Communities of practice · fields of inquiry
A handful of the long-form fellowships, councils, and gatherings that have shaped — and been shaped by — this body of work. These are slower than keynotes: they unfold over weeks, months, or years, in trust with other practitioners.
Photo: Sará King
ACOSTA Institute · October 3rd & 4th, 2025
A two-day online summit exploring how healing-centered principles guide the future of education, business, and technology — through contemplative practice, dialogue, and collaborative inquiry with educators, entrepreneurs, technologists, and changemakers.
Visit ACOSTA Institute →Fathomers
An experimental, long-arc artist-and-scientist gathering convened by Fathomers — a space for relational inquiry across disciplines that don't usually share a room.
Visit AEVN →Inaugural Cohort · 2020 – 2022
Two years inside the inaugural Garrison Institute Fellowship cohort — a contemplatively-grounded community of researchers, practitioners, and changemakers working at the intersection of inner life and collective wellbeing.
About the fellowship →House of Beautiful Business
A House of Beautiful Business gathering exploring what it would mean — honestly, and with care for nervous systems — to ask whether and how AI could be in service of healing rather than harm.
Visit House of Beautiful Business →House of Beautiful Business · 2025
A return to the House of Beautiful Business community for The PolyOpportunity — a gathering on plural futures, holding multiple truths, and the practices that let us stay in relation across difference.
Visit House of Beautiful Business →Council on the Uncertain Human Future · MASS MoCA · 2024
A council convened at MASS MoCA following Bayo Akomolafe's Vunja Carnival — a deep listening process within the Council on the Uncertain Human Future, holding the question of what the universe might be asking of us.
About the council →Schumacher Center for a New Economics · Vunja! 2024
Part of Bayo Akomolafe's Vunja! A Gathering of the Seeds at the Schumacher Center — riverside conversation on new economics, ecological repair, and the slow work of imagining otherwise.
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