Seen. Systems. Shift.
An emerging story…
Our Current Vision
Beginning in 2025, Spayd started exploring his longest held (but back-burnered) callings — using and teaching systemic constellations, uncovering a new type of shamanic practice, integrating semi-mystical methods for understanding and healing systems, yet still bringing Integral thinking and complexity theory to the party.
The Collective Edge (TCE) was always envisioned to be a group of senior practitioners joining together to work at their — and the world’s — EDGE. The collective edge.
What emerged was a new field, tentatively dubbed Systemic Alchemy, based on the presence and intelligence of the knowing field (from systemic work), while also being founded in the worldview of what Spayd came to call ordinary shamanism. Spayd offers intensive training cohorts for systemically-informed coaches, and a new coaching service called Deep Seeing, which draws on systemic methods to uncover hidden tensions within a person’s life.
How We Got Here
Things have shifted a lot over the six and a half years since the beginning. Founded by Spayd in late 2019 with the moral support of old friends — Lyssa Adkins (Covid support calls) & Michael Hamman (Integral Sensemaking & Action), later joined by Marie Murtagh (2021) in bringing in different voices and offers. Randolf Speigner joined Spayd leading cohorts in 2023 and expanded the depth of the Transformation Mastery program, running seven 8-month long cohorts that eventuated in the ICE-EC credential.
The shift in the agile coaching market beginning early 2024 stressed margins and forced a reevaluation of staffing. Murtagh moved to a part time faculty (now with Nish Dubasia at Evolving Nexus), while Spayd and Speigner continued to successfully lead cohorts and Mastercamps, but with a slowly dwindling user base.
By 2025, the writing was on the wall. The center of gravity of TCE needed to shift to systemic work.
The Future
The original vision has evolved but retains the core purpose: creating together a spiritually developmental container. Our aspiration is to do our part in helping to “shape the shift” emerging into our collective future, inspiring clients, partners and society-at-large to stay present to — and functional on — our collective edge.
The future is of course uncertain. Acknowledging that uncertainty, we move with conviction to a new configuration, staying close to our systemic and mystical roots while bringing in new voices and biographies.
Please wish us well!