From the Creators of the Award Winning Film The Village of Lovers
we begin in......
changemakers, edgewalkers, and earth activists
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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JANUARY 29 - FEBRuary 2 2025
FUGITIVE FUTURES
Together, we will follow a spiral of renewal through thought-provoking dialogues, immersive workshops, and community-rooted rituals.
speakers
FEATURED speakers
Activist / Artist / Writer
Pat McCabe
Tamera
Barbara "Bori" Kovats
Professor / Author / Activist
DR. BAYO AKOMOLAFE
Author / Poet / Somatic Educator
KAI CHENG THOM
Cultural Activist / Author
stephen jenkinson
Mythteller / Author / Rites of Passage
Martin Shaw
Author / Social Critic / Feminist Theorist
minna salami
Author / Activist / Teacher
Starhawk
Francis Weller
Psychotherapist / Writer /
Soul Activist
Story Doula / Ecosomatic Depth Guide
Daje Aloh
Miki Kashtan
Visionary / Non-Violence Facilitator / Author
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mIRA STERN
Facilitator / Equity Consultant
Co-Founder of Tamera
Sabine Lichtenfels
Aaron Johnson
Activist / Song Healer / Teacher
Maurizio and Zaya Benazzo
Directors / Activists / Founders
Holly TRuhlar
Grief therapist / Ritualist / Community Organizer
Psychotherapist / Writer / Soul Activist
francis weller
Facilitator / Equity Consultant
Mira Stern
Tamera
Barbara “Bori” Kovats
Activist / Artist / Writer
Pat McCabe
Author / Social Critic / Feminist Theorist
Minna Salami
Ceremonialist / Activist / Author
Stephen Jenkinson
Co-Founder of Tamera
Sabine Lichtenfels
Author / Activist / Teacher
Starhawk
Writer / Mythographer / Christian Thinker
Martin Shaw
KAI CHENG THOM
Author / Poet / Somatic Educator
Story Doula / Ecosomatic Depth Guide
Daje Aloh
Professor / Author / Activist
DR. BAYO AKOMOLAFE
Activist / Song Healer / Teacher
Aaron Johnson
Directors / Activists / Founders
Zaya & Maurizio Benazzo
Grief therapist / Ritualist / Community Organizer
Holly Truhlar
Visionary / Non-Violence Facilitator / Author
Miki Kashtan
Author / Social Critic / Feminist Theorist
Minna salami
Minna Salami is a Nigerian-Finnish and Swedish feminist author, social critic, and currently Program Chair at The New Institute. She has also co-authored children’s books and written content on feminism for numerous anthologies and educational textbooks.
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Activist / Artist / Writer
PAT MCCABE
Pat uses her voice to share about the path to global peace and healing of our culture. She draws upon the Indigenous sciences of Thriving Life to reframe questions about sustainability, balance and how we can support the next generation of humanity.
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Ceremonialist / Activist / Author
STEPHEN JENKINSON
Stephen is a farmer, speaker and creator that focuses his efforts on teaching others the skills to remake human culture in this time of crisis. His understanding is rooted in the earth and history, shedding light on how we can embark on our path as future ancestors and partake of the spiritual work required.
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Professor / Author / Activist
DR. BAYO AKOMOLAFE
Dr. Bayo is a celebrated speaker, post humanist thinker and intellectualist that has founded the Emergence Network as a planet-wide initiative to provide new ways to respond to the critical challenges we currently face as a species.
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Co-Founder of Tamera
Sabine Lichtenfels
Sabine is a theologian, peace activist, author and co-founder of Tamera. She is the head of Tamera’s Global Love School as well as their department for spiritual ecology, Terra Deva. She engages in training people in conflict resolution, building community and peace work in crisis areas.
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Guide / Community Activist / Healer
GIGI COYLE
Gigi Coyle, a global community activist, mentor, and steward of land/water, has facilitated transformative gatherings in 20+ countries since 5th grade. At 74, she champions intergenerational projects for healing and co-founded Walking Water. Co-author of multiple works incl. ‘The Way of Council’.
