Outside the NHS, he conducts staff support and supervision groups in in-patient, community and telephone support settings. He teaches on both the Manchester Qualifying Course in Group Analysis and the Newcastle Foundation Course, and is co-convenor of the York courses, offering both Foundation and Diploma years. Christopher is a Director of York Groupwork Ltd. which provides the courses in association with the IGA and which he and Sally King founded in 2008 to develop group-analytic training and thinking in the region.