Senior leaders across the NHS South East are navigating extraordinary complexity – balancing purpose, pressure, and the need for change. These three 90-minute Time to Talk sessions are designed to create space for reflection and resilience, using the Thinking Environment® as a framework for deeper clarity, connection and courage.
You may register for all three sessions as a learning series or attend individual sessions depending on your availability and focus.
Current Context
The NHS continues to experience rapid change, intense demand and systemic challenges. For those in senior leadership roles, this brings both opportunity and strain. Holding space for reflection, resilience and discernment is vital if leaders are to stay connected to their values while navigating uncertainty.
The Time to Talk series offers a rare opportunity: time away from operational pressures to pause, reflect and engage in honest, generative conversation with peers. Through the Thinking Environment®, leaders can practise ways of thinking that embrace complexity, encourage discernment and sustain both individual wellbeing and organisational leadership.
Who is this for?
These sessions are for Senior Health Leaders working across the South East who play a pivotal role within the region’s Integrated Care Systems (ICSs). This includes leaders working at provider level, General Practice, within an Integrated Care Board (ICB), across Community sector or as part of a partner organisation.
Session details with links to book your place
| Session 1 – Loving the NHS (Without Adoring It) Tuesday 14 October, 12:30 – 2:00 pm Explore the deep vocational loyalty many leaders feel toward the NHS, and the personal strain this can bring. How do we stay committed to a system we must also question? Drawing on Nancy Kline’s insight that love welcomes scrutiny while adoration resists it, this session opens a safe space to reflect with honesty, affection and courage. 👉 More about this session and book your place |
| Session 2 – The Tragic Gap Thursday 13 November, 12:30 – 2:00 pm Based on Parker J. Palmer’s work, this session explores the “tragic gap” — the tension between how things are and how we believe they could be. For NHS leaders, holding this gap is daily reality. This space invites reflection on how to sustain moral courage without collapsing into cynicism or retreating into idealism. 👉 More about this session and book your place |
| Session 3 – Navigating Change and Uncertainty Friday 06 February 2026, 12:30 – 2:00 pm When pressure mounts, the instinct for speed and control can feel overwhelming. This final session offers an alternative: responding with grounded awareness and ease. Leaders will practise techniques from the Thinking Environment® to support clarity, presence and wiser action when facing change and ambiguity. 👉 More about this session and book your place |
Accessibility and Booking
All sessions will be delivered virtually. Please ensure you have access to a quiet, confidential space for the duration of the session.
- Places are available on a first come, first served basis.
- You may book onto one, two or all three sessions.
- Joining instructions will be sent one week prior to the session.
- If you need to cancel you place, please email: [email protected].
We are committed to making our training as accessible as possible (please see our accessibility page). Please do contact us if there are any reasonable adjustments that we can make to support you to be able to attend by emailing us at [email protected].
About the Facilitator – Mitzi Wyman
Mitzi Wyman is a leadership consultant, former lawyer and NHS Faculty member with a background in organisational psychology. She is on the global Faculty of Time to Think and is completing her certification in the Courage & Renewal® approach developed by Parker J. Palmer.
Mitzi leads NHS programmes across South East and London, and offers open courses in the Thinking Environment® and reflective leadership practice. Her work focuses on creating spaces where leaders can think clearly, connect deeply and act with integrity.