Leading with Connection: Harnessing Ecosystem and Social Intelligence

A one-day Integrated Leadership Encounter invites leaders to engage deeply with ecological and social systems, drawing wisdom from both nature and groups. Through outdoor reflection and co-sensing, participants cultivate systemic awareness and adaptive leadership.

Crafted for changemakers, organisational leaders, coaches, consultants, and activists, the Encounter offers a transformative space to move beyond mechanistic thinking and embrace more connected, holistic ways of leading.

To lead in times of increasing complexity and uncertainty, leaders must engage with the ecological and social systems in which they are embedded and integrate them into their psychological system. The Encounter offers a powerful pathway to this integration. This unique approach releases the psychological energy needed for complex thinking.

This Leadership Encounter takes place at Emerson College, situated in a 23-acre Biodynamic and Botanic landscape in the rolling countryside of East Sussex. We spend time in the beautiful gardens working with nature and in the Pixton Garden Room, a beautiful room with an open fire in the manor house, overlooking the College grounds. At Emerson College, lunch is the main meal of the day, made with delicious seasonal vegetables, often from the Emerson Kitchen Garden or from other local biodynamic and organic growers. The lunches are usually accompanied by a large bowl of fresh salad and followed by a tasty dessert.

Leadership Encounters are hosted by Natural Systems Coaching & Development Ltd.