TIME TO THINK
“You need only be with Anna to experience a Thinking Environment. Anna embodies every component. And she teaches each with elegance, not only from her impressive expertise but also from her life. If you get to be with Anna to learn and understand these beautiful conditions for independent thinking, you are fortunate. Indeed.”
- Nancy Kline; Time to Think
WHAT IS TIME TO THINK?
Following 30 years of research, the author of Time to Think, Nancy Kline has identified ten behaviours that create an optimum Thinking Environment®, facilitating breakthrough thinking to enable action. In the presence of these ten behaviours, people think for themselves with rigour, imagination, courage and grace.
Anna is a qualified Time to Think Coach, Facilitator and Teacher. She is an active member of the Time to Think UK and German collegiate. She has trained predominately with Nancy Kline, the pioneer of the Thinking Environment. Anna is passionate about how to create Thinking Environments® in our organisations, teams and our lives and how to help others to experience the profound impact of generating independent thinking in this world of increasing competition, complexity and time pressure.
“The quality of everything we do, everything, depends on the quality of the thinking that we do about it first. The quality of the thinking that we do, depends on how we are being treated by the people we are thinking with, including ourselves.”
Nancy Kline
There are several ways to experience the Thinking Environment
1. INDUCTION SESSION
An interactive session 90 minutes in which you can personally experience the impact of the Thinking Environment in groups. Here you can discover for yourselves:
• How it helps to build trust and unleashes creativity.
• What it feels like when someone helps you to ignite your thinking.
• A powerful coaching tool that enables the coachee to think things through so their resulting decisions are sound and fully actionable
• How a thinking environment can transform team and group meetings of all kinds for maximum effectiveness.
For further information, details of costs, timings and next scheduled programmes contact anna directly at [email protected]
2. THINKING PARTNERSHIP COURSE (2+1 DAYS)
For developing skill and presence in one-to-one work and helping people to generate their own thinking without them being interrupted, guided or advised.
Experience the Difference
People can think for themselves. It is their natural birthright to do so. This innate ability can, and mostly is, intruded upon and eroded by parental and educational messaging: resulting in an internalised assumption – that we need others to help us in order to know what to do. Learning to become a Thinking Partner is possibly the most helpful skill to cultivate. Having the courage to trust someone else’s intelligence for themselves is a profound gift of humanity and leadership.
In the 3-day Thinking Partnership course: 2 consecutive days, with a third day a few weeks later, allowing for practice in between days 2 & 3. Participants will learn to offer the quality of attention we call generative.
When people are thinking for themselves and are on an “independent roll”, being listened to by someone who knows how to create a Thinking Environment for them, they can and will discover the full territory of their thinking. From there they can clarify their objectives, surface and remove untrue limiting assumptions that stand in their way, and generate new ideas and insights that free them to live life fully. The human mind is capable of all this, innately. When, for whatever reason, this innate capacity becomes blocked, Thinking Partners have learned to recognise where the thinker is now, and where they are needing to go next, and what question(s) will enable them to get back onto a roll of their own independent thinking.
For further information, details of costs, timings and next scheduled programmes contact anna directly at [email protected]
3. TIME TO THINK FOUNDATION COURSE (2 DAYS)
For anyone who manages or facilitates or works with or in teams, this programme will inspire you to participate in and lead day-to-day discussions and meetings differently.
This powerful Foundation Course gives participants a complete overview of the range of ways in which the Thinking Environment can be applied. Exploring the system of human behaviour now known as The Ten Components of a Thinking Environment, participants also are exposed to four building block 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). Participants will also have an opportunity to observe a Thinking Session and discover how to build Incisive Questions.
For further information, details of costs, timings and next scheduled programmes contact anna directly at [email protected]
4. TRANSFORMING MEETINGS (IN A THINKING ENVIRONMENT)
Do you want to…
• Create an environment in which people feel valued, equal, engaged and thus more likely to participate?
• Create a shared sense of responsibility for the success of meetings?
• Get the best thinking from everyone in the room, not just a few?
• Generate better ideas, solutions, decisions and commitment to following through on agreed action?
• Use time efficiently so that meetings can be both quick and productive?
• Enable differences of opinion to be voiced, respectfully and productively?
• Create a positive culture that ripples out from the meeting?
If you do, then you will learn that the way people behave with each other in meetings determines the quality of the thinking in them – and beyond. And be able to apply that learning, instantly.
The programme for 6-12 people runs over a day. It can be for mixed or intact groups, and work on real, live issues, tasks or projects. This allows everyone to experience how very practical it is and to apply the principles immediately in their work – both in their own team and in other meetings they participate in.
So productive meetings will become more widely felt in the whole organisation. It will ripple out from there.
For further information, details of costs, timings and next scheduled programmes contact anna directly at [email protected]