What we offer

The challenges we face demand new outlooks and ideas. Now is the time to bring critical thinking and broader perspectives into the world and the workplace.

  • This is an opportunity to think, reflect, and develop insights which could change futures
  • The academic and cultural programme will provoke and inspire new approaches to persistent issues and stimulate new ideas and endeavours
  • Our innovative approach brings together a diverse group of experienced professionals from across the globe with our college fellows creating a personal renaissance for senior leaders

At a glance

  • A residential experience for leaders from a range of sectors staying and working in Wadham College from Sunday to Friday
  • Two courses with the same intent but different themes, on 14-19 September (Thinking Critically) or 21-26 September (Thinking Clearly).
  • You will learn via small seminars, group debates, creative experiences, cultural discovery and reflective practice
  • You will explore your own intellectual interests guided by our experts, including reading and research, and culminating in an individual tutorial
  • All meals, accommodation, activities, and course materials are included in the programme fee of £9,800 (2025)

Benefits to you:

  • Develop the way you think about your work and practice, to invigorate and boost your personal capacity and potential
  • Step away from your current assumptions and return with entirely new approaches to your goals and challenges
  • Give yourself the opportunity to think more flexibly, with more curiosity and clarity, and rejuvenate your impact
  • Revive your creativity and interest in the world around you to inspire new ideas and innovation
  • Become part of an intellectually curious and diverse network

Benefits to your organisation:

  • Organisations require new ideas for growth and change – bring creativity and innovation into yours
  • Gain a competitive edge by developing your organisation into one that can access ideas from outside its normal field or sector
  • Be able to guide and advise colleagues for thoughtful decision-making and idea creation
Ruskin School of Art

‘This programme is an invitation to think and to rethink in ways that loosen preconceptions and open up new avenues. It’s about breathing new intellectual and practical life into areas of thought that have become habitual—we want people to reach novel conclusions on their own, to be open to new analyses and approaches, to be willing to be wrong. This intense week of openness and connection and discovery offers the prospect of new perspectives and new ideas in your career and practice. And because thought and action are bound up with each other, the thinking you do about your next projects or challenges may take them in a completely new direction.’

Tom Sinclair, Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy 

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