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COSMOGENETIC EXPERIENCE:

An Autocosmological Pathway into the Current

“Great Leap in Being”

Eleven Week Course with

BRIAN THOMAS SWIMME, PhD,

Carolyn Cooke, Ezekiel Fugate, Jennifer Morgan, and a team of respondents

Tuesdays: Jan. 13 – March 24, 2026; 7:00 – 8:30 pm ET

Optional Add On Autocosmology Lab

Thursdays: Jan. 15 – March 19; 7:00 – 8:30 pm ET

22 PD Hrs Approved by AMS (American Montessori Society).

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COSMOGENETIC EXPERIENCE

is the direct awareness that it is the Universe, as us, experiencing reality. 

— Brian Thomas Swimme 

This course will provide lectures, reflections, and discussions in which participants learn to experience their lives through a cosmogenetic lens.  This notion will become clear as we progress through the course.

  • Tuesdays:  Lectures with Brian Thomas Swimme 
  • Thursdays: Autocosmology support group with Ezekiel Fugate.  (Optional add on.  See description below.)

A New Structure of Experience is arising

Our course is based on the premise that a new structure of experience is giving rise to a new form of humanity. All leaps in being began with a new form of experience. In our present leap, the new form is identified as “cosmogenetic experience“ and as “time-developmental experience.” Experience is understood as the primary mode in which reality becomes present to human consciousness. Experience is prior to any concepts or ideas concerning reality. Experience comes first and establishes a new civilization with new ideas and institutions. Consciousness is understood as the capacity of perceiving one’s own inner states. 

A Great Leap in Being

Evolution of New Modes of Experiencing Reality

The idea of an axial age was invented by Karl Jaspers who first introduced it in his 1949 work The Origin and Goal of History. Jaspers’ work celebrates the emergence of transformative philosophical and ethical ideas in the ancient civilizations of China, India, Persia, Judea, and Greece. Taking this line of thought further, the philosopher Eric Voegelin classified each of these transitions as a “great leap in being” – historical ruptures that reorder both human consciousness and its symbolic systems. In our own time, the philosopher Wolfgang Leidhold, whose ideas suffuse our course, theorizes that these ruptures of history were brought about by the evolution of new modes of experiencing reality. If we today are in the midst of one of these leaps in being, it will manifest in how we experience one another and the universe as a whole.

As one continues in an investigation of contemporary cosmology, there comes a moment when one feels, in a direct way, the movement of energy from the beginning of time. 

— Brian Thomas Swimme

 

Course Outline & Session Descriptions

Tuesdays: Jan. 13 – March 24, 2026; 7:00 – 8:30 pm ET

Each week has a 4-part structure. Hominization is the threshold event in cosmic evolution when evolution crosses into reflective consciousness.  

For a detailed outline, description of each session, and homework assignments, click here. 

Session 1 (Jan. 13) – The Hominization of the Power of Centration

Session 2 (Jan. 20) – The Hominization of the Power of Allurement

Session 3 (Jan. 27) –  The Hominization of the Power of Emergence

Session 4 (Feb. 3) – The Hominization of the Power of Homeostasis

Session 5 (Feb. 10) – The Hominization of the Power of Cataclysm

Session 6 (Feb. 17) – The Hominization of the Power of Synergy

Session 7 (Feb. 24) – The Hominization of the Power of Transmutation

Session 8 (Mar. 3) – The Hominization of the Power of Cerebralization 

Session 9 (Mar. 10) – The Hominization of the Power of Interrelatedness 

Session 10 (Mar. 17) – The Hominization of the Power of Radiance 

Session 11 (Mar. 24) – The Hominization of the Power of Seamlessness 

 

 

Please Purchase the book COSMOGENESIS

before the course starts!

All reading assignments are from the book COSMOGENESIS: AN UNVEILING OF THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE by Brian Thomas Swimme. 

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Please purchase your copy from your favorite vendor and read the first assignment before session one.

Recordings Will Be Available in the Course Space

Sessions are live.  Recordings of all sessions will be accessible inside the course space for up to one year.