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Writer / Mythographer / Christian Thinker
Martin shaw
Martin Shaw is a writer, mythographer and Christian thinker. Author of seventeen books, Dr Shaw is the director of the Westcountry School of Myth and founder of the Oral Tradition and Mythic Life courses at Stanford University.
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Author / Activitst / Teacher
Starhawk
Starhawk is an author, activist, permaculture designer and teacher, and a prominent voice in modern earth-based spirituality and ecofeminism. Starhawk founded Earth Activist Training, teaching on earth-based spirituality, the tools of ritual, and the skills of activism.
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Author / Poet / Somatic Educator
KAI CHENG THOM
Kai is a non-binary trans woman and formal social worker, that infuses their unique experiences into compelling essays about how to fall back in love with being human. They believe that each person is born to reshape the world and uses the power of story to invoke cultural transformation, towards a world based on the wisdom of love.
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Story Doula / Ecosomatic Depth Guide
Daje Aloh
Daje Aloh supports seekers, lovers, crafters, and kin in finding and singing the deep song of their lives. She does this in several domains: entrepreneurship, creative rites of passage, and musings on culture-work and leadership in these times.
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Tamera
Barbara “Bori” Kovats
Born in Zurich, Switzerland, Bori has been guided since childhood by a profound question: how can we create a world without suffering? Now a seasoned group leader and longtime resident of Tamera, she draws on a lifetime of research and experience to illuminate the foundations of building thriving communities.
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Facilitator / Equity Consultant
Mira Stern
Mira Stern is a queer white Jew born and raised in San Francisco, who currently lives in Oakland as a settler on Chochenyo Ohlone land. She is a life-long educator and advocate for justice, focusing on developing white antiracist consciousness and capacity for change.
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Psychotherapist / Writer / Soul Activist
francis weller
Francis Weller, MFT, is a psychotherapist, writer and soul activist. He is a master of synthesizing diverse streams of thought from psychology, anthropology, mythology, alchemy, indigenous cultures and poetic traditions.
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Activist / Song Healer / Teacher
Aaron Johnson
Aaron Johnson (he/him) is an earth builder, teacher of closeness, and activist. He uses intimacy and closeness to blackness as a primary means to end rascism with speaking, teaching, singing, photography, filmmaking, and minimalism.
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Zaya And Maurizio Benazzo
Maurizio and Zaya merged their lifelong passions for science and mysticism when they met in 2007, and their first project together was filming the documentary Rays of the Absolute. This project sparked their next level of creation and collaboration: SAND, a global community inspired by the timeless wisdom traditions, informed by modern science, and grounded in direct experience.
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Directors / Activists / Founders
Holly Truhlar
Holly is a grief therapist, ritualist, and community organizer. She is most known for her work in collapse psychology and politicized grief tending. She earned a Doctorate in Law and Masters in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology; but found more Soul, more of what mattered, in witnessing grief and spending time with animal-kin. She facilitates groups using ritual, storytelling, creative processes, and Deep Democracy work.
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Directors / Activists / Founders
Miki Kashtan
Miki Kashtan is a practical visionary pursuing a world that works for all, exploring the application of the principles and tools of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) to social transformation. She dreams of local and global systems based on care for the needs of all life.
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Visionary / Non-Violence Facilitator / Author
Moving Through Fear Towards Freedom
Under increasing threat, it’s normal- even wise- to appease those in power, build fortresses around us, or distance ourselves from those at most risk. Yet real wisdom holds that none of these tactics will ultimately secure our safety. What if instead, we took lessons of inspiration from our ancestors for how to move towards and through the fear, ally with each other, and attempt new pathways real freedom for everyone on the other side? Dove Kent will take lessons from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and current day Jewish organizing to invite us into a conversation about how we build safety.
