Movement, terrain and conditions
THE PROGRAMME
Individual intention conversation
3 immersive Masterclass days
1 follow-up day
DATEs
May 13th-15th 2027
Location
Klaus Nars Holm, Farum Lake
Price
26.500 kr. ex VAT
Real change does not happen because a strategy has been approved.
It happens when people are moved by something that matters, understand the terrain they are moving in, and have the conditions to act, learn and take responsibility together.
Movement
You cannot create a movement without being moved.
Terrain
Context is not background. It is where change succeeds or fails.
Conditions
If the conditions were already in place, the organisation would already be moving.
One of the most transformative experiences I have had about myself and my leadership.
Lars Thostrup
Employee Experience Lead, Danske Bank
For people who shape how organisations move
This Masterclass is for experienced leaders, People & Culture and OD professionals, transformation leads, internal consultants and organisational practitioners who work where purpose, people, processes and responsibility have to come together.
The Masterclass is particularly relevant if you:
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You need to create direction without having all the answers yourself.
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You work across leadership, culture, strategy, people and organisational development.
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You design or facilitate processes involving different perspectives and interests.
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You influence how responsibility, decisions and collaboration are organised.
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You want to become more conscious of how your own leadership shapes the system around you.
tors. 13. majKlaus Nars HolmA Masterclass for experienced leaders and organisational practitioners who want to design the conditions for collective action. Learn to shape movement, read the organisational terrain and build the capacity for people to act, learn and take responsibility together. Open cohort starts 13 May 2027.
Four capacities for shaping how organisations work
The Masterclass develops four interconnected capacities needed to shape movement, read the terrain and design conditions for collective action.
SELF-MASTERY
How you show up becomes part of the conditions you create for others
Learn to remain present when the answer is unclear, notice your habitual reactions and use your authority with greater awareness.
Practise balancing reflection and action, intuition and analysis, direction and openness.
You learn to notice your own reactions, stay present in uncertainty and use your authority with more awareness.
CO-CREATIVE LEADERSHIP
Know when to direct, involve, decide and step back
Co-creation does not mean that everyone decides everything.
Develop your ability to set direction without over-controlling, bring different perspectives into meaningful dialogue and choose the right degree of involvement for the situation.
Co-creation does not mean that everyone decides everything — and leadership does not mean carrying everything alone.
PROCESS DESIGN
Design the journey — not only the meeting
Learn to read an organisational situation before deciding what intervention it needs.
Work with who needs to be involved, when and why, and design processes that move from exploration and sensemaking towards decision and coordinated action.
You learn to read the terrain before choosing the intervention.
ORGANISATIONAL CONDITIONS
Shape the context in which responsibility becomes possible
Explore how purpose, roles, mandates, decision-making, relationships and ways of working influence what people are actually able to do.
Learn to work with both the relational and structural conditions of collective action.
Responsibility is not only a mindset. It is shaped by roles, mandates, relationships, decision-making and ways of working.
TWO QUESTIONS WE RETURN TO THROUGHOUT
What conditions are you currently creating?
What conditions does the situation actually require?
After more than 20 years working with leadership and transformation, I discovered how much more there is to learn.
Kim Fogh
Organisational & Leadership Consultant, Agora
Self-mastery
Lars Thostrup
Lars Thostrup
Employee Experience Lead
Danske Bank
The days spent in nature with Sune Kjems and Ida Vesterdal were among the most transformative experiences I’ve ever had in terms of my own personal development and leadership. I highly recommend it!
Co-creative learning
Multi-Wing Group
Tobias Plesner Jarløv, Casper Pedersen & Sigurd Bay Jørgensen
Transformation Team
Multi-Wing Group
The fact that we’ve managed to create such a safe space for everyone in such a short time means that all the things you might otherwise find yourself thinking about – What do these people think of me? How should I behave here? – disappear completely, so that the focus is entirely on learning, being present and a sense of community.
