Courageous thinking for individuals and organisations

HOW CAN WE THINK REALLY CREATIVELY?

The Thinking EnvironmentTM Online (Zoom) Workshops

THURSDAY 11ST FEBRUARY 10.00 -15.00 (UK time)

These participative and interactive workshops are an opportunity to learn about The
Thinking Environment and work together on the question, “How can we ensure we get
the best independent and creative thinking both for ourselves and in a group?”

Aims & objectives

• To learn and understand how the Thinking EnvironmentTM works and consider how
it might be useful for us
• To think well together about how to create an effective environment where
everyone’s thinking is enhanced and where creativity and problem solving are
more effective
• To enjoy listening, thinking, working and learning with one another.

Everything begins with thinking. If our thinking is good, our decisions are good, our
actions are good, our outcomes are good. So what does it take for us to think for
ourselves – with rigour, imagination, courage and grace?

After years of observation we noticed that the most important factor in whether
people can think for themselves well is how they are being treated by the people with
them while they are thinking. Ten behaviours seem to help the most - Attention,
Equality, Ease, Appreciation, Encouragement, Feelings, Information, Diversity, Incisive
Questions and Place. Creating the conditions and a culture where everyone is free
to think for themselves, as themselves, helps to drive creativity and effective
collaboration.

OUTLINE PROGRAMME WORKSHOP TWO - Thursday 11th February

ARRIVE & RECONNECT 9.50AM

10.00AM PROMPT START

Welcome & introductions: Opening Rounds

Refreshing our practice and understanding of the Thinking Environment:

Reviewing the Ten Components and practicing Rounds, Thinking Pairs, Dialogue and
Open Discussion

Thinking Pairs – practice

What are “Incisive Questions TM” and how might they help us think more effectively?
Practical exercise: Assumptions and “Building an Incisive Question” worksheet.

VITAL SPACE fiona@vitalspace.org.uk 2 Farnaby Road T 020 8466 7302

Fiona Dawe CBE vitalspace.org.uk Bromley BR1 4BJ M 07969 598 548
 Courageous thinking for individuals and organisations

HOW CAN WE THINK REALLY CREATIVELY?

The Thinking EnvironmentTM Online (Zoom) Workshops

12.30PM – 13.20PM 50-MINUTE OFFLINE LUNCH BREAK

13.20PM What is a Time to Think Council?

You want to solve a problem. You would like to think for yourself about it, but along
the way you would like access to the knowledge, experience and information inside
the treasure troves that are your colleagues. How can they offer you what they
know without telling you what to think? The Time To Think Council allows for the
wisdom of the group to make its way unintrusively into the problem-solving of one
person.
We will learn how this works and practice a demonstration.

Burning issues

Closing Round

15.00PM ENDS
NB:
There will be comfort breaks of approximately 10 minutes every 60-80 minutes or so.

For more information:

Home - Time to Think

Book to Read:
The Promise - Time to Think

VITAL SPACE fiona@vitalspace.org.uk 2 Farnaby Road T 020 8466 7302

Fiona Dawe CBE vitalspace.org.uk Bromley BR1 4BJ M 07969 598 548