Tending the Ashes: Grief as the Embers of Emergence
Asher explores how grief holds the latent energy for transformation and renewal. By tending to the ashes of grief, we can foster a deeper connection to life's unfolding and discover new possibilities rising from what has been lost.
Facing Conflict
Conflict doesn’t have to be a roadblock—it can be a chance to connect, grow, and heal. With stories and insights from his work at Bloom Consulting and the Ubuntu Learning Village, Moyo shows how a little curiosity and courage can transform tension into understanding. Guided by Ubuntu’s belief in shared humanity, he’ll help you see conflict as an opportunity to build stronger, more meaningful relationships and lasting peace.
Accountability Starts with Self. So does Intimacy
Too often we think of accountability as punishment and intimacy as romance. In practice, both are catalyzed from within one’s own vulnerable discovery and sharing of Self. As a domestic violence counselor, Elliot explores how this path of introspection, especially for men, is needed in order to tenderize our collective understanding of justice, safety and repair.
The Intimacy of clowning
Taking risks is attractive. Being vulnerable is sexy. Why? You could ask a clown. But don't expect a coherent answer. In this Butterfly Talk, Professor Teddy Love will try to explain why clowning helps us get closer to each other, AND why that is important right now. If he fails, please forgive him. He's just a clown.
Ethical Land Transition Compass: Coordinates of Possibility
The Center for Ethical Land Transition seeks to transform the legacy of colonization by fostering ethical land transitions that center on justice, cultural healing, and Indigenous sovereignty. The Compass is a navigational tool to guide the path of reunion, relinquishment, and repair as together we come into the right relationship with Land.
AI as Creative Companion
Asher Packman
Let's skip the AI hype and explore what actually matters - how these tools can amplify our creativity while staying grounded in human values. I'll share real stories from my journey into the AI realm, from building creative companions to documenting nature, showing what's possible when we approach AI as neither savior nor enemy but as another interesting collaborator in our collective evolution. Bring your curiosity - we'll push some boundaries together.
Finding Harmony With Technology
To support the emergence of new visions for society, we will inevitably need to ally with technology. That can feel intimidating in an attention economy where most mainstream applications distract, isolate and polarize us. In this session, we will bring clarity to our individual and collective relationship with our devices, stand up for our freedom of attention, and explore how to use tech with mindful awareness and joy instead of guilt and shame.
Barnaby King
Elliot Katz
Moyo Rainos Mutamba
Jay Vidyarthi
Kris Krüg
Cassandra Ferrera
Dove Kent
Shame and Guilt to Grief and Action: Transforming Ancestral Legacies of Harm
For those of us whose ancestors were involved in colonization, enslavement, or ecological destruction, feelings of shame and guilt can stifle accountability, or motivate inauthentic, or even harmful, action. Morgan’s story and work invite us to see this shame and guilt as the symptoms of a deeper well of grief. Inspired by Joanna Macy, she shares that only by allowing ourselves to feel this grief can we open a path towards healing, action, and repair. Join us to discuss the potential of grieving together what our ancestors have done and failed to do.
Morgan Curtis
Futurewriting Technologies
Join thestorydoula Daje Aloh for a transformative workshop exploring Futurewriting—a practice for connecting with your inner wisdom, working through patterns, and creating from a place of radical self-responsibility. Drawing from her decade of experience, Daje will guide you in unlocking your creative potential and nurturing new possibilities.
Dancing the Vision Into Matter
Come and activate the visionary intelligence of your body through a lightly guided epic DJ dance site from world-renowned Producer and DJ, MOSE, who weaves world music, tribal beats into electic and soul-shaking electronic/linstrumental music.
