Oasyhotel | Tuscan Apennines | Italy
October 12–16, 2026
Living Innovation
What becomes possible when innovation learns from life?
A five-day immersive journey followed by ninety days of integration, designed for founders, executives, innovators, and investors shaping the future.
“Innovation must strengthen the systems that sustain us.”
Human ingenuity has transformed the world. Through innovation, we have improved health, expanded prosperity, connected billions of people, and unlocked possibilities previous generations could scarcely imagine.
But innovation does not happen in isolation. We are part of the natural systems that surround and sustain us.
Aurelia develops the agency, skills, and wisdom required for Living Innovation: innovation that creates enduring value for people, organizations, and the systems upon which they depend.
Three Dimensions.One Purpose.
How should we rethink leadership, design, and capital so innovation creates enduring value?
L E A D E R S H I PLeadership
Perceive • Decide • StewardHow we lead
D E S I G NDesign
Organize • Create • AdaptHow we organize and innovate
C A P I T A LCapital
Enable • Allocate • ScaleHow we enable and scale
From Awareness to Agency
The goal is not simply to see systems more clearly, but to develop the agency, skills, and wisdom required to act within them more effectively.
The Journey
A developmental arc from awareness to agency, action, and lasting change.
Grounding
Slow down enough to see.
Seeing
Notice what is invisible.
Awakening
Expand what feels possible.
Creating
Translate insight into action.
Integrating
Sustain meaningful change.
Applying
Test, refine, and
scale what works.
Grounding
Slow down enough to see.
Seeing
Notice what is invisible.
Awakening
Expand what feels possible.
Creating
Translate insight into action.
Integrating
Sustain meaningful change.
Applying
Test, refine, and scale what works.
The Experience
Where Living Innovation comes to life.
Nature Immersions
Sharpen perception.
Systems Case Clinics
Apply living systems thinking to real challenges.
Peer Dialogue
Have enduring conversations.
Living Craft Encounters
Learn from stewardship in practice.
Prototype Experiments
Translate insight into action.
Meaningful Meals
Connect around the table.
Oasyhotel
A place designed for reflection, perspective, and renewal.
Set within a protected 1,000 hectares wilderness reserve in the Tuscan Apennines, Oasyhotel creates the conditions for leaders to slow down, widen perspective, and see the systems they operate within more clearly.
Here, the principles that allow life to thrive are encountered directly through the landscapes, relationships, and patterns that surround us.
The environment becomes a teacher, helping translate the principles of adaptation, resilience, interdependence, and regeneration into the practice of Living Innovation.
Learn more about Oasyhotel →Outcomes
What leaders leave with.
See Systems, Not Symptoms
See deeper patterns and leverage points.
Act With Greater Agency
Shape outcomes that matter.
Design Real Experiments
Test new approaches in the real world.
Decide With Greater Clarity
Navigate uncertainty with confidence.
Innovate With Life In Mind
Create solutions that strengthen life.
Sustain Meaningful Change
Turn new practices into lasting habits.
Developed in Partnership
Expertise across living systems, executive coaching, regenerative economics, and transformative change.
Living systems thinking, regenerative leadership, and organizational design.
Executive coaching, transformational facilitation, and leadership integration.
Regenerative economics, living systems finance, and long-term capital stewardship.
Regenerative technology, systems innovation, and technology in service of life.
Founder
Why Aurelia Exists.
After three decades building and scaling innovation across technology companies, venture-backed businesses, and global organizations, I reached an uncomfortable realization:
Many of the leadership and innovation models that created extraordinary progress are increasingly mismatched with the complexity of the world we now face.
The world is becoming more interconnected, volatile, and difficult to navigate. Technological acceleration, ecological pressure, geopolitical instability, and social fragmentation are reshaping how leaders make decisions.
The future requires additional capacities, not as a replacement for what works, but as an evolution of how we lead, build, and invest.
The more I explored these tensions, the more I became convinced that the next generation of leaders must learn not only from markets, technology, and management systems, but also from the living systems that have sustained life for billions of years.
Aurelia emerged from that realization.
It was created as a place for leaders to step outside the noise of execution, reconnect with what matters most, and develop the capabilities needed to build organizations, innovations, and investments that create enduring value.
The lived integration behind Aurelia
Leadership
Thirty years scaling innovation and speaking with leaders about technology, systems, and change.
Observation
A lifelong passion for birds and the natural world shaped how Bert sees patterns, adaptation, and relationships.
Reflection
The Camino created space to reconnect leadership, innovation, human flourishing, and living systems.
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