Meet Others and Participate in Online Discussions

Discussion topics added each week to help deepen the course material and develop community.  A map showing the locations of all participants helps you locate and get in touch with others through the messaging system.

Autocosmology Lab with Ezekiel Fugate

A focused cohort to nurture autocosmological practice, creativity, and community

Ten Week Optional Add On

Thursdays: Jan. 15 – March 19; 7:00 – 8:30 pm ET

Do you feel called to deepen your understanding and practice by creating your own autocosmology? Or maybe you’re mid-project and need structure, community, accountability to bring it to completion. If so, the Autocosmology Lab add-on is for you!

Our Thursday sessions will focus on three core objectives: cultivating community in a cosmological context; advancing your autocosmological project; and activating your lived experience of the developing universe. This is a time to gather in the wonder of our shared story, to enter directly into the creativity that shaped galaxies and now stirs within your own imaginations, and to discover how the universe is dreaming itself through you. 

Each session will begin with a practice of attunement. From there, you’ll be invited into focused time with your project, with occasional prompts or practices to help awaken new possibilities. We’ll also spend time in small groups to share what is emerging and to encourage one another as our creative visions take shape. The aim of this group is to offer a mix of solitude and community, inspiration and accountability, focus and freedom.  

COSMOGENESIS  

The term “Cosmogenesis” points to the most radical discovery in the history of science:

 

THE UNIVERSE AS A WHOLE IS EVOLVING.   

 

Previous to the 20th century, nearly every culture had a sense of a “cosmos,” an ordered universe, that might go through a sequence of organic changes, but that was eternally the same overall. But with discoveries of an expanding universe that began without structure and evolved into ever more complex entities, scientists articulated a radically different view of the universe.

Origin of the Term

The first scientist to celebrate this discovery by naming it a “cosmogenesis” was French Jesuit and paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Science has advanced since Teilhard, but the general movement of a cosmic beginning leading to galaxies and stars and at least one rocky planet where life complexified into plants and animals and human consciousness has held firm.

Understanding COSMOGENESIS is Crucial for Evolving Our Planet

We are created to evolve the cosmos.

— Maria Montessori

As the reality of cosmogenesis sinks into the thinking of entire populations, we will see dramatic change in all of the major institutions of our time, whether in finance, governance, religion, education, or military.
 

With AUTOCOSMOLOGY, we see ourselves IN AND AS the universe evolving.

 

AUTO-COSMOLOGY is one pathway into this expanded consciousness, a process of reflection and writing that awakens the experience of ordinary life as a fourteen billion year creative event.

AUTO-COSMOLOGY is a new genre in literature that can best be described as a hybrid genre arising from the intersection of autobiography and cosmology.  Although this course will focus on literature in particular, the insights are resonant with other arts — such as dance, film, ritual, and music — which can all become spiritual paths into new forms of consciousness.  

Brian’s recently published book, Cosmogenesis: An Unveiling of the Expanding Universe, a book in the emerging auto-cosmology genre, will be a centerpiece of this course.  Please purchase your copy and do the readings for session one before the course begins.

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Above photo by Clifford Berrien, certified Deeptime Leader, Cohort 2022.

Rewiring Ourselves for Cosmogenesis (2:43)

Impact on Education and Religion (1:30)

Becoming Indigenous to the Universe and Ourselves (1:29)

Source of Pain Today (1:43)

How the Future Shapes the Present and our Cosmic Task (2:07)

Key Learnings:

  • An overview of what scholars mean with the phrase, “Axial Age,” as well as how “Cosmogenetic Experience” is leading to a new Axial Age.
  • A fundamental understanding of the forces and powers that govern cosmic evolution.
  • To fully understand humanity as well as the chaotic time in which we live, one needs to see that Homo sapiens is not just another species but is in fact a new phylum.
  • An understanding of the two fundamental flaws in modern consciousness.
  • The skill of identifying ways in which ordinary life is suffused with the achievements of cosmic evolution.
  • A sampling of the profound cosmological vision of Thomas Berry, connecting an understanding of Cosmogenesis with Thomas Berry’s vision of an Ecozoic Era.
  • An understanding of Maria Montessori’s teaching about Cosmic Gift and Task and how it relates to Cosmogenesis and Autocosmology.
  • A profound sense of connection between personal allurement and the trajectory of the universe as a whole.
  • An understanding of the way in which “relationship” is a more fundamental building block in our universe than atoms and molecules.
  • How, with the invention of symbols, humanity transformed the “not-here” into a causal relationship with the “here and now.”
  • The powerful analogy that compares a mammal’s capacity to recognize a mind in another mammal to our own capacity to recognize a cosmic mind.
  • How the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics leads to the drama of Energy Acquistion throughout the life world.

