The Thinking Environment® fosters the highest quality of both independent and collaborative thinking and communication within individuals and groups.

About this course

This course offers you a set of vital skills for facilitating all kinds of group meetings. It’s an inspirational course to develop your skills and presence in helping people to generate their own best thinking together in ways they never thought possible.

Based upon a central observation and decades of feedback from people that the quality of everything we do depends on the quality of the thinking we do first, it creates, intentionally, the best possible conditions in which people will think well, for themselves, and as themselves.

In a Thinking Environment people become more creative, courageous, and connected. They become more confident in their own judgement, more likely to initiate and deliver without needing constant guidance, yet genuinely interested in others’ ideas. It’s an approach that can be brought to coaching, mentoring, meetings, appraisals, workshops, learning circles and more.

As Faculty at Time to Think, I have been teaching this for over 15 years.

This course will:

Explore what a Thinking Environment is, how to create one, and offer you eight different ways you can use it to transform relationships, meetings and even whole organisations.
Hone your ability to help others to achieve by drawing on their inherent resources, taking your own listening and presencing skills to new heights.
Demonstrate how well people can think deeply, independently, and productively, when given the opportunity.
Give each person the optional opportunity to facilitate an exercise with the group, and get feedback. Learning by doing at its best!
Improve your confidence and skills in facilitating in person and online meetings, managing energy and engagement, working with different group sizes, addressing challenges, and much more.
Introduce you to a network of Time to Think practitioners with whom you can practice, and even collaborate.
Enable you to apply your learning immediately and use it to make a positive impact to make meetings really matter!

The course includes:
Two days together offering highly interactive, experiential learning with lots of practice, for a group of 6-10
A curated collection of online learning support materials (TED Talks, podcasts, articles, blogs) to download, plus the course manual.
Refreshments, snacks and nutritious vegetarian and vegan lunches on both days.
An authorised Time to Think Foundation Certificate of Completion.
Beautiful setting in nature, on an organic farm with nature trails, in a spacious barn room at The Fold - in the Malverns, Worcestershire WR6 5JB.

Fee: £790 per person including all day refreshments, snacks and lunches from the on site cafe. There is no VAT.
There is a very generous discount available to those employed solely in the not-for-profit sector including NHS, charity and public sectors. Please mention this when you make an enquiry and I will be in touch.

Overnight accomodation is available from the usual online sources (at the time of posting this c£90 per person per night). If you’d like any help please contact me.

NB: This course is a standalone certificate level course and also the pre requisite for the professional qualifying “Time to Think Facilitator” course should you wish to do this at any point in the future, with any TTT Faculty member.