Time and space to think and take stock. Learning and applying frameworks and practices in good company with others. Playing your part in the patterning of hope.

What can I expect?

You will be invited to bring a live change project and all associated challenges to the table. Whatever your focus, we will encourage you to hold the widest possible frame, exploring themes of transformation, adaptation, regeneration and collaboration.

Through a combination of facilitator input and highly interactive sessions, you will:

• Learn Three Horizons thinking and practices, including how to give equal voice to diverse individual contributions

• Build your own Three Horizons map

• Develop your narrative and story of change

• Learn practices for working constructively with the different voices of continuity and change, catalysing more generative relationships

• Distinguish between innovation that sustains the status quo or fosters transformation

• Turn insights into action, creating and reviewing next step plans as part of an iterative, experimental approach.

You will learn alongside others seeking to transform their own structures, products, mindsets, policies, processes, practices and/or cultures. We hope you will feel encouraged and supported by sharing experiences and insights, as part of a growing movement of people working to repattern our future.

To help develop your thinking, language and practices through time, we suggest you consider joining the programme with a colleague, someone directly engaged with the project alongside you, or a ‘thinking partner’ acting as a mentor or coach. We have a fee structure that we hope makes this accessible. Read on to find out more about our pricing and the programme structure.

What format will the programme take?

Ahead of the first workshop, we will invite you to join us for an informal conversation, to share more about your work, ask any questions you have and get ready for what lies ahead.

The main input on Three Horizons is offered during the first 3 weeks with 3 x 3 hour online workshops plus 2 x 1 hour optional Q&A sessions.

A monthly practise circle of 1 hour follows, for 11 months. This provides the opportunity for ongoing reflection, support and sharing across the group as you continue your work to pattern hope.

We suggest you intentionally allocate time during the initial 3 weeks of the programme to apply the tools and thinking of Three Horizons, with the colleague you are working with, or others in your community or organisation. Pre and post workshop tasks will be offered and we suggest you allocate around 3-4 hours per week for out-of-session work between workshops 1 and 2, and between workshops 2 and 3.

One-to-one coaching and/or shadow consulting is also available, at additional cost. Contact info@leadingthroughstorms.org if this is of interest.

Who will facilitate?

Kirstin Irving and James Barlow will lead the programme. With long-standing experience of consulting within and to corporations and other organisations, and each with their own interests in regeneration, collaboration and community development, Kirstin and James have worked with Three Horizons and with Bill Sharpe for many years. They understand the challenges of transformative change, including what it takes to hold a vision and work with others through messiness and confusion to realise it.

Leading Through Storms is a member of the Future Stewards Three Horizons Practice Network.

Dates for 2025/6 programme (online via Zoom):

3 x 3 hour workshops:

• Wed 12th Nov, 2 - 5pm UK

• Wed 19th Nov, 2 - 5pm UK

• Wed 26th Nov, 2 - 5pm UK

Optional 1 hour Q&A sessions:

• Thurs 13th Nov, 4 - 5pm UK

• Thurs 20th Nov, 4 - 5pm UK

1 hour practise circles:

• 3rd Wednesday of each month, 4 - 5pm UK

• Run from Wed 17th Dec 2025 to Wed 21st Oct 2026