More Time to Think: The power of independent thinking

“Here’s how it could work, I think: One person is the Facilitator. One person is the Presenter. One person is the Scribe. Or there could be a digital recorder. The Presenter identifies an issue or dilemma. They think about it out loud. After a few minutes, maybe not more than ten, they consider what question they would like the people in the group

Eight Types Of Further Goals 1. Action Goal (to decide, to plan, to figure out, to compose, to maintain, etc) 2. Feeling Goal (to feel a certain way, to stop feeling a certain way) 3. Removing-The-Blocks Goal (to find the liberating assumption and build an Incisive Question) 4. Understanding-Why-I Goal (to understand why I think, feel or do somethi

“Of those assumptions, or any that might spring to mind, what is the one most making you feel guilty all of the time?”

“You matter.” That is all. And that is everything. When we know that we matter, we think at our best.

What am I assuming that is stopping me from feeling good?

And if you can prepare the Place where you and they think together so that it says to them, “You matter,” they will think better around you than if you allow the place to be intimidating, inaccessible or culturally and aesthetically barren.

When you focus on what others are thinking of what you are thinking, you aren’t thinking. Not very well. You are running a second-by-second gauntlet of calculation about how you are doing in everyone’s eyes, especially the leaders’.

He also listened for untrue limiting assumptions in people’s comments. “We

Then he contacted the presenters. He told them they would have only 40 percent of the time allotted for their item. The rest of the time would be for the group to think.