Sustaining the Journey

Thoughtful writing authored and shared by members of of the Thinking Collaborative community to support others on the journey.
Sustaining the Journey
3 Approaches to Change | August 10, 2015 | Thinking Collaborative |
A Bias Toward Action | December 14, 2015 | Thinking Collaborative |
A Healing-Centered Framework | March 01, 2019 | Carrie Usui Johnson and member of the Thinking Collaborative Futures Team |
A Review: "The Power of Listening in Helping People Change" from HBR | December 10, 2018 | Thinking Collaborative |
AS & CC in the Classroom | October 03, 2016 | Thinking Collaborative |
Adaptive Schools and Trauma Informed Practices | February 15, 2019 | John Matich, Training Associate and member of the Thinking Collaborative Futures Team |
An Adaptive Curriculum | January 09, 2017 | Thinking Collaborative |
Analyzing Causal Factors | June 13, 2016 | Thinking Collaborative |
Applications for the Planning Conversation | December 09, 2013 | Thinking Collaborative |
Are Your Meetings Fun? | June 29, 2015 | Thinking Collaborative |
Articles on how Gen Zers are different from Millennials in the Workplace | December 03, 2018 | Thinking Collaborative |
Assumptions Paraphrases | February 15, 2016 | Thinking Collaborative |
Attending to Desired State | October 27, 2014 | Thinking Collaborative |
Attention to Intention | October 20, 2014 | Thinking Collaborative |
Back to Basics: Identity as a Collaborator and Inquirer | April 13, 2015 | Thinking Collaborative |
Back to Basics: Identity as a Mediator | April 06, 2015 | Thinking Collaborative |
Balance Participation | September 13, 2016 | Thinking Collaborative |
Beginning to Understand & Embrace the Principles & Tenets of Adaptive Schools (Part 1) | November 06, 2017 | Thinking Collaborative |
Beginning to Understand & Embrace the Principles & Tenets of Adaptive Schools (Part 2) | November 27, 2017 | Thinking Collaborative |
Beginning to Understand & Embrace the Principles & Tenets of Adaptive Schools (Part 2) | November 13, 2017 | Thinking Collaborative |
Beginning to Understand & Embrace the Principles & Tenets of Adaptive Schools (Part 3) | November 20, 2017 | Thinking Collaborative |
Blind Spot Bias | April 11, 2016 | Thinking Collaborative |
Breathing Renewed Life into Our Work: Enjoying the Blossoms | May 27, 2019 | Ericka Harris, Training Associate and member of the Thinking Collaborative Futures Team |
Breathing Renewed Life into Our Work: Nurturing the Seedlings | May 13, 2019 | Ericka Harris, Training Associate and member of the Thinking Collaborative Futures Team |
Breathing Renewed Life into Our Work: Planting the Seeds | May 06, 2019 | Ericka Harris, Training Associate and member of the Thinking Collaborative Futures Team |
Breathing Renewed Life into Our Work: Watching for Growth | May 20, 2019 | Ericka Harris, Training Associate and member of the Thinking Collaborative Futures Team |
Calibrating Conversations Support Self-Directed Learning | August 14, 2017 | Thinking Collaborative |
Can you hear me now? 360 Listening | August 15, 2016 | Thinking Collaborative |
Capabilities | September 01, 2014 | Thinking Collaborative |
Capability 1: Know One’s Intentions and Choose Congruent Behaviors | December 01, 2014 | Thinking Collaborative |
Capital is an asset in any form. Professional Capital includes Human Capital, Social Capital, Cognitive Capital, and Decisional Capital. | July 04, 2016 | Thinking Collaborative |
Categories of Stories | February 05, 2018 | Thinking Collaborative |
Change as a Normative-Reeducative Process | August 31, 2015 | Thinking Collaborative |
Change as a Power-Coercion Process | August 24, 2015 | Thinking Collaborative |
Change as an Empirical-Rational Process | August 17, 2015 | Thinking Collaborative |
Characteristics and Needs of Generations | June 09, 2014 | Thinking Collaborative |
Co-Laboring: Building Inclusive Communities | April 24, 2017 | Winn Wheeler |
Co-Laboring: Ensuring All Voices are Heard | April 17, 2017 | Winn Wheeler |
Co-Laboring: Listening Well | April 10, 2017 | Winn Wheeler |
Coach as Choreographer and Catalytic Leader | August 13, 2018 | Thinking Collaborative |
Coach as Creative Liaison and Counselor | August 27, 2018 | Thinking Collaborative |
Coach as Ethnographer and Designer | August 20, 2018 | Thinking Collaborative |
Coaching Students in the Classroom | March 11, 2013 | Thinking Collaborative |
