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Awakening
An introduction to the city's art, culture and business scenery, and training in the aspects that make a successful leader.
Our story
Transformational experiences for the next generation of visionaries.
Visionarium is a creativity and leadership incubator for young people. We combine immersive experiences, mentorship, hands-on learning, culture and access to people and environments that expand perspective.
Our purpose is to help young people identify what moves them, develop a vision for their future and gain the confidence and tools to pursue it.
Because sometimes the most important thing a young person can discover is not an answer. It's a possibility they had never imagined before.
The program's argument is not a curriculum. It is a room: a company's own offices, a university's admissions session, a private club at dinner. A student cannot arrange those on their own, and once inside them the week teaches itself.
Everything else the program does — the tracks, the mentorship, the projects — is built around getting a group of students into rooms they would not otherwise enter, and giving them something to do once they are there.
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An introduction to the city's art, culture and business scenery, and training in the aspects that make a successful leader.
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Immerses students in real life situations for negotiations, decision making, crisis management and team work.
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Space, guidance and facilitation for the development of a business, product or program idea.
Company visits and talks at Google, Bloomberg and Spotify. Guided visits and orientation at Columbia, New York University, The New School and Parsons, with a college advising session alongside them. A public speaking workshop run by John West, speech coach to Wall Street executives. A training dinner at the Racquet and Tennis Club on Park Avenue. Lectures from designers and artists, and a meet and greet with philanthropists.
Every one of those is a room. None of them is a lecture hall the program rented.
To confirm The origin: who started Visionarium, in what year, and what the first edition was. The page tells the story from the program's stated purpose forward. The beginning of it is the one part not documented anywhere in what we hold.
The same week, in cities where the students already live. Barranquilla held the first edition outside New York; Miami is next, and 2027 opens with two more.
The format stopped being the point. What travels is the mechanism: a city has rooms, the program gets a group of students into them.
To confirm The New York editions, as records: which years ran, and what each one contained. The strongest evidence the program has is currently prose. As edition records it would appear in this chronology by itself.