The Ten Components of a Thinking Environment®
Attention
Listening without interruption and with interest in where the person will go next in their thinking
Equality
Regarding each other as thinking peers, giving equal time to think
Ease
Discarding internal urgency
Appreciation
Noticing what is good and saying it
Feelings
Welcoming the release of emotion
Encouragement
Giving courage to go to the unexplored edge of thinking by ceasing competition as thinkers
Information
Absorbing all the relevant
Difference
Committing to freedom from untrue assumptions driving prejudice
Incisive Questions
Freeing the human mind of untrue assumptions lived as true
Place
Producing a physical environment – the room, the listener, your body – that says, ‘You matter’