The World Centre for New Thinking is the initiative of
Edward de Bono.He is regarded as the World Leader in the field of creative thinking and the direct teaching of thinking in schools. His work is in use with thousands of schools and hundreds of businesses worldwide. From an understanding of the nature of the brain as a self-organising neural network (see his book ‘The Mechanism of Mind’, Jonathan Cape, 1969) he designed the formal creative tools of lateral thinking.
Recently, Edward de Bono was chosen by a leading business journal as one of the twenty visionaries alive today. He is also on the Accenture list of the fifty most influential thinkers. A group of academics in South Africa included him in a list of the two hundred and fifty people who had made the most difference in the whole history of humanity.
His methods include the very powerful ‘parallel thinking’ (Six Hats) which can reduce meeting times to one quarter and replaces the inefficient and crude method of argument.
Edward de Bono has had appointments at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London and Harvard. He has written sixty-eight books with translations into thirty-seven languages.
His latest book is "WHY SO STUPID? How the human race has never really learned to think." (Obtainable only direct from the publisher at www.whysostupid.com or e-mail: blackhall@eircom.net)
The Centre has been set up with the close co-operation of the government of Malta which sees the Centre as Malta’s contribution to the European Union and to the world.
"The purpose of the World Centre is to provide new thinking that is additional to the thinking that is already taking place on issues and conflicts. Those who understand the need for new thinking will support the work of the Centre."