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Music Thinking: orchestrate like a symphony, jam like a rock band or improvise like a jazz ensemble.

Music Thinking Book

Now at your local bookstore or wherever you buy your books.
Learn leadership and co-creation tools you can use for your personal development, team, and organisation.

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The Power of Music Thinking - Listen, tune, play and perform.

Jam Cards

An inspirational card set in a beautiful box the size of a 45 rpm single record 
Use them in ideation sessions or on-boarding rituals. Scan the cards to hear a sound.

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Workshop Cards for inspiration, onboarding, off-boarding, check-in, ideation

Courses Overview

Learn about future leadership skills and mindset
How to co-create your company purpose, tell the story of your purpose, make the first step with your brand story and more.

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Course overview - inspirational workshops for leading and following with the music thinking approach

Podcast

The Power of Music Thinking 
Creative Companion Christof Zürn takes you inside the minds of some of the world’s most exciting people AND Musicians’.

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Podcast The Power of Music Thinking

Blog & News

Here we share updates about workshops, programmes, new templates, tips and tricks and you can read all the 38 stories from ‘Behind the Cards’ – the background thoughts about every inspiration card of the Music Thinking Jam Cards.
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The Art of Freedom with Jennifer Roig-Francoli

The Art of Freedom with Jennifer Roig-Francoli

The Art of Freedom - Jennifer-Roig-Francoli

How are your habits preventing you from being more creative? How does self-observation make you a better performer? And how can touching from a distance help you with performance problems? Today, we speak with Jennifer Roig-Francoli – violinist, healer, coach, author and creator of The Art of Freedom Method for Conscious Living and Masterful Artistry. […]

In the Rhythm of Leadership: Learnings from Music Thinking with Christof Zürn

In the Rhythm of Leadership: Learnings from Music Thinking with Christof Zürn

"Music allows you to experience different perspectives at the same time" Christof Zürn

I am a regular guest on different podcasts, and whether they are about leadership, creativity or organisational change, these conversations help me to shape my thinking and communication about my ideas of music thinking. This time, the fabulous Dr Myriam Hadnes of workshops.work has invited me to her podcast on facilitation. It is the 265th […]

Music and Astrophysics with Dr Mariana Wagner

Music and Astrophysics with Dr Mariana Wagner

Music and Astrophysics

Today, we are in outer space. We speak with Dr. Mariana Wagner, an astrophysicist, songwriter, podcaster, and composer of immersive live shows about sound and space.  We learn about her journey that led her from studying oceanography, working as a songwriter for German Schlager stars and becoming a doctor of astrophysics.   Mariana also brought some […]

Better English with Jam Cards and Anita Prestidge 

Better English with Jam Cards and Anita Prestidge 

Better English with Jam Cards and Anita Prestidge

How cool is this? You develop a multisensory product to let people experience your ideas about music thinking and then someone comes along and uses your product for something completely different. o.k. before we dive into our conversation, let’s first explain what the jam cards are. Because that is the product we are talking about […]

Science and Music dialogue with Carolin Seiferth

Science and Music dialogue with Carolin Seiferth

Science and Music Dialogue with Carolin Seiferth

Today, we are in Sweden, and we speak with Carolin Seiferth – a PhD student at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, where she does research on the island of Öland. Carolin combines scientific research with music to raise awareness about sustainability issues around the Baltic Sea. In this way, she inspires the audience to take action […]

A shaky business – Epiphany Story 2024

A shaky business – Epiphany Story 2024

Sax and sculptures intervention in Düsseldorf - Epiphany 2024

This year’s epiphany story is about a shaky business The trip It was the first Thursday in November; I was driving through the storm with my wife. What should have been a one-hour cruise with our silent electric car was a shaky business accompanied by abrupt, more or less heavy blasts of wind. Our metal […]

Rewind 2023

Rewind 2023

Rewind 2023 The Power of Music Thinking podcast

Welcome to the Rewind 2023 of The Power of Music Thinking podcast, where I have conversations with extraordinary people from all over the world who are also musicians or use music in the broadest sense of the word to learn, teach, inspire and collaborate meaningfully. This year, we had 15 episodes, and virtually, we travelled […]

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