I have found few things in life more intoxicating than possibility, ever tantalisingly present, playing peek-a-boo with our imagination! ...

For something that does not exist, we can spend an astonishing amount of our time focusing on trying to ensure our future is secure. One...

I adore this poem by Tara Mohr. It answers one of my perennial questions: how can I make peace with the turbulent swirl that is being...

I love this idea of equating “being who you really are” with being grown up. I also like Carl Jung’s idea that it may be less about...

A few years ago, I was afforded three particular experiences that have made their mark in me. I went to Tbilisi, the capital city of...

Coming back from the holy days of holiday, the whole days of being present and allowing life to unfold, I am struck by how much we tell...

I will always be deeply grateful to Werner Erhard for the ideas and concepts I gleaned from his work in the very early years of my career...

I’ve often said to people with whom I have regular thinking partnerships that it’s important to me they know they can think about the...

I love the whimsy of Michael Leunig and his suggestion!

I recently saw this sign on a door to a child's bedroom.... It occurred to me this would be a good message to send to the killjoy inner...

This is a component where I have had to cultivate an enormous amount of courage in order to have a relationship with this component. If...

In the second half of July 2018 I went to England. The ostensible reason for the trip was to reunite with people who I worked with 30...

I have an early childhood memory that is providing me with insight for this month’s newsletter. I grew up in the city of Kampala, which,...

Creating a learning environment, in the classroom - which in my case is always a lounge - or in life, can feel like a serious thing....

I recently had the opportunity to express some concerns I had, in a meeting of peers. I did some agonising before the meeting about how...

The sixth component of a Thinking Environment is the component of encouragement. One of the things that I absolutely love about the...

The fifth component of a thinking environment is probably one of the components that gets marginalized the most. It's one of the...

I’ve been working with deciding. To “decide” something has such enormous power. It has the same root as other words that denote killing...

Showing ourselves is a risky business - it seems to me. One can’t rehearse authenticity - for it to be authentic; it has to be real and...

So far, we've looked at the first three components of a thinking environment and how they call to each other, how they need each other,...