thoughts from session 3

July 31, 2008

Today’s Topics:

  • What do we believe about our limitations?
  • Help each other to think by listening better. There are times when you listen to some one and that experience either increases my level of thinking and sometimes not.
    • Power and fear due to the hierarchy
    • Sometimes encouragement allows you to think better.
  • Nancy Kline – Thinking at a higher level
    • 10 components of the thinking environment:
      • Quality of attention (ability to pay attention to someone… without interruptions) real care for this persons thinking.
      • Encouragement give (anything worth doing is worth doing it badly to begin with, before getting better at it)
      • Appreciation … 5:1 ratio +ve to -ve (married relationship 90:1)
      • Equality – treating the other person as an equal
      • Ease – give the other person the ease and ensure that you are fully engaged
      • Diversity
      • Place – good sense of the place that you’re in.
      • Allow feelings – allow sufficient emotional release to restore thinking
      • Full and free information
      • Incisive questions.

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