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We warmly invite you to Mirrors of Emergence, an immersive retreat exploring the evolving relationship between Artificial Intelligence and Interbeing. In a time marked by technological acceleration and social fragmentation, this gathering invites us to slow down, reconnect, and explore how AI can reflect, and be shaped by, the wisdom of our interconnectedness.
Through the lens of interbeing, we understand that AI doesn't exist separate from the web of relationships, intentions, and consciousness that birthed it; it's an expression of our collective mind-stream, reflecting back our patterns of separation or unity. This retreat offers a space to embody the truth that transcends individual perspectives: There is no separate self developing AI, no isolated technology impacting humanity, but rather one seamless web of mutual co-creation.
Over the course of four days, we’ll explore how the principles of interbeing—the deep recognition that all things arise in relationship—can inform how we relate to AI, to each other, and to the future we are shaping. Through structured relational practices, fireside-style conversations, somatic exploration, and open inquiry, participants will experience a dynamic space for reflection, resonance, and creative emergence. You’ll leave with grounded tools, expanded perspectives, and actionable strategies to bring this wisdom into your work, teams, communities, and global systems.
Set in the serene landscape of the Californian countryside from October 23-26, this immersive experience convenes an intentionally curated group of thinkers, technologists, creatives, and changemakers. Together, we will explore how the principles of awareness, relational intelligence, and co-emergence can guide the development and integration of AI in ways that support both human flourishing and systemic coherence, including:
The retreat will be led by three facilitators with decades of combined experience in transformational practices, collective intelligence methodologies, and pioneering work in AI and living systems, including founders and lead facilitators of the Luminous Awareness Institute, and the current head of AI/ML Strategy and Research Collaboration at Google X.
Facilitator biographies can be found here.
October 23, 3 PM - October 26, 12 PM
Day 1: Relationship to Self
We begin by turning inward, examining the fundamentals of embodying self-awareness and its significance in our interaction with AI and the collective field. Through practices such as self inquiry, biocognition, and resonance-based techniques, we’ll uncover the intelligence of the body as an anchor for alignment, improving our ability to receive and analyze information via a deeper connection between mind and body. This day establishes the foundation for inhabiting our whole selves as contributors to a larger, interconnected intelligence.
Day 2: Inter-being and the Collective Field
On our second day, we expand from the individual to the relational field. We explore the space between: between self and other, between human and machine. Through experiential group practices and real-time feedback loops, we’ll explore the dynamics of collective fields and the ways they mirror back our patterns of attention, emotion, and power. We’ll examine how human systems and AI systems evolve through relationship—and how interbeing can serve as a guiding principle in designing more ethical, regenerative technologies.
Day 3: Collective Discovery
This day centers on accessing the frontier of interwoven, emergent intelligence. With the foundation of presence and relational awareness, we move into a space of co-creation and inquiry. What new intelligence arises when we listen deeply—not just to each other, but to the field itself? Engaging in practices that emphasize presence, mutual respect, and our ability to track group resonance, we explore the interplay between human creativity and AI systems.
As we deepen our shared journey toward a sustainable human-AI future, we aim to transform our insights into meaningful, practical action. Our focus is on creating regenerative, win-for-all designs.
Day 4: Harvesting Insights and Catalyzing Change
Our final day focuses on weaving insights into tangible, collaborative actions that can be implemented in our personal and professional lives. Together, we’ll synthesize the emergent wisdom into transferable frameworks for guiding AI and collective intelligence within organizations, teams, and systems. This is a time for cross-pollination, sharing our visions, and aligning on inspired steps forward, moving past short-sighted reactivity into long-term, aligned solutions. Participants will leave with clarity and tools to nurture collective intelligence in their own spheres of influence, fostering symbiotic relationships between humanity and AI.
This retreat promises a profound inquiry of how we can collectively guide the relationship between our world, AI, and humanity for generations to come.
Our cohort is formed with discernment for how each member adds to the whole. This is an intentionally curated group of high impact individuals who are poised to deeply listen together and learn together. Cohort commitments are non refundable after Sept 1, 2025.
