Event Schedule
Join us Online this Dec. 14th – 18th, 2025
Additional Speakers Coming Soon!
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Program Overview
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The program of the Forum is designed in the spirit of truth pursued, not truth possessed. The invitation to Delegates is to join us in a spirit of collaborative inquiry. This is why we are convening the entire six year process from 2025 - 2030 around a single question: How should humanity refine its consciousness to creatively respond to the four most consequential truths of our time: planetary ecological collapse, turbulence at every level of human affairs, exponential growth in AI, and the reality of cosmic intelligence on Earth?
Refining our consciousness to respond to these four truths will require us to use all the intelligences available to us: human intelligence, nature intelligence, artificial intelligence, cosmic intelligence. How we understand these truths and intelligences and work with them to co-create our future will shape the Forum agenda.
This Forum is unprecedented. It marks the first time that the question we are posing has ever been seriously considered at a public level. The Forum will also be the first time that Cosmic Intelligence has been integrated with other world issues in an international gathering. These firsts make this a conversation of a lifetime. Our reality is that not only are we not alone, we cannot make it alone. We must undertake a revolutionary shift in paradigm for human identity and for humanity’s relationship with the larger ecology of life. .
We are in the process of adding additional Speakers to those who are already confirmed. What follows is the thematic flow of the Forum and Speakers confirmed to date. Check this page for updates. The agenda and Speaker lineup will be refined as the Forum develops. Speaker Bios are in the Speakers section.
Musical entertainment will take place during morning and afternoon 30 minute breaks and in the evening.
Those joining online will participate virtually.
Sunday, December 14th
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4:00 - 6:00 PM
We gather not as strangers in a ballroom but as part of a greater story that began long before this moment. Apela Colorado will offer the invocation, Lynne Twist will bring blessings, other elders will open the circle, calling in the ancestors and the living Earth to witness our work.
Jim Garrison and Tom Eddington will invite us into a shared commitment: to listen deeply, to speak truthfully, and to remember that the wisdom we need is already present — in each other, in the land, from the sky.
6:30 - 7:30 PM
Dinner, getting to know one another, sharing aspirations
8:00 - 9:30 PM
Storytelling received from the ancestors with Arvol Looking Horse and other elders. Later, Chris Bledsoe and family will lead us under the open sky, where stories and phenomena entwine, where seeing differently begins.
Monday, December 15th
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7:00 – 8:00 AM
Morning begins with breath, stillness, and grounding practices to connect body, mind and spirit.
7:30 - 8:30 AM
Breakfast
9:00 - 10:30 AM
Opening Plenary: Contextualizing, Identifying and Connecting the Dots
Karl Nell will frame the era we are entering — one where human, ecological, artificial, and cosmic intelligences are no longer separate domains but threads of a single living ecosystem.
11:00 - 12:30 PM
Plenary: Turbulence and Truth-Telling
Osprey Orielle Lake and Werjayo Berito Kuwaru’wa speak from the frontlines of climate disruption and cultural survival. They remind us that the crises we face are not abstract — they live in the rivers, in the bodies of women, in the ways we speak and act with each other.12:30 - 1:30 PM
Lunch break during which participants and Speakers will sit together in the Grand Ballroom and share their perspectives and ideas in response to the two plenaries.
2:00 - 3:30 PM
Plenary: The Exponential Mirror of AI
Peter Swain invites us to see AI not just as a tool, but as a mirror that reflects our collective mind — its genius, its blind spots, its dangers and its capacity to reshape our reality faster than our societies or governments can comprehend.4:00 - 5:30 PM
Plenary: Cosmic Disclosure as Human Reckoning
Ross Coulthart takes us to the edge of official secrecy, where evidence of non-human intelligences asks us to reconsider who we are in the architecture of life.6:00 - 7:00 PM
Dinner conversations deepen the day’s threads.
8:00 - 9:00 PM
After dinner entertainment in the Blue Room
9:00 - 10:30 PM
Storytelling with the elders, followed by Chris Bledsoe and family leading us under the open sky, where stories and phenomena entwine, where seeing differently begins.
