Program

As a new resident, your journey will start with the 12 weeks Foundational Program designed to take a few hours a week alongside your normal work. If you join in 2025 you will play an instrumental part in shaping this program. It is highly participatory and immersive, and is co-created with organisations such as the Ekskäret Foundation, Emerge, Perspectiva and The Inner Development Goals. 

After, or in parallel with, the Foundation Program, you can choose to participate in additional programs and tracks offered by the Emerge Institute. The cost of the Foundation Program is included in the monthly community fee, while additional programs are available at a discounted rate.

The Goal of The Foundation Program

• Give a wider perspective and understanding of the systemic challenges of our time
• Explore how we can be of even better service and increase our impact in our fields
• Enable everyone to better see why inner development is a key for human and planetary flourishing
• Create a fundamental level of embodied wisdom and practices of the dimensions of inner development
• The program also serves as a training and an onboarding into a mature and personally developing way of community living

During the Foundation Program residents will go through a mostly peer-facilitated curriculum together with their cohort of 10-20 people. The first week of the program will be an immersive introductory experience where the entire cohort will go out to the private island of Ekskäret outside Stockholm. 

After this, there will be five modules each lasting for two weeks, requiring a time commitment of 2-3h/week, on every Sunday. Each module follows the rhythm of starting with a full cohort transmission, transcends into a peer-facilitated process in pods of 4 people (this will also be your sharing group and will stay the same throughout the program), and closes with a full cohort sense-making and sharing of the experience and learnings.

The program is inspired by the skills and five dimensions highlighted in the Inner Development Goals: Being, Thinking, Relating, Collaborating, and Acting. Themes and topics explored in the modules include worldview and technology, nonviolent communication, self-leadership, philosophical foundations, compassionate leadership, and more.

After the initial 12-week Foundation Program, residents can stay for up to three years and engage in additional programs, thematic tracks, and offerings. They will also be invited to contribute to the creation of new programs within their own fields of expertise.

"The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination."

— John Schaar

Visit:
Emerge Lakefront 
Herbert Widmans väg 5A
Stockholm
Sweden

Contact:
hello@emergelakefront.org