The flow of the program starts with a 2-day introductory workshop designed to acquire new Mindsets and Thinking skills to become creative actors in the new Society.
It develops awareness of the critical shifts in perspectives, ways of reading and making sense of the "Theater of our Mind" and shifts in Thinking needed to move from MAD Land to NO MAD Land.

It focuses on the Art of THINKING all of us need, individually and collectively, to design innovative concepts and ideas that will make the "Pertinent Difference".

Day 1

• The Vital Art of Reperception
• The Shapership "Altitude Attitude"
• Serious Creativity and the Direct Attention Thinking Tools

Day 2

• The Art of Seeing, Sensing, Seizing and Shaping
• Specific exercises to move from MAD Land to NO MAD Land

The Promises of this module: the Great Escapes

(note that these outcomes are not generated by a 2 day session but through the practice of the approaches and tools during the rest of the Shapership Academi Process)

Instead of being under the pressure to conform, looking for the one right "formula" or the "tested Truth", mainly busy "rearranging" the furniture in the same room, everyone becomes more thoughtful and mindful, with the Courage, Flexibility and Imagination needed

• to escape conventional Wisdom, challenge old assumptions and reframe Mental Maps
• to escape critical and adversarial Thinking and be constructive
• to escape repetition and tackle issues with the Creativity needed to generate pertinent new points of view, concepts and ideas
• to escape the prison of "incremental Thinking", put their Imagination at work on key issues with radicality and Audacity to open up fresh and radically new ways forward and "make the impossible possible"
• to escape the prison of "facts" and concrete realism" to master conceptual Thinking which is in fact the essence of Creativity and allows to connect Vision and Action
• to escape rigidity and the illusion of control to understand how to navigate this fuzzy and ambiguous world with pleasure

The second module builds on the first and also runs over 2 days. It allows participants to work with their own stories, discovering new perspectives, weaving new threads towards a Future that includes their Hopes and Aspirations.

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Designed as a "Rehearsal of the Future", this workshop allows to practice the 4 movements indispensable to the Art of Reperception - See, Sense, Seize, Shape - with a particular emphasis on The Art of SEEING.

Day 1 Living Self as a Multistory

• The Creative Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Reality
• Seeing and decoding our world with new glasses
• From Rigid Mindsets to Flexible Enlarged Perspectives
• Shifts in Thinking, in Intentions and in Emotions: 3 shifts to embody Shapership and to operate from the Future

Day 2 Living out of the Boxes

• The experience of being STUCK and the experience of getting UNSTUCK
• Working with taken for granted ideas and beliefs, conventional and unconventional Wisdom
• Feed Forward (Dissolution) versus Feed-Back (Solution)

The promises of the workshop is on developing conscious capacities needed to become an "I Opener"

• Working with our own story, and discovering how it strengthens our foundation for Success, Happiness and sense of Possibility
• Becoming aware of the stories that shape our worldview and Agency
• Listening in transformative ways, practicing dialogue and generative conversations that open doors to magical possibilities
• Reframing our stories to show up with Presence and Self-Awareness
• Finding new stories that open new dimensions of who we are and want to become
• Moving from Ego to Soul needs

In this 2-day workshop, participants will work in groups and/or communities to sense and tackle important issues of our time and create Transformative Innovation - demonstrating competence in practice.

This is Shapership as a Group practice to change the stories that shape our lives so we can change the way we shape the world.

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Each day is a rehearsal of the Future which happen through

• a collaborative world-issues game about Sustainability and Resilience designed for groups wanting to place their activity into the view of current global challenges and the Regenerative Paradigm (Day 1)
• a Future Conversation that allows to understand multiple Perspectives about the Future, navigate Uncertainties, open completely new spaces for Innovation and build the Future on dreams, Aspirations, Values and Hopes (Day 2)

This is a fun way to experiment a series of aspects, mainly Strategy and deep Innovation, in a completely new way, avoiding the narrowness of conventional approaches

The workshop emphasizes The Art of SENSING.

The promises of the workshop is on developing conscious capacities needed to become an "Eye Opener"

• Connecting the Dots, adopting a Big Picture View and Systemic Lenses on the emerging and inter-connected issues of our times
• The Art of the Long view: learning from the Future and navigating uncertainties:
• the Archeology of Hope: making sense of the Future in the Now
• Shifting from rigid Mindsets to flexible Perspectives
• Engaging in the Big Picture of what is happening and what might happen in our world, in the context of Doing well by doing good, and sensing new approaches to Value creation
• Making the invisible and implicit visible: decoding patterns of Thoughts
• Making the implicit emerge: sensing the ecosystem of "Demands" from "Outside-in", purposeful and Eco-consciousness perspectives
• Focusing, Framing, Accessing a Purpose
• Practicing Radical Thinking (back to the roots), based on the articulation of the 3 leverages of Shapership: the joy of acts of Creative Resistance and challenge "the way things are", Disrupt a dominant system with a Purpose and Reshape the landscape

In workshop 4, participants will take a closer look at how to think BIG, Radical and in transformative ways to make alternative Futures Visible.

