Full course in Applied Critical and Analytical Thinking
APPLIED CRITICAL AND ANALYTICAL THINKING: Critical thinking and beyond
- Confidence in own judgment and basis for decisions
- Share thinking more effectively
- Combine critical and creative thinking
NEW: for first teaching in 2026
This truly unique course will take you through the skills of critical thinking and beyond, so that you are able not just to evaluate but also to generate ideas, and to share your thinking with the world.
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Applied Critical and Analytical Thinking (Full Course)
12 hour course delivered through virtual classrooms providing a thorough grounding in how to think critically and analytically, how to apply to real world contexts, and how to combine with other aspects of our thinking.
See below for full details of course and contents.
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Due to the success of KRITIKOS workshops and the positive feedback about how they have helped individuals as well as organisations - both with their personal lives as well as their careers - as of Spring 2026 we will be putting on a new full programme.
Drawing on Joe's background in thinking skills testing as well as his work in areas where the focus is on interpersonal skills, communication and thinking creatively, this course will give you everything you need to fully empower your thinking.
The full course is 12 hours long and takes place in virtual classrooms over MS Teams. Details of costings and running times are yet to be decided, but if you join our mailing list you will be entitled to an early bird discount.
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Introduction to critical and analytical thinking: identifying claims, inferences and assumptions
Beyond fact and opinion: a matter of judgment
Approaching uncertainty: trust, credibility, likelihood
Common pitfalls and how to avoid: cognitive fluency, confusing evidence with examples
Sharing thinking part 1:
Sharing thinking part 2:
course outline
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(Getting more advanecd) Drawing and evaluating conclusions
Evidence & its limits: values, principles, and suppositional thinking
Pressure-testing thinking to reveal hidden assumptions
Sharing thinking part 3: anticipating and responding to objections
Combining critical and creative thinking
Summary and application: Linking thinking to action:
critical thinking and judgment
The most important skills and concepts from critical thinking made relevant and accessible. You will learn how to:
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Assess the reliability and significance of information
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Evaluate claims, arguments, ideas
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Pressure-test thinking: reveal flaws/ biases/ blindspots/ assumptions etc
critical and creative thinking
The interplay between these quite different sides of our thinking. We show you how to:
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Exploit the natural human tendency to generate thoughts and ideas
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Enter 'play' mode; ways to encourage idea generation
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Switch the two sides on and off, when and how to move from more consciously effortful to more free-form instinctive thinking
sharing thinking
Quite distinct from the skills of being able to think well are the skills of being able to share your thinking effectively. You will learn how to:
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Frame ideas so they land with others
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Anticipate and respond to objections
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Challenge others' ideas in ways that are powerful yet non-confrontational
link thinking to action
For your thinking to be truly empowered, it needs to impact the world. We show you how to:
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Handle uncertainty
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Avoid over-thinking by knowing when and how much to think and having the confidence to go with your judgment
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Know when to trust in faster and more instinctive forms of thinking such as instinct or intuition or simple common sense
What we cover
Exercise critical thinking and (good) judgment
Although we can't choose the thoughts or ideas we have or encounter, we can choose the ones we want to stand by or pursue. As for the relentless stream of information we encounter, we must decide where and when to pay attention. Both these choices require critical thinking. They also require good judgment
Share thinking effectively
It's no good having great ideas and being able to select the best if you don't share them with the world. Likewise it's no good being able to argue for your own ideas if all you do is alienate others. These require a sepatrate set of skills entirely from being able to think critically or creatively, yet they are just as important.
Think both critically and creatively
Critical thinking can help us evaluate ideas, but it can't give us the ideas in the first place. For this we need our natural human creativity. the relationship between critical and creative thinking is delicate - they can get in each other's way, but they both need each other!
Link thinking to action
It's no good being able to come up with great ideas and share them successfully if doing so takes you forever! It's not just a case of knowing how to think well, it's also a case of knowing when - and how much. Part of the answer lies in knowing how to deploy some of our faster, more intuitive ways of thinking; and how to evaluate ideas quickly and efficiently