Grief Vigil for the Great Clan of the Broken Hearted
A vigil is a devotional gathering where we come together to acknowledge and mourn our personal and collective sorrows. Here, we can slow down, tend to our broken hearts and holy outrage, and join in solidarity with the world's sorrows. We'll invoke ancestors and allies to guide us through the gates of grief together.
facing the fascist within
What if suppressing our basic social and emotional needs while living in conditions of fear, violence, and mistrust leads to fascism? Martin Winiecki, leader of the Institute for Global Peacework at the Tamera eco-village in Portugal, will explore the interconnection between capitalism and fascism, how social and spiritual isolation nourish both systems, and how we have internalized and perpetuate these structures in our daily lives.
Dreams, Visions, Rites - A Ceremonial Life
Come join cultural elders, ritual guides, and community activists, Gigi Coyle and Orland Bishop for a conversation weaving their diverse and profound "life as ceremony as give-away" experiences, exploring the many pathways that we as humans become "claimed by visions," through dreaming, rites-of-passage, community, and surrendering to the more-than-human intelligence that permeates all things.
The Art of Relational Repair
The Art of Relational Repair: Join psychotherapist Jessica Fern and restorative justice facilitator David Cooley to explore relationship healing and growth. Drawing from their experience as co-parents, former partners, and co-authors of Polywise, they'll share practical tools for strengthening connections—whether in romantic partnerships, chosen families, or communities. Join us for a deep dive into the art of relational repair and discover how to transform breakdowns into breakthroughs.
Martin Winiecki - Tamera
Holly Truhlar and Alexandre Jodun- Grief Somatic Therapist
Jessica Fern and David Cooley - Authors of Polysecure and Polywise
Daje Aloh
Gigi Coyle and Orland Bishop
Tending the Bones
Tending the Bones is a collaboration between Lydia Violet and Leah Song of Rising Appalachia, Their workshop will be offering an immersive praxis of cultural self-discovery, now incorporating lessons from Hurricane Helene recovery. Living in diaspora often brings disconnection from land, language, and tradition, leading to assimilation into modern capitalist cultures. However, humanity has always preserved its wisdom through stories and songs, weaving a universal tapestry of resilience and remembrance.
Leah Song and Lydia Violet
Mose
Descent to the River: Grief and the Layers of Letting Go
Join this dialogue with Emerald Podcast Host, and Mytho-Somatic Facilitator, Josh Schrei, on the profound necessity for Grief as a Threshold into the more-than-human Mythic Aliveness and Animacy, which sits at the heart of cultural regeneration. This session will include some light somatic practice and Q and A.
Josh Schrei
The Mythic Path of Repair for Uncertain Times
What does Myth and Story reveal about the Cyclical Nature of Destruction and Renewal throughout Time? Do these old stories, and a certain type of "Mythic Seeing," hold keys to how we can begin walk a path of Repair in these Uncertain Times. Come Join Mythologist Legend, Michael Meade for this riveting workshop.
Michael Meade
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Millie and Nick of Decolonizing Love
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each day, we will have an integration space for you to fully absorb the experience.
Have a session's content still resonating with you? Processing questions or insights that emerged? Join our integration spaces—dedicated times for meaningful dialogue and connection. Share your experiences and join a growing network of people exploring new ways of being.
Reckon with the truths we’ve avoided, making space for authentic engagement.
day one: reckon
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.
day two: grieve
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.
day three: repair
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
day four: vision
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.
day five: emerge
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.
Fugitive Futures Summit 2025
this is for you if...
➡ You are curious about how non-traditional styles of relationships can contribute to collective healing.
➡ You feel like the world’s systems no longer make sense and you’re searching for a new way to navigate the unknown.
➡ You’re longing to explore grief as a transformative force rather than something to fear or avoid.
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➡ You’re curious how embracing the messiness of endings could open the door to new beginnings.
➡ This is for you if you believe that art, myth, and community hold the keys to healing and reimagining our future.
➡ You’re ready to move beyond survival and begin flourishing in the face of uncertainty.
"Thank you again for this beautiful and timely summit. The well of wisdom shared was stirring - something in my core is relaxing; a sense of profound relief of being heard, known, contacted. I’m deeply grateful for the rare spaciousness you brought to the sharing, making room for such unexpected magic to unfold - for truth/love/life to take over.”
