Gain practical frameworks to understand the nature of change, expand your leadership stance, and guide teams and organizations with confidence in times of uncertainty
A training for leaders ready to navigate complexity with clarity and impact
Stance Matters
Dubai 25
November 25/26/27, 2025
During the training you will:
  • Master the 8 principles of human emergence to expand your leadership capacity
  • Strengthen your ability to make decisions under uncertainty
  • Recognize and align with multiple value systems in your teams and stakeholders
  • Diagnose hidden cultural challenges that slow down transformation
  • Practice systemic reframing to unlock innovative strategies
  • Lead with greater clarity of mind, purpose, and action
The program is grounded in over 20 years of adult development research (Clare W. Graves), the Spiral Dynamics model, and Christopher Cooke’s international practice in leadership development.
You will learn how to reframe your leadership stance, recognize systemic patterns in people and organizations, and work with the predictable dynamics of change.
How does this work?
in Dubai
In-person
3 days transformative training
designed to unlock latent holistic potential, grounded in Spiral Dynamics Integral and the Human Emergence Framework
«Stance Matters»
with Christopher Cooke
29 hrs basic Theory *ICF - rd29, CC3
A 1-day training
designed to expand your mindset, engage in meaningful dialogue, and discover tools for leading through complexity
«From Success
Towards Significance»
November 25/26/27, 2025
November 24, 2025
Who This program For
If you are growing a business in a turbulent environment, facing growth crises, and looking for systemic solutions for sustainable development
Entrepreneurs
If you are responsible for hiring, development and engagement, shaping organizational culture, and reducing resistance to change
HR Professionals & Culture Builders
If you are guiding a team or organization through high uncertainty and need to expand your leadership capacity
Leaders
Shift not only your actions but the very position of thinking (stance) from which you make decisions
Expansion of leadership stance
Understand different motivations within teams and cultures, reducing hidden conflicts and resistance
Capacity to work with value systems
You will gain
Uncover hidden blockages and design conditions for transformation instead of simply reacting to crises
Diagnosis of cultural challenges
See patterns and understand the likely next steps in the development of teams or organizations
Predictive understanding of change dynamics
Rely on principles and systemic thinking rather than just rules and regulations
Decision-making under uncertainty
Recognize fundamental patterns of change and act effectively not only in simple but also in messy, ambiguous situations
Ability to manage complexity
In-person experience in Dubai
Events Program and Timeline
  • Tools for regeneration across ecological, cultural, social, and personal systems
  • Preparing for accelerated learning and long-term resilience
Session 4
Exploring Application
  • Using integrally-informed methods to explore
and reframe key personal or professional questions
Session 3
Your Big Question, Unplugged
  • What is meta theory – and why does it matter?
  • Practical models and tools for next-level discernment
Session 2
A New Era of Meta Theory and Tools
  • Where are we now – and what do we truly need?
  • Rethinking material success
  • How our perception of “truth” is evolving
  • Exploring scenarios for the next 300 years
Session 1
What About the Future?
«From Success Towards Significance»
1-day intensive immersion into personal and systemic transformation through powerful tools like Spiral Dynamics Integral, Integral Psychology, and the Human Emergence methodology
This workshop was created for leaders and managers in response to the question: “What models of thinking and approaches can help us deal with the increasing complexity of problems in management, business, and society?”
  • Exclusive book signing ceremony with Christopher Cooke
  • Gala Dinner in the Heart of Dubai
  • Professional Photo Session
  • High-impact networking opportunities
  • Group size limited for deep engagement
Programme of the day
16:45 - 21:30 curated evening of elegance and connection
Dubai
VIP Day
November 24, 2025
Gala Dinner in the Heart
+
of Dubai
  • information
  • manual
  • workbook
  • handouts
  • labyrinth instructions and slides
  • worldview carousel charts
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  • Change Theory
  • Introduction to Application
  • Integration
Day 3
Exploring the Waves of Human Emergence Beige through Turquoise – Part 3
  • Survival Sense
  • Tribal Bond
  • Impulse Power
  • Truth Force
  • Strive Drive
  • Human Equity
  • Holistic Flow
  • Integral Being
Day 2
Exploring the Waves of Human Emergence Beige through Turquoise – Part 2
  • Overview
  • Context
  • Experiential Familiarisation
  • Lineage and Concepts
  • Terminology
  • Principles
Day 1
Exploring the Waves of Human Emergence Beige through Turquoise – Part 1
«Stance Matters»
A 3-day training with real tools to navigate uncertainty and lead with clarity of mind, purpose, and action
This program is for those who have explored many approaches to leadership and growth – yet still find themselves asking deeper questions. In Stance Matters, you will learn to shift your own leadership stance, navigate multi-value cultures, and rewire decision-making patterns to align with the complexity of our times.
  • The Architecture of Human Emergence
  • Practical frameworks for navigating complexity and aligning organizational evolution
  • Hands-on learning: shifting leadership stance, recognizing systemic patterns, diagnosing cultural challenges
  • Certificate and reflection-based integration
  • Group size limited for deep engagement
10:00-18:45 each day
Dubai
29 hrs basic Theory *ICF - rd29, CC3
November
25/26/27, 2025
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As part of the program, one of the training days will include a guided visit to the Museum of the Future in Dubai. This immersive experience offers a unique opportunity to step into visionary concepts of tomorrow
Special Session
Visit to the Museum of the Future
Meet Your Guide
is your mentor on this journey
Christopher Cooke
Christopher is now leading 5 Deep as a dedicated innovation incubator with a specific focus on Expanding Human Awareness through the use of :
  1. Integral Theory Education and Practice and the 5 Deep approach known as Full Spectrum Emergence
  2. Personal, Cultural and Social Outcome verification
  3. Integral Leadership Mentoring for leaders who know something needs to change but are not sure what
MSc. BA, INLPTA, Fellow – RSA
Fellow-ISSE
Member Schumacher Institute
«Offering nuance, finesse and fulfilment to those who intuit that something needs to change but are not sure what as we learn how to upstretch beyond success and swell into significance.»
  • Engineer / Senior Manager
  • Water engineer and senior manager
  • Expert coach, mentor, trainer and facilitator
  • Advises on and delivers advanced training for the owners and trainers
  • Brings a wealth of broad and specialised experience and expertise in his support for New Foundation Farms
  • Savory Network Hub Leader
  • Non-executive Director for New Foundation Farms and a Director of Potentialisation Limited
  • Erickson Partner
  • Spiral Dynamics
  • Integral Theory
  • Systemic design
Known for making complexity clear, practical, and deeply human
30+ years of global experience in:
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