Emergent Leadership — Pacific Integral

9-Week Online Program

What if the next evolution of your leadership isn't about doing more, but about being differently?

Perhaps you have sensed it—beneath the complexity and rapid change surrounding us lies a different way of being and leading. Not through more tools or techniques, but through accessing a deeper ground within yourself.


You know that conventional leadership approaches are limited in the face of today's challenges. Whether you support clients, build community, guide a team, or simply aspire to make a difference where you are, the gap between what our world needs and what you feel able to impact continues to widen. As you navigate today's polarization and fragmentation, the tools and perspectives that have brought you to this moment are beginning to show their limitations.

If you've reached this point, simply adding more skills to your repertoire won't meet the demands of the moment. What's needed now is a deeper shift—learning to access and trust something that's already within you.

Your embodied presence is a catalyst for meaningful change

For us, leadership isn't about position or authority—it's about how we all show up in any situation where change is needed. It's about your capacity to be present, responsive, and generative in a world that desperately needs new ways of relating and creating together.

Emergent Leadership is a 9-week journey into becoming the kind of leader who naturally creates conditions for emergence—where new possibilities arise not from forcing outcomes, but from a transformed relationship with yourself, others, and the complexity we face.


Since 2004, Pacific Integral has guided leaders through territories where conventional approaches rarely venture—integrating awakened awareness, embodied presence, and the capacity to engage with systems from a place of wholeness.

Transform how you show up

When you engage and lead from this deeper ground:


  • You remain present and responsive amid intensity and uncertainty

  • You intuitively sense what's trying to emerge in complex situations

  • You bridge divides and navigate differences with genuine curiosity

  • You naturally foster collective intelligence in groups and teams

  • Your authentic gifts express more fully with less efforting

  • You navigate conflict with more spaciousness

  • You access joy and creativity as renewable resources for sustainable action


These capacities aren't techniques to master but natural expressions of your awakened wholeness.

The journey we'll take together

Emergent Leadership unfolds over 9 weeks, creating a container for transformation through weekly online sessions, guided practices, and a supportive community. The journey follows the natural arc of emergence. 


May 13 – July 8, 2025

Tuesdays 10:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT

  • Tuesday, May 13th
    10:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT


    Discover the ground of awareness where change naturally emerges and how this presence creates a foundation for meeting our complex world differently.

  • Tuesday, May 20th
    10:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT

    Transform how you show up in relationship through embodied presence. Develop the capacity to remain connected across differences and polarities without collapsing into false unity or hardening into separation.

  • Tuesday, May 27th
    10:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT

    Free yourself from single viewpoints that constrain your leadership. Learn to hold multiple perspectives simultaneously, creating bridges of understanding where others see only division.

  • Tuesday, June 3rd
    10:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT

    A dedicated space to reflect on insights, deepen your practice, and connect with your small group. These sessions allow for integration of your learning through facilitated discussion and collaborative exploration.

  • Tuesday, June 10th
    10:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT

    Live from deeper care while taking responsible action in complex systems. Develop the ability to respond to our collective challenges with both compassion and clarity.

  • Tuesday, June 17th
    10:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT

    Work with what remains unconscious in yourself and systems. Discover how embracing what's been excluded—in ourselves and our organizations—opens new possibilities for wholeness.

  • Tuesday, June 24th
    10:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT

    Experience leadership that emerges from collective intelligence. Learn to foster coherence that doesn't require agreement, where diverse perspectives become resources rather than obstacles.

  • Tuesday, July 1st
    10:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT

    A dedicated space to reflect on insights, deepen your practice, and connect with your small group. These sessions allow for integration of your learning through facilitated discussion and collaborative exploration.

  • Tuesday, July 8th
    10:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT

    Discover how pleasure and play catalyze sustainable emergence and provide renewable energy for meeting our complex world.

