Event Schedule
Join us Online this Dec. 14th – 17th, 2025
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. .
Check this page for updates. The agenda and Presenter lineup will be refined as the Forum develops. Presenter Bios are in the Presenters section.
Sunday, December 14th
⏰ 2:00 - 4:00 PM EST
Opening the Circle
We gather not as strangers online but as part of a greater story that began long before this moment. Apela Colorado will offer the invocation, Lynne Twist will bring blessings, indigenous grandmothers will open the circle, calling in the ancestors and the living Earth to witness our work. Patrick McCollum will present the peace violin played by Scarlett Rivera.
Jim Garrison, Moderator, will provide history and context for the renewed State of the World Forum. Tom Eddington, Co-Moderator, will invite us into a shared commitment to listen deeply, to speak truthfully, and to remember that the wisdom we seek is already present — in ourselves, in each other, in all sentient beings, in the land, from the sky.
Pippa Malmgren and Anne Poelena share their insights on the world situation in relation to the four intelligences.
Gen Z activists bring their energy and sense of urgency about the issues affecting their lives.
Jude Currivan helps us understand and see the Cosmos breathing as One.
✨ Final blessing from the Elders.
🌠 9:00 – 11:00 PM EST
Global Evening Skywatch (Optional, Self Guided)
(This experience is optional and takes place completely outside the Zoom event. There is no livestream.)
Step outside and join a global moment of intention. As Chris Bledsoe skywatches from the shores of North Carolina and Birdie Jaworski gathers a small group in New Mexico, Forum attendees around the world are invited to look to the night sky from their own location. Together, we will focus our hearts and attention to raise the vibration of the planet and call the orbs of light closer to Earth.
📸 Share Your Footage
If you feel moved to record the sky or capture any unusual lights, you can upload your clips to the Sutra Community app. Select moments, including footage from Chris, Birdie, and participants worldwide, will be woven into a Closing Ceremony highlight reel celebrating our shared intention.
Monday, December 15th
The State of Our World: Code Red
⏰ 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM EST
The State of Our World: Code Red
This session will help us understand the reality that we are facing accelerating ecological collapse and deepening instability at every level of human affairs. Presenters will 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. Presenters will address extreme weather events, planetary tipping points being crossed, rising authoritarianism, genocide in Gaza, human trafficking, geo-strategic conflict between the great powers, damage by social media, assault on women and those of gender fluidity, among other issues of concern..
Presenters: Jim Garrison, Moderator, Osprey Orielle Lake, Ed Muller, Vladimir Posner, Arvol Looking Horse, Werjaya Berito Kuwaru’wa, Jenin Madhi, Rebecca Wright Hardcastle, Gen Z activists
⏰ 1:00 - 2:00 PM EST
Forum Unplugged
Interaction between speakers and participants
⏰ 2:00 - 2:30 PM EST
Break
⏰ 2:30 - 4:30 PM EST
The AI/NHI Revolution: The Exponential Mirror of AI, Cosmic Disclosure as Human Reckoning
We are invited 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. We are also invited to take in the reality that we are not alone. We will explore the edge of official secrecy on UFOs/UAP where evidence of cosmic intelligence asks us to reconsider who we are in the larger cosmic web of life.
Presenters: Ross Coulthart, Moderator, Jonathan Berte, Deep Prasad, Pippa Malmgren, Sarah Gamm, Katie Hurley, Anna Brady-Estevez, Beatriz Villarroel, Avi Loeb
⏰ 4:30 - 5:30 PM EST
Forum Unplugged
Interaction between speakers and participants
🌠 9:00 – 11:00 PM EST
Global Evening Skywatch (Optional, Self Guided)
(This experience is optional and takes place completely outside the Zoom event. There is no livestream.)
Step outside and join a global moment of intention. As Chris Bledsoe skywatches from the shores of North Carolina and Birdie Jaworski gathers a small group in New Mexico, Forum attendees around the world are invited to look to the night sky from their own location. Together, we will focus our hearts and attention to raise the vibration of the planet and call the orbs of light closer to Earth.
📸 Share Your Footage
If you feel moved to record the sky or capture any unusual lights, you can upload your clips to the Sutra Community app. Select moments, including footage from Chris, Birdie, and participants worldwide, will be woven into a Closing Ceremony highlight reel celebrating our shared intention.