Who Is This Course For?

This is a course for:
  • Everyone who’s interested in the work of Thomas Berry, Brian Swimme, Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim, Jennifer Morgan.
  • Everyone who’s already familiar with this work and wants a deeper understanding of how to apply it to personal-to-planetary change.
  • Everyone who has projects and practices they’d like to work on inside a New Cosmology framework.
  • Students who want to learn about their role in the universe and apply deeptime principles in their academic work.
  • Teachers who want to frame their curriculum inside the New Cosmology.
  • Montessori Teachers who want to connect Cosmic Education and the New Cosmology.
  • Spiritual/religious who want to situate and ground their understandings/practices inside an evolving universe.
  • Artists/Poets/Writers/Dancers inspired to express the larger story we all share.
  • Scientists who want to connect with and experience other ways of knowing.
  • Healers and healing practitioners who know the healing power of a living functional cosmology.
  • Politicians/Activists looking for a larger frame and understanding to address the crises of today.
  • Mental Health Practioners who understand that our cosmologies give us meaning and purpose.  Dysfunctional cosmologies can be at the root of mental illness and addiction.
  • Anyone who wants to ground their lives in the New Cosmology and an emerging consciousness.

Our Team

Brian Thomas Swimme

Brian Thomas Swimme is professor emeritus at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. A specialist in gravitational dynamics, his work for many years has been to bring the context of story to our understanding of the 13.8 billion year trajectory of the universe. Such a story, he feels, will assist in the emergence of a flourishing Earth community. He is the author of several well known and influential books and is co-author with Thomas Berry on The Universe Story and with Mary Evelyn Tucker on the award-winning book and film Journey of the Universe. His book Cosmogenesis is an early example of the autocosmological genre.  His most recent work is Story of the Noosphere, co-authored with Monica DeRaspe Bowles. 

Carolyn Cooke

Carolyn Cooke is a professor in the Interdisciplinary Arts MFA Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where she co-directs the Center for Transformative Media. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council, her fiction has appeared in AGNI, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and multiple volumes of Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Awards. Her debut collection, The Bostons, won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, and her subsequent works, including Daughters of the Revolution and Amor and Psycho, have earned wide critical acclaim.

Jennifer Morgan

Jennifer Morgan, president and founder of the Deeptime Network, is an award-winning author, storyteller, and educator inspired by the work of Teilhard de Chardin, Maria Montessori, Thomas Berry, and Brian Swimme. Her Universe Story Trilogy — Born With a Bang, From Lava to Life, and Mammals Who Morph — are used in classrooms around the world, and have received the Teachers Choice Award, Nautilus Semi Finalist, highest ratings from AAAS and endorsements from Jane Goodall, Neil de Grasse Tyson, astronaut Edgar Mitchell, Thomas Berry, Brian Swimme and others.  She is on the board of the American Teilhard Association.

Ezekiel Fugate

Ezekiel Fugate, is the co-founding director of Deep Belonging, a co-founder of Springhouse Community School, and a co-editor of Starborne: The Journal of Autocosmology. He is currently completing his dissertation under Brian Thomas Swimme in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. His research and teaching focus on the intersection of evolutionary cosmology and human experience. He lives with his wife and two daughters in central Virginia.

