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webinarYour team hasn't run out of ideas. They've stopped saying them
When pressure rises, people play it safe. One unsaid idea at a time, a team's thinking dries up. Spend 45 minutes with Louise Edberg, a psychologist with close to 40 years of experience in organisations, on the one move that brings new ideas back.
Sunday 20 July, 11:00 Stockholm time, live on Microsoft Teams.
Free · about 45 minutes · the room is kept small.
Think of your last tense meeting. A hard problem on the table. Good people around it. And every idea was a safer version of something you tried last year.
Here is what most leaders miss: nobody in that room stopped having ideas. They stopped offering them. Under pressure, people protect themselves. They agree in the meeting and doubt in the corridor. Fear rarely looks like fear. It looks like agreement.
“It showed me how much every role in an organisation needs to keep talking, and how much one quiet part can hold back the rest.”
A leader who attended TOLCIt builds. Every idea that stays unsaid makes the next one harder to say. Soon only the safe, old options are left. The team reaches for last year's playbook, because the playbook cannot be blamed. But change runs on new ideas, and the supply has quietly dried up.
In 45 minutes, Louise will show you how to spot the moment a team stops creating and starts just following orders. This is not a list of quick tips. It is one move, built on close to 40 years of work as a psychologist inside organisations. In plain terms, you will leave able to do three things:
- 1Spot the signs your team has stopped creating and is only following orders, so you can step in before the ideas dry up.
- 2Make one specific move in your next meeting, so a quiet team starts offering new ideas again instead of safe, old ones.
- 3Treat creativity as a hard business skill, not a soft extra, so your team can solve the problems the old playbook cannot.
“TOLC helped me see my own hidden habits and turn them into things I could name and change. It was the hardest work I have done in a shared room, and the most rewarding.”
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Louise Edberg
Louise is a psychologist with close to 40 years of experience working inside organisations. She directs TOLC, a working conference on organisation, leadership and creativity in the Tavistock tradition, which she has now run 12 times. She helps senior leaders see what really runs their organisations, the life beneath the org chart, and free the creative thinking your change depends on.
Next conference: 18–21 September 2026 · Malmö
This is for leaders with a team under pressure: heads of unit, directors, founders. You are carrying a problem that keeps getting the same old answer. Coaches and consultants who see this pattern in client teams will feel at home too. This is not a webinar of quick tips, and it will not pretend leadership is simple.
Save your place, and bring one problem
Free · 20 July · 11:00 Stockholm (CEST) · live on Microsoft Teams
Bring one problem your team keeps solving the same old way. You will leave with a way to get new thinking on it.
Save my placeHeld in English · frågor välkomna på svenska. Calendar invite arrives right away. Leave anytime.
Don't take her word for it. Here is what people said after they attended TOLC.
“You are brave if you go, but even braver when you leave.”
Head of unit“It moved me forward, both as a person and as a leader.”
Leader“I take that strength back with me, and lead differently at work.”
Leader, construction company“Like acupuncture for the soul.”
Consultant“I understand my own role in the organisation far better now.”
Leader“Something everyone should do at least once in their life.”
Repeat participant
Why listen to me?
- ✓I teach as Visiting Professor of Literature at Ave Maria University, edit the St. Austin Review, and serve as series editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions.
- ✓I am the only living writer to have published full-length books on all five of these men.
- ✓I sat across from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in his home near Moscow and listened to him speak of faith and suffering.
- ✓I was twice imprisoned for inciting racial hatred. Chesterton converted me. I tell that story in my memoir Race with the Devil, and again across these five letters.
Who you will meet.
Five writers who shaped the literary imagination of the past hundred years.
I felt as if magic must have a meaning, and meaning must have some one to mean it.
I am a Christian, and in fact a Roman Catholic.
The most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.
Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, there's always laughter and good red wine.
Men have forgotten God; that is why all this has happened.
Thank you. I do not say this lightly.
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You are inside the gate.
From this moment you are on the list, and you will hear before anyone. When the doors open, the first chance to take a founding place by the Hearth is yours, before it is offered to anyone else.
For five days you have kept company with five writers. The Inner Sanctum is where that company does not end. It becomes a room you may enter whenever you wish, with the fire already lit and the conversation already begun.
I have wanted to build this room for a long time. A place for readers who would sooner spend an evening with Chesterton and Tolkien than with the noise of the hour. You have just told me you are one of them. I am glad of it.
Before the Inner Sanctum opens to anyone, I will gather the waitlist for an evening online. You send the questions; I answer them in my own voice, with nothing held back. It will not be repeated once the doors are open. Your invitation will come by email, with the date.
- ·Your founding price, kept for life. For as long as you remain, it will not rise.
- ·A permanent place by the Founders' Hearth, and the standing that comes with it.
- ·An evening each year kept for founders alone.
- ·A small token, made and set aside, that only founders will hold.
This is not a price cut. It is a place, given to the readers who came first.
- 1You wait. You are on the list, and there is nothing more to do.
- 2I write to you first. The invitation to the evening, and then word that the doors are open, will reach you before the general announcement.
- 3You take your place. When the doors open, your founding place and your price are waiting.
