Who We Are
Why Free Your Thought Exists
At Free Your Thought we understand how to create learning experiences which bring about profound personal change in targeted development areas. Our approach recognises the most powerful leverage that exists - conscious and unconscious thinking habits which cause their associated behaviours.
Whether you have a challenge with:
- Conflict resolution
- Communication
- Diversity management
- Anger management
- Team building
- Creativity, innovation and continuous improvement
- Change management
- Strategic thinking
- Personal mastery
our workshops in Transformational Thinking Skills and Behaviours will help bring about sustained change of problematic attitudes and behaviours. Hourly and daily, people at every level of education and employment make terrible and often horrific decisions because they are stuck in what is no more than a point of view, an opinion or a mindset. This is just as true in the corporate arena, where not being fixated by assumptions or negativity or arrogance or power is a critical business skill.
If you held it in your hand, how much would a point of view or an opinion weigh? How big would it be? That imperceptible but all-powerful point of view drives our behaviour - consciously or unconsciously. Mostly unconsciously, unfortunately.
People go to war or kill their families or jump off tall buildings or choose paths of financial destruction or break up their marriages or ruin their careers or live in conflict, anger, arrogance, fear or hopelessness because of an opinion.
A way they see things.
A way they see their job, their career potential, their boss, their organisation, themselves, their spouse or partner, their children, their parents, their friends, their enemies, their neighbours and anyone and anything else.
Could anything be more unnecessarily tragic, when it is so easy to find a way of doing things differently?
A way which will:
- reduce the cost of conflict and misunderstanding in the workplace and at home
- increase profits as a result of better decisions and relationships
- bring increased wisdom and more peace of mind.
The Transformational Thinking Skills and Behaviours integrated learning series of workshops imparts the essence of many years of observation and practice about what really works when learning a simple and powerful way out of unconscious thinking habits. You are likely to experience this as literally life-saving. Certainly life-changing.
Vision
To make a difference in the universe.
Mission
To help individuals, groups and nations move towards peace
Values
- Boundarylessness
- Transparency
- Trustworthiness
- Accountability
Your Facilitator
Shirley Roeloffze
Shirley graduated top of her university class in adult education (a long time ago!!) and has spent about 20 years consulting in the corporate environment. Her focus has been on creating learning experiences for all levels which express her passion that learning should be fun, energised, practical, reality-based and memorable.
She has created and delivered training programmes on a huge range interpersonal and business skills for executives, management, staff and semi-literate workers.
On her personal road, Shirley has practised and taught meditation for over 30 years. She learned that asking the question, "What is the truth?" and being willing to consider perspectives beneath and beyond those which immediately present themselves delivers one from the prison of unconscious thinking habits. This release, and the ability to choose what to feel, think and do, especially in difficult circumstances, bestows the gifts of peace of mind and inner strength to handle tough situations.
She has been a spiritual counsellor for very many years and accepts the principles of "A Course in Miracles" as the basis of her life.
In May 2005, whilst sitting in a favourite spot overlooking a beautiful dam, Shirley realised that the time had come to blend her two worlds.
She recognised that there is an infinite need for people to understand in a practical way the inescapable link between their perceptions and associated behaviours. Vast numbers of individuals walk through life with blinkers on, blaming everyone else for what happens to them, blind to their own inner drivers.
Shirley feels strongly that this is tragic and unnecessary. Apart from resulting in appalling personal ineffectiveness and unhappiness, such mindsets spread resentment, anger and frustration into business and personal relationships. This results in huge costs of conflict and resistance to change.
Incorporating the best principles of adult learning in a corporate environment, she developed the Transformational Thinking Skills and Behaviours material. It achieves significant personal insight into previously unconscious perceptual habits and their implications for decision-making and behaviour.
This self-knowledge unlocks the door to sustained behaviour change in targeted development areas at work, at home and anywhere else.