Tuesday, December 16th
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7:00 – 8:00 AM
Morning begins with breath, stillness, and grounding practices to connect body, mind and spirit.
7:30 - 8:30 AM
Breakfast
9:00 - 10:30 AM
Plenary: Nature’s Living Language
Veda Austin reveals water’s capacity to communicate. Gary Shapiro shares decades of conversation with great apes. Leen Gorissen frames nature not as a resource but as a mentor whose design principles we must apprentice to.
11:00 - 12:30 PM
Plenary: Cosmic Co-Creation
Birdie Jaworski and Chris Bledsoe share direct encounters with cosmic intelligences, offering stories that are as intimate as they are vast — stories where contact becomes collaboration.12:30 - 1:30 PM
Lunch break during which participants and Speakers will sit together in the Grand Ballroom and share their perspectives and ideas in response to the two plenaries.
2:00 - 3:30 PM
Plenary: Where Intelligences Meet
Marie-Noelle Keijzer, Jonathan Berte, Deep Prasad demonstrate how AI can become a translator between species — bridging human and non-human languages and mapping the intelligence web of which we are a part.4:00 - 5:30 PM
Plenary: The Language of Consciousness
Rupert Sheldrake, Diane Hennesy, Dalia and Lidu Burgoin explore telepathy, remote viewing, and the subtle senses that allow humans to converse beyond the limits of time, space, speech or technology.6:00 - 7:00 PM
Dinner conversations deepen the day’s threads.
8:00 - 9:00 PM
After dinner entertainment in the Blue Room
9:00 - 10:30 PM
Storytelling with the elders, followed by Chris Bledsoe and family leading us under the open sky, where stories and phenomena entwine, where seeing differently begins.
Wednesday, December 17th
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7:00 - 8:00
Morning begins with breath, stillness, and grounding practices to connect body, mind and spirit.
7:30 - 8:30 AM
Breakfast
9:00 - 12:30 PM
Ceremonial Morning: Healing the Fracture
Indigenous elders and youth lead us through ritual, apology and forgiveness — not as performance but as a technology of the heart that heals the past and unburdens the future. Fr. Joshtrum Kureethadam, Anne Poelina, Lisa Miller, and Chief Phil Lane embody the courage to speak from the wound and from the possibility of healing.12:30 - 1:30
Lunch break during which participants and Speakers will sit together in the Grand Ballroom and share their perspectives and ideas in response to the morning.
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2:00 - 3:30 PM
Plenary: Regenerative Economies
Alex Cahana and an emissary of the King of Bhutan speak to a strategic initiative promoting moral accountability and sacred economics based on happiness and mutual commitments.4:00 - 5:30 PM
Plenary: Ethical Horizons in Space
Anna Brady-Estevez and colleagues will discuss the challenges of permanent human habitation in space. They will probe the ethics of exploration, exploitation and weaponization of space. How we answer these questions will shape humanity’s relationship with the Cosmos.6:00 - 8:00 PM
Dinner during which we will bestow the $100,000 State of the World Forum Award. Banafsheh Sayyad closes with Sufi whirling in honor of Jalal udin Rumi’s Marriage Day, inviting us into the turning at the heart of the universe. Skywatch with Chris Bledsoe follows.
Thursday, December 18th
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7:00 - 8:00
Morning begins with breath, stillness, and grounding practices to connect body, mind and spirit
7:30 - 8:30 AM
Breakfast
9:00 - 11:00 AM
Closing the Circle
We summarize the proceedings, drawing forth the learnings and challenges ahead. We look ahead to 2026 - 2030. We then close the circle we opened on Sunday — with gratitude, with clarity, and with the knowing that the process has begun and the potential has been unleashed to transform our conversations that matter into actions that can make a difference.
11:00 AM
Goodbyes and Departure
FAQs
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Online access includes webinar features, interaction with online Delegates, and access to content (post-event).
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