Deeptime Companions  for Course Participants

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Ann Amberg, M.C.S., M.A., is a leadership and learning consultant, educator, and ritualist specializing in depth ecology and nature-based soul work. She has taught Brian Thomas Swimme’s Canticle to the Cosmos and Powers of the Universe since 2001 in the U.S., Canada, the UK, and Europe. She holds graduate degrees in Integral Ecology, Contemporary Spirituality, and Depth Psychology and is completing a PhD dissertation on eros and beauty in human–nature relations at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Based on Whidbey Island, WA, she is also a certified Deep Imagery guide.

Kyle Herman is a high school teacher, curriculum coach at Community Montessori Public Charter School, and an Instructional Guide for the Center for Guided Montessori Studies’ adolescent training program. He holds degrees in English and Montessori Education along with MACTE and NAMTA/AMI adolescent credentials. Kyle has presented nationally on Montessori education, published in Montessori Life and Origins, and contributed educational resources for the Deep Time Network and the Center for Guided Montessori Studies.

Orla Hazra, PhD, lives in Sarasota, Florida after ten years in Mumbai, India, where she developed a curriculum renewing the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm for St. Xavier’s College and Tarumitra, an ecoliteracy center. With training in recreation leadership, addiction counseling, and spiritual direction, she earned a PhD in Religious Education from Fordham University, focusing on Thomas Berry’s fourfold wisdom model for educational reform. A founding board member of the Deeptime Network, she is thrilled to see this integrative approach coming alive in practice.

Sarbmeet Kanwal, PhD, is an award-winning educator known for pioneering innovative ways of teaching quantum physics and astronomy. He earned his PhD in theoretical physics from Caltech and is widely recognized for making complex science accessible to general audiences. A board member of the Monmouth Center for World Religions and Ethical Thought, he helped launch the award-winning MOSAIC youth leadership program. He has also contributed to Deeptime Network courses over the past two years and was instrumental in developing the recent Deeptime Network video, The Cosmic Signal. https://youtu.be/WC7TwK7NEts?si=5lUs0zcsZPnAEm7a

Stephan Martin is an astronomer, educator, and author who has taught astronomy, physics, and consciousness studies for more than twenty-five years. After studying with Brian Swimme at the California Institute of Integral Studies, he authored Cosmic Conversations, featuring dialogues with scientists and spiritual teachers on the nature of the universe. He has since led New Cosmology workshops across the US and Europe and explores multidisciplinary approaches to understanding the cosmos. He is director of DTN’s Deeptime Leadership & Wellbeing Program.

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What people are saying about the Deeptime Network . . .

" Thank you for last night’s cosmic enlightenment!  I appreciate your preparation and enrichment.  We are a lively community. Receiver.  Amplifier.  Insulator.  All in one. I love how we each go on our expeditions of Universe unfolding and return to our campfire to share and learn. "

" Plus, remembering joy amidst the sorrow around us.   A bit of play"
-  Lisa Verni

" It is so supportive to have a whole community, from around the world, working together to embody and live out a deep connection to the new cosmology in its ethical and spiritual dimensions. We are the Universe emerging. "
- M.J. Zimmerman

" After 20 years of living into the Universe Story, I was reawakened to how truly empowering it is through what is emerging for others on parallel paths from around the globe. "
— Penny Andrews

" If you're seeking a meaningful story that explains our place in our Universe and in Nature, and like-minded global citizens, this course may be your next step on that journey. " - David Morton Rintoul

" Everything I have known in life is being integrated into unifying perspectives and connectedness which come like seeds being nourished from a deep space of love, abundance, and creativity "
— Marides "Madett" Virola-Gardiola, Philippines

Deeptime courses are not just about learning new ideas, they are a way to commune together to help each other spiral upwards to new heights of wisdom and awakening. "
— Sarbmeet Kanwal

" I am co-creating a space for children older than 7 years old and this course has been granting me a deeper understanding of how I want to position myself and act in this space while deep listening to children. " — Joana Benetton, Brazil

" Being around so many talented and confident people has helped me with developing a children’s book for Montessori Sunday school. " — Nancee Cline

It is all and more than I expected – I am not new to the material though have certainly learned and gained new insights into the wonderful planet we call “home”. 

The assignments are doable, interesting, and inviting.  I am enjoying the course very much.

