
What do you want to think differently about? What is the situation that causes you irritation, frustration or pain?
The power of asking "Why?" to surface assumptions, convictions, and limiting beliefs.
The key to challenging your current thinking: construct an extreme opposite, and notice the resistance and laughter.
Turning a new perspective into new behaviour - where the real breakthrough happens!
Reframe the irritation of overhearing private conversations on public transport as curiosity, showing how smartphones transform transit into a space of shared, surprising stories.
Your childhood scripts are not who you are. If you feel held back by them, it's time to flip them.
We all have a comfort zone of our preferred behaviour. Time to move out and explore the other side.
Money rules the world - but where do our assumptions about money come from? It may be easier to change our perspective than our bank balance.
Identify waste in daily work and life, and empower your inner terminator, your future self, to stop unproductive actions. Innovation arises by terminating what makes no sense.
Reframing fuses changing your perspective with changing your actions to shape your world, from embracing the inevitable to making feasible changes you can implement.
Reframe your work by mapping six elements—income, structure, identity, colleagues, talents, and purpose—and explore how retirement or job loss reshapes life, prompting rebuilding.
A bonus lecture recorded ten years after the original course, on how the reframing methodology has evolved into a daily practice.
THIS IS A LEGACY COURSE.
The updated version of all my reframing courses is called Transformative Thinking. More than 90 video clips, almost five hours. I would recommend taking that one first.
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Reframing is a technique to change the way you look at the world, and to change the way you act in the world. Changing your thinking, and changing your behaviour. It's a five-step technique to turn the things that irritate you, that frustrate you, or that cause you pain, into new situations where you are in control, and which you enjoy. It's a way to design your own way of acting in the world.
I use real-life examples of people who have use Reframing to change the way they look at themselves, to get a new perspective on their environment, or to become less fearful. They have used these new perspectives to make lasting changes in their lives.
Reframing is not difficult, though you should really follow the steps closely for it to give you a truly exciting and liberating perspective. It can also be a lot of fun.
I started developing this specific Reframing technique in 2004, and have taught it to thousands of people in workshops and lectures all over the world since then. I published the book Reframing - the art of thinking differently in 2012.
This course is part of a series:
Reframing personal questions: this course.
Reframing work, organisations, leadership, and business models: see my Innovation Mindset course.
Reframing societal change: see my Paradigm Shifts course.