Creating a space for people to think well, for and as themselves, and with the best and most current information available, is key to all the teaching and facilitation that I offer to leaders, other practitioners, teams and groups.. This includes leadership training through Working Titles Leadership and along with my colleague Karen Ledger, workshops to enable you to contemplate, proactively design and generatively live your Third Act of life.
As a licensed Thinking Environment teacher and consultant, I offer Foundation, Thinking Partnership, Diversity and Mentoring courses, both online and in person in the beautiful village of Cadaques in Catalonia in Spain.
Courses available now:
The Time to Think Foundation Course 23rd and 24th April - a few places left
For people who want to facilitate workshops where every voice is heard, and everyone’s thinking is valued, and for those who want to chair meetings that build and strengthen relationships and enable great ideas to be honed into clear and sustainable action. For leaders who are passionate about unlocking the full potential of their team and fostering a culture of creativity and courage.
Back in 2012, I embarked on a transformative journey by taking the Thinking Environment Foundation course. It wasn't just a course; it was a revelation. It taught me the power of thinking without interruptions, the magic of generative attention, and how to move forward ideas that had been stuck in the back of my mind for far too long. In just 5 minutes of thinking in pairs, I broke through months of procrastination.
Taking this course also gave me structures that I've used repeatedly, in the corporate, public and third sectors, enabling individuals and teams to solve problems autonomously yet collaboratively by leveraging the collective wisdom of the group. It dramatically improved my approach to presentations, emphasising true engagement and co-thinking with my audience.
The 2-day Foundation course will introduce the Ten Components of a Thinking Environment and explore how to embody these for ourselves and provide them for others. We will explore how to use Thinking Pairs, Dialogue, and Rounds, to build a Thinking Environment.
We will explore how these ‘building blocks’ can be used creatively in the context of meetings and workshops along with the Time to Think Council process.
Together we will experience how discussions, facilitation and presentations can be enlivened to become safer, more spacious and energising experiences. You will also see one thinking partnership demonstration, to introduce you to the powerful effect that finding and removing untrue limiting assumptions lived as true, can have on individuals and teams.
This course is a pre-requisite to the Facilitator Qualifying Course.
Dates: Tuesday 23rd and Wednesday 24th April 9.30-4.30 ONLINE
Fee £600 please use the contact button above to email me to find out more, express interest or book a place. Limited to 10 people
The Thinking Partnership Course - fully booked, please contact to find out about new dates
…we use the word thinking to describe the vast, multi-faceted process of intelligence that includes feelings, creativity, speculation, intuition, as well as cognition, analysis and computation. Thinking in this context is the full use of the human mind and heart. Nancy Kline
If you are interested in one to one work the Thinking Partnership course (2+1 days) teaches you the Thinking Partnership Session. Through exploring generative attention and the building of incisive questions you will experience first-hand how this process produces breakthrough independent thinking. You will get to experience this both as a Thinker and as a Thinking Partner. All of this will be in the context of a detailed exploration of the 10 components of a Thinking Environment. This course is a pre-requisite for the Coach Qualifying Course. If you would like to read more about Nancy Kline’s approach to coaching you can find it here
Bespoke courses
The Diversity Course
If we want to think for ourselves, we need to think as ourselves. We need to find confidence in all our identities. This requires us to explore the untrue assumptions that the world makes about these identities and to remove them with incisive questions. This course, which can take place through one or more bespoke workshops, teaches the skills needed to create a space within which people will deepen their understanding and valuing of difference, and engage with each other with greater appreciation and respect.
There are options to work online or to travel to Cadaques in Catalonia for in person programmes. Please contact me if you would like to have an exploratory discussion about commissioning or participating in any of these courses.
Transforming Meetings
Would you like meetings in your organisation to be more engaging and energising? Holding meetings in Thinking Environment has proven to generate better thinking from all involved leading to effective decision making and creative workable solutions. They ensure that everyone feels valued and the level of participation and involvement is greatly increased. Relationships are improved and people can build effectively on each other’s thinking finding agile resolutions where previously there seemed to be embedded intractable blocks.
I can spend a half or full day with your team introducing you to a variety of applications that can enable purposeful, inclusive, enjoyable meetings. The simple but powerful applications that you will experience together can be used confidently going forward. Experience has shown that this contributes to teams feeling more dynamic, easeful, and honest leading to better solutions for your organisation.