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

Do you want to:

·       create truly inclusive workplaces and conversational spaces?

·       welcome and encourage difference, including difference of opinion?

·       share experiences and best practices with fellow diversity and inclusion champions?

Inclusion in a Thinking Environment

After years of research and observation Nancy Kline, founder of the Thinking Environment® recognised that people generate their best thinking if the people around them behave in certain ways. This program will introduce you to these behaviours and their practical applications for creating inclusive spaces which welcome difference.

Over six sessions of 2.5 hours per session, participants will increase their ability to:

·        Share their own story of difference and exclusion so as to develop this into a powerful tool to create connection and safety for participants in DEI discussions

·        Bring alive the ten behaviours that create a safe space for people to think together collaboratively and creatively: The Ten Components of a Thinking Environment®

·      Distinguish the impact of understanding the difference between ‘equality’ and ‘equity’ when creating safe spaces for groups

·        Find compelling questions to ignite collaborative thinking

·        Create experiential exercises and processes for teams and groups to connect, share and understand each other more deeply

·       Unpack untrue limiting assumptions attached to diverse group identities and transform these into questions that ignite liberated thinking and self-expression

Participants will walk away with:

·       valuable time to think about topics that matter most to them related to diversity, equity and inclusion

·       access to the diverse thinking of peers

·       practices for hosting crucial conversations

·       a lifelong network of peer learning practitioners & thinking partners

·       a library of resources for creating Thinking Environments, and on diversity, equity and inclusion

Logistics

 Participants should plan for:

·       six sessions of 2,5 hrs each of online group work

·       weekly 15 minute 1: 1 peer thinking pairs in the intersession periods

·       reading time for recommended articles and books, including The Promise that Changes Everything by Nancy Kline

·       1, 5 hrs of individual coaching time  

Course Details

Pricing: AUD 1285 + GST

Date  London      Cape Town Melbourne

March 8     7.00 -9.30 am      9.00 -11.30 am    6.00 -8.30 pm

March 22   7.00 -9.30 am      9.00 -11.30 am    6.00 -8.30 pm

March 29   7.00 -9.30 am      8.00 -10.30 am    5.00 -7.30 pm

April 5        7.00 -9.30 am      8.00 -10.30 am    4.00 -6.30 pm

April 12      7.00 -9.30 am      8.00 -10.30 am    4.00 -6.30 pm

May 3         7.00 -9.30 am      8.00 -10.30 am    4.00 -6.30 pm

Format: Online via Zoom

Maximum no: 8

Expressions of Interest Contact Candice

Who are your guides?

Candice Smith and Trisha Lord have over 90 years of combined experience and practice in the endeavour of making and holding space for the conversation of diversity and inclusion. This comes as a result of a lifetime of navigating their own personal stories in the narrative of gender and race. More specifically in the last 16 years they have both been members of the Global Faculty of Thinking Environment Teachers.   

Trisha Lord

Candice Smith