PROGRAM

Thanissara – hosted by Adam Lobel

Saturday 19th September 2026

13:30 – 15:30 CEST | 07:30 – 09:30 EDT

Here we affirm the essential role of psycho-spiritual work within movements: addressing trauma, burnout, reactivity, and the subtle forms of aggression that circulate within individuals and groups. This includes the longstanding political insight that subjectivity is never private—it is shaped by history, power, and culture, and in turn shapes what movements are capable of becoming.

Brooke Lavalle and Reed Ingalls – hosted by Guhyapati

Saturday 19th September 2026

16:30 – 18:30 CEST | 10.30 – 12.30 EDT

We know how hard it is to imagine our world beyond the horizon of capitalism and its individualistic view of human nature. The far right are seeking to offer an alternative and certainties with renewed emphasis on reactionary collective identities. What about us? What kinds of worlds, institutions, and forms of life do we long for? What vision of world-ecology-humanity guides our work?

Kaira Jewel Lingo – hosted by Adam Lobel

Sunday 20th September 2026

13:30 – 15:30 CEST | 07:30 – 09:30 EDT

Socio-political action and structures are shaped, in part, by our beliefs about the nature of the world and human nature. Views of fixed human nature can underpin ideas of a fixed or natural social order, a given horizon of possibility. Meanwhile, Buddhist perspectives consistently challenge such essentialism, pointing us towards the radically contingent and conditioned nature of self, society, and world.

Natasha Adams and Laurence Cox – hosted by Guhyapati

Sunday 20th September 2026

16:30 – 18:30 CEST | 10.30 – 12.30 EDT

Here we return to the question of collective power. Many movements today lean toward individual or small-group forms, shaped both by a thoughtful critique of rigid, hierarchical organizations and by an aspiration toward horizontal, prefigurative ways of being together.
These impulses carry real insight. At the same time, in the face of rising authoritarianism, oligarchic power, and climate crisis, there is a growing recognition that dispersed efforts alone are not enough. The question becomes how to gather, how to build durable solidarity, how to organize at scale—without reproducing the failures of centralized control.