Connecting Intelligence

Your culture shapes which solutions you can conceive of.

what this moment asks of us

  • Speed

    Things change every week. It is hard to keep up, and easy to feel overwhelmed, with little time to digest what just happened before the next thing arrives.

  • Uncertainty

    None of us knows exactly where this goes. Humans are wired to want answers. Living with this much ambiguity, for this long, is new for all of us.

  • Responsibility

    Choices made at the frontier affect millions of people. That weight is hard to hold alone.

  • Pressure

    There is intense competition and scrutiny, and underneath that, many feel existential fears and questions about what is being built.

Under this kind of pressure we go into survival mode. We stop listening to ourselves and each other. How does this environment impact the technology we are creating?

our approach

Presence Games

Kids know how to make games. They make them all the time. Adults have forgotten.

We help teams relearn how to make games together. It may well be the most fun your team has ever had.

Culture determines which problems are visible and which solutions are conceivable. With teams we build sandboxes for new cultures: group practices where participants design the constraints that let them feel safe and alive while facing hard problems.

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cultivating the conditions for safety and aliveness

  • Deeper ways of listening, connecting hearts, bodies and minds.

  • Experience states of emergence together.

  • Just have a lot of fun with your team.

This is not a one-time workshop. It's a meta-game: designing social architectures together.

A bottom-up approach to evolving social operating systems that fit the actual body-minds of teams and organisations.

ways to work with us

  • Workshops & events

    A few hours to a few days of Presence Games. Relax, move, play, connect, and leave with a reference experience of what working together can feel like.

    • offsites
    • team events
    • team building
    • research retreats
    • onboarding

  • Organisational development

    An ongoing process with a team or organisation: small, safe-to-fail updates to how you meet, decide and collaborate.

    • cultural iteration
    • meeting & decision design
    • culture experiments
    • team formation

  • Leadership & coaching

    Space to think clearly and stay grounded when the stakes are high.

    • leadership development
    • trainings
    • coaching
    • hard conversations

Start a conversation

What kind of games do you want to play?

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