One small thing, so none of this is lost over the coming weeks: add [email protected] to your contacts, and look for my name. Everything comes by email.
If a friend of yours belongs in a room like this, send them the course. That is the door everyone comes through.
Welcome to the threshold. The fire is lit within, and when the doors open, you will be among the first I invite inside.
For five days you have read in good company, and felt, I hope, something quietly open. That opening is the whole of it. The Fireside is simply where it is kept open: a little reading together each week, in the same voice, for as long as you care to stay.
Here, in plain words, is everything a place by the Fireside gives you.
- A poem, read aloud, every Monday. Every Monday I read a poem out loud and explain what it means and why I love it.
- A book read closely, every week. Each week I take one book or story and walk you through it slowly, so you can see things you might miss on your own.
- A fireside talk, every week. Once a week I talk to you about a writer or an idea on my mind, the way a friend would by the fire.
- The members' room, open day and night. A private space online where members talk, ask me questions, and share what they are reading. It is always open.
- Reading groups. Small groups that read the same book together and talk about it. You can join one, read along quietly, or skip it.
- A spotlight on a member's writing. Every so often I pick one member's piece of writing and share it with everyone, with a short note from me. It could be yours.
- A live lecture, once a year. Once a year I give a full talk online, live, and you can ask questions at the end. If you cannot come, you can watch it later.
- A lower price on my books. Members pay less for my books. You get a code to use any time you buy one.
- A signed book at five years, and another at ten. If you stay five years, I send you one of my books, signed by hand. Stay ten years, and I send another.
$10 a month, less than a single book, and the door stays open whether you come every week or only when you can. There is no cap on the Fireside, and no closing date. You need only decide that you would rather not let the light go out.
It opens soon, on Patreon. If you would like to be among the first through the door, and the first to hear when it opens, enter your email below and I will keep your place.
The Study is for the reader who wants more than an hour by the fire, who wants to sit a whole course through and come away knowing these writers as friends. It holds everything the Fireside holds, and adds the work most readers cross this threshold for.
Here, in plain words, is everything a place in the Study gives you.
- A complete course on Tolkien and Lewis. A full set of recorded talks, like a whole class at university, on the two writers together. It is yours to keep and watch any time, as slowly as you like.
- A members' question time, every month. Once a month you send me your questions and I answer them on camera. You keep the recording.
- My talks, gathered in one place. Years of my lectures, collected and kept together, so you can dip in whenever you wish.
- A short course on each of the five writers. A course on Chesterton, Tolkien, Lewis, Belloc, and Solzhenitsyn, taken one at a time, in any order you like.
- The yearly Convocation. Once a year, a gathering online with a talk from me and a guest I invite.
- A poem read aloud, every Monday
- A book read closely, every week
- A fireside talk, every week
- The members' room, open day and night
- Reading groups
- A spotlight on a member's writing
- A live lecture, once a year
- A lower price on my books
- A signed book at five years, and another at ten
$250 for the year, about $21 a month, and the course alone is worth more than that. There are one hundred seats in the Study, and no more.
It opens soon. If you would like to be among the first through the door, and the first to hear when it opens, enter your email below and I will keep your place.
The Library is a smaller room, kept for fifteen. It holds everything in the Study and the Fireside, and adds the things I can give only a few: my work before it is finished, my time twice a year, and a book chosen and signed for you each year.
Here, in plain words, is everything a place in the Library gives you.
- A filmed look at one book, every month. Each month I record a close look at a single book, made just for Library members.
- My new writing, before it is published. You read chapters of the book I am working on, before they reach the shops.
- Office hours with me, twice a year. Twice a year I hold live sessions where you can bring your questions straight to me. You keep the recording.
- A signed book each year, your choice. Every year you pick one of my books and I send it to you, signed by hand.
- Your name in my acknowledgements. I print your name in the thank-you pages of my new books.
- A complete course on Tolkien and Lewis
- A members' question time, every month
- My talks, gathered in one place
- A short course on each of the five writers
- The yearly Convocation
$1,000 for the year. There are fifteen seats in the Library, kept few on purpose.
It opens soon. If you would like to be among the first through the door, and the first to hear when it opens, enter your email below and I will keep your place.
The High Table is not really a tier. It is a small company of five, no more, and a place at it is offered by invitation. It holds everything in the Library beneath it, and adds what cannot be given to many: my table, my desk, and my hand.
Here, in plain words, is everything a place at the High Table gives you.
- Dinner with me, once a year. Once a year you join me and a guest for dinner, in person.
- A direct line to my desk. My own email address, so you can write to me and I will write back myself.
- A book from my own shelves each year. Every year I choose a book from my shelves, write a note inside it by hand, and send it to you.
- My notes on your own writing, once a year. Once a year, if you wish, you send me up to fifteen pages of your writing, and I read it and write back with my thoughts.
- Top of my thank-you pages. Your name sits first among those I thank in my books.
- A filmed look at one book, every month
- My new writing, before it is published
- Office hours with me, twice a year
- A signed book each year, your choice
- Your name in my acknowledgements
$5,000 for the year. There are five seats, and they are filled by invitation, and by conversation first.
These five seats open by invitation, and soon. If one draws you, enter your email below. I read these myself, and I will write to you before any seat is settled.