Designing for Systems Innovation and Leadership
This Immersion Matters More than Ever.
The Unnamed Road (formerly the DSIL Course) brings together just 14 leaders from around the world to unlearn the subtle and blatant ways we've been conditioned to lead, build, and “be.” Over 9 immersive days, you'll disrupt inherited mindsets, sit with bold questions about power, intimacy, and privilege—and begin to reimagine not just how you show up in complexity, but how you use this essential ingrediant for powerful change. This isn't leadership training as usual. It's personal. It's systemic. And it stays with you.
Let’s cut to the chase.
We’ve been taught to lead, parent, manage, design—and relate—as if we’re gardeners with perfect control over the garden. That our job is to prune, shape, and systematize the mess of life into something neat and obedient. Especially if you’re called a “leader,” the pressure to keep things looking “just right” is real. But here’s the thing: a garden that looks like this image—perfect, identical, controlled—isn’t actually ...alive.It’s unnatural because it isn’t nature.
This normal model of leadership—whether in families, companies, or movements—chokes out the very conditions needed for trust, complexity, creativity, and most importantly truth to grow. We cannot redesign what we can't name out loud. The Unnamed Road invites us to stop standing over the garden…
…and ask you step in it.
The truth is: you are in it.
Roots and all.
If we want to move beyond surviving into something truly alive, we have to stop performing control and start practicing participation. That means letting go of the illusion that we can design our way to safety without getting messy. That means becoming part of the living system—not the one managing it from above.
Because the more we let in—grief, friction, joy, difference, rage, silence—the more vibrant and resiliant our relationships, our teams, and our solutions become.
We no longer have to shout this from the rooftops at DSIL.
Look around. The systems are cracking. The soil is asking. So the question is:
Are you willing to put your hands in the dirt?
So, where do we begin?
Right here—with the smallest, most powerful building block: you.
It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the scale of what needs shifting. But every ripple begins at the center. This course starts at the atomic level—with your mindset, habits, choices, and integrity. Not as a personal development checkbox, but as the groundwork for collective change.
Because who you are shapes what you touch.
And what you touch? That’s the system.Throughout the immersive, we’ll weave Self-to-Systems thinking into every layer. You’ll take radical responsibility for what you bring—and what you block. You’ll meet your blindspots and your brilliance. You'll walk out knowing that transforming the world out there starts by tuning into what’s alive in here
Text books are almost always outdated.
We go learn where life is happening.
Why Immersive Learning?
To change how we lead, we have to step outside our default settings.
Immersive learning pulls us out of routine and into contrast—exposing the bubbles we live in and revealing patterns we’ve stopped noticing. When we land in a new place, everything becomes a teacher: the land, the people, the culture, the friction.
We design this experience inside a living system—supporting local entrepreneurs and communities, learning from lived wisdom, and practicing what it means to lead ethically in real-time.
It’s messy. It’s embodied. It’s unforgettable.
And it will shape the way you see—and build—the world, long after you leave.
