listening

Over 5 days, both in person and online, we begin by discovering where you are in your Thinking Partnership experience and practice.

Where are you with climate change? Does reading that question generate anxiety, irritation, a feeling of guilt, even dread? I ask because it generates all those things for me at least some of the time.   And that inevitable response...

This time 12 months ago we were about to enter a second major Covid lockdown in the UK, unable to see family and friends at Christmas, connecting mainly through the flawed magic of technology, missing out on our relationships both...

What difference would it make to you, your work, your life if you could fall in love with discovery? Aha, you may say, I am already in love with discovery. I love to find new friends, new restaurants, new songs and music,...

When you are with a client or a group, working to support their best thinking, how do you take into account the very different social contexts that they are bringing with them? Those myriad unknown contexts of lived experience and...

Reading this newsletter means you are interested in Nancy Kline’s Thinking Environment as a way of being. As a way of being with clients and colleagues and friends and also as a way of being with yourself.  Welcome 🙂 Over...

In the Thinking Partnership teaching groups people often ask ‘what happens if I’m curious about something the Thinker has said… what do I do with that?’ Fair question. Especially when so much coach training focuses on curiosity about the content. And the...

Serendipity Now there’s a word. Last week I was serendipitously invited to speak to a small group of EMCC coaches, meeting online to think together on the theme of Appreciation. (Thank you Bev Holden!) Many of us, particularly in the coaching community,...

Today I’d like to offer you a standout blog post from my recent holiday reading, this piece by Kristin Lisanti.  I find it inspiring because of the distinction she makes between goals (as in New Year resolutions) and intentions. To me,...

Listening is a deep skill – and more! With the very welcome recent news about vaccines and what that might mean for us quite soon, maybe now we can all start to breathe a little more easily. Can I invite...