The Shapership Academi
EDUCATION as the practice of FREEDOM.
Teaching to transgress. From skills to Creative Agency — cartographers of possibilities.
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intro
A place to learn the Art of Shaping the Future.
The Shapership Academi is a place to learn the Art of Shaping the Future, individually and collectively: to sharpen your skills, transform your thinking, and practice the vital 21st-century mindsets needed to make wise moves from MAD Land to NO MAD Land.
We offer Learning as Unusual — Ex-ducere: a transformative education experience designed to make Shapers of the Future emerge and flourish.
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WHAT IT HELPS YOU BECOME
From skills to Creative Agency.
The Academi helps people move from skills to Creative Agency: the power and freedom to deliberately change the mental maps — worldviews, stories, beliefs and perceptions — that shape their lives, so they can change the way they shape the world.
It helps participants grow:
- more imagination
- more courage
- more freedom
- more hope
- more desire to contribute
- more capacity to think beyond the horizon of the thinkable.
We educate to make Activists of the Future(s) emerge and flourish: stakeholders of their own Future, working to advance society towards greater good — RENEWING THE WORLD.
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THE ARTS YOU DEVELOP
Vital 21st-centuryMindsets.
The Academi is designed to help people unfold the Art of Shaping the Future — vital 21st-century Mindsets for anyone who wants to rethink the world, reauthor the Future, and participate in shaping a viable and desirable NO MAD Land.
You learn to develop:
You learn to develop:
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The Art of re-perception
Transforming how and what you think, revisiting assumptions and worldviews
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The Art of creative and effective thinking
Escaping routine patterns, thinking boldly, conceptually and differently
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The Art of imagination
Opening radically different and desirable Futures beyond the horizon of the thinkable
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The Art of the long view
Navigating uncertainty with flexible perspectives and qualitative foresight
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The Art of sensing and shaping
Connecting vision, meaning and action
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The Art of jamming together
Moving from rigid structures to focus and freedom, and cultivating true collaboration
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The Art of being, seeing and acting
Developing the Altitude Attitude: Radical Authenticity, Creative Imagination and Unconventional Wisdom
This is not standard learning. It is a way to grow the Creative Agency needed to make the Future the cause of the Present.
These are not soft extras.
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WHY THIS MATTERS
« What we're teaching is only part of what people need… »
We are living not in an era of change, but in a change of era.
Faster. Louder. More uncertain.
And alongside the curriculum, there are quieter questions:
- How do we see the world differently?
- How do we unlearn what keeps us stuck?
- How do we escape legacy narratives and zombie orthodoxies that keep us trapped in « more of the same »?
- How do we become active stakeholders of our own Future?
- How do we move — wisely — from MAD Land to NO MAD Land?
EDUCATION as the practice of FREEDOM starts there.
Because the key rests in the way we look at the world — in our capacity to map our mental maps and the landscapes they allow us to see.
Education, for us, is the intentional act of moving from legacy narratives to new narratives. We take care SOOO deeply about the Future that we are willing to UNLEARN mental models — unlearning as a form of activism.
Because freedom can be found in our ability to reject the expected roles we are born into, cultivate beginner's mind, practice prototruths, think big and radical, and rediscover innovation as the practice of awe.
Education, for us, is the intentional act of moving from legacy narratives to new narratives. We take care SOOO deeply about the Future that we are willing to UNLEARN mental models — unlearning as a form of activism.
Because freedom can be found in our ability to reject the expected roles we are born into, cultivate beginner's mind, practice prototruths, think big and radical, and rediscover innovation as the practice of awe.
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WHAT IT is
Learning as Unusual — Ex-ducere.
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 transformative education experience — a 100% eclectic vehicle designed to move from MAD Land to NO MAD Land. It is not another scheme to squeeze in, but a place to learn the Art of Shaping the Future as a whole way of Being, Seeing and Acting.
It is a transformative education experience — a 100% eclectic vehicle designed to move from MAD Land to NO MAD Land. It is not another scheme to squeeze in, but a place to learn the Art of Shaping the Future as a whole way of Being, Seeing and Acting.
ACADEMI is spelled that way because each letter matters
A
Alternatives
C
Creativity
A
Aspirations
D
Desire
E
Education
M
Movements
I
Imagination
It is built for head, heart and hands to work together — through live, interactive, co-creative learning designed as Rehearsals of the Future.
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HOW WE LEARN
Learning as Rehearsals of the Future.
We build learning as Rehearsals of the Future — so imagination becomes action, and action becomes a new way to be in the world.
Our method is Learning as Unusual:
Our method is Learning as Unusual:
- focused on imagination
- engaging the whole person
- cultivating paradigm shifts, not just techniques
- connecting personal and global challenges
- helping people move from EGO to ECO consciousness.
We use methods, lenses, metaphors and tools — but always to develop an art, not just to deliver content. The aim is to unfold the deep capacities of creativity, imagination, wisdom and reflection that the world now urgently needs.
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OUR FORMATS
A connected constellation of formats.
Designed to democratise our practices and make Shapers of the Future emerge and flourish.
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The Full Journey — GO from EGO to ECO
(flagship) Five « Go workshops », designed to transform the way we see the world and our place in it.
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Pop-Up Faculty
Short interventions inside learning ecosystems (universities) — a flexible way to democratise our practices.
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Thinking Clubs
Regular practice as a skill incubator (small group, simple rhythm) to move from skills to Agency.
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Youth Labs
A dedicated pathway from Nostalgia → Erotica of the Future, answering the Butterfly Imperative to unlock imagination.
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Custom-designed sessions
E.g., Six Thinking Hats and Lateral Thinking for efficient, collaborative and creative thinking.
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Masterclasses series
Deep dives by lens / art (re-perception, long view, butterfly thinking, jamming together…).
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Mentoring conversations (1 on 1)
To foster Inspiration, Transmission, Transgression and Liberation.
At the centre, as the glue: Community of practice / peer-to-peer / digital platform — so learning becomes lived practice, not a one-off moment.
Because what the world needs is not « better » solutions,but radically new shapes, perspectives and approaches.
Because freedom isn't an add-on.
It's the point.
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