Cognitive Capital | May 05, 2015 | Thinking Collaborative |
Cognitive CoachingSM Research: Outcome #3 | November 14, 2016 | Thinking Collaborative |
Cognitive CoachingSM Research: Outcome #7 | November 28, 2016 | Thinking Collaborative |
Cognitive CoachingSM Research: Outcomes #1 and #2 | November 07, 2016 | Thinking Collaborative |
Cognitive CoachingSM Research: Outcomes #3 and #6 | November 21, 2016 | Thinking Collaborative |
Cognitive Shift: Consciousness | January 14, 2013 | Thinking Collaborative |
Cognitive Shift: Craftsmanship | February 04, 2013 | Thinking Collaborative |
Cognitive Shift: Efficacy | January 28, 2013 | Thinking Collaborative |
Cognitive Shift: Interdependence | January 21, 2013 | Thinking Collaborative |
Collective Teacher Efficacy | February 04, 2019 | Walter Basnight, Secondary Learning Coach for the American International School Chennai, India
and member of the Thinking Collaborative Futures Team |
Commit to Applications | June 27, 2016 | Thinking Collaborative |
Concept Label Paraphrases | February 08, 2016 | Thinking Collaborative |
Conciousness (April 2019) | April 01, 2019 | Thinking Collaborative |
Confirmation Bias | April 04, 2016 | Thinking Collaborative |
Consciousness (February 2017) | February 15, 2017 | Thinking Collaborative |
Construct New Learnings | June 20, 2016 | Thinking Collaborative |
Context-Specific Coaching | August 06, 2018 | Thinking Collaborative |
Craftsmanship | April 08, 2019 | Thinking Collaborative |
Cultural Communication Patterns 1 | August 04, 2014 | Thinking Collaborative |
Cultural Communication Patterns 2 | August 11, 2014 | Thinking Collaborative |
Data and Inferences | April 08, 2013 | Thinking Collaborative |
Data and Questions | April 15, 2013 | Thinking Collaborative |
Decisional Capital | July 25, 2016 | Thinking Collaborative |
Defining the Work of the Coach | November 03, 2014 | Thinking Collaborative |
Developing Co-Laborers | April 03, 2017 | Thinking Collaborative |
Developing Self-Directed Leaders and Learners - Identity | July 13, 2015 | Thinking Collaborative |
Developing Self-Directed Leaders and Learners – A Higher Purpose | July 06, 2015 | Thinking Collaborative |
Developing Self-Directed Leaders and Learners – Mediation at Work | July 20, 2015 | Thinking Collaborative |
Developing Self-Efficacy | January 07, 2019 | Walter Basnight, Secondary Learning Coach for the American International School Chennai, India and member of the Thinking Collaborative Futures Team |
Developing Trust for a Coaching Relationship | May 04, 2015 | Thinking Collaborative |
Developing the Mentors/Coaches | October 29, 2018 | Thinking Collaborative |
Developmental Approach to Feedback and Collaboration: Instrumental Knowers | March 06, 2017 | Thinking Collaborative |
Developmental Approach to Feedback and Collaboration: Self-Authoring Knowers | March 20, 2017 | Thinking Collaborative |
Developmental Approach to Feedback and Collaboration: Self-Transforming Knowers | March 27, 2017 | Thinking Collaborative |
Developmental Approach to Feedback and Collaboration: Socializing Knowers | March 13, 2017 | Thinking Collaborative |
Distinguishing the Role of the Coach | November 24, 2014 | Thinking Collaborative |
Effective Action as a Future Curriculum | January 23, 2017 | Thinking Collaborative |
Effective Relationship and Effective Accomplishment as a Future Curriculum | January 30, 2017 | Thinking Collaborative |
Effective Thinking as a Future Curriculum | January 16, 2017 | Thinking Collaborative |
Effects of the Need to Be Right | May 12, 2014 | Thinking Collaborative |
Efficacy (April 2019) | April 22, 2019 | Thinking Collaborative |
Efficacy (February 2017) | February 27, 2017 | Thinking Collaborative |
Empathy and Sympathy | July 27, 2015 | Thinking Collaborative |
Empathy for Existing State | June 03, 2013 | Thinking Collaborative |
Engage Cognitive Conflict | September 27, 2016 | Thinking Collaborative |
Envisioning Success in the Calibrating Conversation | August 21, 2017 | Thinking Collaborative |
Factors that Contribute to Poor Group Decision-Making | January 08, 2015 | Thinking Collaborative |
Fallacies | January 19, 2015 | Thinking Collaborative |
Feedback and Context | April 30, 2013 | Thinking Collaborative |
Feedback and Context | June 22, 2013 | Thinking Collaborative |
