TACTICAL IMAGINATION FOR UNCERTAIN TIMES

JANUARY 28 - FEBruary 2 2025

From the Creators of the Award Winning Film The Village of Lovers

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 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 28 - FEBRuary 2 2025

FUGITIVE FUTURES

Together, we will follow a spiral of renewal through thought-provoking dialogues, immersive workshops, and community-rooted rituals.

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the spiral of our journey

5-day transformational experience

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emerge

day 5

reckon

day 1

grieve

day 2

repair

day 3

 vision

day 4

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.

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.

15+ speakers

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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.

10+ butterfly talks

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.

8+ workshops

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.

daily integration

Fugitive Futures Summit 2025

this is for you if...

➡ You have this gnawing sense that there is something missing from the way we build communities."

➡ 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 wonder what we might create if we stopped clinging to control and started listening to life itself.

➡ 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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“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."

 past summit PArtcipant

"I’ve been watching. Yesterday I wept. Still weeping. Thank you for sending it to me."

 past summit PArtcipant

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.

a message from the curators:

john wolftone, julia maryanska & ian mackenzie

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what people said about our previous summit:

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$197

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level 3:
most value

Everything from Level 1 & 2, plus:

+ The Forbidden Fruit Course
($197 Value!)
+ Previous Summit Recordings
+ Exclusive webinar recordings with guest teachers like Jessica Fern & Charles Eisenstein.

$47*

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level 1:
most accessible

$97

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level 2:
most popular

Everything from Level 1, plus:

+ Butterfly Talks
+ Integration Sessions
+ Interactive Workshops
+ All Summit Recordings
+ Director's Commentary on the film

Our pricing model reflects our vision of "Ethical Economics".

This Level includes:

+ Keynote Talks & Conversations
+ Keynote Recordings
+ The Village of Lovers Film

*Sliding scale available starting at $10.

For our POC kin and those from the Global South, who need further support to access, click here >

Over the past decade, 'The Village of Lovers' has been a community-funded exploration of Ethical Economics, inspired by Gift Economics and supported by private donors and over 770 allies through two Kickstarter campaigns.

Influenced by Tamera, the Grace Foundation, and mentors like Gigi Coyle and Kate Bunney, 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 and self-determined 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, and then giving what we can.

If you have a need around pricing that would support your participation, please reach out to Dan at contact@thevillageoflovers.com. We are committed to ensuring access for all as we co-create a regenerative future together.

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For our POC kin and those from the Global South we offer a discount code for Level 1. If you need further support, please this code at checkout: 

POCACCESS

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Keynote talks+ conversation Recordings

The Village of Lovers Film

Directors Commentary of the Film

Butterfly Talks

Integration Sessions

Afternoon Workshops

all session Lifetime Recordings


The Forbidden Fruit online Course ($197 value)

PREVIOUS SUMMIT RECORDINGS ($97 value)

exclusive webinars with Jessica Fern, Victor Warring, Bayo Akomolafe, Charles Eisenstein, Liv Boree and more.
LEVEL 3:
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LEVEL 1:
$47
LEVEL 2:
$97

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the forbidden fruit online course

LEVEL 3 Highlight: VALUED AT $197

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.

This course gave me bearings inside a terrain that up until this point had been rife with instability and confusion.

I couldn’t imagine doing relationship and community without the building blocks John, Julia and Ian have masterfully broken down here for us. 

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?

Don’t worry! All summit sessions will be recorded, and you’ll receive lifetime access 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.

Is this summit only for activists or professionals?

Not at all. This summit is for anyone who feels called to engage with the topics of regenerative culture, ethical economics, and deep connection. Whether you're an activist, educator, artist, parent, or simply curious, there’s a place for you here.

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.

Are there scholarships or financial aid options available?

We’ve implemented a self-determined pricing model to ensure the summit is accessible to everyone, regardless of financial capacity. If you identify as POC or come from the Global South, you can also use our honor-based system to attend for as little as $0 by using the code POCACCESS at checkout. 

How long is each session?

Keynote talks typically last 60–90 minutes. Butterfly talks are shorter, about 20–30 minutes. Workshops and integration sessions range from 1 to 2 hours, depending on the facilitator and structure.

How do integration sessions work?

Integration sessions are guided spaces where participants can process what they’ve learned, share reflections, and explore how to apply the material in their lives. They’re designed to help you deepen your experience and find personal meaning in the summit content.

Do I need any special technology or software?

You’ll need a stable internet connection to access the summit sessions. Keynotes are hosted on Talk Studio, and workshops and integration sessions take place on Zoom. Links will be sent via email in advance, and both platforms are user-friendly.

Will there be follow-up opportunities after the summit?

Yes! We’ll offer pathways to stay connected, such as additional courses, community calls, and other events. These will help you continue learning, building relationships, and integrating the insights from the summit into your daily life.

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.

a final invitation

JANUARY 28 - 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.