Change how you think, lead, and contribute to the world.
The World Building Lab is an interdisciplinary weekend where a small group of thinkers, creators, innovators, and builders come together to imagine new worlds and extract real ideas from them.
Through collaborative simulations, strategic exercises, and creative exploration, participants learn how to think more clearly about the future and their role in shaping it.
(in your words)
why this, why now, why not?
Throughout the weekend, participants develop and apply a range of interdisciplinary skills:
Visionary thinking
Creative problem-solving
Systems thinking
Effective leadership
Forsight & Speculative Design
Strategic decision-making
Navigating Power & Relational Dynamics
Navigating complexity and uncertainty
Translating ideas into action
The Lab becomes a microcosm of how change happens in the real world.
An invitation to pause and prototype new ways of being.
“The World Building Lab is a rare and powerful container for grappling with what it actually takes to build better futures. From visioning to values alignment to implementation, it guides you through the real work of world-building. It helped me recognize both my capacity for leadership and the blind spots that show up in group dynamics. I left with a renewed sense of purpose and possibility.”
“The Lab is a surreal experience. It dissolves your sense of time and stretches your understanding of yourself and others. Your interpersonal and intrapersonal patterns will either melt away or reveal themselves with a clarity you didn’t expect. I wish I could tell you what to expect, but I can’t, because the experience is truly different for everyone.”
“The World Building Lab is a powerful mirror to your creative process. As an introduction to world building, it exposes how imagination, decision-making, and collaboration happen under pressure. What you learn will stay with you, not as a conceptual method, but as a lived experience in how futures are shaped or stalled by the ways groups think and act together.”
Participate fully. Leave with:
New ideas for projects, ventures, or initiatives.
Greater clarity about your role in the world.
Deeper awareness of how you lead and collaborate.
Renewed imagination about what the future could be.
A space for ideas and
selves to emerge.
“The World Building Lab is an important opportunity for anyone who wishes to actively challenge the status quo and explore their role in building a better future but who may not quite know where to begin. Through this experience, you will connect, question, feel challenged, feel inspired, and most importantly, feel moved to take the first steps towards co-creating a more equitable and sustainable world.”
“The World Building Lab is a microcosm of our reality where we get to experiment with leadership, collaboration, and co-creation to build bridges towards futures. It enabled me to identify growth edges and embody parts of my leadership that I shy away from. The container also provided opportunities to experiment with different types of decision-making, which allowed me to better understand the complexities of group creative processes.”
A training ground
for human dynamics.
“The Lab was a very insightful, one-of-a-kind experience and gathering. Gathering together with people that you've never met before, you are tasked with imagining what the future of a world we can all live in looks like. It was a really fun and interesting way to collaborate and find the anchor points in all of our collective desires and humanity. It definitely pushes the edges of your imagination and asks you to act upon what you believe can be possible.”
“The World Building Lab was a well-thought-out and executed container that created a spaciousness and also urgency for participants to co-create a meaningful vision of a world. It channelled a lot of different wisdoms and frameworks for the participants to take the intangible dreams of a more loving and just world our hearts yearn for and make them concrete through a process of gently guided collaboration.”
Take part in a strategy simulator for the future.
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The Lab isn’t a course or conference. It’s an immersive, hands-on experience where you’ll explore how to think, build, and lead differently. It blends strategy, creativity, foresight, and collaboration through guided exercises, group dynamics, and simulations. You’ll test ideas, connect dots across disciplines, and develop core skills for navigating uncertainty, complexity, and decision-making.
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The Lab is designed for founders, artists, educators, technologists, researchers, community builders, cultural leaders, and anyone exploring how to shape the future with clarity, imagination, and care. It’s for people who are actively building, transitioning, or reimagining what’s next in their work, practice, or life.
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TBD
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Friday 9 AM - 6 PM
Saturday 9 AM - 6 PM
Sunday 9 AM - 5 PMSmall group (10-12)
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Unlike most retreats or courses, the lab is not about consumption, but creation. You’re not being “taught” something; you’re practicing and prototyping new ways of being, thinking, doing, and collaborating. The experience is partly designed and partly emergent, shaped by the participants in the room.
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You’ll be invited into a blend of facilitated sessions, group activities, creative exercises, and simulations that catalyze collective imagination and reflection. Some parts will be structured, while others will be open-ended or gamified.
The energy and direction of the Lab will evolve based on who’s in the room. You’ll be stretched, but supported.
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Everyone comes in with something—an idea, a question, a transition—and leaves with something tangible.
You might leave with:A new framework, prototype, or story.
A reframed perspective that changes your direction.
Feedback and new collaborations.
A deeper sense of clarity, confidence, and creative momentum.
Your next big idea.
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The full cost of the Lab is $1200 + Tax (CAD).
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You may be contacted to schedule a 1:1 interview
After the interview, you may receive an official invitation
Once you’ve paid for the Lab, your spot is locked in
You will then receive additional information to prepare for the experience
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We’re curating a small, diverse group of curious, generous, and imaginative people from across disciplines and walks of life. Each participant is chosen with care to ensure a balance of perspectives, energy, and expertise that will make the experience dynamic and meaningful for everyone involved.
When reviewing applications, we look for three things:
Clarity of Intention – Are they clear about why they want to join the Lab and what they hope to explore or contribute?
Depth & Readiness – Do they have the awareness, curiosity, and capacity to engage with the Lab’s intensity and depth?
Unique Contribution – Do they bring something distinctive—an experience, perspective, or way of thinking—that will enrich the collective?
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We can only accept a limited number of participants for every Lab, and we’re curating the group to ensure a diverse range of perspectives, experiences, and expertise.
If you’re not selected this time, don’t worry, you’ll remain on the waitlist and be among the first to hear when future Labs become available.
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Due to the nature of the experience and the limited number of spots, all payments are final. Once your payment is processed, we do not offer refunds.
If you’re unable to attend after being selected, please let us know as soon as possible. Thank you for understanding and respecting the integrity of the process.