"Time to Think" Foundation Programme - In person
Dates & Times: 9th & 10th December, 2026. 09.30 – 16.30 UK time
Location & Accommodation
Courses held in Stock, Essex, offer a calm and reflective setting designed to support thinking.
Accommodation options include local guest houses, village inns, and hotels in nearby Chelmsford.
Details are provided upon booking.
Price:
£850 – includes refreshments, lunch and all relevant materials
Transform the quality of thinking in your meetings, group sessions, and teams
Most meetings and group sessions don’t lack ideas; they lack the conditions for people to think well.
The Time to Think Foundation Programme introduces you to the Thinking Environment and shows you how to apply it across meetings, facilitated sessions, and team environments to unlock clearer thinking, stronger participation, and better decision making.
Over two immersive days, you will learn how to create spaces where people:
- Think independently and contribute fully
- Feel heard, respected, and able to speak
- Explore assumptions and generate better ideas together
This is practical, experiential learning that transforms how you lead and facilitate thinking in groups.
What you will gain
You will discover and practise a range of applications that enable high-quality thinking, including:
- Thinking Rounds – giving everyone equal voice and attention
- Thinking Pairs – deepening clarity through focused partnership
- Dialogue and group discussion – with greater ease, respect, and flow
- Structured facilitation approaches – to guide groups without constraining thinking
- Incisive Questions – to unlock new insight and remove limiting assumptions
Underpinning all of this, you will learn how to apply the Ten Components to create environments of trust, equality, and psychological safety.
Outcomes for organisations
Organisations benefit from leaders who can:
- Run meetings that are focused, inclusive, and productive
- Enable higher quality thinking and decision making
- Increase engagement and contribution across teams
- Build cultures of respect, attention, and accountability
- Reduce time wasted in unproductive discussions
The result is not just better meetings but better thinking across the organisation.
Whether you are booking for yourself or your organisation, this programme will equip you to transform the quality of thinking wherever you work.
What delegates say
“The course completely changed how I listen. I realised how often I interrupted thinking without even knowing it.”
“This was transformational. I now approach every conversation differently, with more patience, attention and confidence.”
“I’ve taken many leadership courses, but this one genuinely changed how I think and how I lead.”
“The space to think, practise and reflect was unlike anything I’ve experienced before.”