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Welcome

The Depth Leadership Trust is the home of the work of Dr. Hélène Smit, which also can be broadly referred to as Depth Work.

In Depth Work, Hélène uses the combined disciplines of depth psychology and systems thinking to help develop people so that they are able to work beneath, between and beyond for a thriving psyche, community and planet.
Depth psychology is the set of theories and practice that is based on the idea that we each have an unconscious mind. The idea is that, if we each recognise the existence of the unconscious mind, and try to build a line of communication between our conscious and unconscious minds, we have exponentially more access to our own intelligence and creativity.
Secondly, systems thinking is the set of theories that views people and the world as a complex interconnected system and tries to understand the drivers and points of leverage in such a system. There are a host of principles and tools that help us understand systems, so that we can intervene meaningfully to create systemic health.
Hélène’s life work has been to develop and broadly share deep, but accessible and practical, systemic and psychological knowledge, insight and practice that helps people and the planet to thrive. Now, more than ever, it feels important to do this work.

“The world today hangs by a thin thread, and that thread is the psyche of man.” CG Jung, from the film documentary A Matter of the Heart, 1986