The slides for my Peer Academy session on How to tackle rigid thinking that I ran on 29 April.

1. How to tackle
rigid thinking
Antonia Mochan
#FlexThink

2. Practice principles

3. Those that arrive on time
will not be punished for
their punctuality.

4. If you have an idea, share it.
This is a creative space.

5. Let your thoughts be improved through
collaboration
Iterate

6. You choose what to share

7. There are no right or
wrong answers

8. The teacher is ahead of his apprentices in
this alone, that he has still far more to
learn than they – he has to learn to let
them learn. The teacher must be capable
of being more teachable than the
apprentices. The teacher is far less
assured of his ground than those who
learn are of theirs.
- Heidegger

9. What we’ll do today
What is rigid thinking?
Getting to know each other
What might make people rigid?
What rigid thinking looks like
Strategies for tackling it
What have we learnt?

10. Activity
Discussion:
What do you think “rigid thinking” is?

11. Public/Private/Non-profit
Getting to know each
other

12. Getting to know each other
Find someone from another group
1) What do you do?
2) Why did you come to this session?
3) An example of rigid thinking
Introduce partner and ONE stand out element

13. Thinking about why

15. Critical incidents
“The vast majority of critical incidents... are not
at all dramatic or obvious: they are mostly
straightforward accounts of very commonplace
events...indicative of underlying trends, motives
and structures. [They become] invested with
new meaning which [is] transformative of
understanding and practice.”
-Tripp

16. Activity
Groups of 4
Each person presents a critical incident
● Context
● Objective
● Other person’s motivation
Someone else notes it down
Put each incident on relevant reason

17. Activity
Choose a reason
Within that group consider how you would go
about approaching the issue.

18. What have we learnt?

19. Please complete the evaluation.
@Peer_Academy
@antoniam
#FlexThink
Thank you!