Thinking Partner

   Engaging the Philosophical Dimension to Develop People,       Places and Projects

           

As a thinking partner, I draw on more than 30 years of experience of working in relationships of philosophical development to join with you to help you think creatively, critically, deeply and clearly about what really matters to you. The aim is to help you make significant valuable changes. 

Partnering can be just for a few hours, for the duration of a project or can be ongoing. Sometimes it continues over several years. One key to success is building a clearly boundaried yet close personal relationship of trust, support and challenge. 

Whether you're aiming for your own personal growth, making changes to a place or organisation, or developing a project; partnering always works towards significant valuable outcomes. Clarifying and defining these can be an important first step - or a final outcome.

Philosophical partnering employs a toolkit of tried and tested philosophical methods. These include: focusing activities, skills builders, key concept identification, concept analysis, concept stretching, value clarification, value challenges, philosophical question making, Socratic dialogue, reflection and evaluation.

At the heart of philosophical practice is philosophical dialogue - facilitated, tightly focused, challenging, reflective conversation that generates deep and purposeful thinking. It's the philosophical dialogue that enables changes in understanding. It's the changes in understanding that enable changes in practice.

Engaging the philosophical dimension is powerful. As a set of tools, philosophy can help to clarify, access alternative perspectives and conceptually innovate. But Philosophy is more than a set of tools. It is a practice of engagement that has the happy habit of changing the people who participate. 


Enquiries

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