The Thought Literacy Lab

Where innovative strategies for understanding and working with thoughts are developed, tested, and shared.

Initiatives

The eleven initiatives that bring thought literacy to life through research, framework development, educational resources, and practical applications.

Project Exemplars (Thought Swaps)

Establishing cognitive exemplar frameworks for skill development and adaptive thought integration.

Thought Swaps in a handwritten font with two thought swaps in boxes on each side

Methods and Tools

Developing the thought literacy framework including practical methods, strategies, and tools for working with thoughts.

The Thought Literacy Framework

Core Concepts

Building a reference library of established and original terms related to thoughts, thinking, and thought skills.

Education and Application

Exploring how thought literacy can be taught and applied in education, relationships, workplaces, and everyday life.

Skills Architecture

Changing how skills are understood, structured, classified, and developed, including the primary, subskill, and metaskill levels.

Language Lab

Creating original language and terminology that helps individuals describe, understand, and communicate their experiences.

Cycle Mapping

Identifying, mapping, and developing ways to interrupt recurring cycles between thoughts, beliefs, emotions, and behaviors.

Thought Processing Guides

Creating flowcharts and decision trees that help people determine how to respond to different types of thoughts.

Thought Literacy Classficiation System

Developing a classification system to evaluate and label claims, theories, and ideas according to their level of supporting evidence.

Research

Researching thought literacy, its applications, and its potential to improve clinical outcomes and individual lives.

Field Development

Establishing thought literacy as a distinct area of knowledge and making it more widely understood.

“When you learn to work skillfully with your thoughts you will unlocked insights and potential you never thought possible.”

Lyndsey Getty

Founder, The Thought Literacy Lab

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