About Lakefront

A new way to live, grow & thrive

Lakefront is more than a place to live—it is a dynamic hub and developmental community where aspiring changemakers converge to co-create a regenerative future. Designed as a living laboratory, it brings together innovators, activists, and creatives committed to systemic transformation. By bridging disciplines and fostering collaboration, we aim to drive meaningful impact and tangible change.

Lakefront is not just a place - it’s a growing pulse in a global network of emergence. A space to regenerate, co-create, and make the long now come alive.

We are not after utopia, but conscious participation in emergence - a conscious participation in history’s next move.

Our Purpose

We exist to amplify global impact and catalyze systemic change by equipping individuals with the skills, environment, and community needed to navigate complexity and build a thriving future.

The Reality We Face

Humanity is in the midst of a meta-crisis, facing existential threats to life on Earth. Yet, we believe that new systems and civilizations can emerge—transforming our trajectory from destruction to harmony, within planetary boundaries and for the well-being of humans, animals, and nature alike. Even in the face of immense challenges, we choose to build towards this transformation.

Our Approach: From Inner Development to Systemic Impact

At Lakefront, we cultivate the deep human skills necessary for navigating complexity: critical thinking, sense-making, long-term visioning, and collaborative leadership. Our community fosters intercultural dialogue, trust, and courage—empowering individuals to move beyond personal growth into tangible societal change.

Rather than abstract aspirations, we focus on embedding concrete capabilities into real-world action. Our work is guided by five core areas:

• Regenerative Systems Thinking – Designing economic, political, and ecological models that sustain life and strengthen communities.
• Participatory and Deliberative Governance – Ensuring democratic decision-making structures that protect human agency.
• Interdisciplinary Collaboration – Bringing together diverse fields to solve urgent global challenges.
• Technology for the Common Good – Developing digital tools that enhance resilience and decentralization.
• Deep Human Capacities – Cultivating integrity, complexity awareness, empathy, and perseverance as foundational skills for leadership and change.

Our Commitment

To create a thriving ecosystem for changemakers, we:

• Invite visionary individuals from around the world.
• Provide world-class skills training, personal development, and leadership experiences.
• Offer a living testbed to prototype cutting-edge ideas for preferred future scenarios in an autonomous environment with 50 - 100 high-agency individuals.

How We Do It

We cultivate transformation through:

• A light foundational skills program for new residents.
• A residential community experience with carefully curated changemakers.
• An extended global network of selected leaders and pioneers.
• Inspirational lectures, seminars, and workshops.
• Peer-group sharing and radical collaborative learning. 

Our Evolution:
Learning from the Past, Building the Future

Rooted in the experience of convening changemakers at Emerge Gatherings in Berlin (2018, 2021), Kyiv (2019), and Austin (2022), and operating the intentional co-living space "K9" in Stockholm, Lakefront emerges from a long time of exploration into how communities can incubate transformation.

Our roots are deep: 17 years of pioneering through the Ekskäret Foundation ecosystem, birthing initiatives such as the Inner Development Goals (IDGs) framework, the think tank Perspectiva, the EMERGE gatherings and media platform, and the global inner growth platform AWARE/29k.

We are in active conversation and collaboration with a worldwide community of practitioners, innovators, and thought leaders in systems change, regenerative culture, inner development, and social entrepreneurship.

A call to action

Lakefront is not just a place - it’s a growing pulse in a global network of emergence. 

We invite those who are ready to go beyond isolated initiatives and engage in the hard work of restructuring systems from the inside out. By combining deep personal growth with actionable strategies, we move towards a future that is regenerative, life-centric, and just.

This is not about passive optimism - it is about building new realities, together.

"The world doesn’t change one person at a time. It changes as networks of relationships form among people who discover they share a common cause and a vision of what’s possible."

— Margaret Wheatley

Visit:
Emerge Lakefront 
Herbert Widmans väg 5A
Stockholm
Sweden

Contact:
hello@emergelakefront.org