Time to Think Foundation Course (In-House Groups)
Bring world-class thinking skills to your team.
A 2-day course, delivered online as four half-day sessions, that introduces your group to the core principles and practices of the Thinking Environment™.
Whether your team is new to this approach or ready to deepen how it listens, thinks independently and collaborates with more ease and clarity, this is a practical, powerful foundation.
Bring world-class thinking skills to your team.
A 2-day course, delivered online as four half-day sessions, that introduces your group to the core principles and practices of the Thinking Environment™.
Whether your team is new to this approach or ready to deepen how it listens, thinks independently and collaborates with more ease and clarity, this is a practical, powerful foundation.
Bring world-class thinking skills to your team
This 2-day course, delivered online as four half-day sessions, introduces your group to the core principles and practices of the Thinking Environment™.
Whether your team is new to this approach or ready to deepen how it listens, thinks independently and works together, this is a practical, powerful foundation.
The Time to Think Foundation Course is now available exclusively as tailored in-house training, designed around your people and delivered live on Zoom.
It works especially well for leadership teams, peer networks and learning cohorts. Your people will:
Improve their facilitation and chairing skills
Lead more engaging, inclusive meetings
Strengthen presence, respect and quality of attention
Unlock creative thinking across the group
Build a high-trust, generative team culture
Everyone learns by doing. Participants practise as they go, so they finish with the confidence to use the Thinking Environment in real meetings, conversations and workshops, online or in person.
"Even with just one or two things from this course, any meeting you facilitate would be massively improved. The diverse mix of participants was a delight. Sophie is a gifted presenter/facilitator and mixes gentle tenacity with grit and determination. This is the way to facilitate meetings. So simple and yet more effective than any other previous methodology I've encountered. I feel so much more prepared, even excited about hosting group coaching sessions now. I have everything I need to feel confident in this approach knowing that it will deliver for my clients."
Zoe, Time to Think Foundation Course, 2016
What's included
Four live, online half-day sessions on Zoom
Access to my Podia learning portal with digital resources
The Listening Benchmark self-assessment, for individuals and for the team
Personalised completion certificates
Optional briefing and debrief sessions before and after the course
Who it's for
Professionals in any sector who want to develop their listening and facilitation skills. No previous Thinking Environment experience is needed.
Group size: 4 to 20 participants.
Pricing
Tiered by group size. All prices include materials and facilitation.
Up to 4 people: £2,400
5 to 8 people: £3,200
9 to 12 people: £4,000
13 to 16 people: £4,800
17 to 20 people: £5,500
How to book
To explore running this for your organisation or team, get in touch with me to discuss availability.
The course has confirmed my belief we all have agency in our thinking and if we gift uninterrupted time to listen, we enable others to think for themselves too.!
I would certainly recommend this course to anyone wanting to develop a highly creative team, or develop their own relationships.
I highly recommend this course because it gives you the physical and mental freedom that quality thinking needs. It can really help to break through sticking points and brings about positive change.
The best thing about the course was understanding how Transforming Meetings has moved on/how you deliver it. Your light touch. The amazing physical and psychological space.
Sophie really understands how to get the best out of a group and has a mastery of the material which makes it easy to engage.
I can sense already the benefits from this new and truly inspired approach - it’s really exciting.
The course has been a great experience and one I will highly recommend to colleagues and friends.
If you are ready to challenge the norm, Sophie will support you in thinking and enabling thinking in others.
10/10 Thank you so much – it was a much needed two days of inspiration and recharging of mind and body! I really enjoyed your style of teaching, plus the beautiful surroundings, and the very delicious lunches and snacks – it was a rare treat indeed. You’ve given me plenty to think about for sure!
10/10 I just wanted to say a personal BIG thank you for facilitating the 2 days space, which has allowed me to reset, re-affirm that I am on the right track and more importantly have some time to think, I mean really think.
The last 2 days have flown and feel like a generous gift. I feel privileged and grateful. 10/10
The best thing about the course was the amount of space given to questions and discussions and yet still the whole content was covered and given time.
I came to the course hoping to learn how to use the Thinking Environment. What I learned was how to 'be' a Thinking Environment.
Sophie is awesome, she understands the Thinking Environment to a really deep level and can apply that to real world experience.
This is a course for grown ups - no infantalising, lecturing or downloading - just 'being' the Thinking Environment.
The skills and techniques I've learnt are relevant to so many aspects (probably all aspects actually!) of life. 10/10.
Sophie's embodiment of the components, insight and wisdom elevates this from a course full of useful tools and techniques (which it still is) to one where we each get to work at our own personal edge.
Sophie is a top class coach and facilitator and I would encourage anyone who wants to grow and think to attend.
The best thing about the course was the honesty and compassion of the group and facilitator. There was total safety to raise issues that I wouldn't have dreamed possible.
If you're considering the course, go for it! You'll be cared for in a respectful way and encouraged to do your best thinking. It's a great course.
10/10. I could not recommend this course highly enough for anyone wanting to explore a different way to approach things. It has made me stop and think about so many things. If you are thinking of attending I'd say 'go for it' you won't regret it.
The 2 days offered a space to learn about the elements which will enable me to hold my classes / meetings / 1-2-1s in a Thinking Environment. I saw what I had learned from reading the 2 Time to Think books in action, in more specific detail with the chance to ask when I was not sure I had understood something correctly.
A powerful and experiential learning experience where you are fully immersed in the building blocks that helps to create a thinking environment for both individuals and teams. The course also provides you, as the participant, with valuable time and space to think for yourselves. I would highly recommend it!
The entire course was useful and it’s rare that so much of a course provides this. It will be life changing in terms of how I treat people when they are speaking which hopefully will impact on them. Sophie was an excellent tutor and so knowledgeable about the underpinning concepts and theory; absolutely nothing phased her.