The Visible Game
Roles, targets, structures, policies and formal authority. What the institution measures and rewards.
Depthwork® Leadership Intensive
For Senior Leaders
Depthwork examines the assumptions, inheritances and pressures that quietly govern how authority is exercised, and builds the practice to respond differently.
Dates
6 – 9 October 2026
Format
Non-residential, four full days
Entry
Application or nomination
This programme is relevant if
- You are at a point of greater responsibility, transition or complexity in your leadership.
- You want to understand how context, relationships and power shape the authority you exercise.
- You have noticed that insight alone does not always change what happens under pressure.
- You are thinking about the conditions you want your leadership to create for others.
- You are curious about what you want to carry forward into the next chapter.
What Depthwork calls a Borrowed Mirror
An inherited way of seeing yourself, leadership or success.
A Borrowed Mirror is an inherited way of seeing yourself, leadership or success that can become so familiar it no longer feels inherited. Those ways of seeing can influence what gets escalated, who gets heard, and how much a leader feels able to rest.
Depthwork is trauma-aware but it is not therapy. It is a leadership practice: name the pattern, understand its cost, then rehearse a different response until it holds under pressure.
“A leader must always have the answer.”
“Being indispensable proves value.”
“Disagreement threatens authority.”
Where inheritance meets leadership
The Three Games at Work
Every institution has a visible game, a hidden game and a historical game. Experienced leaders often learn to read the first two. Depthwork makes deliberate room to examine the third.
The Hidden Game
Relationships, loyalties, informal power and unwritten rules. What moves decisions.
The Historical Game
The inheritances that shape authority, legitimacy and what feels possible long after the circumstances that produced them have changed.
The Depthwork Arc
Four movements, worked as a circle.
Reveal, Reframe, Rebuild and Regenerate are not fixed sessions. Across four days you move through them and return, each pass on a live leadership challenge.
- 01
Reveal
Notice what is already running: where your ideas about success, authority and worth came from.
- 02
Reframe
Understand the pattern differently: what once protected or enabled you, and what it may be costing now.
- 03
Rebuild
Reclaim your judgement, capability and voice, then practise different responses so insight holds under pressure.
- 04
Regenerate
Consider what this changes in your decisions, relationships and the conditions you create around you.
What you leave with
- 01
A clearer account of the assumptions and inheritances influencing how you lead.
- 02
Greater ability to notice how those patterns show up under pressure.
- 03
A sharper read of visible, hidden and historical dynamics around a live leadership challenge.
- 04
One or two leadership practices to test over the following 90 days.
How the room is held
Small cohort for depth and trust.
Confidential and consent-led. No forced disclosure.
Non-residential. Four full days of immersive work.
Trauma-aware, but not therapy. This is a leadership practice, not treatment.
Facilitated by practitioners formed in the Depthwork methodology.
The journey so far
Nairobi
Kenya
Inaugural gathering. Senior leaders across corporate, public sector and civil society.
Victoria Falls
Zimbabwe
C-level executives, founders and senior officials working across the region.
Kigali
Rwanda
The third gathering. 6–9 October 2026. Expressions of interest now open.
Kigali, 6–9 Oct 2026.
The cohort is small by design. Applications are reviewed as they arrive.