What if you're asking the wrong question?
The question you keep asking can only ever lead you to the answers you've already found.
If nothing is changing, perhaps the question needs to.
Welcome to Thinking Space!
Where we question the question.
Things humans do:
Pretend some meetings are useful when we are absolutely sure, they are not.
Say, "I just need to get through this week."
...for six months.
Go round and round and round again, in circles.
Assume the loudest voice knows best.
Want to be thought-provoking but make no time to provoke thoughts.
Mistake familiarity for progress!
Better questions create better change.
Whether you're leading a national strategy, trying to improve a public service, navigating a difficult relationship or wondering why you feel stuck and keep reaching the same crossroads again and again...
The answers you find will always be shaped by the questions you ask.
Quite simply: sometimes nothing will change, until the question does.
What happens in a Thinking Space?
Notice
Things you've been stepping over.
Challenge
The assumptions hiding in plain sight.
Untangle
See through the mind spaghetti
Reduce
Noise.
Not possibility.
Identify
The pattens you've accidentally been practising.
Find
The question that changes it all.
Working together: Different questions, same approach
Thinking Space
Strategic Consultancy & Facilitation
For those wonderful (frustrating?) life questions. Relationships/career decisions...
you know the ones!
For navigating the complexity of public services.
For teams/organisations/leadership in public & third sectors.
What question are you wrestling with?
Whether it's personal, professional, private, public...
let's question the question together.
More things humans do...
We ask:
How do I find more time?
What if the better question is:
What's stealing my time?
We spend weeks perfecting an agenda.
And barely a minute considering what people need to speak honestly.
We sit on strategic planning groups.
To formulate solutions before agreeing on the problem.
We keep asking why people don't engage.
Nobody has asked why they would.
Interested in... interesting things to think about?
The Weekly Thinking Note:
It arrives in your inbox each Friday morning.
A quiet note to help you pause and think
...about things worth thinking about.