Facilitation & Training
We Create the Space for Change to Happen
Better outcomes come from better-designed conversations. Space Melbourne works alongside organisations navigating complex, high-stakes decisions — helping people think clearly, find shared ground, and move toward action.
Complexity
Some conversations are too important to leave to chance
Significant decisions rarely arrive simply. They involve competing perspectives, real stakes, and people who don’t yet agree on the problem — let alone the solution. Ordinary meetings aren’t built to hold that kind of complexity. Space Melbourne convenings are.
- Competing perspectives that need to be heard, not managed.
- Decisions where the outcome genuinely matters.
- Change that crosses teams, functions or cultures.
- Uncertainty a standard agenda can’t resolve.
What We Do
Facilitation built for complexity
Space Melbourne designs and leads the conversations organisations can’t afford to get wrong — creating the conditions for people to think clearly, be heard, surface what’s really going on, and move deliberately toward decisions and action.
Training
Capability built to last
Facilitation is work we do alongside your organisation. Training is capability we build into your people — practical skills leaders and teams can carry into their own rooms, long after we’ve left.
How We Work
From complexity to action
Complexity
Where you start. Competing views, real stakes, no easy answer yet.
Space
We create the conditions — time, structure and safety — for honest thinking.
Clarity
Perspectives surface. The real issue comes into focus.
Alignment
Shared ground emerges. People find what they can agree on.
Action
A clear, owned way forward.
Leadership
Practitioners, not theorists
Charlie Allen
Founder & Principal, Space Melbourne
Charlie is a facilitation, resilience, leadership and peacebuilding professional with over 30 years’ experience. His work spans the security sector and over a decade across South, South East and Eastern Asia, Western and Eastern Africa, the MENA region and Oceania — with specialties in process facilitation, training design, resilience practice, leadership development and organisational and community systems change.
Space Melbourne’s sister organisation, founded by Jenn Weidman in 2016. The two practices have collaborated on retreats and facilitation across Australia and South East Asia ever since. Read more about our team →
Cross-Cultural Work
Fluent across cultures, not just borders
Based in Melbourne, Space Melbourne works locally, regionally and globally — including bi- and multilingual facilitation across South, South East and Eastern Asia, Western and Eastern Africa, the MENA region and Oceania.
Other Ways We Work
Beyond the facilitation room
Resilience Retreats
Immersive retreats for individuals and teams working in high-pressure environments, run wherever the need is — across Australia, South East Asia and beyond. Explore retreats →
Coaching
One-to-one executive coaching for leaders navigating complexity and change. Learn about coaching →
LEGO® Serious Play
A hands-on facilitation method for surfacing ideas that don’t come out in ordinary conversation. Find out more →
