Welcome to our website!
We invite you to look at our work and read our case studies. If this way of working matches your values and aspirations, call us to design a project, begin certification or attend a course.
The aim of Training Attention is to spread ideas and tools which reduce contempt, increase curiosity and improve collaboration at work, at home, in business, in schools and in our community.
Our work is a ground breaking synthesis of systemic thinking, traditional psychological and psychotherapeutic tools, NLP and Clean Language. Although much of our work is in the private sector and at senior management level, we've maintained a focus on education and community projects where career management, peer coaching, goal setting, emotional intelligence and modelling can make a useful difference to all of our lives.
News and Training!
The Sun mentions skills4success our innovative welfare to work programme. They haven't got the facts quite right but its still great to have the mention. Following Nancy's presentation at the British Psychological Society the Sun has taken our fabulous 70% success rate and turned it into a recommendation for how to get work.
Magical Spelling 4th and 25th March 2010 £180
2 half days in Burnley, Lancashire working with teachers, parents, trainers and non-spellers. This course can lead to accreditation as a Magical Spelling tutor with Liverpool John Moores University. To book your place contact Chris Grimsley on 01282831800
Publications - its been an exciting few months
One of our case-studies has just been published in The Enhancing Series - Student Centred Learning available by contacting hlst@brookes.ac.uk. Our chapter - PDP - Inspiring Capability outlines bringing Clean Questions and Systemic Modelling into a University Department as a Systemic Change process.
Using our Training Attention PDP series, over 1000 students started their academic year being asked "When you're learning @ your best, you're like what? and developing these metaphors to enhance their learning experience.
Our groundbreaking Metaphors@Work process is presented in NLP for Business Dummies, written by the excellent facilitator Lynne Cooper
An ILM accreditation centre have chosen our clean feedback model to include in their resource packs for coaches
You can download a metaphors@work case study for free on itunes:
http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/itunes.open.ac.uk.2515823205
Introducing Training Community Attention CIC
We are proud to announce the incorporation of Training Community Attention CIC. This Social Enterprise will gradually take on more of our community projects over the coming year. We'd like to use our expertise to train trainers from the different communities we serve so that our projects can become self sustaining and operate independently.
The new CIC will give us the structure to employ apprentices so that past participants from, for example Skills4Success, could learn to deliver courses themselves. Our hope is that after training with us for a year or so, our graduates could take our work forward in their own style, developing new ideas that are ecological to their local needs. Read more.....
Conference News!
Our Professional Symposium for the Higher Education Sector - the first sector-wide clean modelling project is being launched in November - watch this space.
Learning for a Complex World - Surrey University - Learning to be Professional through a Life-wide Curriculum
Training Attention had a triple presence at this conference, presenting a paper on clean feedback as a tool for embedding professional practice and critical reflection, a paper on embedding professionalism into staff practise before attempting to embed it into student behaviour and alongside Julian Burton of Delta7 we were eliciting metaphors for what it means to be professional which he was drawing on the walls around us.
Free training via You tube
Experience some of our methods for yourself via You-tube. Footage also includes highlights of our major projects in education and community work.