Debate programs, built from the ground up.

Platforming

Start a program and grow it.

Platforming is how we build a debate program where there was none.

We find the teachers and leaders who will run it, and we train them to coach their own debaters.

We bring the curriculum and the shape of a season. We carry the logistics of practices and tournaments until the program can carry them itself.

A program that cannot yet pay can be sponsored through Meridian.

What it covers

• Finding and training the people who will run the program
• A season plan, with curriculum and guidebooks for each part of it
• Logistical support for practices and tournaments
• Its first tournament, run on Atlas
• Sponsorship for programs that cannot yet pay

For schools, clubs and community organizations

Guidebooks

The Meridian Library.

We are writing the Meridian Library, a series of guidebooks that set out how we teach debate.

Seventeen titles are confirmed, from a first argument to preparing for nationals. Four are being written now.

The guidebooks go to the programs we work with, so a program keeps teaching the same way after a camp or a season ends.

Justus Aryani's debate guides and research have been published through Monument Publishing and Rhetoric LLC.

Being written now

• How to Make an Argument
• How to Argue
• Impact Calculus
• How to Cross-Examine

For students, coaches and program directors

Curriculum

Lessons for a season, a camp or a single day.

We write curriculum for classes, clubs and camps. Each unit moves from the theory of debate to a full practice round and its debrief.

A unit can be built on the resolution a league is debating that season.

A four-day camp

1. The architecture of debate

   Theory, stock issues, impacts and evidence

2. Rebuttal and case structure

   Refutation, cross-examination and a practice round

3. Resolution analysis

   The season's resolution, flowing and a practice round

4. Practice and delivery

   Delivery, targeted drills and a final round

The four-day arc also runs as a one-day workshop

Consulting

Advice for the people who run programs.

We advise directors, schools, leagues and organizations on starting, staffing and growing a debate program.

The founders do this work themselves.

What it covers

• Planning a new program or league
• Structuring a season, its practices and its tournaments
• Developing coaches and judges

For directors, leagues and institutions