Critical thinking is the art of analyzing and evaluating thought processes with a view to improving them.
Welcome to the development of Critical Thinking
Developing as a critical thinker entails explicitly focusing on the naturally occuring processes in your reasoning and learning to intervene in your poor-quality reasoning.
The Problem ...
Everyone thinks; it is our nature to do so. But much of our thinking, left to itself, is biased, distorted, partial, uninformed, or downright prejudiced.
Yet the quality of our life and that of what we produce, make, or build depends precisely on the quality of our thought. Shoddy thinking is costly, both in money and in quality of life.
Becoming a well-cultivated critical thinker is our goal.
Throughout human history the concept of critical thinking has been treated, on the whole, superficially. Within academic disciplines, critical reasoning is still largely misunderstood and ignored. Yet the only way to understand any subject is to reason through problems and issues within that subject using one’s own reasoning.
When you develop skill in reasoning your way through questions within an academic discipline and begin formulating questions of your own, you are learning to think like a scholar.
Within these 12 classes we will engage together in the Paul/Elder Critical Thinking Framework to become well-cultivated critical thinkers.
We will look deeply at the concepts, principles, and tools within the Critical Thinking Theory as a whole and the 4 core parts that are present when we are reasoning through an issue or problem; how they are independent as well as interrelated:
- The Elements of Reasoning (Analyzing through taking our thinking apart)
- Universal Intellectual Standards (Assessing the quality control of our thinking)
- The Barriers that impede Critical Thinking (Egocentric and Sociocentric Thought and their primary forms)
- Intellectual Traits (Characteristics that are embodied through explicit practice)
Within the core parts of our reasoning, we will look deeper into
- Figuring out the “Logic of” anything you choose
- The Three Kinds of Questions
- The Three Levels of Thought
- The Three Types of Character
- Develop your Rational Capacities; Diminsh your Irrational Tendencies
- Ethical Reasoning
I’m Patricia Coone and I have been determined to find a tool to build a solid foundation of Critical reasoning to break poor quality learning modes of rote memorization, superficial thinking, and unconcious ruminating processes. I believed there must be a tool that we can all use to analyze the processes of our thoughts, particularly take command of the poor quality self centered thoughts that derail us all off course, and before your ego (Barrier to critical thinking) tells you “I don’t have that problem”, I will tell you that not one of us is immune.
I found The Foundation for Critical Thinking after realizing that as much as I loved Coaching and knew it was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life, I was finding that people had opinions whether one thing worked, or didn’t, and most of it was developed through simplistic reasoning resulting in opinions and statements that lacked good quality reasoning, including me! Knowing from my Myers-Briggs Certification that all personality types had strengths and none were immune to weaknesses, the concept of reasoning through those weaknesses had me fully engrossed in finding a solution.
I enrolled 3 years ago and have become a Certified Critical Thinking Coach with The Foundation for Critical Thinking and it truly is the indefeasable Framework to any and all reasoning.
There are those who reason, and there are those who seek to reason well that ultimately changes your personal and professional life.
I deeply look forward to sharing this personal investment with you that, if you take it seriously, will enhance the quality of your life.
Let's Get Reasoning!
Choose the link below to take you to my booking page where you can choose from any of the 12 sessions that are 90 minutes in length each:
- Personal 1:1 Built to find the best time for you
- Group Settings (classes on specific days AM or PM available)
- Speaking Engagements (FREE 60 MINUTE DISCOVERY CALL)
- or FREE 30 MINUTE DISCOVERY CALL to make a time that best suits you!
We are incredible complex thinking beings, who must take up a rigorous discipline for the outcome of our thinking that ultimately directs the quality of our life.