The first Centre for Human Communication was founded in 1971 by Kevin Kingsland, a member of the Publications & Communications Board of the British Psychological Society and Venika Kingsland in Devon, England, to provide an intentional centre for personal and community development.

They proposed that human communication is the basis of society and the creator of community and that through deep human communication comes the most positive of human experience: co-operation, sharing, harmony, peace, love and creativity.

Achievements

Kingsland's seven level colour model, Spectrum Theory, formed the core of the centre's pioneering research into human communication, personal and organisational development. The outcome was a cascade of new perspectives on work, many of which were described by Ronnie Lessem in his series of books on Intrapreneurship, Quality and Management. Work on Vision was one of the centre's earliest achievements at the beginning of the 1970s. The original Vision to Action model (later also called Vision to Reality) was invented at this time by Kevin Kingsland and shared through hundreds of seminars and communication groups. It is a seven level model which describes the way a vision incarnates as it unfolds through the levels of the mind and is reified. Subsequently, tens of thousands of businesses were set up using the Vision to Action/Reality process.

In parallel with the development of the centre a new business model emerged which became known as The Community Company. The first Community Company was incorporated as Grael Associates Limited and became the trading face of the centre. The Centre and Grael provided complementary learning and development opportunities for people.