THNK is on a mission to educate, inspire, and connect a community of creative leaders who want to make societal impact at a global level. We challenge participants with the impossible…and then watch them succeed.
Our participants, faculty, board, and partners all have one thing in common: they are successful leaders who want to make an impact on the world. They are also as different as can be, with experience and goals as diverse as their nationalities.
THNK’s philosophy is that leadership requires a new breed of thinking to accelerate development. We believe in learning by doing, focus on interactivity, personal development coaching, creativity, mentoring and no-lectures.
I chose THNK’s program because they seemed to be doing what I wanted to do, albeit for a very different target audience. But in re-imagining what the education of change makers could be, or rather, what it needs to become, we are walking very similar paths and I wanted to experience THNK’s approach firsthand.
Responding to the widely-perceived gap between university education and the marketplace for jobs, the Amani Institute’s mission is to develop next-generation talent for solving social problems.
A lot has been written on THNK from my fellow THNK participants about the program and now as the fourth module is on my doorstep I´m thinking back how those intense 6 months (actually only 35 days if you would be continously at THNK) have changed me and where I still need change.
Its about those internal fights with your Ego, your inner sustainability and the ways how you should transform yourself to the new person you´re longing to become for a longer time.
How do you go from looking at Mauritius as a small and insignificant island in the Indian Ocean to seeing Mauritius as the largest ocean state in the world? Reframing is an easy, four-step process to generate creative approaches for your own life and work.
At THNK we believe in the power of sharing and educating through experience. This is why we will make more of our tools and methodology available to you over the next months. As a first step, we opened up the MIRROR and now we would like to share the ReFrame with you – http://reframe.thnk.org
As the fourth and final Challenge module approaches, I marvel at what we were able to accomplish even in just the first visit to THNK…in addition to how far we’ve come, how much we’ve grown, and how much fun is yet to be had with our Acceleration projects during the next year and beyond.
I am a current participant in THNK’s Creative Leadership Program. And I find myself in an international environment where I am constantly offered elements that I didn’t know was looking for – talk about serendipity! The methods of teaching here happen in a truly novel manner, which translates to an optimized learning experience for each participant. To me, THNK feels more and more like a home instead of a School and that makes it very special.
Teamtalk | Robert Wolfe, coach at THNK, talks about elements of peer coaching and amazing moments of people gaining huge insights. t’s not about turning people around. It’s about giving them space to seek out the new in their thinking and the clarity and freedom that can come with that. And the outcome is sheer magic!
PEOPLE | Just a week ago, we wrapped up the 3rd module of the current class of THNK’s Creative Leadership program. Among the group of participants is Rachel Sinha. She is Sustainability Manager at ICAEW and Co-Founder of The Finance Innovation Lab, a large systems change project which innovates and accelerates new forms of prosperity, for people and planet. Following her return she wrote this blog post.
PEOPLE | Sometimes it takes a strong period of reflection to realize you’re learning something. That sounds obvious, but I (we, perhaps?) spend so much of my days in rapidfire communication, flitting between e-mail(s), Twitter, blog(s), from account to account, from work to personal, until it all blends together. When you’ve lived your life that way for a long time, reflection becomes something for which you have to carve out time, carefully, thoughtfully. It’s something I do in strange but solitary moments, often on airplanes and other dark places.
THOUGHTS | Among the current participant group of THNK’s Creative Leadership program is Adriana Baraldi. She wrote a blog post about her THNK experience and what THNK is to her, including the unique mindset when it comes to the THNK program.
NEWS | We’re happy to announce an update to our Creative Leadership Program. We now provide a Corporate Accelerator course that covers frameworks, concepts, inspiring examples, and tools specifically developed for innovation leaders in large corporations. This course complements the core THNK program.
We blend very specific topics throughout the executive program to enable our corporate participants to constantly translate what they experience and learn in the program to their challenges into their work environment. These special courses are also open to all our other participants.
