Emerge Ukraine Pilgrimage
1-7 October 2023
Join us on a Journey to
the Future's
Frontier
Join the Emerge for Ukraine Fundraiser on June 16th @ Location
Join us on a Pilgrimage to the Future's Frontier
Ukraine's New Thinking School in association with Emerge invite you to come on a pilgrimage through Ukraine to explore and imagine the world that's emerging in and beyond Ukraine.
Not just the future of Ukraine, but of a world system that is transforming itself fastest at its edges. Ukraine is that edge - the site of large-scale societal resilience, networking and adaptation.
What is emerging here holds valuable lessons for a world in transition.
Support Ukraine,
learn from Ukrainians
The Fundraiser ‘An Explosion of Trust” is a day of conversation, reflections, poetry, making connections and brainstorming ideas. And of course, you’ll hear from Ukrainians who are affected by the war and are involved in defending and imagining the future of their country and its open society.
Our partners
This six-day pilgrimage asks for courage, dedication and heart. It will be a journey of learning and transformation. It will take you to places shaped by deep history and the current war, while exploring the new world that is emerging in areas as education, security, democracy, religion and spirituality.
You’ll travel in the company of many others who are rethinking, leading and breaking through challenges to shape this future, in Ukraine and beyond.
Our journey begins on October 1st in the beautiful city of Lviv, close to the Polish border, where we will stay for two days. After that we will journey deeper into the heart of Ukraine by train and spend two more days in Kyiv where we’ll conclude our pilgrimage on October 7th.
We’re calling it a pilgrimage for a reason - whoever completes the journey will not be the same as the one who begins it.
We invite you to join us.
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Speakers
Sunday 1st
Travel to Lviv
Kyiv day 1
Kyiv day 3 / Travel Home
Travel to Kyiv
Kyiv Day 2
Monday 2nd
Wednesday 4th
Thursday 5th
Friday 6th
Saturday 7th
Tuesday 3rd
Lviv day 2
Lviv day 1
Detailed schedule coming soon
Organising Team
Kateryna Yasko 🇺🇦
Kateryna is an organizational psychologist, a trainer for the development of emotional intelligence, trust, cooperation, effective communication, and peaceful conflict resolution, and co-founder of the consulting company U-Integral.
Lilya Luts 🇺🇦
Lilya is Co-founder of the New Thinking School (Ukraine) an Organizational consultant, Professional Certified Coach (PCC ICF), NLP Master and a coach in the methodology of diagnostics of leadership maturity (Leadership Development Framework).
Ivo Mensch
Ivo works to strengthen the praxis strand of Perspectiva and the Emerge community. He designs practices and courses as a means to skilfully navigate larger arcs of cultural transition, shifts in consciousness and whatever the meta-crisis throws at us.
Jonathan Rowson
Jonathan is co-founder and Director of Perspectiva. He was previously Director of the Social Brain Centre at the RSA where he authored a range of influential research reports on behaviour change, climate change and spirituality.
Valerii Pekar 🇺🇦
Valerii Pekar is an entrepreneur, lecturer at business schools and schools of public management, author of 4 books, co-organizer of the Ukrainian Integral Gathering and the School of New Thinking.
Vytautas Buciunas
Vytautas is an Integral Master Coach, business trainer, author and facilitator of leadership and organizational development programs, professional board member. Vytautas explores the development of human consciousness and complex social systems from a holistic perspective. He considers the growth of a critical mass of mature leaders with systemic thinking and transformational capabilities to be the key to the healthy development of society.
Yaroslav Yakovenko
Yaroslav is an entrepreneur and a business consultant with key expertise in financial management and organisational development. He is a co-founder of the New Thinking School of Ukraine. Yaroslav is also a co-organizer of the Ukrainian Integral Gathering.
Emerge in Ukraine
The Autumn of 2019 saw our second Emerge Gathering, held in Kyiv. The decision to go there followed developments after the 2014 revolution; the emergence of a vibrant civil society in Ukraine, and in support of democratic norms and their incipient Bildung movement.
Emerge is historically and socially tied to the fate of the Ukrainian people. Since the early days of the war, we have kept weekly online meetings with Ukrainians and our extended networks. This pilgrimage is a chance for the network to deepen its ties to each other and learn lessons that are relevant to a future we all share.
Emerge Founder Tomas Bjorkman with members of the Bildung movement in Kyiv, 2019
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