Building culturally informed and psychologically safe systems 

 Working Across Mental Health, Education & Criminal Justice to protect people, improve decisions, and deliver equitable outcomes

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Trusted nationally across complex systems

Delivered to 2,000+ executive leaders, and practitioners using our

7-Step Intercultural Navigation System©

Our solutions work across complex systems

 

Organisational Consultancy, Training, and Bespoke Support for Children and Young Adults

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Protecting systems and people 

 

We help Education, Mental Health, Youth Justice Strategic Management Boards, and Youth Justice Services nationally strengthen culture, decision-making, and professional confidence through culturally informed training and systemic consultancy, so your system stays safe, fair, and defensible under pressure

 

 

What happens when you implement our framework and learning?

 

✅ Improves assessments and decisions in complex, high-risk cases
✅ Creates psychologically safe spaces for teams to think clearly and speak honestly
✅ Builds culturally informed services fit for the future
✅ Strengthens safeguarding, supervision, and professional accountability
✅ Builds consistent practice across teams and multi-agency partners
✅ Develops a shared language across organisations and services
✅ Increases trust with communities, families, and the workforce

 

Most organisations don’t have a training gap; they have a systems gap, and our work is recognised nationally as crucial for strengthening culturally sensitive services for the future. We work within the most sensitive spaces, turning cultural awareness into repeatable practice.

 

Our method: The 7-Step Intercultural Navigation System©

 

A practical, structured framework that has helped over 2000 leaders and practitioners nationally recognise what’s happening in the room, in the system, in decision-making, helping to respond with clarity.

 

✅ Step 1: Location of Self Process
Understand how identity, role, power, and lived experience shape judgment and communication

 

✅ Step 2: Disparities Mapping Strategy
Identify where disproportionality shows up across pathways, thresholds, and decision points

 

✅ Step 3: Adultification Identifier Formula
Spot when children are treated as older, more culpable, or more “risky” than they are due to ethnicity

 

✅ Step 4: Intergenerational Formula
Recognise the impact of intergenerational trauma, history, and cultural context on behaviour, engagement, and trust towards services

 

✅ Step 5: Conscious Mobilisation Process
Move from ambivalence, to awareness, to action, exploring how personal autonomy can impact systemic change

 

✅ Step 6: Equity Activation Framework
Embed culturally informed safeguards into assessment quality, supervision, and organisational cultures

 

✅ Step 7: Integration Strategy
Sustain change through implementation planning, resources, and ongoing support so it doesn’t fade after delivery

 

 

Recognised Nationally for Transforming Systems

The Liminality Group (TLG) of companies was founded by CEO Andrez Harriott BSc, Pg-Cert, Pg-Dip, MA. 

 

Andrez Harriott is a Criminologist, Sociologist and Organisational Consultant, trained within the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, specialising in the use of Systemic and Psychodynamic approaches, helping organisations to engage beyond the accepted narrative and explore beneath the surface. 

 

The Liminality Group is a leading provider of behavioural change and psychologically informed services for children and young adults in community and custodial settings. With over 20 years of experience, TLG has supported more than 2,500 children and young adults involved in the justice system, as well as a further 1,000 at risk within school settings.

 

We are trusted by Local Authorities and provide bespoke packages of care across youth justice and social care.

 

Andrez is also an author and contributed to the ‘Diversity and Marginalisation in Forensic Mental Health Care’ (Routledge, 2022) text, focusing specifically on children in custody from marginalised communities. 

 

The Liminality Group (TLG) provide consultancy and training to NHS trusts nationally, the Ministry of Justice, His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service, the Youth Justice Board, and private and third-sector organisations.

 

As organisational consultants, The Liminality Group work very discreetly with leaders, staff and organisations to support change.

 

Andrez is also a founding member of the British R&B Group Damage, selling in excess of 4.5 million albums globally and continues to tour with the band.

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