoints
Managing emotional responses
Maintaining active listening
Understanding others' perspectives
Interested in delivering this programme with your students, staff, or community?
We'd be happy to discuss partnerships, pilot programmes, and bespoke delivery options.
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A 6-week supervised research programme in which students work alongside a PhD facilitator to investigate questions surrounding dialogue, polarisation, and civic communication while contributing directly to the evolution of the organisation’s practice. Through structured inquiry, reflective analysis, and collaborative experimentation, participants help refine the organisation’s Theory of Change and build a robust evidence base that tests, clarifies, and strengthens the mechanisms underpinning the interventions and their impact.
Interested in collaborating on research?
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A short school-based session designed to build confidence in communication for younger students. Through interactive, drama-informed activities, pupils develop clearer self-expression, better listening skills, and stronger face-to-face conversation behaviours.
“Even the kids that would normally be distracted or not pay attention were fully engaged, it was fun and very helpful.”
Year 6 Participant, Haberdashers' Hatcham Primary School
Interested in delivering this programme with your students, staff, or community?
We'd be happy to discuss partnerships, pilot programmes, and bespoke delivery options.
Let Them Talk.
Let Them Talk projects deliver dual value:
Intrinsic: by improving wellbeing through participation
Instrumental: by gathering insights that inform future programmes and youth policy
Collaborating with other established organisations in this field, we focus on areas where young voices are often excluded. The programmes are intentionally designed to benefit wider communities, working with youth groups and educators to lay the foundation for a more connected, compassionate society where young people help shape their own futures.
Get in Touch
Questions about our work or how you can get involved? If you, your school, community group or organisation would like to discuss working with us, we’d love to hear from you: