05
Jan
Otters Playing in the Water
Humor, Play, and the Intelligence of Lightness
9:00 am - 10:30 am
Online

Laughter is not an escape—it’s an opening. This gathering honors humor as an invitation of flow: disrupting stuckness, releasing tension, creating new relations. How...

29
Dec
Chinese Immortals Ritual Painting Unknown Artist
Rituals of Return: Daily Acts as Portals to Presence
9:00 am - 10:30 am
Online

We often think of ritual as sacred or grand—but what if the everyday is already ceremonial? Making tea. Washing hands. Saying goodbye. We’ll explore...

22
Dec
Pope Francis Aura Degard Art
Weather as Mirror: Internal Climate and the Atmosphere of Self
9:00 am - 10:30 am
Online

This event explores emotional states as climates—shaped by context, conversation, and internal landscapes. How do we forecast, respond to, or dance with these shifting...

15
Dec
Two fawns fighting
Conflict as Contact: Navigating Disagreement with Inclusional Depth
8:00 am - 9:30 am
Online

What if conflict wasn’t a rupture, but a moment of deeper contact? In this session, we reenvision disagreement not as opposition, but as opportunity:...

08
Dec
Willem De Kooning The Man of Many Contradictions
The Relational Body: Movement, Boundaries, and Becoming
8:00 am - 9:30 am
Online

Our bodies are more than objects—we are fluid processes of sensing, imagining, expressing, receiving, and responding. This session explores the body not as “mine,”...

01
Dec
Tintagel Cornwall Aure Conscious Degard Art
Belonging Beyond Borders: Place, Identity, and the Sense of Home
8:00 am - 9:30 am
Online

Where do you feel the most you? We’ll reflect on how belonging isn’t only cultural or social—it’s ecological, sensory, and deeply felt. Drawing from...

24
Nov
Middle Earth Alan Rayner
Reciprocity and the Gift: Reimagining Exchange Beyond Transaction
8:00 am - 9:30 am
Online

In all living systems, exchange isn’t measured or recorded... it flows. Mycelia don’t keep accounts; rivers and riverbeds don’t send invoices; Fish don't ledger...

17
Nov
Thomas Cole Voyage of Life Childhood
Listening to Place
8:00 am - 9:30 am
Online

Places speak ~ in their textures, temperatures, silences, histories. Yet in our digital and hybrid spaces, place is often flattened or treated as background...

10
Nov
Four women with disinterested looks
The Rhythms of Attention
8:00 am - 9:30 am
Online

In modern life, attention is often fragmented, prescheduled, or monopolized. But beneath the din, attention has a rhythm: pulses and circulations that can reverberate...

03
Nov
Heterogenous Cells
Heterogeneous Workplace
8:00 am - 9:30 am
Online

Hybrid and remote workplaces are no longer exceptions; they’re common ecosystems. This conversation explores how multiple modes of presence (physical, digital, synchronous, asynchronous) shape...

27
Oct
Montmartre Van Gogh
Energetic Economics
8:00 am - 9:30 am
Online

What if economics were less about extraction and more about exchange, not just of goods, but of energy, attention, and care? This topic invites...

20
Oct
Angels and Acorns by William Blake
The Acorn, The Oak, and The Sapling
8:00 am - 9:30 am
Online

Bodily development is never linear. It spirals, trajects, cycles, and branches. This conversation explores intergenerational ecosystems — how ideas, communities, and identities evolve through...

13
Oct
William Blake Nebuchadnezzar Circa 1800
More Than Human
8:00 am - 9:30 am
Online

In this discussion, we shall gather around the question of what it means to be human. What if the boundaries we are drawing are...

06
Oct
conveyance-of-natural-inclusion-event
The Conveyance of Natural Inclusion
8:00 am - 9:30 am
Online

Monday's gathering will express and embody the natural incorporation of and/or by another, what this means, and how we can share in this delight....

29
Sep
A painting of a flower with a candle inside
Educational Transformation: Embracing Life as a Gift Flow
8:00 am - 9:30 am
Online

Life is not a struggle for ownership, but a dance of gifts passing through us all. How might education transform if it taught us...

22
Sep
Eli Lilly The Children's Zoo Booklet Ad For Vitamins
Reductionism: In All Its Guises
8:00 am - 9:30 am
Online

In today's gathering, we will be discussing how reductionism rears its head in virtually every domain of study, such as, theology, philosophy, mathematics, politics,...

15
Sep
Intertidal Highlands Oil on canvas by Dr. Alan Rayner
Energetic Flow, Bodily Fluidity, and the Omnipresent Stillness of Space
8:00 am - 9:30 am
Online

Spatial qualities are oftentimes mistakenly subsumed to be a condition of matter/energy while flow of energy is understood to be a unidirectional force in...

