We develop practical vehicles to help people change their maps, widen the geography of possibilities, and act on possible futures — here and now.
How: through conscious and intentional Shifts in Minds for Shifts in Action.
Different formats. One ecosystem.
AdWise
Strategic Futuring: Narrative and creative consultancy.
Shift mental maps, shape the landscape.
We offer transformative journeys to design the Future, on purpose. Other people may call it business consulting. We call it Strategic Futuring: transformative visions and strategies to shape the Future with imagination.
For people and organisations who sense that Business as usual is dead — and do not want to answer the future with old lenses and incremental thinking.
It is a way to bring Strategy, Foresight, Imagination and Radical Creativity into dialogue so that new perceptions, new options and new directions can emerge.
This is Shapership in practice: a conscious leap — the Fosbury Flop of the Mind — from Business as usual to Business as the world needs. Not an incremental optimisation of the existing model, but an intentional change of paradigm.
The Shapership Game
New points of view to shape the Future(s) — every day.
A poetic, strategic and imaginative game-and-conversation — and a facilitated service — designed to help people seriously play with their mental maps and move from MAD Land to NO MAD Land.
It invites individuals and groups to exercise their power and freedom to adopt new points of view, shape the Future in the Present, and make wiser moves now.
Used solo, it becomes a daily practice of perception, imagination and action. Used with teams or communities, it becomes a facilitated Broadmapping journey: a way to adopt the Altitude Attitude, expand perspectives, and make wiser choices in uncertainty.
Civic Imagination
NO MAD Times and Spaces.
Pop-up thinking spaces for world building.
Based on metaphors that shift mental maps, we create NO MAD Times and Spaces: transformative moments, public formats and pop-up thinking spaces dedicated to civic imagination.
These are not just events. They are playgrounds for world building — spaces where people of different backgrounds, ages and professions can come together to share, shift perspective, and rehearse desirable futures together.
Civic Imagination gathers six live formats: The Shapership Salon, Jazz & Collaboration Workshop, Public Thinker, Conferences, The Shapership Game and the Imagician.
The Shapership Academi
EDUCATION as the practice of FREEDOM.
Teaching to transgress. From skills to Creative Agency — cartographers of possibilities.
The Shapership Academi is built on a simple idea: learning cannot be limited to skills acquisition if the world is changing at the level of paradigms, narratives and mental maps. What is needed is Learning as Unusual — Ex-ducere: a practice that transforms the way we think so that Shapers of the Future can emerge and flourish.
It is a connected constellation of formats designed to cultivate agency, imagination, re-perception and the capacity to participate actively in shaping a viable and desirable NO MAD Land.
Narrative Therapy
Make preferred futures visible.
Narrative Therapy is the most intimate of the Shapership vehicles. It is a respectful, non-blaming practice that helps people make alternative and preferred futures visible by re-authoring the stories through which they interpret their lives.
It works from a simple but profound premise: stories shape lives. They influence identity, possibility, desire, choice and action. To change the landscape of a life, it is often necessary to change the narrative maps through which that life is understood.
This practice offers a relationship of freedom: not fixing a person, but helping them see differently, name differently, and move differently toward what matters.
Different formats. One ecosystem.
From AdWise to the Game, from Civic Imagination to the Academi and Narrative Therapy, these are all practical vehicles to help people change their maps, widen the geography of possibilities, and act on possible futures — here and now.