You’re invited to gather around the digital fire to reimagine how we grieve, belong, and flourish through inevitable change. Together, let's dare to dream a more fugitive path forward - a way of becoming unmoored, unmade, and alive to new possibilities.
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Reckon with the truths we’ve avoided, making space for authentic engagement.
On the first day, we lean into honesty, confronting the shadowed corners of our cultural and personal narratives. We begin with a communal opening ceremony, acknowledging that we are at a threshold moment. In honest conversation, we face what we’ve avoided, unsettling old certainties that led us to this current moment of crisis. Workshops help us sit with discomfort without rushing toward answers. We leave day one humbled, our old certainties unsettled, preparing ourselves for deeper work ahead.
Feeling the weight of loss to deepen our care.
On the second day, we allow ourselves to feel the weight of what has been lost—species, languages, traditions, ecosystems, ways of life. This is not a quick or easy step; it’s a necessary clearing of emotional ground. Facilitated workshops offer gentle invitations to express sorrow in communal settings—perhaps through ritual lament, poetry, song, or silent witness. We forge bonds of empathy and compassion, recognizing that our sorrow is both love and a starting point for transformation.
Restoring connection, nurturing hope.
On the third day, we turn toward the quiet, steady work of restoration. Having acknowledged painful truths and mourned our losses, we now ask: How do we begin to mend the ruptures in ourselves, our communities, and our relationship to the more-than-human world?
Through workshops we explore methods of cultural healing, conflict resolution, and mutual support, rediscovering our capacity to nurture resilience and tend to broken bonds.
Envisioning Futures Rooted in Kinship
On day four, we turn our gaze to future horizons shaped by mutuality and reverence. Imagination becomes sparked from the fertile ground of death and reparation, and together we ask - from where does vision come? Through workshops stitching together our seeing to our kinship and collaboration, we hold space for freshness to unfold in previously unfathomable ways.
Giving over to the meta-intelligence of creation.
On the final day, we stand at a new threshold. We open ourselves to emergence, embodying what we’ve reclaimed and envisioned, listening deeply, trusting in the coherent power of shared intuition. With whimsy and care, we allow whatever uncertainty, mystery and magic to unfold.
Keynote talks and intimate interviews with leading edge-walkers and thought-leaders guide us through our transformational journey, taking us into uncharted terrain needed for revelatory insight.
Gather around the digital fire with leading luminaries who will guide us through our transformational journey, taking us into difficult and uncharted terrain needed for revelatory insight.
Develop practical skills and new insights. Share practical resources as to how we implement this fugitive style of transformation in reality. Expect rituals, rites, writing and re/culturing of all kinds.
Integration spaces for personal sharing and community building. Share, digest, sense-make and unfurl some of the days learnings so we can integrate into our bodies.
We are bound by a reverential love for this Earth, our home.
And our home is in crisis.
This gathering was forged in response to that crisis, and we invite you to join us in imagining a new way of being together.
In these troubled times, true togetherness asks us to lean into discomfort, to embrace spaces of inquiry and conversation where unexpected wonder and deep kinship might arise.
We bow humbly to the teachers, mentors, guides, and tricksters who illuminate our way. Together, let us nurture resilience through the fires of connection and transformation.
If you choose the Level 3 tier, you will receive access to the The Forbidden Fruit: Unlocking Love and Eros as Organizing Principles of Community Online Course, led by the Filmmakers.
No, although the summit is designed in a progressive developmental flow - this is an unconventional summit, where we are encouraging radical self-responsibility and intuition, to trust which parts of the summit flow you need to be at. It may be that every moment has value for you, and some may want/need to pick and choose, sections/days. AND, the whole summit is recorded, and we encourage returning to material and even approaching this in a non-linear way.
The summit talks will be hosted on talk studio and you will receive a link to that day's talks in your email, the night before.
The integration sessions and workshops will be hosted on zoom and links will also be in the introductory email as well as mailed the day before.
A. We believe in the gift economy and each summit access option is offered on a self-determined price tier with a suggested amount. This is to empower you (and the culture) to truly offer back based on need and intuition. WE trust you to give what you can, and even more than our baseline as you feel inspired, and trust the gift to provide us what we need. Please see this financial trnasparency and educaiton page to hear about our way with $.
We are curating this summit online in order to stoke offline impact. When you go to a chiropractor and they give you a chiropractic adjustment, it may help temporarily, but it’s up to you to work on your posture and strengthen your muscles to hold better alignment long term. While in our time, many of us are looking for quick fixes, this intend for this summit to be like an acupuncture treatment, touching on nodes that may stimulate our systems to feel, think and move in new ways. And widespread change will come from us integrating and taking home when we learn and apply these methods, modalities and tools into our everyday lives, relationships and communities. And we will be offering integration possibilities for further engagement, connection and learning beyond the summit!
No! At Fugitive Futures we will be embracing holism. As we face the polycrisis, we’ll be teasing apart the underpinnings that contribute to the systems that are extracting exploiting and deranging the life giving order of nature. We’ll be embracing difficult feelings and making space for grief in well held ritual containers, and encouraging people to feel, in order to make room for the praise, wonder and kinship emerge when we hold space for grief.
Absolutely! This summit is designed to meet people at all levels of experience. Whether you’re deeply immersed in regenerative practices or exploring these ideas for the first time, the summit offers a mix of introductory concepts and advanced insights. You’ll also have access to integration sessions to help contextualize and apply what you learn.
We operate on a basis of ethical economics, allowing you to make a self-determined payment. This approach offers an alternative to fixed capitalist structures. We've curated a diverse range of experiences—from keynote talks to interactive workshops, film access, integration spaces, and opportunities to deepen your engagement with course content. Each session comes with detailed descriptions to help you make an informed investment decision. Even if certain sessions don't resonate with you, your access grants you a rich variety of enriching content. You'll also receive lifetime access to recordings of all sessions, so you can revisit them or catch up if you miss anything. Due to our team's limited capacity, we cannot process refunds. We invite you to trust in the process.
We have Dr. Bayo Akomolafe, Stephen Jenkinson and many others to thank for bringing forth this fugitive memetic. In this context, “fugitive” refers to a way of being that escapes the confines of dominant paradigms and oppressive systems. It’s about becoming unbound from cultural narratives that no longer serve us, and instead daring to forge space for that honor uncertainty, cultivate connection, and invite us into deeper kinship with the Earth and each other.
Yes! Beyond the keynote talks and workshops, the summit includes integration sessions and interactive spaces to foster connection and dialogue. These are opportunities to engage with other participants, share experiences, and build relationships rooted in mutual learning and support.
Keynote talks are designed to inspire and provide big-picture ideas from visionary leaders. Butterfly talks are shorter, more intimate reflections by various speakers, offering personal insights and stories. Workshops are interactive, hands-on sessions where participants can deepen their understanding and practice the concepts introduced during the summit.
JANUARY 28 - FEB 2 2025
The way forward lies in embracing the unknowing — together, with courage and curiosity. We can’t promise quick fixes or problem-solving solutions. But this is an opportunity to unlearn stale ways of thinking and plant the deep taproots of capacity, both individual and collective, needed to live into the world you long for.
your lostness is not a personal "failing," but a recognition of our collective crisis.