Experienced practitioners
Kim Fogh
Kim Fogh
Organisational and Management Consultant
Agora
I have been working in the field of leadership and transformation for more than 20 years, and I have realised that there is so much more to learn – and I have learnt a great deal!
A place outside the everyday system
The Masterclass takes place on the privately owned island of Klaus Nars Holm in Farum Lake — a small hidden place approximately 20 minutes from central Copenhagen.
We deliberately step out of the everyday organisational environment to see the system more clearly.
The island creates space to slow down, notice more and work with questions that are difficult to explore between meetings and deadlines.
We work both indoors and outside, combining conversation, reflection, practice and the surrounding nature as part of the learning environment.
The island offers an old summer house with plenty of character, terraces overlooking the lake, fire pits, sauna — and three rather independent peacocks.
Our captain and host, Rasmus, grew up on the island and somehow manages to make almost anything possible.
Overnight accommodation on the island is included if you want to experience the place after the day's work has ended.
Learning through your own organisational practice
The Masterclass is not built around a collection of tools to apply mechanically.
Organisations are different. Situations are different. The same intervention can be useful in one context and counterproductive in another.
The deeper capability is learning to notice what is happening, understand what the situation requires and design a response accordingly.
BEFORE
Choose your practice field
Individual intention conversation
Before the programme, you have an individual conversation with Ida or Sune.
Together, we identify a real leadership or organisational challenge that you will use as a practice field throughout the Masterclass.
DURING
Work with movement, terrain and conditions
Three immersive days on Klaus Nars Holm
Three consecutive days from 10:00–17:00 on Klaus Nars Holm.
We combine:
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conceptual frameworks
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work on participants' real organisational situations
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individual reflection
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peer inquiry
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facilitation and process-design practice
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embodied and nature-based practices
Overnight accommodation is included.
BETWEEN
Test in the real terrain
Bring selected experiments, questions or practices back into your organisation
You take selected experiments, questions or practices back into your everyday work.
The aim is not simply to apply what you have learned, but to notice how the organisation responds.
AFTER
Harvest and redesign
One follow-up day to explore what worked, what resisted, what surprised you and what might be redesigned next
Approximately 4–6 weeks later, we meet again from 10:00–15:00.
We explore what happened in practice:
What worked?
What resisted?
What surprised you?
What do you now see differently?
What might you redesign next?
INCLUDED
Access to all learning materials and selected readings.
Opportunity for online sparring.
Access to Via Design's alumni community.
Two perspectives on organisational practice
The Masterclass is created and facilitated by Ida Vesterdal and Sune Kjems, founders of Via Design.
Together, we work where the relational and the structural meet
– because neither can be meaningfully changed in isolation.
The Masterclass is part of our wider Culture via Design practice: deliberately shaping the conditions that influence how people work together and how organisations act on purpose.
Ida Vesterdal
Culture analyst, coach and leadership adviser
Ida works with the human and relational dynamics of organisations: how leadership, behaviour, power, trust and habitual patterns influence people's ability to take responsibility and work well together.
Her background combines consulting with senior experience from complex organisations, and her work draws on culture analysis, coaching, transformation leadership and wisdom practices.
Sune Kjems
Designer, educator and organisational adviser
Sune approaches organisations through design: how purpose, structures, processes and ways of working shape what becomes possible between people.
His work draws on organisational design, design thinking, facilitation, transformation leadership and long-term practice with wisdom traditions.
They created a space where the usual concerns disappeared, so learning, presence and community could come into focus.”
Transformation Team
Multi-Wing Group
Is this your kind of practice?
The Masterclass is intentionally small, with 8–10 participants.
It is designed for people who already carry meaningful responsibility for how organisations work — and who want to develop their ability to create direction, design processes and enable collective responsibility without relying on fixed recipes.
If you are curious whether the programme fits your leadership groups, People & Culture teams and transformation communitiy.
If you are curious whether the programme fits your role and the organisational challenges you are working with, start with a conversation.