Tuesday, December 16th
Exploring the Multi-Intelligence Revolution
⏰ 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM EST
The Four Intelligences in Relationship: Nature’s Living Language, Cosmic Co-Creation
We will learn about water’s capacity to communicate, intelligible conversations with great apes, the Sun’s influence on human thought and emotions, how trees communicate, communicating through art, and direct encounters with cosmic intelligences, offering stories that are as intimate as they are vast — stories where interspecies contact becomes collaboration.
Presenters: Jim Garrison, Moderator, Veda Austin, Leen Gorrisen, Gary Shapiro, Susan Manewich, Chris Bledsoe, Birdie Jaworski, Esperide Ananas Ametista, Kathleen Marden, Saskia von Diest, Linda Tucker
⏰ 1:00 - 2:00 PM EST
Forum Unplugged
Interaction between speakers and participants
⏰ 2:00 - 2:30 PM EST
Break
⏰ 2:30 - 4:30 PM EST
Where Intelligences Meet: Learning the Language of Consciousness
Presenters will 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. We will explore telepathy, remote viewing, and the subtle senses that allow humans to converse beyond the limits of time, space, speech or technology.
Presenters: Jim Garrison, Moderator, Rupert Sheldrake, Diane Hennacy Powell, Jonathan Berte, Deep Prasad, Katie Hurley, Dalia and Lidu Burgoin, Chris Bledsoe, Birdie Jaworski
⏰ 4:30 - 5:30 PM EST
Forum Unplugged
Interaction between speakers and participants
🌠 9:00 – 11:00 PM EST
Global Evening Skywatch (Optional, Self Guided)
(This experience is optional and takes place completely outside the Zoom event. There is no livestream.)
Step outside and join a global moment of intention. As Chris Bledsoe skywatches from the shores of North Carolina and Birdie Jaworski gathers a small group in New Mexico, Forum attendees around the world are invited to look to the night sky from their own location. Together, we will focus our hearts and attention to raise the vibration of the planet and call the orbs of light closer to Earth.
📸 Share Your Footage
If you feel moved to record the sky or capture any unusual lights, you can upload your clips to the Sutra Community app. Select moments, including footage from Chris, Birdie, and participants worldwide, will be woven into a Closing Ceremony highlight reel celebrating our shared intention.
Wednesday, December 17th
Inspiring Hope: Transforming Conversations that Matter into Actions that Make a Difference
⏰ 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM EST
Healing & Flourishing Futures: Healing the Fracture
Indigenous elders lead us through ritual, trauma, apology and forgiveness — not as performance but as a technology of the heart that heals the past and unburdens the future.
Presenters: Tom Eddington, Moderator, Fr. Joshtrum Kureethadam, Anita Sanchez, Dominique Rankin, Marie Josee Tardif, Lisa Miller, James Gordon and Chief Phil Lane
⏰ 1:00 - 2:00 PM EST
Forum Unplugged
Interaction between speakers and participants
⏰ 2:00 - 2:30 PM EST
Break
⏰ 2:30 - 4:30 PM EST
Introducing the Strategic Initiatives of the Forum
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.
Ethical Horizons in Space
Anna Brady-Estevez, Jude Currivan 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.
⏰ 4:30 - 5:00 PM EST
Closing Ceremony
We summarize the proceedings, drawing forth the learnings and challenges ahead. We look ahead to 2026- 2030 as the Forum unfolds. We then close the circle we opened on Sunday — with gratitude, with clarity, with the knowing that the process has begun and the potential has been unleashed to catalyze a new paradigm for humanity as we engage with Nature Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence and Cosmic Intelligence to co-create the future.
✨ Banafsheh Sayyad will perform Sufi whirling and elders will provide final blessings.
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FAQs
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Online access includes webinar features, interaction with online Delegates, and access to content (post-event).
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Yes, you may transfer your registration to another person from your organization at no additional cost up to 30 days before the event. Please contact registration@stateoftheworld.forum with the details of the new attendee.
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Registration cancellations received before October 14, 2025 will receive a full refund minus a $100 administration fee. Cancellations between October 15 and November 14, 2025 will receive a 50% refund. No refunds will be issued for cancellations after November 14, 2025, though registration transfers are still permitted.
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