Critical thinking

We know you're busy. But we also know the value of being away from the office and the phone, to concentrate on the things that affect your business.

Our mindstretch® sessions are all about giving you that space, that time, and that stimulation. Either with colleagues, or peers from other organisations.

For the mindstretch®, we do all the academic reading that you don't have time for. Then we develop a digest of the interesting bits. At the session, our guests discuss how far academic wisdom ties up with their own experience.

The mindstretch® won't spoon-feed you – we want your active participation. You'll learn as much from other participants as you might from us.

Listen to what mindstretch® participants said about one of our sessions:

We have two formats for mindstretch®, both with their own benefits:

• Open sessions where participants come from a range of organisations and bring different perspectives. We’ve been running these since we started in business in 2002. These are good for:
  • Creating a wide discussion with lots of differing views
  • Collecting experience from a variety of industries
  • Getting away from your own corporate mindset

• Bespoke events where we research or update latest thinking on a topic chosen by the client and present it to a group of individuals they select and then facilitate a discussion, leading in most cases, to an action plan. These are good for:
  • Creating a new approach to your organisation’s particular problem
  • Carving out time to deal with a specific issue
  • Focusing on a specific outcome through the action planning and discussion with internal colleagues

Not sure what the mindstretch® is about? Look at an example of a previous session and also consider coming to our next session.