This powerful 2 day Foundation Course gives you a complete overview of the range of ways in which the Thinking Environment can be applied. We will explore the system of human behaviour now known as The Ten Components of a Thinking Environment, and you will be exposed to practices which can be used individually or in combination with each other to create a thinking environment in group settings (team coaching, meetings, presentations, assisting a person with a challenge by drawing on a group’s previous experience of similar challenges).

The Foundation Course begins with understanding the principles and ‘components’ that create the best possible environment in which to think. We then describe and experience live a number of practical, inspiring applications to be
used in groups, in meetings and in many professional and personal settings.

This powerful way of being, acknowledges that everything we do when we think together follows a structure of some kind, whether implicit or explicit (and mostly implicit). It notices that we often fall into patterns of behaviour in our groups and meetings that don’t create the energy we need for clear thinking and good decisions. It acknowledges the trap of group think and stimulates each individual to tap into their own independent thinking.

• ​Explore the ways everyday communication structures such as meetings, dialogue, discussion, consultation, presentations, facilitation, interviews, resolving conflict and working with colleagues and staff can be transformed into clear thinking, invigorating, positive experiences that promote understanding and produce better results both business and personal.
• Identify and discuss the Ten Components of a Thinking Environment, mainly the human behaviours that can help or hinder us as we work together.
• Experience the high quality thinking that these Ten Components produce.
• Discuss the importance of this expertise for working as colleagues, teams and leaders.
• Experience working through assumptions to create Incisive Questions, and the power of that.
• Bring together all the new building blocks of the Thinking Environment as a Transformed Meeting and experience how that works in real time.
• Experience the impact of uninterrupted attention to generate high quality thinking in others.
• Become a better thinker for yourself to navigate the challenges and opportunities of your personal and professional life.
• Have a set of applications to increase the thinking and performance of your team members to practically apply within your organisation.
• Rediscover what you already know (although didn’t know you knew) innate questions that serve to unlock the potential in others.
• Deepen your relationships with everyone you interact with through deep listening.
• Increase collaboration and effectiveness in your team