I'm a sucker for a good Venn diagram, and this one jumped out of my inbox this week. The email was from Giles Hutchins, who’s promoting an “immersive leadership development in nature” retreat near London this September.

He’s a critic of the dominance of “head-based” learning, which he describes as rote, disembodied, and screen-centric. He argues that this kind of learning sustains the very mindset that created today’s systemic crises.

Instead, he advocates for “embodied, experiential, and regenerative learning” that integrates somatic, emotional, intuitive, and rational ways of knowing.

I know—I had to recalibrate my bullshit meter to make sense of that kind of language. But I do like to think, as he does, that learning is a lifelong, embodied process. And I relate to his call for a shift toward viewing organizations as living systems rather than machines.

His recipe for future-fit leadership makes sense to me: grow in self-awareness to better understand yourself and your relationships; study how nature works, how complex systems behave, and how the brain functions; and choose real-world, hands-on experiences in nature over purely digital or book-based learning.

He has satisfied clients from companies of all sizes and industries around the world who attest to the impact of his teaching.

ARTICLE: From Disembodied Coping to Embodied Thriving Amid Rising Complexity: Future Fit Leadership