Psychological consultation, despite its qualitative breadth, runs a risk familiar to most organizations— from family units to multinational corporations: the silo. Silos are exactly what their agricultural images suggest: bounded containers within which a particular kind of stuff, product, or service, is kept.

When the “stuff” is social science consultation, however, the separation of social system theory, from decision theory from psychotherapy, from coaching, from psychoanalysis, from cognitive behaviorism, and limited to individuals, or couples, or small groups (as distinct from teams) or to specified units of different sizes— limits the consultant’s range and breadth.

At Accord, we seek to integrate ideas: and this requires the continuous examination both of the client’s changing needs and the consultant’s necessary expansion (or contraction) of perspective.

We expect to push our individual envelopes: and work internally, as consultants, in breaking down the silos to which we all, periodically return— if simply out of the productive habit of training and professional security— to re-examine and re-approach the dynamic and often uncertain environments in which our clients (whether in consultations they label as psychotherapy or coaching or organizational development) find themselves.

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