
Explore how frames and glasses shape perception, revealing that what we see is a mental image formed by taught perspectives; become aware and switch glasses to reframe your life.
Explore reframing by asking why you do what you do and whether you could do it radically differently. Examine assumptions to change thinking, actions, and the scripts you live by.
Reframe the irritation of overhearing private conversations on public transport as curiosity, showing how smartphones transform transit into a space of shared, surprising stories.
Reframe fear in daily life by examining an elderly man who fears everyone, then shifts to earning respect in his neighborhood, illustrating a confidence transformation.
Reframe your beliefs about your teen's gaming by swapping negative frames for positive ones. See five hours of gaming as homework and a path to future skills and social engagement.
Map your assumptions to uncover why you feel too busy and identify the core beliefs behind it. Cluster the reasons into four key drivers and pick the most important ones.
Construct extreme opposites in step 3 of reframing your life to overcome resistance and reframe your thinking, envisioning a world where flying is good for the environment.
Choose the most impactful reframed assumption from four options and place it on top to form a new frame, shifting from being too busy to saving time.
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.
Learn to reframe beliefs offline with pen, paper, and yellow and orange post-its, then online with THNK's reframing exercise to visualize, compare opposites, and refine core beliefs.
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.
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.