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NANCY KLINE

Nancy Kline

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What Happens in the Silence? The Real Art of Coaching

'Must we speak?

And if we do, what might we destroy?

How can we know?'

Out of a particular silence comes clear thinking -�choice, courage, change. The client's clear thinking is the value of coaching. The expertise to generate it is the value of the coach. But what is this generative silence that produces it?�How can we grow expert at it? Which questions complement it? Which desecrate it? What makes this silence so challenging?�

Nancy Kline, creator of The Thinking Environment, will suggest that coaching in our uniquely changing world is not a technique or a toolbox. It is a way of being that liberates the mind of the client, an art that is at one with the transformative nature of silence.

'Most of what our clients are thinking they are not putting into words. Yet it is from these meagre uttering's that we form our so-called 'non-directive' questions, and choose our "tools". How bizarre is that?'

'In this powerful coaching it is not that you are not doing�anything. It is that you are not�saying�anything.'

Nancy Kline is President of Time To Think, an international coaching and leadership development Company. Time To Think has offices in the UK, South Africa, the USA and Australia. Nancy teaches coaches and leaders to become experts in creating Thinking Environments with their clients and their teams.

Nancy began piecing together the Thinking Environment in 1973 when she co-founded Thornton Friends School near Washington DC. She and her colleagues set out to answer the question: What does it take for people to think for themselves - with rigour, imagination, courage and grace?

The answers, pointing ultimately to the behaviours known now as the Ten Components of a Thinking Environment^�, eventually led to an understanding of the sequence of questions the human mind seems naturally to ask itself when it is breaking through. This process is now called The Thinking Partnership Session^� and is regarded by many as essential Coaching expertise.

Nancy continues, in collaboration with the 50 Time To Think Coaches globally, to discover and refine this breakthrough process, and to work with coaches to refine its use in executive coaching and team coaching.

As a coach herself, Nancy values most the journey the client takes to their own, independent thinking. As a teacher of coaches she finds that creating these conditions for thinking are among the most challenging aspects of professional coaching and the most rewarding.

Nancy is author of several books including the best-seller Time To Think: Listening To Ignite The Human Mind, and the newly launched More Time To Think: A Way Of Being In The World.

Nancy was born and raised in New Mexico and spent the first part of her adult life in Washington DC. In 1990 she married Christopher Spence and moved to England. They live in Oxfordshire.