Filling and Spilling | October 07, 2013 | Thinking Collaborative |
Finding Eight | August 19, 2013 | Thinking Collaborative |
Finding Five | July 29, 2013 | Thinking Collaborative |
Finding Four | July 22, 2013 | Thinking Collaborative |
Finding Nine | August 26, 2013 | Thinking Collaborative |
Finding Seven | August 12, 2013 | Thinking Collaborative |
Finding Six | August 05, 2013 | Thinking Collaborative |
Finding Three | July 15, 2013 | Thinking Collaborative |
Finding Two | July 08, 2013 | Thinking Collaborative |
Five Forms of Feedback | April 01, 2013 | Thinking Collaborative |
Fixed versus Growth Mindsets and the Brain | December 05, 2015 | Thinking Collaborative |
Flexibility (April 2019) | April 15, 2019 | Thinking Collaborative |
Flexibility (February 2017) | February 06, 2017 | Thinking Collaborative |
Four Support Functions | December 08, 2014 | Thinking Collaborative |
Fully Present by Paying Attention to Assumptions | October 14, 2013 | Thinking Collaborative |
Gender and Voice | May 07, 2018 | Thinking Collaborative |
Generations as a Filter of Perception | June 02, 2014 | Thinking Collaborative |
Gesturing to Align with Your Intention | May 15, 2017 | Thinking Collaborative |
Giving Back | November 25, 2013 | Thinking Collaborative |
Helping Groups Become Wiser | February 09, 2015 | Thinking Collaborative |
Holding a Confident Stance | May 29, 2017 | Thinking Collaborative |
How Groups Reduce Fallacies | February 02, 2015 | Thinking Collaborative |
How do I get started? | October 02, 2017 | Thinking Collaborative |
Human Capital | July 11, 2016 | Thinking Collaborative |
Human Connections and Slowing Down | December 16, 2013 | Thinking Collaborative |
Identity Paraphrases | February 29, 2016 | Thinking Collaborative |
Identity as a Mediator | June 01, 2015 | Thinking Collaborative |
Identity as a Mediator of Thinking | September 02, 2013 | Thinking Collaborative |
Improving Procedural Knowledge | July 07, 2014 | Thinking Collaborative |
Improving with Procedural Knowledge | July 14, 2014 | Thinking Collaborative |
Interdependence (April 2019) | April 29, 2019 | Thinking Collaborative |
Interdependence (February 2017) | February 20, 2017 | Thinking Collaborative |
Isolating Skills: Paraphrasing | April 14, 2014 | Thinking Collaborative |
Isolating Skills: Pausing | April 21, 2014 | Thinking Collaborative |
Isolating Skills: Rapport | April 07, 2014 | Thinking Collaborative |
Isolating Skills: Posing Questions | April 28, 2014 | Thinking Collaborative |
Journey of Becoming Trauma Informed: How a Norm of Collaboration is Changing Things One Situation at a Time | March 19, 2019 | Thinking Collaborative |
Kegan's Stages of Adult Development | June 04, 2018 | Thinking Collaborative |
Kegan's Stages of Adult Development: Self-Authoring Knowers | June 18, 2018 | Thinking Collaborative |
Kegan's Stages of Adult Development: Self-Transforming or Interindividual Knowers | June 25, 2018 | Thinking Collaborative |
Kegan's Stages of Adult Development: Socializing Knowers | June 11, 2018 | Thinking Collaborative |
Know When to Self Assert and When to Integrate | September 15, 2014 | Thinking Collaborative |
Know and support the group’s purposes, topics, processes and development | September 29, 2014 | Thinking Collaborative |
Knowing When to Consult | May 19, 2016 | Thinking Collaborative |
Listening as a Leadership Tool | August 01, 2016 | Thinking Collaborative |
Making the Norms the Norm | May 18, 2015 | Art Costa & Bena Kallick |
Managing Change by Managing Transitions | July 03, 2017 | Thinking Collaborative |
Managing Change by Managing Transitions—Endings | July 10, 2017 | Thinking Collaborative |
Managing Change by Managing Transitions—Mediating Your Thinking around Transition | July 31, 2017 | Thinking Collaborative |
Managing Change by Managing Transitions—New Beginnings | July 24, 2017 | Thinking Collaborative |
Managing Change by Managing Transitions—The Neutral Zone | July 17, 2017 | Thinking Collaborative |
Mastering the Box | May 08, 2017 | Thinking Collaborative |
Meeting Tips for Time Management | June 30, 2014 | Thinking Collaborative |
Mentoring Using Feedback, Part 1 | October 15, 2018 | Thinking Collaborative |
Mentoring Using Feedback, Part 2 | October 15, 2018 | Thinking Collaborative |
Mentoring/Coaching the New Teacher | October 01, 2018 | Thinking Collaborative |
