Beverly Whitehead; South African Breweries Pilot - Time To Think

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How did we gear up formentoring?• Individual preparation (self-reflection and interview)• Four days of training, contracting and practicea) Appreciative Mentoring/ Immersion in Mentoring(1 day)b) Thinking Environment training (2 days)c) +/- 3 self initiated mentoring sessions in pairsd) Thinking Environment review, reflection & otherapplications (1day)• Formal reviewNewlands Brewery Pilot Mentoring Programme 2006
What is the Thinking Environment?(NANCY KLINE)• Positive philosophy of human nature• People can think for themselves and solve their own problems ifthey are allowed to think!• People think well together (thinking partners)• Everything we do depends on the quality of the thinking we do first• The mind thinks best in the presence of a powerful question• A set of conditions, the ‘Ten Components’ (e.g. attention, equality,ease, appreciation …), used as a system, facilitates transformativethinking• The thinking partnership encourages active listening and ‘FreeExploration’ (without interruption) to facilitate thinking• Incisive Questions are formulated to help the thinker to removelimiting assumptionsNewlands Brewery Pilot Mentoring Programme 2006
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Page 19 and 20: So where did we meet?• Generally
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