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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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How Music Can Make Your City Better with Shain Shapiro

How Music Can Make Your City Better with Shain Shapiro

Shain Shapiro - How Music can make your City better.

Today, we are in Nashville, and we speak with Shain Shapiro – a globally recognised thought leader at the convergence of music, culture and urban policy.  Shain is the CEO of Sound Diplomacy – a global research and strategy consultancy, and he also leads the non-profit Center for Music Ecosystems, which commissions research to help […]

The Music Thinking Mantra

The Music Thinking Mantra

The shorthand of Music Thinking is: Listen, Tune, Play and Perform. I call it the Music Thinking Mantra. You can do this over and over again – well, like a mantra. Wear the Music Thinking Mantra on a T-shirt Show that you are music thinking and wear the Mantra on your T-shirt as a statement, […]

The Sound of a Toy Dolphin – Special Episode

The Sound of a Toy Dolphin – Special Episode

Louis-Sound-of-a-Toy-Dolphin

Special edition on DDW with Louis Moeckel and his Toy Dolphin project In October, I visited the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven. It is an event and showcase of Dutch design with exhibitions, studio visits, workshops, seminars, and parties across the city. One of the highlights of this packed week is the Design Academy Eindhoven’s […]

Standing still with Alexander Refsum Jensenius

Standing still with Alexander Refsum Jensenius

Standing still Alexander Jensenius on the power of music thinking

What is the use of standing still for 10 minutes? I was asking myself when I saw a post on social media. It was a double picture of a man with a mobile phone around his neck displaying some data, and another picture showed the view he saw at that moment. I learned that he […]

Sonification with Michael von der Nahmer

Sonification with Michael von der Nahmer

Sonification - Connecting sound, science, and human experience with Michael von der Nahmer on The Power of Music Thinking

Nowadays, composers no longer work only for the concert hall or the opera stage. Today, a composer who creates the next symphonic work has become an innovator who can be active in a wide range of fields, from video to film, from sonic branding to sound identity of products and services.  Today, we speak with […]

Musical Mind Hacking with Jeena Earthiva

Musical Mind Hacking with Jeena Earthiva

Jeena Earthiva - musical mind hacking on the power of music thinking podcast

Today we are in Mumbai. We talk with Jeena Earthiva. Jeena is a Transformational Coach, a Producer with a master’s in Computer Science, an ex-Bollywood singer, the Founder of Conscious Music Code, and a ‘Mind DJ’. Jeena conveys her story of a successful Bollywood singer who lost her voice at the top of her singing […]

Dynamic Strategies as an Intervention

Dynamic Strategies as an Intervention

Dynamic Strategies with Music Thinking Approach

How to find a way out of chaos “Halt im Haltlosen” was the theme of the 10th SWF Forum in Berlin. More info here. There were many stimulating impulses from Sociologist to Climate Investigator, from Chess Grandmaster to Design Researcher, from Journalist to Head of the Collaborative Governance Lab – enriched with practical interventions from […]

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