Introducing Schools to the Thinking Connections Framework — Workshops
Introducing Schools to the Thinking Connections Framework
Workshops are the entry point into the Thinking Connections ecosystem — a structured, engaging, and practical introduction to the ideas, tools, and practices that underpin all of the work.
Each workshop is built on an underlying design formula that ensures coherence and rigour, while remaining fully adaptable to the specific needs, context, and priorities of your school or organisation.
Professional Development
Whole-School Professional Learning
Whole-school professional learning sessions delivered in-school, tailored to your context and leadership priorities. Available as a half-day or full-day engagement.
Building Influence in Your Practice
Available as a half-day or full-day engagement.
See Pricing for investment details →This whole-school professional learning experience strengthens the everyday influence of teachers and staff. It focuses on the thinking habits and cognitive routines that shape how people communicate, collaborate, and build trust across the school. Participants learn practical strategies to increase clarity, presence, and positive impact in their daily work.
Improving Decision Making in Daily Practice
Available as a half-day or full-day engagement.
See Pricing for investment details →This whole-school professional learning experience helps staff improve the quality, speed, and consistency of their everyday decisions. It introduces practical cognitive tools that support clearer thinking, reduce reactive patterns, and strengthen professional judgement across classrooms and teams.
Solving Difficult Problems with Clear Thinking
Available as a half-day or full-day engagement.
See Pricing for investment details →This whole-school professional learning experience builds the cognitive routines required to solve complex and recurring problems. Staff learn how to slow down thinking, frame problems accurately, identify root causes, and apply structured approaches that lead to better solutions and stronger outcomes.
For School & System Leaders
Leadership Professional Learning
Targeted professional learning for principals, deputy principals, and leadership teams. Available as a half-day or full-day engagement.
Each of these programs can be tailored to meet the specific needs and context of your school.
Leading Through Influence
Available as a half-day or full-day engagement.
See Pricing for investment details →This leadership professional learning experience strengthens the influence, presence, and cognitive discipline required for effective leadership. Participants learn how to shape thinking, guide teams, and build trust through clarity, consistency, and intentional leadership behaviours.
Making Better Decisions Under Pressure
Available as a half-day or full-day engagement.
See Pricing for investment details →This leadership professional learning experience helps leaders improve the quality and speed of their decisions in high-pressure environments. It introduces cognitive tools that support calm thinking, reduce reactive patterns, and strengthen judgement when the stakes are high.
Solving Complex Problems with Strategic Thinking
Available as a half-day or full-day engagement.
See Pricing for investment details →This leadership professional learning experience builds the strategic thinking routines required to solve complex, multi-layered problems. Leaders learn how to frame issues accurately, identify underlying causes, and apply structured approaches that lead to clearer solutions and stronger organisational outcomes.
Consistent Principles. Adapted to Your Context.
Every Thinking Connections workshop is built on the same underlying design formula — a set of principles that ensure the work is rigorous, coherent, and genuinely useful. Within that formula, the content, examples, and focus are shaped around what your school actually needs.
Grounded in the Framework
Every workshop is built on the Thinking Connections Framework — the same theoretical foundations that underpin all coaching and consulting work. Participants leave with a coherent understanding of how the Framework applies to their context.
Adapted to Your School
The underlying design formula is consistent, but the content, examples, and focus are adapted to suit the specific needs, context, and priorities of your school or organisation. No two workshops are identical.
Active, Not Passive
Workshops are not lectures. Participants engage with the ideas, apply them to real situations from their own practice, and leave with practical tools they can use immediately.
Thinking Made Visible
A core design principle across all workshops is making thinking visible — surfacing the assumptions, mental models, and reasoning processes that usually operate below the level of conscious attention.
Half Day or Full Day
Workshops are available in two formats. Both are built on the same design principles — the difference is depth, scope, and the time available for application and consolidation.
Half Day
3 HoursA focused, high-impact introduction to a specific aspect of the Thinking Connections Framework. Ideal for professional learning days, leadership team meetings, or as a standalone entry point into the work.
Example Topics
Overview of the Thinking Connections Framework
The Clarity First Framework — an overview
Thinking Moves — an introduction to cognitive triggers
Leadership thinking — a primer for middle leaders
Full Day
5.5 HoursA deeper, more comprehensive exploration that allows time for genuine engagement, application, and consolidation. Full day workshops go beyond introduction — participants work with the ideas in depth and leave with a richer, more integrated understanding.
Example Topics
Deep dive into the Thinking Connections Framework
Metacognition for teaching teams — theory and practice
Leadership thinking and the Clarity First Framework
Building a thinking culture — whole-school professional learning
Designed for Every Level of the School
Workshops can be tailored for any group within a school or system — from whole-staff professional learning to targeted sessions for specific teams or leadership cohorts.
Whole School Staff
Workshops designed to introduce all staff — teaching and non-teaching — to the Thinking Connections Framework and its implications for professional practice.
Teaching Teams
Focused workshops for curriculum teams, year level groups, or faculty teams exploring how metacognitive thinking improves planning, assessment, and classroom practice.
Leadership Teams
Workshops tailored to the specific thinking demands of leadership — decision-making, strategic direction, culture-setting, and leading through complexity.
Emerging Leaders
Introductory workshops for educators moving into leadership, building the metacognitive foundations that effective leadership requires from the outset.
System & Network Groups
Workshops delivered across a network of schools or at a system level, building shared language and shared thinking practices across multiple contexts.
"A workshop is not the end of the work — it is the beginning of it."
Workshops are designed to open thinking, not close it. They introduce the Framework, surface the questions, and create the conditions for the deeper work that follows — whether through programs, coaching, or Thinking Labs.
Bring a Workshop to Your School
Whether you are looking for a one-off professional learning experience or a workshop that feeds into a broader program of work, I would be glad to talk through what would suit your school best.