THE thinking method platform

COMING SOON….

Welcome to the Thinking Method Platform, where independent teachers who want to learn to write Thinking Method style courses will be able to upload their material for public use, and for my free and personalised feedback, contributions and guidance.

Uploaders will also be able to offer themselves for private classes (paid or free) through the platform in order to test and practice their material. The paid option makes it more plausible for teachers to make Thinking Method course writing their main full-time focus! For this reason, Language Transfer will take no cut from these private classes.

Through this live public experience, falling somewhere between training and co-creation, the courses shared here should resemble forever more the original Thinking Method courses and hopefully, even surpass them.

My interaction with new course writers will now be public by default. Supporters and learners alike will be able to see the (otherwise behind-the-scenes) work I do on other people’s material, and all that work will be logged so that it can be used by new course writers for inspiration and self-training. When teachers upload improved versions of their lessons, all of this remains catalogued, and each course writer can learn from the evolution of others’ material. Nothing is wasted, and we’re no longer reliant on just one teacher. If someone disappears, it’s no problem - everything remains on the platform, publicly available for everyone to use and for a new writer to continue creating from the next track.

The Platform solves many important problems that kept arising when I was trying to build an LT team, and also helps the project respond to all that insatiable desire for new material that it is impossible for just one person, or even a small team, to satisfy. This means that I am no longer looking to build an LT team, and the ‘competition’ described in the Guidebook is now a submission to join this platform. As such, the submission is the first five tracks of your course plus a panorama/visual representation of the main framework of the entire course. None of this material is likely to be final, it’s all part of a learning process.

The Platform needs more material to launch, so if it’s your dream to create a Thinking Method course, get writing! But please do remember, the onus is on the new writer to take their own self-training as far as they can using the free Thinking Method Guidebook. This means not expecting to receive any personal training until having generated material based on the study of the guidebook. Once the prospective Platform member has done that, they’ll enjoy my full focus and attention but I’m only one person, and I need to use my Language Transfer time very wisely with folk who respect it. I deeply appreciate genuine understanding of this situation.

Read the Thinking Method Guidebook before and/or whilst writing your course, and then get in touch about making your submission to join the platform!