For teams carrying more than they know how to put down.
Shadow Work for leadership teams, founders, and organisations in transition — bespoke, confidential, and delivered by senior certified practitioners.
Four settings we are usually called into.
The shape of the engagement varies. The room is the same.
Senior teams under load.
Off-site work with executive teams who are carrying more than is sustainable — usually because they have been carrying it alone. Two-day residentials, paced for adults with full diaries, with clear pre- and post-work.
Founders and their work.
One-to-one and small-cohort work with founders, investors, and senior partners. Common themes: the cost of armouring, the inheritance of a family business, what to do when the company is no longer the right shape for the life.
Reorganisations, mergers, exits.
Group work during a transition where the rest of the room is being shaped by lawyers and consultants. Helps people stay themselves through the change — and reduces the number of resignations that arrive six months after a deal closes.
Teams who hold others.
Annual retreats and supervision groups for therapists, coaches, hospice workers, midwives, and others who hold people professionally. The work is on what gets carried home.
Four working principles.
Confidential, by default.
What is said in the room is held in the room. We do not write reports, share quotes, or photograph the work. Where confidentiality is contractually relevant, we sign before we begin.
Voluntary, by design.
Mandated attendance does not survive a Shadow Work weekend. We work only with people who have chosen to be in the room — that is the ethical floor and also what makes the work possible.
Held by certified practitioners.
Every facilitator we send is a member of the Association in good standing — three residential trainings, a mentor, biannual re-certification, and a signed Code of Ethics.
Always co-facilitated.
Group work is delivered by at least two facilitators. In mixed-gender groups, one man and one woman. We do not run organisational groups solo.
Most engagements run through three movements.
- 01
Scoping conversation.
A two-hour call (or two short ones) with the sponsor — usually a CEO, founder, or head of people. We map the actual question the work needs to address, decide whether Shadow Work is the right modality, and propose a shape.
- 02
Pre-work with participants.
Each participant has a confidential intake call with one of the facilitators. This is where consent lives. By the time the residential starts, no one is meeting their facilitator for the first time.
- 03
The residential, plus aftercare.
Two or three days, off-site, in a small group. Aftercare is one short integration call per participant in the month that follows — and a final debrief with the sponsor at the right level of abstraction.
A conversation is the right first step.
Write to the Association with a short note about the situation and we will introduce you to the right two or three practitioners. There is no obligation in the call and we are happy to say when this work is not what is needed.
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