How to Listen So People Can Think

‘The quality of everything we do depends on the quality of the thinking we do first.’ Nancy Kline

How to Listen So People Can Think is an inspiring and practical guide to unlocking individual and collective intelligence. It highlights practices that also improve relationships, and bring pride, joy, and engagement to a wide range of contexts – from individuals and families to charitable organisations and corporations.

Based on Nancy Kline’s pioneering work on the conditions in which people think for themselves – the Thinking Environment®– the book proposes simple steps that make a big difference for individuals and groups.

Vivid stories about real-life implementation of a Thinking Environment make the book an easy read. Each chapter includes suggestions for simple, practical things to try out in everyday life.

A Thinking Environment is successfully enabling independent thinking all over the world.

‘This stunning book is a joyous, life-changing experience of the power of a Thinking Environment.’

– Nancy Kline

For the past 30+ years, Monica Schüldt has helped leaders and groups to function more effectively, her clients ranging from top management to working groups and sports teams. She is co-author of the Swedish bestselling book ‘Collaborator or counterlaborator’. A Cambridge University graduate, Monica Schüldt is a member of the Time To Think Global Faculty and has 15 years’ experience of living and teaching the Thinking Environment.

‘This beautifully crafted book will help you transform meetings from battlegrounds of interruptions to safe places for co-creating meaningful ideas.’

– Alasdair Skelton, Professor of Geochemistry and Petrology, Stockholm University

‘Don’t be fooled by how simple it is, because the simple is the ingenious and this is ingenious.’ – Anders Sundin, CEO, IT company Sokigo

© 2025 Lassbo Förlag (Ebook): 9789199004891

Release date

Ebook: 29 July 2025