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The Thinking Partnership
2 days + 1 day | Central Manchester / Virtual
The Thinking Partnership Course enables participants to generate their finest, independent thinking. Teams, Leaders, Coaches and individuals learn how to be Thinking Partners and gain an understanding of the Thinking Partnership session, a uniquely powerful skillset and an incredible process liberating the human mind for creative thinking. Through generative Attention and the building of Incisive Questions, the Thinking Partnership process produces breakthrough, independent thinking.
Participation in the course provides experience both as the Thinker (working through topics of your choice) and as the Thinking Partner (managing the process for the Thinker and practising this elegant expertise). This course also explores the Ten Components of the Thinking Environment in new ways.
Participants emerge with an expertise in thinking and listening that will transform numerous aspects of work and life. Working in a Thinking Environment enables you to make good decisions even better, solve problems confidently and creatively and lead the way through complex and challenging situations.
Trained coaches will be able to take the learning from this sophisticated approach and enhance their coaching practice. The Thinking Partnership Course is a certificated course which allows all participants to go on to complete the Coach Qualifying Course and become accredited Time to Think Coaches.
Overview of the course content
- Discover the provenance and power of working in a Thinking Environment
- Consider taking a positive philosophical choice and not ‘infantilising’ others
- Understand the two worlds of Independent thinking and Exchange thinking
- Practise transformative listening paying ‘generative attention’ and ‘listening to ignite’
- Enhance your creativity working in Thinking Pairs
- Embody the Ten Components of a Thinking Environment
- Learn how the component Place creates psychological safety in your practice
- Practise the components Attention, Equality and Ease
- Discover the ground-breaking research underpinning the component Appreciation and use appreciation to generate and sustain independent thinking
- Understand how to weave the components Diversity, Information, Encouragement and Feelings skilfully through your practice
- Learn to use the component Incisive Question to transform thinking into action
- Experience fully independent thinking as the Thinker and as the Thinking Partner
- Understand and work effectively with the power of ‘limiting assumptions’
- Discover ‘blocks’ in our thinking and how to work with ‘blocks’ in your coaching practice
- Understand the 15 further outcomes in thinking/coaching sessions
- Work with the 12 breakthrough questions of a thinking session
- Transform your leadership and coaching skills by working in a Thinking Environment
Course information
Our course in Manchester City Centre is for 4 - 6 participants, working with our two course Coaches, Kate Howsley and Sara Barrie, accredited Thinking Environment Consultants, Teachers, Coaches & Facilitators. The third day is online.
Fees
Our fees are £950 per person, excluding VAT for the three day course and include all course materials
Deposit
Once your booking is confirmed we require payment in full or a 25% deposit if the course is scheduled to take place more than 8 weeks in advance. Full payment is due one month prior to the course.
Venues
Note for in house courses, we work with clients in their offices or in external venues that meet the requirements of a Thinking Environment.
The Thinking Partnership course with Sara and Kate was absolutely amazing! The training was professional, relaxed, reflective, stimulating and experiential all rolled into one. Together they significantly supported our learning, put us at ease and provided the perfect space for the group to think and thrive.
Jules RobertsThank you for a wonderful couple of days – I feel ready to bring Nancy’s wisdom into my coaching.
Thinking Partnership DelegateIn a busy and noisy world, why wouldn’t one value the opportunity to understand the quality of thinking – and how to do it better for ourselves and for others. I left with lots of valuable learning and thoughts to cultivate and apply further in my new role.
Sarah Powell-JonesI cannot recommend the Thinking Partnership course highly enough, it has brought a lasting positive effect to our business and I know we now stand out from our competitors in the way we work as an organisation and our investment in our employees.
Sarah Fitton, Director of People and Organisational Change