Visionary People Mentoring is an interdisciplinary strategic leadership program that guides high profile personalities and executive teams of leading companies and organizations to map their visionary power and translate it into a masterpiece by a top artist. It is an extensive mentorship and arts program, followed by a public relations campaign.
In management terms, visionary power is a subject of corporate/organizational visions and values. For famous people, it's all about their personal drive, what determines their progress and success and how they want the world to see it.
According to Visionary People Mentoring, visionary power is the capacity for success inherent in the constructive vision we have for our life, business or organization that has a positive impact on others and even the planet. We all have visionary power. If we consciously live with this powerful ability, we will be successful in our lives and we will radiate this positively to others.
Based on this idea, a Visionary People Mentoring program consists of three parts:
Analyzing and mapping your visionary power as a high profile personality or company;
Engaging a top artist who creates a work of art that expresses this mapped out power;
Designing a public relations campaign around this outcome of the mentoring.
Visionary People Mentoring is network-based. The program forms on-demand teams of critical analysis, creative expression and communication in which each professional and artist involved plays a specific, central role. We believe that as these networks operate themselves on visionary power, they achieve high performative levels.
Research-based mentoring
Visionary People Mentoring is a comprehensive project led and co-led throughout the three phases of the program by professional analysts with extensive experience in the social sciences and specific training in qualitative research.
Central to the entire program are the research-based analyses that cover all levels of organizations/companies or of personality life and are translated interdisciplinary to mentoring, art and public relations. To implement the findings, the analysts in the first phase work with leading mentors who take on their part of the program.
Depending on whether the client is a company, organization or a personality, the analysis, mapping and mentoring of visionary power may include workshops, narrative analysis, participant observations, feedback sessions and one or more ‘exposure trips’ (traveling abroad in a challenging environment) or other formulas. The mentors-analysts in the program have the professional ethics to remain discreetly in the background during their observations if the client so wishes.
Creative radiance
Specific to Visionary People Mentoring is that the program continues in a second phase with a top artist who realizes an artistic translation of your visionary power as a leading personality or company/organization. This step in the program ultimately forms the bridge between mentoring and public relations work.
This artistic product is not just an addendum. It is at the heart of the mentoring that is coordinated in this phase by the analysts, the mentors and the artist(s) together.
When we have connection with our visionary power, we touch the art of life. Therefore, the mentoring of visonary power and art work go hand in hand.“Everyone is an artist” (Joseph Beuys), and so this final phase of the mentorship is central, involving an artist or talent from the creative industries to complete the process by creating a work of art to express your visionary power.
The seven traditional art forms are painting, sculpture, literature, architecture, theatre, film and music. The creative industry typically includes architecture, design, digital culture, visual arts, crafts, music, advertising, design, software development and all possible crossovers.
To approach art and the creative industry in a broad sense, Visionary People Mentoring likes to involve both the global and local markets of art/creativity. The sole purpose of Visionary People Mentoring is to connect the stories of leading individuals and companies/organizations with top art and ultimately with the general public.
Public relations campaing
The final phase of Visionary People Mentoring involves engaging a public relations agency to maximize the visibility to the outside world of your visionary power as a high profile company or personality.
“People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic. ”
This stage is all about branding and strategy through the story behind the masterpiece that has been created. This will help you build closer relationships with your larger audience. Here, the Visionary People Mentoring program works on a public relations strategy for you. This is the final phase of the program, building on the research-based mentorship and creative expression a top artist gives to your visionary power.
Visionary People Mentoring
To be inspired by what makes high profile personalities, companies and organizations successful and unique. To do this in a partnership of analysts, mentors, artists and communicators. To realize together the creative expression of the visionary power that forms the basis of our client’s mission and to connect it to the wider world.
The stories behind visionary power
“I am an admirer of people who make a difference for themselves and others. ”
Visionary People Mentoring is a business project in development over the past years. It is a model that will be further networked in 2025 to complete the operational process.
Thierry Limpens is the founder and director of the project. He has a broad education in the humanities and social sciences, in particular in social and cultural anthropology, in political science and in religious studies.
Writer, thinker, rebel, man, father, husband, researcher, teacher, activist, all with one constant: for three decades Drs. Limpens has focused on researching what motivates people to want to do good for others.
With Visionary People Mentoring he takes the step from the academic world of research, which has taken him on travels in different parts of the world, to that of mentoring.
As an academic researcher Drs. Limpens has been featured in Euronews, in national TV channels in Belgium, Ireland and Soudan, in international journals, and he has spoken at international conferences. More about him as a researcher you find here (academic CV, achievements, publications closed on 25-2-2022).
“Visionary power touches our life stories. As described on the blog page, this is why visionary power can be approached from many perspectives. Central to this is the client’s self-understanding. The exercise I did for myself has given me more and more insight into my own visionary power.
This process has brought me to an understanding of the positive values I received from my parents, to the insight that trust and not control is the central axis of visionary power, to my preference for positive thinking and acting, to my belief in an inclusive world in which strength and weakness, considered doubt and resilience are not each other’s opposites.”
Different insights from life stories are described on the blog page, which is supplemented with new stories. Or, as the blog page introduces it: "Everyone's story is beautiful! It is a visionary circle of charing and connecting".
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