Kind correspondent Lila das Gupta recommends Nancy Kline's book Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind. A summary of Kline's "10 enablers of thinking", from her web site:

• ATTENTION – Listening without interruption and with interest in where the person will go next in their thinking
• EQUALITY – Regarding each other as thinking peers, giving equal time to think
• EASE – Discarding internal urgency
• APPRECIATION – Noticing what is good and saying it
• ENCOURAGEMENT – Giving courage to go to the unexplored edge of thinking by ceasing competition as thinkers
• FEELINGS – Welcoming the release of emotion
• INFORMATION – Absorbing all the relevant facts
• DIFFERENCE – Prioritising diversity of group identities and understanding their lived experience
• INCISIVE QUESTIONS – Freeing the human mind of untrue assumptions lived as true
• PLACE – Producing a physical environment – the room, the listener, your body – that says, "You matter"

(cf alternative synopsis at [1], and here: Learning to Pause (2015-08-10), Superpowers - Systems Thinking, Asking, and Listening (2019-01-29), Listening (2020-01-17), Disagreement under Disagreement (2020-12-02), ...) - ^z - 2023-07-16