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Six sessions. A small group. Weekly. 75 minutes each.

The Fire Horse Circle is a peer case clinic for professionals and emerging leaders doing serious work in sustainability, systems change, and institutional leadership. Not a workshop. Not a coaching programme. A container in which one person's real challenge becomes the inquiry for the whole group.

Each session follows a structured presencing arc - moving past the usual professional reflex toward what's actually going on, and what it's asking of the person carrying it. You leave with something you couldn't see when you arrived.

The format draws on MIT Theory U case clinic methodology and forum-style peer inquiry. What makes it work is the quality of the attention and the space that forms between the group.

You bring a real case. Something live, not theoretical. A decision you can't see clearly. A tension you haven't named yet. A moment in your leadership where you know something has to shift but you don't know what.

Places are limited to six. The cohort runs across six sessions, with dates agreed collectively at the start.

Investment: $250 AUD for the full six-session cohort.

A closed circle for sustainability and climate professionals · 12 May 2026

The language of our work is being retreated from.

Organisations many of us spent years helping to build sustainability into are quietly going silent. The urgency hasn't changed. The institutional support has.

And yet here you are. Still in the room. Still making the case. Still carrying others forward, even as the ground beneath the work keeps shifting.

That's not weakness. That's a particular kind of leadership that nobody trained you for and almost nobody acknowledges.

But it has a cost. And most people in this space have nobody to say that to. Not really. Not a peer who understands the specific weight of caring deeply about this work inside institutions that are losing their nerve.

That's what this circle is for.

WHAT IT IS

Six sustainability and climate professionals. Ninety minutes online. A facilitated space - not a webinar, not a workshop, not a support group.

The session follows a presencing arc drawn from MIT's Theory U, designed to move leaders past the habitual professional response and into genuine sensing of what's actually true.

In practice that means being with five other senior professionals who are inside the same reality, not to perform, but to move through what's actually blocking. A real conversation. What you're actually carrying in this work. The moral weight of it. The gap between the urgency you feel and the pace institutions are willing to move. What an honest account of your current leadership would look like if you could say it out loud.

Then a shift you'll make in the next two weeks. Something that comes from genuine sensing, not from pressure or habit.

You leave with more than reflection. You leave with a clearer sense of how to keep leading, not despite what you're carrying, but from it.

THE DETAILS

Date: Tuesday 12 May 2026 Time: 6:00–7:30pm AEDT / 8:00–9:30am GMT

Format: Online, Zoom

Participants: 6 maximum

Investment: $175 AUD

WHO THIS IS FOR

Senior professionals working in sustainability, ESG, climate, and systems change who are still deeply committed to the work, and who are honest enough to recognise that the way they're currently carrying it isn't sustainable.

You don't need to be in crisis. You just need to be willing to have a real conversation.

ABOUT ADAM

Adam Bumpus founded The Academy Earth and the Earth Leadership Council to address what he calls the leadership gap no one trains for - the inner capacity required to stay resourced, present, and relational when the stakes are existential and the institutional support is uncertain.

He holds an Oxford DPhil in Climate Governance and has worked with senior professionals across government, corporations, and intergovernmental agencies and leading sustainability practices in Australia and the UK. His approach draws on MIT's Theory U, relational leadership practice, and the hard-won understanding that inner capacity is not peripheral to systems change - it is the work.