At the Wisdom Beyond, our core intention is to create a curated cohort of visionary minds dedicated to exploring the synergy between AI and inspired, aligned beings. We begin by meeting people where they are. Through the raw power of the beginner’s mind, we aim to support this intentional gathering in attaining clarity on how to show up within themselves, with each other, with the field, and with integration into a human-AI future.
Our goal is to nurture a space where technology and humanity can coalesce in emergent futures, guided by the wisdom of the collective self. There's so much to be learned when receiving the gift of wisdom from another field; AI and Collective Intelligence are ripe for such mutual support and insight.
We aim to:
Participants will carry forward:
Our cohorts:
This retreat offers a profound exploration to pause, re-pattern, and participate in shaping a new kind of intelligence—one that reflects not just technical capacity, but the heart of what it means to be in right relationship with self, other, and the world.
Following the Mirrors of Emergence retreat, The Wisdom Beyond will launch a 6 month Mastermind—an extended journey of integration, innovation, and collective intelligence.
Participants will be invited to join monthly calls designed to deepen insight and catalyze emergent projects born from the retreat field.
Each call will unfold in two parts. The first half is devoted to anchoring the embodied realizations that surfaced during the retreat, supporting participants in stabilizing presence, coherence, and inner alignment. The second half opens a generative space for collaborative focus groups—nurturing retreat-inspired initiatives, or adjacent work, that seeks to evolve through shared intelligence and support.
This Mastermind offers a living vessel to continue harvesting the wisdom of our intentionally curated field, while drawing from the deep experience and guidance of the facilitation team.
It is both a container for integration and a launchpad for visionary action.
Each retreat, we invite an intentionally chosen creator to join us as our Artist in Residence. Our artist for the AI and Collective Intelligence cohort is ultra-contemporary artist and designer, Amy Karle.
Amy will be weaving her unique artistry throughout each day of the retreat, culminating in the creation of an artifact to reflect back to the group the collective wisdom that arises from the four days.
Amy Karle is an internationally acclaimed ultra-contemporary artist specializing in the impact of emerging and exponential technologies on humanity and evolution. Working with AI since 2015, she creates hybridized forms that synthesize physical, biological, and computational systems, opening visions of how technology can be harnessed to support and enhance life and intelligence while actively advancing toward that goal. She is recognized as one of the first to bridge the biological and computational in art and design.
Named by the BBC as one of the 100 most inspiring women in the world, Karle’s groundbreaking work has been exhibited at premier institutions worldwide including Ars Electronica, CAFA Art Museum, Centre Pompidou, MoMA, Mori Art Museum, The Smithsonian, in the metaverse, and even on the Moon and in space. Her practice demonstrates that art, design, and technology can not only reflect visions of a technologically enhanced future but also play an active role in the creation of that future.
A sought-after speaker and thought leader, Karle participates in global think tanks and high level talks on deep tech, AI, and the ethical evolution of technology and her work has been referenced in over 6,000 scholarly papers. Karle has was granted the lifetime achievement Pioneer in Design Award, and has been recognized as one of the most influential women in 3D printing. She served as an Artist Diplomat through the U.S. Department of State, championing initiatives in social innovation and women’s empowerment through art and technology.
We are delighted to welcome you to Teravana, a 730 acre forest sanctuary and retreat center nestled at the top of a mountain range in the heart of Sonoma County, CA. The land is rich with biodiversity, where you can experience rivers, ponds, wetlands, fog, sunshine, redwoods, oaks, thick forest land, and hills all in the same day.
Amenities include an indoor garden spa with 2 person jacuzzi, exquisite grounds to walk, and an outdoor pool. Standard room and board are individual eco pods outfitted with queen beds. A limited number of single or shared rooms in the Manor House are available upon request, for a surcharge.
The Teravana property borders Austin State Park and Armstrong Woods, and features breathtaking views along with the resilient artist community feel of local Cazadero.
The closest airports to Teravana are:
We are honored to be welcomed into this land as we journey into our upcoming theme: AI and Interbeing. Teravana’s dedication to planetary well-being is a powerful alignment with our shared vision.
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