
Humor, Play, and the Intelligence of Lightness
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...

Rituals of Return: Daily Acts as Portals to Presence
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...

Weather as Mirror: Internal Climate and the Atmosphere of Self
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...

Conflict as Contact: Navigating Disagreement with Inclusional Depth
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:...

The Relational Body: Movement, Boundaries, and Becoming
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,”...

Belonging Beyond Borders: Place, Identity, and the Sense of Home
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...

Reciprocity and the Gift: Reimagining Exchange Beyond Transaction
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...

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

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

Heterogeneous Workplace
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...

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

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

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

The Conveyance of Natural Inclusion
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....

Educational Transformation: Embracing Life as a Gift Flow
Life is not a struggle for ownership, but a dance of gifts passing through us all. How might education transform if it taught us...

Reductionism: In All Its Guises
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,...

Energetic Flow, Bodily Fluidity, and the Omnipresent Stillness of Space
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...

Seasonality
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...

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

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

A Naturally Inclusive World
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...

Modes of Perception
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,...

Unforeseen Possibility
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...

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

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

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

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

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

Soundscapes, Sonic Identities, and the Ecology of Listening
What happens when we become a receptive space for sound?

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

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

Dark Influences: An Energetic Matter?
Over the last century, physicists have acquiesced to using dark influences in order to understand undetectable sources of influence throughout the cosmos. These 'forces'...

Naturally Inclusive Culture
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...

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

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

Aspects of Form
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...

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