Our Programs
Cohort 2026-2027
Positive Deviants
Positive Deviants Cascadia
A practice community and generative social network of systems artists. The fellowship begins with four in-person gatherings, personal coaching, and online support for established systems leaders looking to fully embody their calling, cultivate new capabilities and deepen their impact.
The Café at the Edge of the World
A series of beautiful and surprising virtual learning experiences that offer a multi-cultural and multi-modal inquiry into decolonizing systems thinking, honing wicked questions, mapping visible and intangible systems, and understanding ourselves as integral to systems.
The Black Changemakers Systems Studios
Hosted in partnership with Black Lives Matter Canada, the studios explore complexity principles and the tools of systems change while centring the life experience, expertise and community strength of Black Canadians.
The Complexity Code
An intensive 6-week online hybrid course designed to develop three core capacities that distinguish complexity-fluent leaders: systemic perception, embodied presence, and applied wisdom.
The Indigenous Changemakers Systems Studio
A six-month initiative that brings together Elders, storytellers and changemakers from the Treaty Three region in northern Ontario looking bring a culturally-centered systems lens to the opioid crisis.
Be the Ground
A highly practical, place-based, and ecologically-informed certificate program designed to cultivate capable, connected, adaptive humans for a reality defined by compounding crises. Be the Ground offers both the hard skills and the relational infrastructure (sexy life skills) required to respond intelligently, compassionately, and effectively to disruptions in our communities.
The Wealth Dojo
The Wealth Dojo is a rigorous and relational practice ground for Capital Stewards to develop the inner, relational and systemic capacities needed for this era of upheaval. To stay present inside complexity, uncertainty, and consequence — and to practice responding again and again. Philanthropic foundation staff and advisors, wealth holders, wealth managers and family office professionals are all positioned to redirect capital flows, storylines, and possibilities—moving wealth wisely in a time between worlds.
The Imaginarium
Part art studio, part petri dish; this is a practice space for building our complexity muscles. We combine creative practice and creative constraints (pressure makes diamonds!). We open different vantage points and lean into what we call “embodied imaginings” to access different kinds of intelligences.
Eldering in Times of Transformation
After decades of initiation through life’s triumphs and losses, what are our most pressing questions, our strongest intuitions, and our boldest desires for our world as we journey into our 60’s, 70’s, 80’s? And how might exploring those offer us insights into contributions that we might still make, that we must make, as systems of all kinds collapse and are reimagined?