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"unexpected magic"
"Just wanted to say wow. The conversations, the brilliance, the feeling - thank you from my heart for bringing together these brilliant hearts and minds. So much gratitude."
- Georgina Jahner, Ph.D.
New Zealand
"MY HEART IS ON FIRE"
“Bless you for forwarding this, this is incredible and some of the medicine I have been needing for the deep well of cultural and environmental grief I have been in. Thank you."
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"The medicine I have been needing"
"I’ve been watching. Yesterday I wept. Still weeping. Thank you for sending it to me."
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"Yesterday I wept. Still weeping."
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.
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john wolftone, julia maryanska & ian mackenzie
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Influenced by Tamera, the Grace Foundation, and teachers, such as Gigi Coyle, Kate Bunney and many others, we’ve learned that financial healing begins with recognizing systemic, cultural, and ancestral money stories.
This journey has required bridging the ethics of gift economics with the realities of late-stage capitalism, embracing transparency, resource-sharing, and handmade lifestyles. The summit pricing reflects our commitment to accessibility and trust, offering suggested, self-determined, and scholarship options to ensure no one is turned away for lack of funds, and allowing the possibility to also gift above our suggested amount.
To bring the film and summit to life, co-founder John Wolfstone took on over $50K in personal loans, an act of bridge-building that reframed outdated narratives around debt, money, and worth. We believe ethical economics begins with honestly assessing and sharing our needs, then giving what we can, and transparently sharing along the way. We commit to share transparently a full financial report after the summit ends, by March 1st.
We recognize the systemic global inequality and for our BIPOC kin, those from the Global South, and those in need, we are offering a scholarship program. Please email contact@thevillageoflovers.com with "SCHOLARSHIP" in the subject line and share your need and desire.
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- What is the difference between keynote talks, Butterfly talks, and workshops?
- Do I need any special technology or software?
- How long is each session?
- Will there be opportunities for connection and community building?
- What does Fugitive mean in this context?
- What is your refund policy?
- Can I participate if I’m new to these concepts?
- How do I access the online summit?
- Do I need to attend the whole summit to take part and receive value?
- Will there be follow-up opportunities after the summit?
- How do integration sessions work?
- Are there scholarships or financial aid options available?
- Is this summit only for activists or professionals?
- What if I can’t attend live sessions?
- Is this going to be depressing?
- Can a summit really create widespread change?
- Can I attend this in a group setting?
Do I need to attend the whole summit to take part and receive value?
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.
how do i access the online summit?
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.
How does the gift economy / self-determined pay work?
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 $.
Can a summit really create widespread change?
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!
Is this going to be depressing?
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.
Can I participate if I’m new to these concepts?
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.
What is your refund policy?
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.
What if I can’t attend live sessions?
Lifetime access to all Summit recordings is available at the STANDARD or ALL-ACCESS pass level, so please make sure you participate at that level if want the full access, not just to workshops, integration sessions and butterfly talks, but also to the recordings. You can revisit the material at your own pace and explore it in a way that works best for you.
What does Fugitive mean in this context?
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.
Will there be opportunities for connection and community building?
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.
What is the difference between keynote talks, Butterfly talks, and workshops?
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.
Can I attend this in a group?
YES! We love and encourage folks to participate in the summit together.
Here are our suggestions for that:
- Gather in one particular location to watch the summit together
- Gather in the evenings, or even one evening, for an integration space together, or perhaps in the days after the summit.
*Folks may want their own computers as both the Butterfly talks, and Workshops, will have multiple offerings at once, and folks will likely want to be free to choose their own adventure.
As support of this endeavor, we want to offer you and your group a significant discount, 35% on attending the summit, ideally, each person has their own registration for numerous reasons. THANK YOU!
Use the code at the checkout to get the discount: FRIENDS35
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JANUARY 29 - FEB 2 2025
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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.