Am loving it. The small groups are wonderful. It is such a marvelous group of participants. The networking is fabulous.  Love the opening and thoughtful reflections.

I look forward to every session.

I had to miss two weeks and was aware there was something missing in my life, so I know I am finding it really useful and challenging.  Also good to make connections.

I am feeling inspired, energized, and more-connected-than ever!  I am also enjoying the arc of the course, the meditations, quote sharing, and especially the content. 

 

Questions?   Write to us at hello@dtnetwork.org.

 

 

Anthony Robert Zelle, Esq., Tony is an Earth lawyer. While serving as Chair and President of the Earth Law Center, following 30 years in private practice trying cases and arguing appeals, he served as lead editor and author of the only comprehensive book on the subject: Earth Law: Emerging Ecocentric Law-A Guide for Practitioners. Developed for law school curricula, and now part of developing LLM programs internationally, the book has also become the primary reference source for practitioners.

The focus of Tony's current work is developing Earth law in practice and creating revenue-generating opportunities for Earth lawyers.

Learn more about Tony’s journey from a recent Boston College Law School Magazine profile.https://lawmagazine.bc.edu/2025/02/voice-for-the-earth/

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Maisie Paddon, Maisie is spearheading the advancement of Earth Law by integrating its principles into transformative policies and business strategies that resonate with Earth-centric practices and Nature's patterns. At the helm of Project 2040, she seeks to revolutionize financial systems, foster circular economies, and develop regenerative food systems. Her extensive experience in top-tier management consulting, with roles at Ernst & Young and Capgemini, showcases her ability to lead complex innovation programs and engage with C-suite leaders. With a solid foundation in Philosophy and Climate Science, Maisie is deeply committed to beneficial systemic change. She champions the inclusion of Nature's voice in discussions that tackle the multifaceted crises of today's modern world, while aligning her efforts with global frameworks like UN SDGs, ESG principles, and ISO standards. Her holistic and emotionally intelligent approach underscores her pursuit of sustainable and equitable solutions.

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Kerry Hudson, Hudson works as an activist and public interest lawyer with a focus on social justice, and an academic and employment history addressing heirs' property reform and protections of the Florida aquifer. He served as co-founder and manager for a medical practice that focused on Environmentally Acquired Diseases, and the effects of that most macro of human phenomenon—climate change, on the most granular, personal issues—individual health and the chronic and intractable maladies brought on by changing climate. He has served as Education Director for Rights of Nature and eco-centric education, creating informational content addressing topics such as environmental protections and property law, and the Public Trust Doctrine, and creating supplemental educational content for the law school textbook Earth Law: A Practitioner’s Guide. He holds an MFA in writing, has a publication history with both fiction and non-fiction, and has authored funded grants examining strategies to mitigate generational heirs' property abuses. He holds a J.D. with a focus on Environmental Justice, social equity, and restorative justice and has created informational and educational content addressing the intersection of environmental and legal issues such as the one-percenters' climate change preparations. Currently based in London, He works on a long-form manuscript addressing the importance of property law, social justice, and the climate change crisis.

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April Elizabeth Finlayson, April Elizabeth Finlayson is an “Edu-neer” dedicated to designing holistic and transformational learning experiences. She has a fervent commitment to reimagining education, promoting lifelong learning and creating uniquely curated, humanizing educational experiences for youth, and the young at heart. This has led to the development of nearly a dozen innovative schools and numerous educational programs in the K-12, after-school learning, adult development and Higher-Ed spaces.

April’s style of leadership and service is rooted in making space for learner voice, agency and empowerment. She believes that the best teaching and learning is reciprocal, interwoven and interchangeable. April asserts that “if a learner knows that they are seen, affirmed, “in-powered” and protected while learning, they will feel loved, and will henceforth thrive!”

