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,...

The second component of a thinking environment is the component of equality. One of the things that I love about the components -and I've...

A while back, I wrote about noticing the drift towards finding fault, like a sea we swim and get caught up in, sometimes without even...

One of the cornerstones of the Buddha’s teaching is that nothing is permanent, everything is subject, moment by moment, to change. This...

The third component of a thinking environment is actually a product of the first to when people know that they're going to be listened to...

Voltaire articulates something I think we all know to be true in our experience. In fact, I have heard it said that which we notice,...

I’ve been thinking about how when we meet and greet each other, we have no idea of each other’s untold stories. The answer to “how are...

Sometimes life is hard. Right now, our precious world feels fragile and under huge threat. Thorny issues abound: the Trump presidency,...

I wrote this newsletter from snowy Europe. I am hoping the weather will not delay my flights today and that I can return to warm and...

I've often wondered about this process that happens when people go for a job interview, and I've heard many, many business owners talk...

The first component of a thinking environment is the component of attention, and - of course - what we mean by attention is listening....

I went on holiday in this wild, extraordinary land. From the Eastern Cape, to South Coast KZN, the borders of Lesotho and the whacky,...