About Lakefront

A new way to live, grow & thrive

Emerge Lakefront is an intentional community of up to 70 people, living beside a lake twenty minutes from central Stockholm. Residents come from many different fields and walks of life. What they share is an orientation — a sense that inner development and outer contribution belong together, and that the company you keep shapes the work you do.

Emerge Institute operates on the same premises, offering programmes and events open to residents and the wider public. The community and the Institute are distinct but feed each other. Ideas move from the seminar room to the dinner table, and back again.

We live in a time between worlds. This is a good place to live through it.

Our Purpose

To bring together people who take the world seriously — and give them a beautiful place to live, a genuine community, and the intellectual life to go deeper into the work that matters to them.

The Reality We Face

The systems, stories, and ways of living that shaped the modern world are losing their grip. Climate, governance, culture, meaning — the challenges are real and they are connected. They will not be solved by better tools alone. They require a different quality of human being: more honest, more grounded, more capable of holding complexity without collapsing into either despair or false optimism.

Lakefront exists for people who understand this — and who want to live, think, and work alongside others who do too.

Our Approach

Emerge Institute, based on the Lakefront premises, offers structured programmes in inner development, systems thinking, and conscious leadership. The Ten-Week Introduction Programme is the foundation — open to residents and to participants from outside the community.

Beyond the formal programme, life at Lakefront is itself a form of learning. Shared meals, spontaneous conversations, visiting thinkers, and the slow work of building genuine community — these are not incidental to the offer. They are the offer.

Our Commitment

We are building something modest by some measures and ambitious by others: a real community, in a real place, with real people doing real work. We are not promising transformation. We are creating conditions in which transformation becomes more likely — for those who want it and are willing to show up for it.

That means curating the community with care, maintaining the quality of the intellectual and programmatic life on the premises, and holding the place with seriousness and warmth in equal measure.

How We Do It

Life at Lakefront is shaped by four things working together: the place itself, the community of residents, the programmes and events of Emerge Institute, and the wider ecosystem the community is embedded in. None of these works without the others.

New residents are invited to join the Ten-Week Introduction Programme. Beyond that, engagement is voluntary — but the culture makes it easy to go deep, and hard to remain on the surface for long.

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

There are currently around 40 residents at Lakefront. We are growing toward 70. If you are looking for a home where the people around you take both their work and their inner life seriously — this is a good moment to get in touch.

The lake is real. The community is real. The conversations are the kind that are hard to find elsewhere. Come and have a look.