Collaboration across Roles and Settings

This retreat offers a transformative space for board members and leaders to step into a new mode of leadership - one grounded in convening rather than commanding.

Using systems convening as an approach to leadership, participants will explore how to build and sustain social learning spaces that foster trust, transparency and collaboration across boundaries. You’ll engage in deep dialogue, real-world case clinics and hands-on practices designed to build leadership capacities rooted in social learning and value creation.

This is not about adding more to your plate, it’s about doing the work differently, together.

What Is Systems Convening?

Systems Convening is a leadership practice that intentionally brings together diverse stakeholders across roles, sectors and levels to address complex challenges. It creates purposeful social learning spaces where collective dialogue, shared ownership and co-creation drive sustainable, system-wide change beyond traditional silos. It's a mindset and practical approach for leading by fostering connections and collective learning and action.

What You’ll Experience:

Over three days of immersive sessions, reflective dialogue and collaborative learning, you will:

• Explore the mindset and practices of systems convening as a leadership strategy
• Learn how to create value through stakeholder engagement, not just oversight
• Engage in real-world case clinics, Fishbowl dialogues and storytelling exercises
• Design a value creation agenda that brings systems convening into your organisation
• Develop a practical action plan to build and sustain social learning spaces

This retreat is designed to be strategic, experiential and deeply reflective.

Who Is This For:

This retreat is designed for:

• Board members and trustees
• Senior and mid-level leaders committed to collaborative leadership
• Change agents, conveners and team leads across sectors
• Leaders in education, healthcare, tech, public service and mission-driven networks

You’ll find this valuable if you want to:

• Lead by building authentic, cross-functional partnerships
• Create social learning spaces that generate real value
• Shift from hierarchical control to collaborative influence
• Support systems-level change with practical tools and reflective insight

Key Outcomes:

You will leave with:

• A clear understanding of systems convening and its leadership potential
• A working value creation agenda tailored to your context
• An actionable plan to convene and sustain learning spaces across boundaries
• Real examples and tools to communicate the value of this work to your board or leadership
• Access to a peer learning network and optional post-retreat coaching

Special guests: to be announced

Agenda (09:00-20:00 all days)

Day 1: August 26 (late afternoon programme and dinner included)

Day 2: August 27 (late afternoon programme and dinner included)

Day 3: August 28 (late afternoon programme and dinner included)

Location

Located in the coastal town of Helsingør, just across the Øresund from Sweden, Konventum offers a unique blend of natural beauty, modern design and historic significance. Ferries run every 20 minutes to nearby Helsingborg in Sweden, perfect for a cross-border dinner during the retreat.

Travel & Lodging

On-site lodging is available at Konventum and nearby Hotel Højstrupgaard, just a 2-minute walk from the Forest House, where I will host this workshop. The venue is 50 minutes from Copenhagen Airport by car or train and easily reachable from central Copenhagen.

What’s included

3 days of immersive retreat content and facilitation;

All retreat materials and resources;

Daily refreshments, breakfasts, lunches and dinners;

Networking opportunities with peers and facilitators.

What’s not included

Travel to and from Helsingør;

Accommodation

Discounts

Group discounts may be available upon request. Please contact [email protected] for more details.

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Space is limited to ensure a comfortable and impactful learning experience. Secure your spot today!

For any inquiries, please contact [email protected].

🔥 Online Fire Circle — Start Before the Retreat

When you secure your place at one of my 2026 retreats, you immediately join a private online fire circle.

Every two weeks, participants across all four retreats come together to:
• Reflect on leadership and humanity in uncertain times
• Work on real challenges in communities of practice and social learning
• Practice sustaining human learning agency, even in tough circumstances

By the time we meet in person, participants have already built the skills, relationships, and reflective habits that make the retreat experience deeper and more actionable.

Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.

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