The Time to Think Coach Course - Resources Week 1
Course Manual
Improving Thinking through Coaching
Nancy Kline, President of Time To Think, an international leadership development and coaching company, identifies the challenges currently facing the coaching profession and discusses how a coach can encourage clients to 'think for themselves'.
“A Student’s Prayer” is a deeply moving plea for independent thinking, written by the Chilean Philosopher and Biologist Humberto Maturana - you can read it here.
Coaching for Independent Thinking
Nancy asks, in this piece from 2018, “How can we enable our clients to think for themselves? Coaching clients to think is one thing. Coaching them to think for themselves is wholly another. The ‘for themselves’ part of the difference changes the game. It moves the plates. And it can turn our coaching inside out.”
Click here to download the full article.
Course Notes
It can be helpful to reflect and make notes of each of your practice sessions with fellow course participants, both as Thinker and Thinking Partner.
Session Reflection Notes Template for the THINKER here
Session Reflection Notes Template for the THINKING PARTNER here
How to Actively Listen to Others
In this inspiring talk, Scott Pierce shows us that “Yes, and” is not just the first rule of improv, but it also touches on deeper lessons that we can apply to our everyday lives. (It strikes me that generative attention could be a non verbal way of saying “Yes, and”).
Build a School in the Cloud
Sugata Mitra makes his bold TED Prize wish: Help me design the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can explore and learn from each other - and how they think for themselves.
Listening to Liberate
TE Postcard to Download
The Power of Appreciation
Mike Robbins says that there is an important distinction between "recognition" and "appreciation." Leaders, teams, organizations, and individuals who understand this distinction can have much more impact, meaning, and productivity in their lives and with the people around them.
More on the Ten Components
From Cheryl Reynolds, Senior Lecturer in Education, University of Huddersfield.
Listening Differently
Zalika is the co-founder and Director of Learning for KairosPDX Early Learning Center. Here she talks about listening differently - and its so resonant with the Thinking Environment.