The Summer Newsletter is here

Welcome to the Summer edition of the Mobius newsletter. In this issue, we celebrate new books from our community, upcoming professional development opportunities, including the dates for the 2027 Annual Gathering of the Next Practice Institute, and draw your attention to new thought leadership and contemplations to take with you into the final stretch of summer. It is a generous issue, so if your inbox trims it short, simply click view entire message or open it in your browser to read it in full. As ever, we welcome you to share our recommendations with your friends, clients and colleagues.

IDEAS WORTH SHARING

Staying True to Ourselves – Interrupting the Algorithm

A timely reflection along with a simple practice from Mobius Friend Shani Lehrer. Our anxiety about a world with artificial intelligence may be misdirected — the real trust crisis is not in the machine, but in the humans feeding it. Shani names AI as our most honest mirror, amplifying whatever we bring to it — fear or courage, ego or sovereignty. In this TEDx talk, she shares her method for staying true to who you are as you engage with the algorithms (be it a quick ask to a chatbot or significant help refining a speech), so we can be trustworthy stewards for AI to emulate and amplify the best of our humanity.

Exploring the Biology of Transformation

In this simple yet profound piece, our friend Anja Driesmans asks: What happens when the people responsible for transformation are themselves running out of life force? This contemplation reminds us that while we cannot create a living future from a depleted state, regeneration is not something we need to invent – life knows how to achieve this, if only we stop interrupting the process.

On the Roots of Self-Reliance

In this recently published article, Dr Paul Dunion, Mobius Master Transformational Faculty, examines how we develop self-trust. Borrowing from experiments that rely on a twin set of beliefs – that we can trust someone else when we believe that they will tell us the truth and that they will be kind to us, he encourages us to lend the same approach to ourselves. In doing so, we bring greater wisdom to how we understand other people, places, and events in the world. The piece offers three exercises to deepen self-trust, along with the invitation to commit to self-trust as a psycho-spiritual practice.

Leadership's Blind Spot in the Age of AI

Featured deep read: This ambitious piece is well worth a slow read to absorb the depth of what Mobius Senior Expert and Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School Otto Scharmer describes and, even more vitally, recommends to leaders everywhere: alongside harnessing AI, we must make a parallel investment in what he calls “deep sensing infrastructure.” In response to this article, Amy Elizabeth Fox posted a short follow on piece exploring what deep sensing infrastructure means in practice.

FEATURED INSPIRATION

Michael Meade and Mobius Master Transformational Faculty member Dr Thomas Huebl explore what it means to live in the space between the world we have lost and the world that has not yet arrived. We found this clip from their conversation a deeply encouraging reminder to us all.

FEATURED BOOKS

We are thrilled to announce that Nicholas Janni’s and Amy Elizabeth Fox’s book has just been released as an audiobook. Read by the authors, you can find it on Audible, and a range of other audio platforms listed here

Archaeology of Self: The Introspective Educator’s Guide to Racial Literacy Blending personal narrative, poetry, and guided reflection, this book takes readers through Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz’s framework for excavating one’s racial identity, confronting internalized bias, and teaching from a place of critical love, justice, and truth. For educators and change practitioners alike.

Somatic Intelligence: Leadership Requires More than IQ and EQ. Mobius Executive Coach Rebecca Arora introduces a transformative new framework for leading from the body's intelligence. When leaders tune into their postures, pace, and flexibility of their physical form, they immediately access greater clarity, presence, and influence.

Heart Leadership: Fostering Coherence to Amplify Impact, from our friend Arnaud Saint-Paul, offers a practical leadership framework for greater coherence, including how to access clarity without relying on analysis alone and to shift from effort-based leadership to natural coordination.

FEATURED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Leading in Chaos: A Series of Seven Online Sessions with Nicholas Janni & Amy Elizabeth Fox
Online: From September – December 2026

We warmly invite you to join us for an exploration of the key themes of our new book, Leading in Chaos. We both passionately believe that this is the time to urgently re-vision leadership. Inner development based on trauma-informed perspectives, spiritual awakening and the return to Love, is the priority now. What does this look like for leaders and organisational cultures to steward a new future? Many leaders and practitioners are themselves oversaturated by information, disoriented by rapidly changing conditions and heartbroken by the escalating levels of violence and cruelty on the world stage. We gather together with a sense of conviction that the possibilities of renewal, restoration and renaissance at this time are pregnant and urgent. If this call resonates with you, we hope you will join us for this gathering of a global community of practice. Each two-hour session will include authors' input, poetic and pragmatic, experiential exercises/meditations, and dialogue. Register here

Leading in Radical Uncertainty
In Person: September 8–10, 2026

This September Conscious Capitalism will host their 18^th CEO Summit in Colorado where 120 CEOs and senior executives will convene around the theme Leading in Radical Uncertainty: How Conscious Leaders Build Companies That Adapt and Endure. Amy Elizabeth Fox will lead a session on the inner work of leadership—what uncertainty asks of leaders themselves—alongside speakers including Raj Sisodia, Michele Zanini, and executives from Bayer, Gallup, and Torani discussing what it takes to navigate a fast-changing future. For more information and to apply to this invitation-only event, visit the website.

Leadership Lab for Systemic Transformation
Mixed Format/Online: Ongoing 2026

Join the Fall Cohort and gain access to the entire year’s program. As part of the landmark partnership between Inner Development Goals and Mobius Executive Leadership, the Leadership Lab is a year-long invitation to leaders to strengthen their inner capacities to drive systemic change. The lab offers hands-on learning through real-life cases, perspective-expanding sessions with Mobius experts, and deep engagement in curated peer groups. It includes nine online sessions, quarterly community meetings, peer group conversations, and access to an AI companion. Participants can choose to join the program underway as part of the new cohort integration. Learn more and register here.

The Power of Mystical Healing
In Person: November 3–6, 2026

For more than 25 years, Mobius Master Transformational Faculty member Thomas Huebl has shared profound teachings on the mystical principles of healing and on trauma-informed fluidity practices that support the healing of individual, ancestral, and collective trauma. This powerful combination creates a deeply embodied spiritual path that facilitates growth, maturation, and transcendence. This workshop is intended for participants who already have experience with Thomas' work through previous programs, online courses, supervision groups, or independent study. It is not designed as an introductory experience, but rather as an opportunity to deepen and embody his teachings in an intimate learning environment. Learn more and register here.

We are delighted to confirm two upcoming programs with Mobius Master Transformational Faculty member Lynda Caesara. These immersive, in-person offerings are a rare opportunity to learn from a true master. Studying with Lynda is considered by many to be life-changing. Participants gain both a profound level of insight into energetic paradigms and extensive practice to deepen their capacity to sense, attune, and work skillfully with energetic dynamics between themselves and others.

The Light Side of Patterns
In Person: November 16-26, 2026

For those who have already undertaken the much-loved 10-day foundational Energy Mastery Program, we offer the Light Sides of the Patterns, the second in Lynda’s series of energy courses.

The Fundamentals of Energy Mastery

In Person: March 19-28, 2027

The next 10-day foundational immersion, which is open to all and the prerequisite for all subsequent programs, will take place in March next year.

To learn more about each of these opportunities and to register for either, tap the link here, where you will also find introductory resources for anyone new to Lynda's profound work.

SAVE THE DATE

9th Annual Gathering

December 5–10, 2027

Details to come