Dr. Sará King, PhD

My name is Dr. Sará King. I am a neuroscientist, medical anthropologist, artist, contemplative scientist, and liberatory technologist. For more than twenty years I have been asking what it means for science, art, music and embodied practices such as yoga and meditation to serve collective liberation and well-being.

I research, build, teach, coach, speak, and write from that intersection. They inform how I cultivate loving-awareness in action in the world. I am passionate about collaborating with leaders, artists, organizations, and builders who dedicate their lives to supporting collective healing and creating infrastructures of care in the world.

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Dr. Sará King sitting in meditation on a coastal dune at Ocean Beach, San Francisco, surrounded by dune grass at golden hour. — Ocean Beach, San Francisco · Photo: Sará King

Loving-awareness in action is a practice that starts with the intention to heal and recognize our wholeness in the body, and ripples out into the collective nervous system from there.

A close portrait of Sará King at the ocean — eyes lowered, long braids catching the sun, sky and sea behind her. — At the water · Self-portrait

Ways to work together

Six doorways into the work.

Work with me one‑to‑one.

Private, sustained work — one to one. SBAM-based executive coaching for leaders navigating transition, pressure, or the slow arc of becoming who they are next. For practitioners, executives, and builders doing the internal work as the foundation of their external one.

This doorway also holds initiations — a contemplative, embodied, ritual- and ceremony-centered process for those who wish to mark a threshold with intention. A personalized journey through the SBAM, the Science of Social Justice, and practices of activating ancestral intelligence, shaped one-to-one to the season you are in.

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Hire me to build something meaningful.

Whether you are developing a platform, a curriculum, a contemplative practice infrastructure, or a community-based tool — I bring the Science of Social Justice into the architecture of what we make together. Built from the inside out.

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Agent design.

Well-being-centered AI agent protocols and consulting. I work with companies and builders developing AI systems — bringing expertise in designing agents whose fundamental orientation is toward care, co-regulation, and human flourishing rather than constraint.

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Bring me in.

Workshops, retreats, keynotes, and advisory engagements for organizations, institutions, and gatherings where the work of healing and the work of leadership are ready to meet.

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Read, listen, learn.

Two decades of research, writing, and public work — in peer-reviewed journals, anthologies, magazine articles, and a book in progress. Enter through any door.

Enter the writing →

Liberatory Technology.

Building technology in service of collective liberation, healing, and well-being — including MindHeart AI and Love Atlas.

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The frameworks

Two named systems, twenty years in the making.

SBAM

The Systems-Based
Awareness Model.

A framework for understanding how the personal nervous system and the collective nervous system are in continuous relationship — and how contemplative practice, held with identity-awareness, can heal at both scales at once.

Learn about SBAM →

SSJ

The Science of
Social Justice.

The integrated study of how well-being practices, neuroscience, and the work of collective liberation become one motion when held in right relationship. The intellectual spine of the forthcoming book.

Learn about SSJ →

Sunlit redwood grove with russet bark and dappled green understory — cathedral light coming through the canopy.

Northern California · Photo: Sará King

Currently building

Love Atlas

Love Atlas is a living map of how humanity experiences love, healing, and wellbeing — across time, across cultures, and across the world.

Part research platform, part community sanctuary, Love Atlas gathers geo-tagged stories, ancestral wisdom, cultural practices, and field dispatches from news sources and from people in every corner of the globe. These stories are organized across three temporal eras: the wisdom of the past, the pulse of the present, and the horizon of the future.

At its heart is a simple, profound belief: that love, healing, and wellbeing can be visualized in real time for the benefit of humanity and the more than human world — because these phenomena are fields. They are shaped by culture, by place, by lineage, and by time. And when we map them together, something becomes visible that no platform has ever made visible before.

Love Atlas is built for healers, researchers, practitioners, and anyone who senses that the dominant systems for understanding wellbeing are missing something essential. It is a place to share your story, explore the stories of others, find practices rooted in your own cultural framework, and contribute to a growing body of knowledge about what it actually means to be well — in your body, your lineage, your community, and your world.

Something beautiful is coming. We can't wait to share it with you.

The Love Atlas

A lush California garden with Spanish moss draping from trees, ferns, and a figure walking the path.

California · Photo: Sará King

past clients + collaborators

Google Nike Harvard Medical School Ford Foundation MoMA Brooklyn Museum Sounds True Insight Timer Garrison Institute Jordan Brand

From Yafah

Yafah — a personal magazine, in the making.

Dr. Sará King standing in the Door of No Return on Goree Island, Senegal — the last threshold many enslaved Africans crossed before being taken across the Atlantic. — Goree Island, Senegal · Photo: Sará King

Inaugural essay · Senegal

On the Door of No Return.

On my first journey to West Africa, I stood inside the doorway where my ancestors stood before their forced voyage on the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. I emerged from that experience of connecting deeply to my ancestral intelligence through place, land, sea, and feeling, forever changed.

Coming with the zine launch.

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Stay close to the work

A quiet monthly note.

Once a month or so, I send a short reflection, a contemplative practice you can take into your day, news of what I am building, and where I will be speaking. No noise. No funnel. Just the slow current of the work.