08
Sep
Stiching in Time Alan Rayner
Seasonality
8:00 am - 9:30 am
Online

We invite you to join us on Monday, September 8th, 2025 for a Natural Inclusional community discussion guided by nature’s wisdom. Together, we will...

07
Jul
Polarization and Propagation
Polarization and Propagation
8:00 am - 9:30 am
Online

What happens when perspectives become polarized? How do emotions, ideologies, and identities propagate through societies - constructively or destructively? And can biology itself offer...

30
Jun
Architectural Configuration
Architectural Configurations
8:00 am - 9:30 am
Online

Today’s session explores the fluid configurations of design - from rooms and thresholds to cities and networks - not just as physical arrangements, but...

23
Jun
A Naturally Inclusive World
A Naturally Inclusive World
8:00 am - 9:30 am
Online

In today’s event, we explore a radically different way of understanding reality - Natural Inclusionality, the philosophy that recognizes all forms as fluid co-creations...

16
Jun
Modes of Perception
Modes of Perception
8:00 am - 9:30 am
Online

Our ways of seeing shape the world we see. Drawing from Alan Rayner’s idea of “natural inclusion,” this discussion explores how perception, whether focused,...

09
Jun
Unforeseen Possibility
Unforeseen Possibility
8:00 am - 9:30 am
Online

Could the architects of rational thought have foreseen the worlds their abstractions create? From Newton’s mechanics to Kant’s categories, the canon of Western rationality...

02
Jun
indigenous
Indigenous Wisdom and Living Cosmologies of the Americas
8:00 am - 9:30 am
Online

This session invites us to move beyond static ideas of “ancient civilizations” and into the vibrant, cyclical ways of being that continue to pulse...

26
May
sanctuary
Inner and Outer Sanctum
8:00 am - 9:30 am
Online

Together, we’ll reflect on how belonging is shaped through boundaries, rituals, and opportunities, not just for comfort, but for deep receptivity.

19
May
self-identity
Recognition and the Fluid Nature of Self
8:00 am - 9:30 am
Online

We'll reflect on how our sense of self is continually shaped by the places we inhabit and the relations we foster.

12
May
clothing in fashion
Clothing, Expression, and Form
8:00 am - 9:30 am
Online

How do styles branch, repeat, and evolve? What does it mean to dress with presence, to inhabit patterns that both ground and shift?

05
May
workplace event
Work That Moves With You
8:00 am - 9:30 am
Online

From wellness to utility, from micro-interactions to organizational structures, we’ll reflect on the many layers that define the lived experience of work.

28
Apr
amphitheatre
Soundscapes, Sonic Identities, and the Ecology of Listening
8:00 am - 9:30 am
Online

What happens when we become a receptive space for sound?

21
Apr
Natural-Learning-Patterns-Event
Natural Learning Patterns
8:00 am - 9:30 am
Online

How might learning shift if every student were seen not as a label or a type, but as a dynamic, relational presence?

14
Apr
Arid Confrontation
Metaphor and Meaning
8:00 am - 9:30 am
Online

From poetry to politics, metaphors influence how we think, feel, and make sense of abstract ideas. But what makes a metaphor resonate? Can metaphors...

07
Apr
Colorful flower with dark background
Dark Influences: An Energetic Matter?
8:00 am - 9:30 am
Online

Over the last century, physicists have acquiesced to using dark influences in order to understand undetectable sources of influence throughout the cosmos. These 'forces'...

31
Mar
Archangels emersed in space
Naturally Inclusive Culture
9:00 am - 10:30 am
Online

Culture influences our sense of belonging and self-identity while shaping and being shaped by individuals and groups. Cultures vary from locality to locality and...

24
Mar
cast iron pot and statue of liberty at odds
Values and Measures
9:00 am - 10:30 am
Online

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion were previously recognized as values to live by but have become measures to 'appropriately' administer policies and procedures. Should we...

17
Mar
Event Featured Images
Evolutionary Diversification
9:00 am - 10:30 am
Online

Since the 19th century, scientific communities have almost universally accepted that Darwinian selection explains the mechanism of evolutionary change. A new natural way of...

10
Mar
Buckstars Occurrity
Aspects of Form
9:00 am - 10:30 am
Online

In today's discussion, we will open with a conversation about form. Possible avenues of dialogue include the human form in all its guises during...

03
Mar
Event Featured Images
Natural Inclusion
8:00 am - 9:30 am
Online

Welcome, NI companions! Here we meet to discuss the implications of Natural Inclusion. Looking forward to flowing with you.