Emerge Institute was created by a team of people who in their experience in innovation and saw the imperative of integrating inner work into the process of problem solving. Einstein has said "the same thinking that was used to create a problem cannot be used to a fix it." Otto Scharmar of Presencing Institute has said "the effectiveness of an intervention depends on the interior condition of the intervenor." We believe the problems we see in the world are a reflection of the inner state of ourselves, our teams and our organisations. Therefore, our ability to solve our world's pressing challenges depends on our own inner state, how aware we are of ourselves and mindsets, our ability to manage ourselves and emotions, our own healing.

We believe that we do not need to force or push solutions or change, rather transform ourselves and create the conditions in the individual and team, for wisdom, inspiration and innovative ideas to emerge from within us. To this end, central to our process is the personal transformation of the individual and team.

We enable individuals and team to be more effective at addressing our world's greatest challenges through an integration of inner work and outer work. Through the inner work individuals and teams become more aware, resilient, adaptable, healed and connected. This is integrated with outer work which provides capability building in systems thinking, design thinking and other tools and methods in driving innovation and change. We draw from diverse approaches to problem solving including indigenous, Eastern and Western perspectives as well as working in and with Nature.