The phrase "shifted the thinking" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a change in opinion or perspective on a certain topic. For example, "Her lecture shifted the thinking of many in the audience."
Some studies of drug use and gambling have also contributed to shifting the thinking about addiction.
In the 1990s, Rhona was instrumental in shifting the thinking on what were by then called "work-life" issues.
If that is not enough to shift the thinking of the leftish segment of the 10 million undecided Britons, then perhaps they should look closer to home, where the EU's malign influence is often felt.
I hope that those of us who are aware of our own immigrant stories start to step up and just as Britons have done shift the thinking and the policy of our governments.
The study of job design in the middle- and late-20th century focused on how to improve the drudge work of manufacturing: Grant is credited with reviving the field, shifting the thinking toward the more modern conditions of a service and knowledge economy.
This particular framework was developed to be responsive to the current ways of thinking in the department but also provide greater attention to non-content skills as a way to gradually shift the thinking (i.e., symbols) in the department.
Shifting the thinking that you are now responsible for your misery is so powerful.
They work methodically with LGBT employee groups and others to shift the thinking of corporate leadership, from executive suites to employee policy offices.
The change in thinking shifted the blame from the clinicians to the patient herself, who was now viewed more as bad than sick.
They shifted that thinking and miraculously the outcomes of those Maori students shifted with it.
