The Coherence Lab
Most rooms like this choose one side. A leadership programme builds capability and leaves you to decide what it’s for. A salon asks what things are for and builds nothing.
I’ve spent time in both. I think the separation is the problem.
You can’t decide what greater capability is for entirely in advance, because the answer changes as you become more capable.
More becomes available to you. You see differently. What matters may change with it. So the two get built together, in the same room, in the body rather than in conversation about the body.
Who it’s for
People who can cause things to happen and have started asking what for.
Some have sold something and found that winning stopped telling them what to do next. Some are still running what they built. Some are scientists, allocate capital, or build institutions.
What they share isn’t wealth. It’s agency, means, and a real seriousness about flourishing rather than performance.
If what you want is a peer group, there are good ones in the Valley. I’ll point you to them.
How it works
It starts with two people and grows from there. No cohort, no intake date, no application. The first few people will set what the room becomes.
We work on the instrument and the aim at the same time. Most of that work is embodied rather than conversational.
I’ve spent thirty years developing this work, and I’ll bring everything I have. But nobody stands at the front. A room where one man has the answers is a worse room, and it isn’t one I want to be in either.
Part of what happens here is that each person ends up with their own version of the system I’ve been building. It isn’t finished. The people in this room are the ones who will shape what it becomes, which is the honest reason to be early rather than a reason to wait.
What to expect
I’m not going to tell you what a night looks like, because I don’t know yet and I’d rather not invent it. The shape gets decided with the first people, according to what the room actually needs. That’s the point of coming in early.
What I can tell you:
- It’s at my house, and it’s small.
- You don’t prepare anything or arrive with something to say.
- Nothing is recorded.
- You can leave. Nothing here requires you to stay in something that isn’t working for you.
Where
A room in my house in Troon Ridge, north Scottsdale.
Not a hired room. That’s deliberate. This is small, private work, and I want the room to belong to it.
How you get in
You don’t apply. It comes up in the work.
If we’re already working together and I think you belong in the room, I’ll ask. It’s an invitation, not a next step in working with me.
Why I’m doing it
You should know what I’m working toward, because it’s part of why this room exists.
With Prasanta Pal, I’m working on something we call the Age of Coherence: the possibility of a period in which more of what organises living systems can be seen and measured, and we get better at building with it rather than against it.
You don’t need to share that project. But I’d rather tell you why I’m here than pretend the Lab has no larger aim. And I don’t think that aim gets worked out by one person.