The Harkess Summer Programme
What your child will cover
Five foundational sessions across four days:
Financial Literacy and Compounding – how wealth actually builds, and why starting early changes everything.
The Wealth Gap – why it’s widening, and how to position for long-term growth.
First Principles Thinking – how to reason independently in a world that rewards the right question more than the right answer.
Communication – how to structure, deliver, and defend a position clearly under pressure.
The Career Landscape in the Age of AI – where human value is genuinely irreplaceable, and how to build a skill stack that compounds.
The programme culminates in The Harkness Dialogue on Day 4 – a panel-based capstone in which each student presents and defends what makes them distinctively valuable, and leaves knowing exactly what they’re building toward.
Programme Details
Format: Five sessions of two hours each across Days 1-3, and the Harkness Dialogue on Day 4
Duration: 4 days
Location: Singapore – Agora Co-Learning
Date: July 2026 – specific dates to be confirmed
Cohort size: Strictly limited to 9 students
Places are limited. To find out more or express your interest, reach out to us directly.
About The Summer Programme
The Summer Programme is Phase I of the Harkness Foundations Programme – which comprises two phases – condensed into four days and culminating in The Harkness Dialogue – a panel-based capstone where each student presents and defends what makes them distinctively valuable. Completion of the summer programme grants students direct entry into Phase II of our regular Foundations Programme, which runs weekly across the academic year and develops these ideas in greater depth.
The Harkness Dialogue
What makes your child distinctively valuable – and can they articulate why? Most teenagers spend years building skills without ever asking the question that actually matters.
Instead of just asking what things your child is better at than most of their peers, we believe their value is in their skill stack: their unique combination of three or four genuine strengths – whether skills, instincts, or character traits – that result in something nobody else can replicate.
Each student first builds their stack. Then they stand in front of a panel and defend it. Students are pushed to justify their claims with concrete examples from their own lives. Then we ask:
What's missing from your stack that would change your entire trajectory if you built it?
A student who is empathetic, collaborative, and direct already has a combination most adults would underestimate. Add strategic judgment, and their perspective starts to carry weight. Add precision in how they communicate, and they become someone others choose to follow.
The conversation then moves from who you are to where that positioning takes you: which environments you'd thrive in, and what to build next.
When each student finishes, their peers have the floor – sharing strengths they observed across the four days that the speaker may have undersold or not yet seen in themselves. For most students, this is the moment they realise something about themselves they couldn't have arrived at alone.
Most adults have never done what your child will do on Day 4. Declare who they are. Defend their position. Leave understanding what the best version of themselves looks like – and how to build toward it.