Incompany workshop · 3 hours
Critical thinking in a world of AI
Why does this sound true?
AI produces an answer within seconds that sounds fluent, certain and convincing. But sounding good is not the same as being right.
In this workshop you learn to see the difference — not by distrusting AI, but by recognising what a text does to your judgement before you notice it.
Incompany · 3 hours · 6 to 14 participants · Price on request
Request this workshop →“A text that looks finished no longer gets read critically. The structure holds, the tone is right, the paragraphs run. It feels like editing, not like thinking. And that is exactly the mechanism: AI does not replace your work, it replaces the moment you think.”
The framework
This workshop builds on the work of three disciplines: critical thinking (Diane Halpern, Richard Paul & Linda Elder), cognitive psychology (Daniel Kahneman) and rhetoric — the centuries-old study of how language persuades, including when it is not meant to. Their standards and insights are not treated here as theory but as a working instrument — a set of questions you can apply to any text.
What you take away
- ✓ You learn to test AI output against nine intellectual standards — a set of questions that works on any text.
- ✓ You recognise what AI does to your brain: why fluent language switches off your judgement.
- ✓ You see how AI amplifies your natural thinking errors — from confirmation bias to overconfidence.
- ✓ You have one question you can apply to any output: not only “is this true?” but also “why does this sound true?”
Who it is for
For anyone who works with AI-generated text and makes decisions on it. No technical background needed — this is not about the tool but about what you do with the output.
Particularly relevant in advisory and consultancy, legal and compliance, financial services, government and policy, research and higher education, communications and marketing agencies, and healthcare organisations at management level.
About the trainer
As an actor, ianka fleerackers dissected hundreds of scripts — from Shakespeare to contemporary theatre — on exactly the question this workshop asks: what language does, apart from what it says. She wrote eight books without a ghostwriter or guidance, conducted hundreds of interviews and led as many debates and panel discussions. Reading, weighing and dissecting language is not an additional skill. It is her craft.
Book this workshop
Practical
- Format
- In-house workshop (3 hours)Or a full day training, for teams that want to go deeper — including recognising their own patterns inside the work process
- Price
- On request
- Participants
- Min. 6, max. 14
- Dates
- By arrangement
- Preparation
- Participants bring one AI output from their own practice
Combine with the keynote
This workshop follows on from the keynote That Sounds Good, in which ianka fleerackers shows why we trust AI so quickly — and why sounding good is not the same as being right. The keynote sharpens the thinking, the workshop delivers the instrument. Both can be booked separately, but they are strongest on the same day: keynote in the morning for the wider group, workshop in the afternoon for the team that will work with it.
For teams that want to go deeper — including recognising their own patterns inside the work process — a full day training is available.
Tell us briefly which team this is for and in what context. We get back to you within two working days.
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