How it Works

This isn't a passive learning experience—it's a lived inquiry that invites your full participation. The program includes:

Key Elements

  • Live Practice Sessions: Weekly 2-hour calls where we engage in experiential practices, reflection, and coaching under the guidance of our core faculty. These sessions create a field where transformation happens in real time.

  • Learning Content: Weekly videos introducing key concepts and perspectives that inform each week's practice, allowing you to absorb ideas at your own pace before our live sessions.

  • Practice Guides: Recorded practices and written guides supporting your ongoing application between sessions, helping you integrate insights into daily life.

  • Practice Groups: A consistent small group throughout the program, creating a container of trust where you can practice with greater vulnerability and receive personalized feedback.

  • Real-world Application: Throughout the program, you'll apply what you're learning to 1-2 areas of your life or work that matters most to you, ensuring the learning translates to tangible impact.

  • Online Community: An online space where faculty and participants can continue discussions, share reflections, and support each other between sessions.

How To Join

Tuition for Emergent Leadership is $1,450 USD for early bird registration (through May 2nd) and $1,950 USD after that date. If you'd like to participate but find that cost is a barrier, please submit a scholarship application.

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Commitment

This program is an intimate, experiential journey that requires your presence. We ask that you commit to attending most sessions. While our live sessions will be recorded and missing one or two sessions is workable, the power of this work emerges through direct participation in our field of inquiry together.

 

Core Faculty

Abigail Lynam PhD

Abigail is faculty for Fielding University’s PhD program in Human and Organizational Development and for Pacific Integral’s Generating Transformative Change leadership development program in Seattle and Ethiopia. Abigail’s scholarship and practice integrates the interior dimensions of human knowledge and experience (culture, worldviews, adult developmental psychology, wisdom traditions, etc.) with adult learning, leadership development, and social and ecological change work. Abigail is a skilled facilitator, developmental scorer, debriefer, and coach, teacher of awareness, shadow, and embodiment practices, and facilitator of Work that Reconnects.

 

Geoff Fitch MA

Geoff is a founding partner of Pacific Integral. Geoff is a coach, trainer, and facilitator of transformative growth in individuals and organizations. He has been studying and practicing diverse approaches to cultivating higher human potentials for twenty years, He also has twenty years experience in leadership in business.

 

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

  • This program is for anyone who is interested in the leading edge of transformative change. It is also for those who have engaged in their own personal growth and are interested in how deeper, transpersonal perspectives can be more fully embodied in self, community and work in the world. We also suggest this program as an excellent introduction to the work of the Generating Transformative Change program. If you are considering GTC, Emergent Leadership is an excellent place to start.

  • If you shy from the word, ‘leadership’, don’t let that stop you from attending. While we often use the word, 'leadership' to describe our programs, doing so is not without its limitations. Leadership is a word that means different things to different people and can touch on personal experiences that are not always positive. We invite you to consider your own desire to make a difference and to express yourself as an impulse towards a greater world manifest through actions great or small. If you shy from the word, ‘leadership’, don’t let that stop you from attending.

  • This program is an intimate, experiential journey that requires your presence. We ask that you commit to attending most sessions. While our live sessions will be recorded and missing one or two sessions is workable, the power of this work emerges through direct participation in our field of inquiry together.

  • This is designed to support both people who are new to working with awareness practices and also to support a greater depth, embodiment, and presence for those already familiar with what awakened wholeness points to. If you have questions about whether this program is a fit for you, don’t hesitate to be in touch by email us at hello@pacificintegral.com.

  • Emergent Leadership is an excellent introduction to GTC. The GTC program goes into much more depth in a more intimate, longer term setting and expands on the material introduced in Emergent Leadership.

  • Emergent Leadership is a great opportunity to revisit and deepen what you learned in GTC and reconnect with the field of presence, practice, and community. GTC grads who participated spoke of deepening and integrating their learning, and delighting sharing the practices with a global community.

Questions?

If you have questions, don’t hesitate to email us at hello@pacificintegral.com. We are happy to hear from you.