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Anticipatory Agility in an Age of Urgency

Changing the Conditions of Change
Book now | June 15-18

What if how you solve the problem, is the problem?

At The Emergence Academy, we believe most professionals are operating in a constant state of urgency—moving faster, yet seeing less. In complex environments, speed alone doesn’t improve decisions. It narrows them. Transformative insight, clarity and agility, is found in learning to respond to urgency by slowing down.

Our cohorts are designed to help you make better informed decisions in uncertainty by expanding awareness, not output. Through the weave of Futures Literacy and Open Awareness, you’ll learn to recognise the hidden assumptions and patterns that quietly shape how you think, act, and respond under pressure. We help you step out of autopilot—reducing the narrowing effect of urgency and opening new perspectives.

This enables you to engage complexity more dynamically, seeing beyond immediate data, expected outcomes, and default ways of thinking. You’ll develop practical sensing and sense-making capabilities, that transform how you perceive and interpret complexity and uncertainty, to make better informed decisions. 

The outcome is a fundamental shift in your relationship with complexity — greater agency, better informed judgement, and renewed energy. You are equipped to move from urgency exhaustion to a more regenerative way of thinking, deciding, and navigating change.

About

We weave the academic discipline of Futures Literacy with the embodied practice of Open Presence. The Weave is a process that restores a keener awareness of what is emerging in the present to inform a more coherent agency in complexity.
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The program

In this four-day immersive program, you will learn new capabilities and recalibrate innate capacities that improve your Anticipatory Agility, and equip you to respond to urgency by slowing down.
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the Founders

Alex and Loes have learnt the power of true interdisciplinary collaboration based on trust and curiosity: they had both been practicing anticipation for emergence, just through very different entry points.
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"Futures Literacy Labs are experiential knowledge creation processes, that derive from the collective intelligence and openness of the group. Deep-Listening seamlessly fits into this process and has proven to be an invaluable component for the learning space....it is a powerful tool for participants to become fully present and connected to themselves while sharing a profound experience."
— Loes Damhof, UNESCO Chair Futures Literacy
"The interplay of Futures Literacy and Deep-Listening and Futures rouses our innate capacity to sense novelty in the complexity of worlds around and within us. This encourages us to lean into, and learn from the unfamiliar comfort of not-knowing, enhancing our Anticipatory Agility"
— Alex Lambie, Artist & Deep-Listening
“It was life transforming. I fully took on the learning and felt some realisations shift in me about both my capabilities as a leader and as a human being.”
“A thoroughly enjoyable, get-away-from-the-rat-race, re-connect with nature, and redefining experience that has shifted the way I view the world”
“An amazing dive into FL. I discovered new ways to change mindset, practice the capability to be with uncertainty and to be more deeply in contact with myself and nature”

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