Ruth McCarthy

During a recent Thinking Partnership Programme I was struck afresh by the precise intention of what it is that we aim to do at that moment when the Thinker pauses.  It’s the moment when as the Thinking Partner we consider...
  • 14 November 2023
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Try saying this out loud. ‘Today is the youngest I’m ever going to be.’ I’m starting this September newsletter with this statement because of a  conversation last week with a TTT colleague, whose response to it was a mix of surprise...
  • 2 September 2023
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What have you discovered so far about AI?  I’ve been exploring a bit. I didn’t know the answer to this question, so I asked Chat GPT to write me a newsletter comparing AI with the Thinking Environment. The following text...
  • 2 June 2023
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As a practitioner and therefore an occasional ‘seller’ of Thinking Environment coaching or facilitation, how often do you get asked by a possible client ‘is there any evidence for how or why this works – how can you prove it?’...
  • 21 April 2023
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What does noticing a paradox do to you? Life is full of paradox, a potential maze for the mind; the Thinking Environment offers us so much that is paradoxical, it’s something that we can love to encounter and yet feel uncomfortable...
  • 17 March 2023
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How are you getting on, further weeks into lockdown? I do hope you are well. What have you noticed afresh since the end of March?  Do you sense changes in yourself and your capacities to adapt to an emerging and uncertain...
  • 15 April 2020
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  How are you in this astonishing and exhausting new time of Covid-19?  I think we are all still in shock, working at making ourselves do what humans so dislike to do – manage swift change and adaptation.  I wonder...
  • 15 March 2020
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How was your February?  It’s taken me till now to get this brief note together because mine has been a bit bumpy, a bit duvet-based.   For many of us February does feel like the lowest point of the year,...
  • 15 February 2020
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What did you think when you saw this headline?! Do you, like me, find the descriptor ‘dangerous women’ both thrilling and vaguely unsettling?   I recently attended an open session for an exciting new women’s peer leadership group She Leads Change,...
  • 15 January 2020
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What a year 2019 has been.  Particularly for those who care deeply about clear and independent thinking it has been a year of unparalleled confusion and uncertainty, sending out chilling  ripples of doubt and dismay to all of us whose...
  • 17 December 2019
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