Hosting Thinking Meetings
The 10 components of a thinking environment
1 - Attention - Listening with respect, interest and fascination
2 - Ease - Offering freedom from rush or urgency
3 - Encouragement - Moving beyond competition
4 - Equality - Treating one another as thinking peers.
Giving equal turns and attention
Keeping agreements and boundaries
5 - Feelings - Allowing sufficient emotional release to restore thinking
6 - Information - Providing a full and accurate picture of reality
7 - Place - Creating a physical environment that says back to people ‘you matter’
8 - Difference - Adding quality because of the differences between us
9 - Incisive questions - Removing assumptions that limit ideas
10 - Appreciation - Practising a five-to-one ratio of appreciation to criticism
