The Shapership Academi
EDUCATION as the practice of FREEDOM.
Teaching to transgress. From skills to Creative Agency — cartographers of possibilities.
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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.
A word from the Shapership Academi's Godfather, Michel Bauwens, Founder of the Peer to Peer Foundation, Author, Researcher, One of the most influential personalities of the 21st Century:
"To survive the chaotic transition period we are traversing, moving from caterpillar to butterfly stage, we have to change collectively, as local, national and planetary citizens; we have to change relationally, learning to cooperate cosmo-locally; and we have to change individually, as we move from ego to eco. We are not fully born with these skills, we learn them, and to learn them, we need skilled mentors and facilitators, who have an understanding of all these levels at the same time. These people are rare, but you will find them in the amazing people of Shapership. Look no further to find peers in this journey. Shapership is an invaluable commons of capabilities and experiences."
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.
THE ARTS YOU DEVELOP
Vital 21st-centuryMindsets.
The deep skills each participant will unfold and connect:
WHY THIS MATTERS
To seriously play with our mental maps and transgress to progress
- 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, 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.
WHAT IT is
Learning as Unusual — Ex-ducere.
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.
HOW WE LEARN
Learning as Rehearsals of the Future.
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.
OUR FORMATS
A connected constellation of formats.
At the centre, as the glue: Community of practice / peer-to-peer / digital platform — so learning becomes lived practice, not a one-off moment.