Groundwork Lab
A Peer Accelerator Focused on Your Life Outside of Tech
Application Deadline: December 15, 2025
As 2026 approaches and the pace of life accelerates, it’s easy to lose sight of what matters most.
Groundwork Lab offers a space to slow down, reflect, and rebuild the foundations that support your life beyond work. It’s a peer accelerator rooted in creativity, presence, and quiet momentum — designed for those ready to invest in their relationships, rituals, and sense of purpose.
Across six seasonal Saturday mornings, participants gather in closed-door, small-group workshops to reconnect with the people and values that ground them. Through storytelling, intentional practice, and peer reflection, you’ll explore what it means to show up with clarity and care — for yourself, your loved ones, and the life you’re shaping in 2026.
Just as strong foundations support lasting growth, Groundwork Lab helps you turn small insights into steady, meaningful shifts. Whether you’re a caregiver, partner, or simply someone seeking to live more intentionally, this is your space to set the tone for a centered, connected year ahead.
Program Dates:
Application Deadline: December 15, 2025. Reviewed and accepted on a rolling basis.
January 10 – Closing the Circle. We begin the accelerator and year by looking back. This session invites reflection on the past, clarity around what truly matters, and space to set intentions for how you want to show up in your family relationships in 2026.
February 7 – Love. Timed just before Valentine’s Day, this session explores how we give and receive love across different roles—partner, parent, sibling, child, friend—and how we can better express care in ways that resonate.
March 7 – Legacy & Memory. This session focuses on the stories, people, and traditions that shape us. We'll explore what we’ve inherited, what we want to carry forward, and what we may choose to release or reimagine.
May 9 – Reimagining Rituals. From birthdays to holidays to Sunday dinners, this session is about updating (or inventing) the rituals that hold families together. We’ll explore how traditions can evolve to feel more inclusive, joyful, and intentional.
July 11 – Creative Connections. In the heart of summer, we’ll play with ways to connect more deeply through creativity, technology, and everyday moments. This session will offer tools and prompts to help deepen presence with loved ones—even at a distance.
September 13 – Before the Rush. As the holiday season looms, we’ll pause to prepare. This session focuses on boundary-setting, joy-protecting, and laying the groundwork for a season that feels nourishing rather than draining.
November 7 – Graduation Celebration. We close the circle with gratitude, reflection, and a gentle celebration of the work we’ve done and the people we’ve become. You’ll leave with tools, memories, and intentions to carry into the year ahead.
Confidentiality: Meetings follow Chatham House rules to encourage candor, reflection, and curiosity.
Pricing: $149/month, 12-month committment + optional add-ons
Peer accelerators are curated learning groups designed to unleash innovation and help our clients be happier, more productive, and more connected.
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Co-facilitator, Deepwork Lab
Founder and CEO, Intentional Gravity
Director of Platform, PACE Healthcare CapitalE.J. Reedy designs programs that help people navigate both the intensity of modern work and the parts of life that matter most. As Founder and CEO of Intentional Gravity, he creates small, trusted communities where reflection, connection, and intentional practice lead to meaningful personal change.
His career has focused on helping leaders make sense of complexity and move forward with clarity—from building innovation ecosystems across the Midwest to advising founders and investors at PACE Healthcare Capital. He previously helped scale Portal Innovations, led major initiatives at the University of Chicago’s Polsky Center, and shaped national entrepreneurship work at the Kauffman Foundation.
Through Groundwork Lab, E.J. brings his strengths in facilitation, storytelling, and systems thinking to support tech professionals who want to reconnect with their relationships, rituals, and sense of purpose beyond work.
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Co-Facilitator, Groundwork Lab
Senior Consultant, Clarkston ConsultingAn artist and creator at heart, PK Sundar works across mediums—textile art, music, and other creative practices that offer grounding, exploration, and connection. PK views creativity as a meaningful space for rediscovering identity and community—work that deeply shapes how they show up in the Groundwork Lab.
By day, PK is a Senior Consultant at Clarkston Consulting, supporting clients across tech sectors from retail to biotech. They focus on operational transformation and helping organizations build stronger, more intentional systems. PK has also been a steady DEI leader within Clarkston, advancing LGBTQ+ inclusion and strengthening cultures of belonging through inclusive communication practices.
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This is for people who want to be more intentional with how they show up for family and self—whether that’s biological, chosen, or somewhere in between. It’s a fit for those navigating parenthood, aging parents, life transitions, or simply the desire to make family (biological or chosen) more connected, creative, and present.
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Because we spend so much energy on our work, networks, and ambitions, we often neglect the relationships closest to us. Groundwork Lab offers a structured, gentle space to reflect, reset, and experiment with ways to bring more meaning, presence, and creativity into your private life.
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Groundwork Lab is a peer acclerator that that meets every other month on Saturday mornings in an intimate space during 2026. Each session helps you gain skills and perspectives on connecting more with those that you love. Over the six-session program, fellows nurture skills, explore creative tools, and define their intentions for 2026.
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Small, high-trust cohort (only 8 people)
Intimate settings (typically in-home)
Builds skills and intentionality
Anchored in key seasonal moments (Valentine’s Day, summer, holidays)
Optional add-ons like 1:1 coaching at 10% discount
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Groundwork Lab is different from many professional and personal-development programs. To help you understand fit, here’s what it is not:
Is this a productivity or performance-optimization program?
No.
Groundwork Lab is not about maximizing output. It is about presence, relationships, rituals, and personal clarity — the foundations that support the rest of life, including work, but are not driven by work.Is this therapy?
No. While the program includes reflection and emotional insight, it is not group therapy or a therapeutic substitute. It is a structured peer accelerator focused on intentional living, connection, and meaning-making.
Is this a parenting, marriage, or caregiving workshop?
No. You don’t need to be a parent, partner, or caregiver to participate.
Groundwork Lab supports all forms of relationships — chosen family, friends, siblings, elders, community — and invites you to reflect on the roles that matter most to you.Is this a tech or leadership program?
Kind of. Unlike our career-focused accelerators, Groundwork Lab is about your human life outside of tech. But Intentional Gravity only works with clients in tech so Groundwork Fellows will all be from tech. Participants work in innovation or adjacent fields, but the accelerator centers values, rituals, relationships, and identity — not industry advancement.
Is this a quick-fix self-help course?
No. Groundwork Lab is designed for slow, steady, meaningful shifts across the year. This is not a five-step formula. It is a communal process of reflection, experimentation, and gentle transformation.
Is this a casual drop-in group?
No. This is a closed cohort with consistent membership, confidentiality, and cumulative work across the seasons. Each session builds on the last as you deepen trust and practice new forms of intentionality.
Is this religious or spiritual programming?
No.
Groundwork Lab is secular and inclusive.
We honor traditions and rituals from participants’ lives without prescribing any belief system.Is this about big, dramatic life changes?
Not necessarily. Some participants take bold steps. But Groundwork Lab is built on the idea that small shifts in attention and ritual change everything — presence, connection, and how you show up in the world.