How to Listen So People Can Think

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Discover how you can improve relationships and decisions 
by fostering independent thinking.
This website is designed to offer you practical ways to improve relationships and independent thinking.
40 years of research by educator and best-selling author Nancy Kline has uncovered ten behaviours that unleash individual and collective intelligence. Together, they are called a Thinking Environment®. Good relationships, independent thinking and far better decisions result. The decisions are also more likely to be implemented.
The information on this website enables you to make a crucial difference where it most matters to you.

Why?

Some compelling reasons to create a Thinking Environment.

Enables
independent thinking

Thinking for yourself boosts self-esteem and creates the foundations for leading the life you want to lead.

Enhances
decision quality

Accesses collective intelligence and so helps you (and your team/family) make informed decisions that are more likely to be put into action.

Fosters
great relationships

Respect, appreciation, affinity and connection flourish.
A Thinking Environment turns an organisation’s stated values into tangible, lived, work-place reality. 

Boosts
engagement

When everyone gets a chance to think and  really be heard, engagement skyrockets. 

The quality of everything we do
depends on the quality of the thinking we do first.
The quality of our thinking
depends on the way we treat each other
while we are thinking.

— Nancy Kline
researcher, educator, and best-selling author

How you can improve relationships and independent thinking

Below are some areas where a Thinking Environment will make a big difference.

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Ten behaviours together create a Thinking Environment

Ten behaviours create the conditions for people to think independently and well.
They also improve relationships.
They are known as the Ten Components of a Thinking Environment and together they are transformational.
They form the foundations for the applications above.
Their transformative impact, when present as a system, was discovered by Nancy Kline.
The presence of even a few will make a real difference.
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