Last month’s GDPR* exercise created such a sense of connection for me, as responses came back with comments and news from people for whom the Thinking Environment is much more than a process or a ‘tool’, and more truly a way of being. So just before heading off on holiday, as I imagine many of us are, I want to celebrate this refreshed, smaller network** of thinkers and listeners and to thank you for your commitment to this as a shared place for reflection and discovery.
Many, not all, will recognise the room in the photo. It’s the lovely big space that I now use for all my TTT courses and events bit.ly/2o0IqvW. It’s the Reading Room at the Grange in Ealing, and it seems to me to offer most of the elements that we need in order to feel that we matter when we are thinking for and as ourselves. Place is the component that gets a little bit left behind sometimes, yet being in a space that is light and airy, with comfortable furniture and enough room to move easily, ideally with windows out to a view (even if it’s a blizzard, as some will recall earlier this year) and definitely with drinks and healthy snacks – that’s ideal. If the places where you are creating a Thinking Environment don’t have all of this (and sadly in organisational training rooms that’s often the case) then what small thing can you do in order to help your participants feel that they matter?