Programme
Programmes across three settings.
The Institute’s work takes place across three settings: online, at Emerge Lakefront in Stockholm, and residentially at Ekskäret Island.
Each setting opens its own way into the work. Digital programmes bring the inquiry to wherever you are; Emerge Lakefront gathers people to explore and practise together by the lake; Ekskäret Island offers the depth of retreat. Begin where you are, and let the journey lead you further.
Each programme below is complete in itself – a retreat, a course, an evening – held to the same standard of care. Registration runs through the host each programme uses – such as Luma, Confetti, Dandelion or the programme’s own site – and each programme page links out to it directly.
The three settings are not tiers. They are three different relationships to place – a digital programme that asks nothing of anyone but a screen and an evening a week, evenings and weekend days in person by the lake, and retreats at Ekskäret Island.
The work, across distance.
Courses held live, online, over several weeks – for those the lake and the island cannot yet reach.
4 programmes open View digital programmes → Emerge LakefrontEngagement, relationship and experimentation.
Non-residential programmes at Emerge Lakefront on the edge of Stockholm – a single evening or a Sunday afternoon, a run of weekday evenings, or a weekend where participants come each day and go home at night.
3 programmes open View the Lakefront programme → Ekskäret IslandWithdrawal, contemplation and depth.
Residential retreats of three to five days on the island that has hosted the Institute's work since before it had a name.
5 programmes open View Ekskäret Island programmes →
IDG Ambassador Programme
A six-week hybrid programme with four days on the island. It trains you to advocate for inner development in your own context and certifies you as an IDG Ambassador.
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Technological Metamodernism
Seven weekly sessions on what it means to build and use technology from a metamodern sensibility – neither utopian nor cynical about what these tools are doing to us. One host, a different guest most weeks.
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The Emerge Lakefront Ten-Week Introduction Programme
The introductory programme developed for residents at Emerge Lakefront – now opened beyond Lakefront as a self-paced digital course. Ten weeks through Being, Thinking, Relating, Collaborating and Acting. €50.
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Lakefront Perspectives #2
When Changing the Game Is the Only Way to Win. Erik Fernholm and Pamela von Sabljar ask why playing better within today’s rules is no longer enough – and what it takes to change the game itself. 11 November, with dinner and dialogue.
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BEYOND: Field Dynamics
A three-day somatic retreat on the island – body, voice, movement and the dynamics of the group, with Žan Perko. Full programme and booking on the BEYOND site.
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Values-Based Leadership in a BANI World
An experiential workshop on values, motivation and adult development in an age of uncertainty, with Jan Artem Henriksson.
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Elevate Hibernate
A co-created week of connection, exploration and renewal on Ekskäret Island – part retreat, part learning community, part social experiment.
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Sanctum – Guided by the Elements
Five days of silence, nature and contemplative practice on Ekskäret Island, organised around four elemental Paths – Earth, Fire, Water and Air.
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Values-Based Leadership in a BANI World
An experiential workshop on values, motivation and adult development in an age of uncertainty, with Jan Artem Henriksson.
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Lakefront Perspectives #3
Rewriting the Rules Together. Erik Fernholm and Pamela von Sabljar return to ask how we might rewrite the rules collectively – who gets to shape them, and how. 15 December, with dinner and dialogue.
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Via Spiritus – The Way of the Spirit
A nine-month practice in surrender, discernment and conscious participation with life.
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Developmental Experience Design
A two-day residential on the island, wrapped in online sessions – a Kaospilot and Emerge method for designing experiences that help people grow. With Andy Sontag.
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Programmes that have run and closed – a record of the work as it unfolds.