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the thinking environment
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This Thinking Environment is a practice that honours sanctuary.
This is courageous, moral imagination work.
I offer my full hospitality,
a radical sanctuary of deep care and attention.​
This partnership encourages you to explore your emotional fields, intuitive wisdom and insights, to investigate your tender and fierce, and to engage critical and imaginative thinking with rigour and care.
All are valued here.
This partnership is “a terrain created by both, owned by one” (Maryse Barak). It is owned by you. You lead and I support and encourage your thinking to dream and to challenge, to generate new, undiscovered places. ​
This is emergent thinking in practice.
This is a partnership.
It is a prayer,
a muddy-body-painting itself across the skin of an unseen page,
it is grace watered with tears,
fumbled fears and not knowing felt through.
It is “a practice of intimacy” (Thomas Hübl) and courage.
“The process we call a ‘Thinking Environment’ is not a turning the world into anything.
It is a returning of all humans to their original, true entitlement: a thinking environment as a way of being in the world.”
Nancy Kline
to ignite, not influence your thinking
The aim of this practice is “to ignite, not influence” (Nancy Kline) your thinking. Here you can simply be present, familiarising yourself with your thinking as it unfolds.
This process is a slow practice that embraces and integrates the body's intelligence with the Thinking Environment. It is a regenerative patient space that generates connection and coherence to the intelligence of your body to liberate your independent thinking with courage and imagination.
What is unique about this approach is that it (the modality and our relational space) is in service to your thinking only. It is a quiet space to investigate the integrity of your thoughtful feelings and insights that belong in you.​
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This practice is therapeutic, it moves at your pace. ​​
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“We long for that gentle, rigorous expanse that produces felt thinking and thoughtful feeling. Everyday, in every interaction, vital or trivial,
we hope for the kind of presence that lets our brains and hearts find themselves.”
Nancy Kline
an emergent practice for slow enquiry
​The Thinking Environment is a process, a way to ride the waves, the ocean of your thoughts and discoveries, to choose what to follow and investigate, to notice what is luminous and asking to be explored.
There is both movement and uncertainty here.
​She is a generous and graceful rebel.
Ideas ebb and flow towards insights, new perspectives and reclamations. Thinking here is accumulative, it adds more flesh to the bones of understanding as it begins to move under its own weight.​
It is to dance the unexpected arc of imagination thinking, fueled by what you value and the choices that call for your attention to shape themselves. ​​​​
And the point is, to live everything.
Live the questions now.
Rainer Maria Rilke
where you matter
​This body of thought is fleshed out in connections and idea weaving, it brings fresh insights and imaginings.
This intelligence in movement helps you to recognise, remove and reshape your insight around mental blocks and reclaim new grounds of thought. From this fertile place, you can define, challenge and sculpt something new, something in the process taking on its own vivid life.
In following and thus firming up the shape of something fluid and infinite, changing and responding, collecting and collectively touched, you break new ground.
Your thinking embraces the emergent. ​​
Your moral imagination flies with courage and conviction.
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There is a great space of opportunity here, to lean in and listen with other ears; the ears of the skin, the body and the unspeakable felt experience of your thoughtful feelings because “your body is where you take place” (Nancy Kline).
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Here there is the hopeful potential to restore a relationship of intimacy and trust with yourself and the resourceful energy to become the "deeper answers to the questions you are walking in your life" (Thomas Hubl).
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This is a place for SLOW enquiry.​​
You matter here.
You matter more here. ​​
Further reading...
'Let me finish: how to stop interrupting… and change the world', Nancy Kline, The Guardian, 2020.
