• Just a Little Walk with Jesus: A Lenten Adventure | Bruce Epperly

    Process Explorations

    In this session of Process Explorations, Bruce Epperly will reflect on the meaning of Lent from a process perspective. Lent is a holy adventure of simplifying and awakening to God's presence in ourselves and the world. During Lent, we prune the excess cumber of our lives to open to God's moment by moment and long-term vision for us.

    Free
  • Imagination, Ritual, and Non-Ordinary Experiences | Jared Morningstar

    Process Explorations

    In this session of Process Exploration, Jared Morningstar shares his recent research exploring connections between ritual practice and imagination. Drawing upon ideas from process and Islamic philosophies, Jared provides a broad overview and analysis of the field of ritual studies before discussing the significance of non-ordinary experience for insight and self-transcendence.

    Free
  • Applying Integrative Metatheories to the Most Pressing Challenges of Our Time | Robb Smith & Brendan Graham Dempsey

    Process Explorations

    In this session of Process Explorations, Robb Smith and Brendan Graham Dempsey introduce the concept of integrative metatheories and share how the Institute of Applied Metatheory's initiatives leverage these theories to promote civilizational transformation. Initiatives range from understanding the metacrisis and artificial intelligence to reshaping the educational landscape and worldviews—all utilizing the unique insights of integrative metatheory to effect meaningful change.

    Free
  • Reframing Leadership from Complexity and Process-Relational Perspectives | Erin Hawkins

    Process Explorations

    This presentation is an inquiry into how process-relational perspectives of leadership require changing the invisible structures that shape how groups make decisions, create together, learn collectively, and navigate uncertainty. Erin Hawkins invites participants to reconsider not just how we understand leadership, but how we organize for transformation in an age of polycrisis.

    Free
  • Multi/Race/Less/Ness: A Responsible Process Post-Race Metaphysic in Sketch | Jon Ivan Gill

    Process Explorations

    In Multi/Race/Less/Ness, Jon Ivan Gill challenges us to take the next step and abolish the very category of race. With seemingly immutable notions of race still baked into our societies at the level of law and legislation, process philosophy can remind us that being, and how we define it, is dynamic and subject to change. If race as a category is impermanent, then it can be undone. This talk will focus specifically on the metaphysical scheme of multi/race/less/ness and how Gill proposes it offers a way out of the hierarchies of racial identification.

    Free
  • Relational Leadership in Such a Time as This | Mary Elizabeth Moore

    Process Explorations

    This session will be an exploration of leadership in the context of hyper-fear, aggression, and combative speech and action. What kind of leadership is required in such a context? What potential does process relational leadership have to address the aches in our ecological home and human family? The session will explore these questions and identify significant possibilities through a presentation by Mary Elizabeth Moore and interviews with others, followed by a "think tank" discussion with all participants.

    Free