​This Dilemma Lab is a small-group lab for people building without clear external validation. If you are building something that doesn’t fit the usual templates, this session offers a facilitated space to work with uncertainty, legitimacy, and choice-making.

​Maybe it’s a business, practice, or body of work rooted in a specific community, culture, or set of values. Maybe it’s early-stage, intentionally slow, or oriented toward a future that doesn’t yet have a clear name, market, or category.

​What you know is this:
there is no obvious playbook for what you’re doing.

​No clean benchmarks.
No ready-made success stories.
No external validation you fully trust.

​Instead, you keep encountering questions like:

​“Is this too niche?”
“How big can this really get?”
“Is this a smart move—or am I being idealistic?”
“Whose standards am I actually using to judge this work?”

​Candidly, what you’re really grappling with is something quieter and harder to name:

​How do I continue to act with conviction and internally generated authority when the world cannot yet confirm my choices?

​Uncharted Work is a Dilemma Lab designed for people sitting right inside this tension.

​Not to resolve it neatly.
But to learn how to hold it without losing coherence or self-trust.

​It’s about learning how to act before legitimacy arrives.

​What this Dilemma Lab is

​Uncharted Work is a small-group facilitated dialogue and working space for entrepreneurs, builders, and practitioners navigating unvalidated paths. That work may be:

​• culturally grounded or community-specific
• early-stage, emergent, or intentionally slow
• difficult to explain using dominant market language
• meaningful, but not yet externally legible

​Why this matters

​When people lack support for navigating uncharted paths, they often respond in one of two ways:

​They dilute the work until it becomes legible but hollow.
Or they abandon it altogether, mistaking isolation for a sign they were wrong.

​Neither response is a failure of courage or competence.
It’s a failure of support for meaning-making under uncertainty.

​This lab exists to interrupt that pattern, not by promising certainty, but by helping you become the kind of person who can move responsibly and confidently without it.

​How the lab works

​Participants come with one live, unresolved dilemma — a real decision or tension where questions of legitimacy, scale, worth, or timing are actively present.

​Together, we will:
• surface the external standards you may be unconsciously using
• examine where authority is being outsourced — subtly or overtly
• work with tensions as polarities (not binaries), such as
– Legibility ↔ Integrity
– Scale ↔ Specificity
– Conviction ↔ Responsiveness
• practice staying in ambiguity long enough for clearer internal structure to emerge.

​There is no advice-giving and no optimisation.

​This is a collaborative space to develop your ability to see and relate to the standards, assumptions, and voices that usually operate invisibly.

​What this is not

​To protect the integrity of the space, it’s important to be clear about what this lab is not:

​• This is not a business strategy or scaling workshop
• This is not a “quit your job and follow your passion” session
• This is not about convincing you that niche is inherently superior
• This is not a space for passive listening or inspiration-only consumption

​You will be asked to reflect, map, and engage honestly with your own decision-making patterns.

​Investment

​Standard - $137.5

​Concession - $110 (for those who need a little financial breathing room. No questions asked)

​Members - all Dilemma Labs and online workshops are free for Ijeruka members. To learn more about membership, visit our website.