As part of our Critical Thinking Training Programme, we offer an optional module where participants learn directly from the experiences of senior designers and leaders.
Rather than relying solely on theoretical models, we invite experienced practitioners to talk openly about how they approach critical thinking in complex, real-world situations. Through a series of interviews, they share the tools, strategies, and experience they draw on when observing, analysing, deciding, and communicating in real project environments.
In this module, participants listen to a range of voices, gather insights into different approaches, and begin mapping those strategies against the four stages of critical thinking that we use in this training. The goal is not to prescribe a single method, but to encourage participants to notice, collect, and develop their own evolving toolkit for critical thinking.
Hearing the diversity of real-world practice — from analytical frameworks to intuitive sensing, from extended observation to relationship-building — helps ground the programme in lived experience, reinforcing a key principle for us here at Constructivist, that thinking isn’t a static skillset, but a craft shaped by context, experience, and reflection over time.