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The focus of this workshop is Possibility Thinking and "Butterfly Thinking" with the goal

• to boost Imagination and Imaginal capabilities
• to unlock the Human Spirit
• to think beyond the Horizon of the Thinkable
• to empower transformative Visions, Dreams and Utopias
• to make the Future the cause of the Present and to create the Erotica of The Future

This is an invitation to

• reconsider the "normal way things are", to resist MAD Land - the Crisis of Imagination, the Regression Forces
• and to unlock Imagination and Heart to Re-open, Re-imagine and Re-story the Future with a meaningful and Transformative Vision - a "Counter Story" of a NO MAD world, full of Hope and Desires

The Metaphor of Mad land and NO MAD Land will be used as a support for the "Hero's Journey", allowing to rehearse the Future by consciously trying new perspectives to shape the Future everyday.

The "programme" is structured around the first 2 leverages of Shapership for transformative impact: Creative Resistance and Transformative Vision

While making this "Rehearsal of the Future", we will add tools and lenses to de-envelop "Butterfly" and Possibility Thinking,

The content is especially designed to develop the Art of SEIZING

• Regenerating our "maps", questioning and deconstructing the obvious, practicing the Joy of Challenging and disrupting (beyond all categories)
• Extending our perspectives: looking forward and upward to open new dimensions, reimagining and Re-storying the Future connecting to our Aspirations and Dreams
• Seeing Reality "as it could be" and opening new paths to the Future : developing a Vision for the Future, form new perspective based on fresh method of Perception, Cognition and Unconventional Wisdom

The promise of this workshop is to become an "Eye (H)opener": to Think Radical (to the essence /roots) and big about us and about the world, "Reconstructing" our Future world including who we are, who we have been, who we would prefer to be and might decide to become.

This is the Altitude Attitude in practice.

This module builds on the 4 previous ones to master the "Art" of shaping the Future.

It expands anyone's capacities to make alternative Futures visible, shared , desirable AND actionable to create the Transformational Journeys.

There is a particular emphasis on The Art of SHAPING the Future, turning transformative Visions and dreams into strategies.

This is the third leverage of Shapership: The Creative How.

A Transformative Vision calls for Transformative Actions.

To make the shifts towards a new paradigm, Shapers often need the courage to completely reinvent the ways things operate. But not alone. They know key issues require System Solutions, new forms of Collaboration rather than "Competition". They rally a dynamic Ecosystem of actors and partners to shape Reality in new ways, so that Anticipative Experimentation becomes a space for co-creation and collective improvisation on Desire. This jamming together. Whether it is through a Movement, a Company, a Community, Shapers unite people around shared Purposes and make the Transition Path visible.

The major theme of the whole workshop is "Jamming Together in NO MAD Land":

• organizing without losing the Purpose: the Focus and Freedom effect versus Command and Control. How to shift from "Cooperation" to effective "Collaboration"
• creating Networks of Hope, Competences and Commitments
• playing the Music, not the Notes

This module proposes a rehearsal of the Journey thanks to a series of Metaphors and Maps for Transformational Conversations - at each step - and shifts in the way participants think, feel, speak, and act. The main metaphor being our exclusive approach of "Jazz as a new Art and ethic of Collaboration".

Based on the elements acquired during the previous sessions, the promise of this workshop is on developing the conscious capacities needed to become a "HIGH Hopener".

i.e. able to understand reflect and apply the "Jamming Together" concepts and principles in a transformative strategy and projects in NO MAD LAND, working on 4 Arts

1. The Art of STRATEGY AS/AND Improvisation (versus Control), as Creativity in real time, as Love, Dialogue and Collaboration (versus war)
2. The Art of Being: Ego-less and effortless Mastery, Activating the Soul Compass and Inner Rightness, having an Helicopter view yet not detached from Reality, Going to the essence of things, moving from self-image to real Self, Narrowing the space between deep Intention and Action, Daring Spontaneity and Simplicity, Communicating with courage, clarity and focus, practicing Gift Conversation, Dialogue and the Art of finding Common Ground, building Trust and Truth
3. The Art of Cristallisation and Impact
4. The Art of creatively "dissolving" Dilemmas: making the Transition Path visible and actionable