ORBIT TRAINING

INTERPERSONAL METHODS TO IMPROVE COMMUNICATION

ORBIT is derived from Professor Laurence Alison and Emily Alison’s work in which their team analysed the largest global corpus of real-life interviews (in excess of 2,000 hours) conducted by the UK police and military. The model combines Humanistic therapeutic approaches with theories of personality and interpersonal relating to form a comprehensive interview/interrogation communication model.

We deliver ORBIT training to law enforcement, military and intelligence agencies, humanitarian organisations and corporate teams conducting work place in investigations in compliance, conduct, audit and risk.

Theory

The ORBIT model is based on over 70 years worth of research conducted in the personality and therapeutic literature.

Data

ORBIT is the first empirically grounded model of interrogation based on the world's largest sample of real-word interrogations with terrorist suspects.

Impact

ORBIT now lies at the center of UK and US interrogator/interviewer training and has had a significant impact on improving interrogation worldwide.

SAMPLE ORBIT TRAINING PACKAGES

TASTER (1 day)

Introduction to key models and core components via interactive and engaging lectures (onilne or in person options).

Participants become familiar with new theories and perspectives developed by the Ground Truth team as well as how these theories are operationalized in the real-world.

Suitable for frontline practitioners, managers and supervisors, interview planners to provide foundation knowledge of ORBIT.

Can be delivered to small or large groups depending on the requirement and venue (charged per person).

BASIC (2 -3 days)

Introduction to key models and core components via interactive and engaging lectures and mini-tasks.

Participants become familiar with new theories and perspectives developed by the Ground Truth team as well as how these theories are operationalized in the real-world.

Participants construct and role-play ‘Self-build scenarios’ drawn from their own experiences (and guided by facilitators).

Provides a foundation for learning as well as. the tools to evaluate one’s own, and others, practice.

Suitable for frontline practitioners, managers and supervisors, interview planners

ADVANCED (4 - 5 days)

Further skill development via immersive scenarios (option of using role-actors) can be added onto the basic training for more advanced practitioners.

Bespoke Scenarios that are custom designed to test particular challenges that frontline practitioners are likely to encounter in the field.

We are recognised as having unparalleled expertise in the design of immersive scenarios, having developed countless immersive learning events (and studied the value of immersive role play and how to use these to assist learning).

Participants will receive in-depth feedback and coaching to improve and develop their delivery over the course of the training.

TACTICAL (1 - 2 days)

Advanced practitioners who are facing particular challenges or situations can be provided with a one or two day tactical session.

They will be provided with a number of domain specific scenarios to role-play in order to test and determine the most beneficial approach to improve performance.

They will receive support from facilitators to debrief and identify those approaches and/or behaviours which are most successful and those best avoided.

This sort of bespoke, focused session can be used to boost a team’s skill levels prior to a specific task or deployment or to manage a particular hurdle that has arisen.

“It has given me a completely different and much better way of interviewing and the skills could also be used in numerous other areas.”