Hello!

  • Welcome to ‘Stephanie makes you think’. I’m Stephanie Butland and I’m good at thinking, and understanding thinking.
  • For many years I’ve been helping teams and organisations to think differently, and to make real, lasting, measurable changes as a result. I’m not a hypnotist, or a therapist, or a consultant, or a coach. I’m…. well, I’m just me, really.
  • I’ve gained my thinking skills from two directions. Firstly, I’ve spent much of my career in training and facilitating creativity and thinking skills, using the methods of Dr. Edward de Bono, the world’s leading expert in the teaching of thinking as a skill. Secondly, after a diagnosis of breast cancer in 2008, I’ve used the thinking tools I see work in multinational companies and government departments,to help me to cope, recover, and thrive. (You can read about my dance with cancer here.)
  • So, I know a lot about thinking. The main thing that I know is coming up.
  • (And I probably shouldn’t be just writing it on a website like this, I should probably be sandwiching it into a big thick book to pad it out and make a fortune, but, hey, life’s short, and helping people is what matters to me.)
  • Here’s what I know:
  • Whatever you think the problem is, probably isn’t the problem. The problem is probably with your thinking.
  • (That’s the end of the ‘what I know’ part. We’re coming on to the explaining part now.)
  • The problem is probably that no-one has ever taught you to think, or to analyse your thinking process. And that’s the part that I can help you with. I’m bringing everything I’ve learned in my professional life and showing you how to apply it to your own life, because that’s what worked for me.
  • It doesn’t matter what the nature of the issue or difficulty is, because you are the expert in that. I’ll help you to look at how you are thinking and see if we can change the thinking. And if we change the thinking…. anything could happen. Here are some of the reasons why you might feel this is for you. 
  • On this site you’ll find a brief explanation of how I can work with you, and the next steps we need to take. Click here to explore this some more.
  • I also support people who are dancing with cancer. Here’s the page for you.
  • And don’t forget to stop by the blog. There’s lots of interesting thinky stuff over there.
  • To contact me, look here.