Your life, wellbeing and work invite your field of inquiry.
What is an Open Leadership Residency?
A Residency is a sustained exploration of something that matters to you.
It begins with something alive in your life.
A question you are living with. A threshold you are crossing. Something in your work, leadership or creative life asking to be explored. An aspect of yourself or your life you want to understand and inhabit more fully.
Rather than stepping outside your life to work on it, your life becomes the place in which the inquiry unfolds.
You notice. Experiment. Question. Try things. Pay attention to what changes. Follow what becomes interesting.
And you are supported as you do.
A Residency combines your own lived inquiry with contained private mentorship, participation in the Living Inquiry Circle and the ongoing practices of The Practice Space.
It gives you a trusted place to bring what you are encountering, explore in relationship what wants to become visible, and deepen what becomes available to you.
There is no predetermined outcome.
The purpose is not to take you through a programme or turn you into someone you are not.
It is to create the conditions for you to explore deeply, reconnect with more of what is already within you, and discover what becomes possible as you live the inquiry.
What Might You Explore?
The inquiry is particular to you.
It might be a question about how you are living or who you are becoming.
A threshold or transition that is asking something new of you.
An aspect of your leadership or work that you want to explore through practice rather than theory.
A project or possibility you are bringing into being.
A creative inquiry that wants space, attention and expression.
Or something you can sense but cannot yet fully name.
You don't need to know where the inquiry will lead before you begin.
Part of the Residency is discovering the question more deeply — noticing what it opens, what it asks of you, and what becomes possible as you live with it.
Different inquiries take different forms
A Residency might take the form of a Practice Residency, Leadership Residency or Creative Residency.
These aren't fixed programmes or predetermined tracks.
The form follows the inquiry.
How a Residency Works
Your Residency takes shape around the inquiry at its centre.
You live it through the particular circumstances of your life, wellbeing, work or creative practice — noticing, experimenting and following what emerges.
Around that inquiry are different forms of support and relationship.
Private Mentorship
You have dedicated 1:1 time with me to explore what you are encountering. Together we deepen what is becoming visible and create as it unfolds.
This contained support is shaped around your inquiry.
The frequency and form vary according to the nature of the Residency. Some inquiries benefit from regular conversations. Others need more spacious intervals or periods of deeper immersion.
The Living Inquiry Circle
Your inquiry is also held within a wider field of exploration.
Through the Living Inquiry Circle, you encounter questions, perspectives and lived experiences beyond your own — some of which may illuminate or expand your Residency in ways neither of us could anticipate.
What you are discovering may, in turn, contribute to the inquiry of others.
Your Residency remains yours. The Circle expands what you have available to explore it with.
The Practice Space
The Practice Space supports your capacity to live the inquiry.
Short trainings, practices and explorations help you strengthen your access to yourself — so that what you are discovering can become something you increasingly embody in the circumstances of your actual life.
The Residency doesn't happen in these spaces. It happens in your life.
Each space supports a different dimension of the inquiry you are living.
What Might Become Possible?
Sometimes expansion isn't about adding something new. It's about discovering what is getting in the way of what is already there.
You may begin a Residency with something you want to understand, create, change or explore.
As you live in the inquiry, you may begin to discover what sits beneath your first question.
An assumption you hadn't questioned.
A familiar pattern you hadn't noticed.
Something you have been protecting or holding onto.
A way of seeing that once served you but now limits what you can imagine.
Or simply something that has become obscured beneath the demands and noise of everyday life.
Inquiry can illuminate what is getting in the way of your access to yourself, to others, to your ideas, your wellbeing and your potential.
Not so that you can fix what is wrong.
But so that you can meet what is there — and discover what becomes available when your relationship with it changes.
Some things only become visible through sustained attention.
When you stay in relationship with an inquiry over time, you can move beyond your first understanding of it.
You may notice patterns you couldn't see at the beginning.
Something you once understood intellectually may become something you know more profoundly through experience.
An experiment may change what you thought was possible.
The question itself may deepen, change or give way to another.
You may find yourself living from something that has always been present but previously unavailable.
You don't simply learn about the inquiry. You are shaped through living it.
Because the inquiry is lived within the circumstances of your actual life, what you discover doesn't need to be taken away and applied later.
It is already seeded into how you live.
Is a Residency for You?
A Residency may be for you if there is something in your life asking for sustained attention.
Perhaps you are at a threshold and want to explore what is emerging rather than rush towards an answer.
You may have a question about your life, wellbeing, leadership or work that you want to understand more deeply.
There may be something you want to create, change or bring into being.
Or you may simply sense that something is asking for your attention — even if you cannot yet fully name it.
You are willing to be curious.
To experiment.
To notice what your experience reveals.
To allow the inquiry to change as you change within it.
And to participate — bringing what you are discovering into relationship with others as well as exploring it privately.
You don't need to know where the inquiry will lead.
You need something that matters enough to live with for a while.
Creating a Residency
Every Residency is created through conversation.
There is no standard format because the form follows the inquiry.
Together, we explore what is alive for you, the inquiry that may be emerging, and what kind of support would serve it best.
Residencies usually begin with a three-month season.
Your Residency includes participation in the Living Inquiry Circle, access to The Practice Space, and a bespoke amount of private 1:1 mentorship shaped around your inquiry. Where the inquiry calls for it, we may also create longer or more immersive experiences together.
A small number of Residencies are created at any one time so that each can be held with the attention it requires.
Investment is bespoke and reflects the nature of the Residency and the support it involves.
If something you have read here has brought an inquiry of your own to mind, you're invited to begin with a conversation.