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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...

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...

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...

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?’...

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...

Covid, climate, war in Ukraine. An unholy trio of pain and distress and fear for the future. How can we set ourselves to think about these things, to gather information and yet to stay in a place of calm, rather than...

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,...

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,...

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...

Meeting new people is an important part of our lives.  Socially, as part of a working life, as employees and as customers, as we seek expertise and information – even inside our own families – we meet new people regularly....