advising, confabbing, confabulating, conferring, consulting, counseling(or counselling), parleying, treating

arguing, bandying, batting (around), chewing over, debating, deliberating, discussing, disputing, hashing (over), kicking around, mooting, palavering, talking, talking over, ventilatingrehashingcoaching, guiding, tutoringrecommending, suggestingdirecting, referring (to)