We’ve combined our four decades of experience in group process, cultural change, and personal development with the growing knowledge from neuroscience, complexity science, and related disciplines, and distilled it all into two 4-week capacity-building programs for the essential capacities you need for navigating complexity and co-evolving the future.
Here’s why:
Today’s rapidly changing world keeps asking more of us than we’re prepared for.
We feel it in the big, obvious ways – climate crisis, political turbulence, institutional breakdown – yet also in immediate, daily ways:
- The conversation that, in hindsight, you sense could have been handled better if both of you weren’t so stressed.
- The relationship pattern that isn’t working but can’t seem to change.
- The complexity you’re trying to navigate with tools that were never designed for it.
- The group dynamics where the actuality is well below the aspiration.
You increasingly feel the mismatch between the territory you’re in and the capacities you have. And you see that mismatch in people all around you.
It’s not an individual failing. It’s a cultural gap.
The education we received, the workplace cultures we inhabit, the broader society we’re part of – they taught us a lot, but they left out important capacities. What we need to know now is how to:
- partner skillfully with our nervous systems for emotional resilience
- develop our capacity to think systemically, to hold complexity without collapsing it into separate categories
- build our skills for genuine collaboration, for navigating challenges toward outcomes that serve everyone involved as well as the larger whole
- develop our uniquely human capacities for creativity, intuition, discernment, somatic awareness, courage, and compassion – capacities that AI will never replace
In today’s world, these capacities aren’t optional. They’re foundational. And they’re learnable.
That’s what our Essential Capacities Programs are about.
Program 1: Expanding Personal and Collaborative Capabilities
May 28 – Jun 27
Focuses on upgrading your personal “operating system.” You will develop greater self-awareness, emotional agility, cognitive flexibility, and advanced collaborative skills. It helps you stay grounded in the face of complexity and uncertainty, relate across differences, and work in new ways that integrate value for yourself, others, and the whole. This program is open to everyone and is a prerequisite for the second program.
Program 2: Co-Evolving Whole-System Organizations and Cultures
Jul 12 – August 8
Builds on the Program 1 prerequisite and applies it to groups, organizations, and culture at any scale. You learn how to work with living systems, design healthier organizations, and support cultural evolution in real-world contexts.
Together, the programs help you:
- Bring your initiatives into the world with more clarity and momentum
- Build adaptive capacity in a rapidly changing world
- Understand your inner dynamics and stay resilient under pressure
- Work with others more effectively and with greater productivity
- Apply practical methodologies from within our Foundational Keys framework to support personal growth, enhance project and organizational development, and design better systems for responding to a world that’s grown beyond its capacity to cope
- Develop and adopt new “cultural DNA” patterns that make the old ways of business-as-usual obsolete
- Partner with AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT as thoughtful allies in your work
The programs are structured to be deep yet time-efficient:
- Weekly content, under 45 minutes to read
- Experiential activities that integrate into your daily life
- Two Zoom meetings per week: one small-group triad and one large-group session, available Thursdays and Saturdays at 10 am PT
- A private online community for connection, reflection, and project support
- Support from your AI assistant trained on the program material that you can use for your projects
Course Registration Rates:
For Program 1 only
- Individual – $325 ($375 after Apr 25)
- Supporting rate – $425 ($475 after Apr 25)
- Scholarship rate – email [email protected] for arrangements
For both Programs 1 and 2
- Individual– $600 ($700 after Apr 25)
- Supporting rate– $750 ($850 after Apr 25)
- Scholarship rate – email [email protected] for arrangements
Supporting rate registration contributes to the Scholarship Fund and helps us continue Context Institute’s commitment to geographic, age, and background diversity.
Scholarships are available. Contact us for more information.
You can spread the payments over as many as twelve months if that’s helpful.
There’s a full money-back guarantee for each program through the first week of that program. For example, if you’ve registered for both but then decide to drop Program 2, you’ll be refunded the difference between the combined rate and the Program 1 rate.
Click here to register
FAQs
- Will you be offering this series in the future? Yes, we plan on offering this multiple times throughout the year, although we don’t have dates yet. If you take only Program 1 now, you can take Program 2 in a later cycle.
- Where can I find out more about the background for these programs? Please look at Foundational Keys and Co-Evolving the CulturalOS, both on CI’s Substack site.
