The first ELIAS (Emerging Leaders Innovating Across Sectors) program was offered by MIT and based on the profound awareness-based systems change work of Dr Otto Scharmer (Theory U), Dr Peter Senge (The Fifth Discipline; The Learning Organisation) and other faculty. This program inspired IDEAS Indonesia which has now been running on a national level for over 10 years. A similar program has also run in China.

 

In 2018 the inaugural ELIAS program to happen in Australia took place in Western Australia through the Centre for Social Impact at UWA in partnership and collaboration with the Presencing Institute and the Academy for Systems Change. Core Australian faculty include Dr Renu Burr, Bradley Chenoweth, Dr John Stubley and Katie Stubley, together with special guest faculty that include Dr Otto Scharmer, with webinar input from Dr Peter Senge and others.

The 2022-23 IDEAS Asia Pacific program will mark the first time ever that this program is being offered beyond the country level to include the whole of the Asia Pacific.

​

Planning is also now underway, and we are now accepting nominations, for the inaugural ELIAS Australia & New Zealand program, scheduled to commence later in 2022.

All of these programs have helped create strong, collaborative platforms and networks for transformative awareness-based systems change in the countries in which they take place. A first-cohort group of senior leaders will now take the next steps of this journey into the greater Asia-Pacific region, and by doing so help co-shape solutions to the many and varied challenges we now face together.

As the ELIAS and IDEAS programs grow into the future they will continue to help Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific region to lead the way when it comes to global contributions to overcoming the ecological, social and cultural/spiritual crises of our time - especially during this crucial decade - and to co-create the renewal and regeneration of civilisation as a whole.

​

To find out more about these programs, please visit the relevant sections on this website, or email us.