Mentoring/Coaching the Veteran Teacher | October 08, 2018 | Thinking Collaborative |
Moving to Automaticity | October 09, 2017 | Thinking Collaborative |
Navigate between and within coaching maps and support functions to guide mediational interactions | September 22, 2014 | Thinking Collaborative |
Navigating Support Functions | May 11, 2015 | Thinking Collaborative |
New Language for Types of Paraphrases | May 26, 2014 | Thinking Collaborative |
No Recipe for Living That Fits All Cases | February 24, 2014 | Thinking Collaborative |
Norms of Collboration & Students - A Real World Example | October 17, 2016 | Thinking Collaborative |
Organizational Arrangements | August 25, 2014 | Thinking Collaborative |
Ostrich Effect | April 18, 2016 | Thinking Collaborative |
Pacing to Access the Neocortex | May 13, 2013 | Thinking Collaborative |
Pacing: Honoring the Existing State and Framing the Desired State | May 20, 2013 | Thinking Collaborative |
Pacing: Understanding the Brain | May 27, 2013 | Thinking Collaborative |
Paraphrasing - Acknowledging | September 11, 2017 | Thinking Collaborative |
Paraphrasing - Organizing | September 18, 2017 | Thinking Collaborative |
Paraphrasing Abstracting | September 25, 2017 | Thinking Collaborative |
Paraphrasing to Abstract | September 28, 2015 | Thinking Collaborative |
Paraphrasing to Acknowledge | September 14, 2015 | Thinking Collaborative |
Paraphrasing to Organize | September 21, 2015 | Thinking Collaborative |
Pausing | September 07, 2015 | Thinking Collaborative |
Peter Johnston on Opening Minds | November 21, 2015 | Thinking Collaborative |
Posing Mediative Questions—Approachability | July 02, 2018 | Thinking Collaborative |
Posing Mediative Questions—Open-Ended | July 30, 2018 | Thinking Collaborative |
Posing Mediative Questions—Plural Forms | July 09, 2018 | Thinking Collaborative |
Posing Mediative Questions—Positive Presuppositions | July 23, 2018 | Thinking Collaborative |
Posing Mediative Questions—Tentative Language | July 16, 2018 | Thinking Collaborative |
Posing Questions That Mediate Thinking | March 31, 2014 | Thinking Collaborative |
Positive Presuppositions in the Classroom | March 25, 2013 | Thinking Collaborative |
Practicing the Pace | June 17, 2013 | Thinking Collaborative |
Preparing Coaches for the Job | November 10, 2014 | Thinking Collaborative |
Principles of Complex Systems - A Real World Example | October 24, 2016 | Thinking Collaborative |
Problem-Resolving Map, not Problem-Solving Map | May 06, 2013 | Thinking Collaborative |
Problems Created by Group Fallacies | January 26, 2015 | Thinking Collaborative |
Problems that Result from Informational Signals and Reputational Pressures in Groups | January 12, 2015 | Thinking Collaborative |
Project Aristotle – Understanding Successful Groups | March 14, 2016 | Thinking Collaborative |
Psychological Safety in Groups | March 28, 2016 | Thinking Collaborative |
Purposefully Creating Cognitive Diversity and Psychological Safety | March 11, 2019 | James Roussin, Training Associate and member of the Thinking Collaborative Futures Team |
Purposes of Reflection | June 06, 2016 | Thinking Collaborative |
Reading Non-Verbals: Racial Bias | November 29, 2018 | Thinking Collaborative |
Recency | April 25, 2016 | Thinking Collaborative |
Reciprocity in Mediation | October 13, 2014 | Thinking Collaborative |
Recommitment to Paraphrasing | March 24, 2014 | Thinking Collaborative |
Reflecting on a Coaching Experience | September 30, 2013 | Thinking Collaborative |
Reflection Does Improve Performance | July 21, 2014 | Thinking Collaborative |
Renewing Yourself | May 30, 2016 | Thinking Collaborative |
Research Supporting Adaptive Schools & Cognitive Coaching (Part 1) | December 04, 2017 | Thinking Collaborative |
Research Supporting Adaptive Schools & Cognitive Coaching (Part 2) | December 11, 2017 | Thinking Collaborative |
Responding Effectively to V.U.C.A – “Hey, it’s crazy out there!” | December 12, 2016 | Thinking Collaborative |
Revision to Cognitive Coaching Capability 3…the How (Part 1) | December 12, 2016 | Thinking Collaborative |
Revision to Cognitive Coaching Capability 3…the How (Part 2) | January 29, 2018 | Thinking Collaborative |
Revision to Cognitive Coaching Capability 3…the What | January 15, 2018 | Thinking Collaborative |
Revision to Cognitive Coaching Capability 3…the Why | January 08, 2018 | Thinking Collaborative |