Do you need More High Quality Time to Think?

We help leaders create cultures of collaboration, inclusion, belonging and innovation. We transform your listening, to ignite fresh thinking and results.

Leading experts in creating Thinking Environments® in the Asia-Pacific region

Thinking Environment Foundation Course

24 & 25 March 2025: Melbourne

A 2 day in-person program introducing the behaviours and their practical applications proven to generate the best quality thinking, actions and results from group interactions

Thinking Partnership Course

Summer 2025: Melbourne

A 2+ 1 day program which provides the knowledge and skills to become a Thinking Partner® and develop our own independent thinking

Time To Think Facilitator Program 

Summer 2025: Melbourne

An intensive, advanced level professional program to become a registered Time To Think Facilitator, building on the pre-requisite Foundation Course

 
 

Creating a Thinking Environment says back to people

“You matter; your thinking makes a difference; and if you knew that, what would you do now?” 

This invitation is to individuals and leaders in business, civil society, government and education to:

  • Cultivate a leadership practice:

    Ensure inclusion, and revolutionise your strategic and innovation conversations and outcomes with an easily replicable, facilitative practice.

  • Collaborate:

    Einstein famously said “We can’t solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”  Bring collaboration to life, navigating complex challenges with a renewed quality of thinking and engagement in your partnerships or organisation.

  • Create an inclusive culture:

    Shift diversity and inclusion from concepts to lived reality, through accessible practices with an immediate impact.

Upcoming Courses

Our Services

The Thinking Field’s founder, Candice Smith is one of only two Time To Think Faculty members in the Asia Pacific region qualified to deliver the full suite of globally acclaimed Thinking Environment programs and to train and qualify others. She offers this expertise to:

ORGANISATIONS

The Thinking Environment offers leaders, teams and individuals a powerful way of transforming their interactions. It leads to better communication, better problem-solving, greater collaboration – which all deliver better performance.

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INDIVIDUALS

If you want to clarify and resolve issues, set goals and replenish time, energy and ease, we can help. The Thinking Environment is a powerful tool for making a difference in your work, in your community, in your life, in your relationships.

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PRACTITIONERS

Qualify as a Time To Think Coach, Facilitator or Consultant, and transform your practice as a life coach, executive coach, group facilitator, change manager or team leader.

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Introducing Candice Smith

I'm Candice, founder of The Thinking Field, a human development consultancy specialising in creating Thinking Environments.

Driven by a need to shift the quality of human interaction at an individual, group and systemic level, I trained as a Coach and Facilitator with the founder of the Thinking Environment, Nancy Kline.

I thrive on creating new stories for the future of work and our planet with courageous individuals, groups and organisations.

A 6 session Thinking Environment® peer learning experience for diversity, equity and inclusion practitioners, and those interested in holding a truly safe space for conversations about difference, equality and inclusivity

The Thinking Environment®

The Thinking Environment is a process that generates the best independent thinking.

The quality of everything we do depends on the quality of the thinking we do first. And the quality of our thinking depends on the way we treat each other while we are thinking. After years of research and observation Nancy Kline, founder of the Thinking Environment methodology and President of Time To Think Inc, together with her associates at Time to Think Inc, recognised that people generate their best thinking if the people around them behave in ten specific ways.

People generate their best thinking if the people around them behave in ten specific ways.

 

Each component is valuable individually; but it is the system of all Ten  Components working simultaneously that gives this process its  transformative impact. These behaviours are called the Ten Components of a Thinking Environment®. 

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’

 

Client Stories

Jai Waters, Career Strategist & Coach, Sydney, Australia

Dean Mason, Senior Leadership Advisor, Melbourne, Australia

 

"I highly prioritize the belief that every individual's quality of thinking is invaluable within any organization. The true challenge lies in fostering this mindset and cultivating a culture that communicates to everyone that they matter. The Thinking Environment, along with its ten components, offers a comprehensive approach to enable teams to effectively navigate diverse styles, beliefs, and values while saving time and optimizing our efficiency & outcomes. Implementing this approach has revolutionized the way my teams operate, serving as a game changer in our collective success.” 

Brendan Coogan, Chief Transformation Officer, Pernod Ricard

Contact Us

Based in Melbourne, Australia, we offer our services globally via a range of virtual platforms.

  • Call: +61 404276460

  • Email: candice@thethinkingfield.com

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