April's students and graduates have gone on to international and national renown in philanthropy, entrepreneurship, professional athletics, entertainment, and being great, enjoyable people. April was cross culturally raised and educated between The Bahamas, the USA and Canada. She completed her undergraduate degree in International Development Studies, Political Science and Management from McGill University, and earned both her Master's Degree in Mind, Brain and Education and her Doctorate Degree in Education Leadership from Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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Tara A. Pierce, Tara holds degrees in painting, the humanities, a J.D., and an LL.M. in Oceans, Environment, & Sustainability. This transdisciplinary background enriched her legal studies and contributed to the successful publication of several papers on Earth Law and Restorative Ocean Farming. Her latest thesis synthesised her entire academic and hands-on experiences into an approach to transforming the law into a healing practice. Tara regularly guest lectures on Ocean & Coastal Law developments for various institutions in the United States and Europe.

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Cat Haas, Cat Haas is the Director of the Eco Jurisprudence Monitor (EJM), where she oversees the research and development of the world’s most comprehensive database of ecological jurisprudence initiatives globally. Since 2022, she has led efforts to document and analyze the global evolution of Earth-centered law, with a particular focus on the Rights of Nature movement, ecological law, and Indigenous ontologies. Cat holds an M.A. in Global Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where her research explored the influence of Indigenous cosmologies and pluriversal ontologies on the development and globalization of the Rights of Nature movement.
She also serves on the Steering Committee of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN) Academic Hub, an interdisciplinary network of scholars specializing in ecological law and governance.
With a background in environmental education, Cat is passionate about fostering awareness and advocacy for sustainable, equitable legal frameworks that address the climate crisis and center ecological well-being

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Ava Roche, Ava is currently a pre-law focused senior at Columbia University studying Political Ecology, conducting her senior thesis on the socio-political effects of deep-sea mining in the Cook Islands. She is attending Columbia University’s Climate School next fall, and aspires to be an earth lawyer, with experience as the student director of the Earth Law Centers, “Earth Law: Emerging Ecocentric Law- a Guide for Practitioners” course last summer. She is an avid scuba diver who is passionate about protecting earths vital oceanic ecosystems, and is interning at Columbia Law Schools, "Sabin Center for Climate Change Law” this coming summer under Michael Gerrard. Above all, she can’t wait to TA with Earth Law Practice and work in such an impactful environment.

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Aurélie Rodzynek, advances Earth Law by uniting global advocacy, legal strategy, and community-led action. As Communications, Marketing, and Strategy Lead for the Earth Law Alliance, she works to embed Rights of Nature principles into governance systems worldwide. She has held leadership and coordination roles across North America, Europe, Asia, and the Pacific, guiding water governance initiatives, supporting international advocacy campaigns, and developing education programs on climate resilience and biodiversity. Leveraging her expertise, Aurélie has contributed to major UN-based gatherings and COP, promoting a holistic legal approach to protecting nature.

Holding an MPA in Environmental Science and Policy from Columbia University and a BA in International Relations, she works at the nexus of law, science, and community priorities to help restore ecological integrity and strengthen the relationship between people and the planet.

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Janet Marley is completing an MA in Ecopsychology at Naropa University. She is currently researching styles of governance in traditional indigenous societies of Turtle Island and how such wisdom ways can positively influence modern ecocentric regenerative residential communities and bioregional initiatives. She has a BA in Religious Studies from Brown University. Janet is a community organizer with an abiding interest in designing and co-creating intentional living and learning centers that model and teach connection, communication, and reciprocity with the natural world. Her gifts and roles include Teacher, Naturalist, Healer, Event Producer, and Facilitator of ceremony, council, rites of passage, vision quests, ecotherapy, and trauma integration work. She is a Montessori-trained educator and mom of two young children. She currently serves as a board member for The Circle for Change Initiative and is the Director of Programming and Events at the Manitoulin Eco Park, an indigenous-led nature connection facility in Ontario, Canada.

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Urwa Hameed, is a final year law student at Boston College Law School. She is a graduate of Boston College with degrees in International Studies and Political Science and has taught a course in Environmental Law at her alma mater. Urwa is the author of two published books, including her most recent, Hosting Earth: Facing the Climate Emergency (Routledge, 2024), which examines the environment through a philosophical and theological lens, framing humans as both hosts and guests of the Earth. Her work blends academic rigor with a deep commitment to exploring humanity’s moral and spiritual responsibilities toward the planet.

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