How to Listen So People Can Think
The quality of everything we do depends on the quality of the thinking we do first.
Nancy Kline
How to Listen So People Can Think is an inspiring and practical guide to unlocking individual and collective intelligence, highlighting practices that also improve relationships, and bring pride, joy, and engagement to a wide range of contexts – from individuals and families to charitable organisations and corporations.
Based on Nancy Kline’s pioneering work on the conditions in which people think for themselves – the Thinking Environment® – the book proposes simple steps that make a big difference for individuals and groups.
Vivid stories about real-life implementation of a Thinking Environment make the book an easy read. Each chapter includes suggestions for simple, practical things to try out in everyday life.
A Thinking Environment is successfully enabling independent thinking all over the world.
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‘Since experiencing the Thinking Environment, I have found conventional meetings frustrating and pointless. This beautifully crafted book will help you transform meetings from battlegrounds of interruptions to safe places for co-creating meaningful ideas.’
– Alasdair Skelton, Professor of Geochemistry
and Petrology, Stockholm University
‘I love Monica’s book! She is a wonderful storyteller, and her mastery of the Thinking Environment is inspiring.
It is such a practical book too.
The suggested exercises to try and practice – “experiment” – together with “watch out!” and “rubbish bin” all make it fresh and
accessible.’
– Fiona Dawe, CBE, Time To Think Faculty
‘Monica has created something truly special here. This is an invitation to experience the remarkable power of generous human attention and how it frees people to think courageously for themselves.
Through authentic stories drawn from every corner of life – family dinners and boardroom meetings, classroom moments and mentoring conversations – Monica offers us a deeper way of being with each
other.'
– Maryse Barak, Time To Think Faculty