Emergence: A Land-Based Leadership Retreat
Reconnect. Reflect. Lead with Clarity.
Leadership on the Land
A transformative, nature-based leadership retreat that helps participants reconnect, reflect, and strengthen their capacity to lead with clarity and confidence.
We live in an era of extraordinary volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA). Climatic instability, technological acceleration, social transformation, and economic and political turbulence demand a fundamentally different kind of leadership - one grounded in ecological awareness, adaptive capacity, and deep personal clarity.
The question isn't whether the world is changing. It's whether we're developing the capacities to lead through it skillfully.
The Emergence Retreat Offers More Than Knowledge - It Offers Orientation
While most leadership development focuses on frameworks and techniques, this immersive retreat addresses something more fundamental: how we sense complexity, how we orient ourselves amid uncertainty, and how we lead with both courage and wisdom when the path forward is unclear.
Through a combination of land-based learning, Indigenous perspectives, and reflective practice, you will develop more sophisticated capacities for presence, discernment, and adaptive action. During this retreat, the land itself will be the primary teacher. Living systems offer profound lessons in adaptation, resilience, and working with complexity - lessons that translate directly to organizational leadership.
Alumni Early Bird Discount
Discounted Haskayne alumni pricing available until March 31, 2026 using discount code ALUMNI2026!
What You'll Develop:
Through powerful encounters with the land, Indigenous knowledge keepers, thought leaders, and contemplative practice, you'll develop:
- Enhanced capacity to navigate ambiguity with centeredness and clarity
- Ecological fluency that transforms how you understand systems, organizations, and change
- Deeper connection to your core values, purpose, and leadership calling
- Practical tools for staying grounded and effective under pressure
- Fresh perspectives on what sustainable, regenerative leadership actually requires
Who It's For:
Designed for High-Impact, Curious Leaders
This retreat is for leaders who:
- Recognize that conventional approaches are insufficient for today’s challenges
- Seek genuine transformation, not just incremental improvement
- Value experiential learning and personal reflection alongside rigorous thinking
- Are curious about Indigenous perspectives and ecological wisdom
- Lead or aspire to lead – organizations toward truly sustainable futures
If you are willing to slow down, reflect honestly, and engage fully with yourself, your environment, and a trusted peer group, this retreat is designed for you.
Who It’s Not For:
Leaders Unwilling to Question, Explore, or Evolve
This retreat is immersive and intentionally unconventional. It may not be the right fit if you:
- Prefer certainty, structure, and control at all times
- Are uncomfortable with experiential or land-based learning
- Seek certainty, speed, or prescriptive solutions only
- Find reflection, challenge, or introspection unnerving
- Are focused solely on execution without pause or perspective
- Expect a passive, observer-style experience
If your priority is efficiency, optimization, or execution-only outcomes, this may not be the right moment.
Program Highlights
When you lead from emergence rather than control, from presence rather than performance, something fundamentally different becomes possible. The Emergence Retreat is an invitation into that possibility.
Julian Norris, PhD
Associate Professor, Haskayne School of Business