Parallel, Not Lesser
The same arc.
A different tempo.
Opus Synergiae — the flagship twenty-commission programme — is composed across eighteen to twenty-four months. Cursus Synergiae is not a shortened version of that great work. It is a parallel work, designed from its foundations for twelve months rather than twenty-four: different commissions, different settings, its own capstone. The seven-skill arc is identical. The SDG grounding is identical. The quality of development is identical. Only the tempo differs.
This is the right choice when a leadership team has a genuine twelve-month window — a strategic period, a post-merger integration, a new programme cycle — in which intensive development is both appropriate and possible, not when an organisation simply wants Opus Synergiae faster.
Commission 12 · SDG 17
The Seal.
Not the twelfth commission. The answer to the first.
Before any scenario work begins at Commission 1, every participant completes a Phase I Strategic Readiness Assessment — a structured, individual commitment to the skills they will develop, the dysfunctions they bring into the programme, and the changes they believe twelve months will produce. The facilitator seals it. No one sees it again until The Seal.
The Seal is a LION-class operation — a National Emergency Leadership Council scenario run at strategic command level, with a 45-minute briefing and no advance notice. The crisis is not designed around the sealed assessments after the fact; it surfaces the same dysfunctions that any genuine pressure would reveal.
Phase I (45 min) — LION briefing. The room does not yet know the sealed assessments will return.
Phase II (90 min) — The operation. Strategic command under live crisis conditions.
Phase III (30 min) — Post-Incident Leadership Report, written individually, not yet discussed.
The Return — Sealed Phase I assessments distributed. Fifteen minutes of silence while each participant reads what they wrote against what they just wrote.
The Debrief (60 min) — What was kept. What was not. What changed in twelve months. What did not.
Programme Specifications
Twelve months.
Cross-functional by design.
Participants — 8–14 per organisation, cross-functional recommended
Entry requirement — Synergy Score plus the sealed Phase I Strategic Readiness Assessment, completed before Commission 1
Prior experience — MERIDIAN, FIDUCIARY, or SITUS strongly advised, not mandatory
Between-commission documentation — Decision Log (evolves across phases), Commitment Card, Between-Commission Observation Log
Exit deliverable — Programme Completion Record, Binding Act Registry entry, Synergy Score comparison (entry vs exit)
Investment
Programme fees
Direct — £13,500 per participant — the full twelve-commission arc, all briefing packs, Decision Logs, Commitment Cards, the Phase I Assessment, The Seal, Programme Completion Record, and Synergy Score at entry and exit.
Sponsored — £14,400 per participant — organisationally sponsored individual places within a cohort.
Commissioned — £10,800 per participant, minimum 12 — commissioned by an organisation for its own cross-functional cohort.
Founding — £5,400 per participant — the founding-cohort rate for organisations committing early to the programme's first runs.
Cursus Synergiae sits above Condotta and below Opus Synergiae in the Institute's fee structure — a positioning decision reflecting the programme's depth, not a pure per-hour calculation. An organisation considering Cursus Synergiae is encouraged to experience the framework first through a SITUS or MERIDIAN session before committing to the full twelve-month arc.
