Most formats add. This one removes.
A two-day working format in Berlin for people who think deeply — and the assumption underneath it that runs the other way.
Most development formats rest on the same quiet assumption: that something is missing.
A masterclass adds knowledge. A mastermind adds solutions. Coaching adds clarity. A retreat adds focus. The format exists to supply what isn’t there yet — and you leave with something you didn’t arrive with.
What I’m building rests on the opposite assumption.
I spent fifteen years teaching, long enough to know the classical didactic triangle by heart: the teacher holds the material, the student lacks it, the format closes the gap. Transfer. Every arrow points one way.
Werktage turns each corner around. The participant doesn’t lack the material — they already have it. The work isn’t content to be delivered — it’s what holds the attention. And the facilitator isn’t a source standing above the subject — I share the very reflex I’m there to disarm.
Because for people who think deeply, the problem is rarely a deficit. It’s that the thing they’re best at has been overtrained against itself. You see something directly — before the reasoning, in one grasp — and then you distrust it, and reason it shut, until it’s defensible to others. The gift becomes the lock.
So the format adds nothing. It removes a brake.
No transfer, no build toward an insight, no summary at the end. You bring real work, and you work on it close to seven others who carry the same reflex. The measure of a good session is modest: one moment where someone let a direct perception stand, unwrapped, without first making it defensible. Seen by the others, that is enough.
It’s nearly impossible to sell that as an outcome. Which is roughly why I trust it.
The first editions run monthly in Berlin — eight people each time, selected on fit and composition rather than on who applied first. There’s a page that describes how two days actually unfold, and an application that opens a personal conversation rather than a checkout. In the application, you can indicate your preferred timing, which helps us in deciding when the first edition will take place.
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