Beyond Bohm 2026 - Part 1, Weekend 1: Into the Blue
2026-07-04 18:00 - 2026-07-05 20:00 (Europe/Rome)
Beyond Bohm 2026 – Part 1: Meaning / Cosmology / Poetics

Into the Blue

With Lee Nichol, Bruce Alderman & friends

Saturday and Sunday, July 4 and 5, 20269am PDT / 12pm EDT / 5pm BST / 6pm CEST

2 two-hour sessions

All sessions are live, and include Q & A, and all participants will receive the RECORDING.

The recently-released Into the Blue: Chasing the Spirit of David Bohm is an account of fifty years of experimentation with David Bohm’s metaphysical perspectives. It is not a book of physics, nor is it a book of abstract philosophy. It is the distillation of practical, experiential engagements with core aspects of Bohm’s worldview: wholeness and fragmentation, the self-image, thought as a system, meaning, dialogue, soma-significance, and the implicate order.

Over the course of this weekend, we will inquire into these themes, and how anyone can pursue these questions in real-life ways. Of particular focus, we will outline new ways of understanding Bohm’s emphasis on somatic experience. Among these are rheosoma (the flowing body) and the open organism, an exploratory mode of recovering the innate depth of human being.

We will be joined by friends who have been participating in a group exploration of the weekend’s themes.

The themes of the first two weekends of Beyond Bohm 2026 will draw to a significant extent from Into the Blue: Chasing the Spirit of David Bohm, Lee Nichol’s recently released book relating his experiences of many of Bohm’s experiential proposals. That book is now available from all Amazon outlets in Europe, the UK, and the US. It is recommended, though not required, for a full appreciation of July 4, 5, 11, & 12. The Prologue and Chapter One of the book are available for free download, click here.

Lee Nichol is Director of Bohmian Studies at the Pari Center. He was a friend and colleague of David Bohm, and is editor of Bohm’s On Creativity, The Essential David Bohm, and On Dialogue. He has been on the faculty of Denver University in Denver, Colorado, and the Tibetan Nyingma Institute in Berkeley, California.

Lee’s latest book is Into the Blue: Chasing the Spirit of David Bohm, his account of 50 years of experimentation with Bohm’s metaphysics. He is a founding member of the experimental Pari Center Holoflux group.

Bruce Alderman is the associate director of the Blue Sky Leaders Program at California Institute of Integral Studies, a faculty with the Consciousness, Psychology, and Transformation program at National University, and author of several forthcoming books, including Feeling Fully Alive, Giving Voice to Time and Space, and Unfolding the Senses. He has followed David Bohm’s work since reading Wholeness and the Implicate Order in the early 1980s.

Beyond Bohm 2026 - Part 1, Weekend 2: Exploring a Bohmian Poetics
2026-07-11 18:00 - 2026-07-12 20:00
Beyond Bohm 2026 – Part 1: Meaning / Cosmology / Poetics

Exploring a Bohmian Poetics

With Lee Nichol, Bruce Alderman, Hester Reeve, Richard Burg & friends

Saturday and Sunday, July 11 and 12, 20269am PDT / 12pm EDT / 5pm BST / 6pm CEST

2 two-hour sessions

All sessions are live, and include Q & A, and all participants will receive the RECORDING.

Reaching back into antiquity, the notion of poiesis has a long and rich history. Originally it alluded to “creation,” as in an art object, or poetry. In contemporary usage poiesis has come to indicate the movement by which something emerges from concealment into living presence, and the degree to which that movement expresses truth, or wholeness. This could be a carving, or a cloud, or an automobile, or a concept.

This weekend we will take up three questions. First, in what ways can we think of David Bohm’s framework of implicate and explicate orders as poiesis, as revealing the coming-into-being of the human and natural worlds? Second, in what ways are human beings participants in this implicate/explicate movement of poiesis? And finally, the poetics: how can we think about and embody these questions – what can literature, song, painting, conversation, philosophy, and contemplative arts reveal about unfolding meaning?

Our intention here is long-term – to open up multiple new ways of experiencing and expressing the arc of David Bohm’s lifework. As in our first weekend, friends who are exploring this territory will join us and share their perspectives.

2 Hours, including Q & A.

The themes of the first two weekends of Beyond Bohm 2026 will draw to a significant extent from Into the Blue: Chasing the Spirit of David Bohm, Lee Nichol’s recently released book relating his experiences of many of Bohm’s experiential proposals. That book is now available from all Amazon outlets in Europe, the UK, and the US. It is recommended, though not required, for a full appreciation of July 4, 5, 11, & 12. The Prologue and Chapter One of the book are available for free download, click here.

Lee Nichol is Director of Bohmian Studies at the Pari Center. He was a friend and colleague of David Bohm, and is editor of Bohm’s On Creativity, The Essential David Bohm, and On Dialogue. He has been on the faculty of Denver University in Denver, Colorado, and the Tibetan Nyingma Institute in Berkeley, California.

Lee’s latest book is Into the Blue: Chasing the Spirit of David Bohm, his account of 50 years of experimentation with Bohm’s metaphysics. He is a founding member of the experimental Pari Center Holoflux group.

Bruce Alderman is the associate director of the Blue Sky Leaders Program at California Institute of Integral Studies, a faculty with the Consciousness, Psychology, and Transformation program at National University, and author of several forthcoming books, including Feeling Fully Alive, Giving Voice to Time and Space, and Unfolding the Senses. He has followed David Bohm’s work since reading Wholeness and the Implicate Order in the early 1980s.

Hester Reeve is an artist whose practice encompasses live art, drawing, sculpture, poetry and David Bohm’s ‘Dialogue.’ Venues hosting public works include former Randolph Street Gallery Chicago, LIVE Biennale Vancouver, BONE Performance Festival Switzerland, Tate Britain (under the umbrella of The Emily Davison Lodge), Philosophy on Stage at Halle G Vienna, Nirox Sculpture Park South Africa and, most recently, Flat Time House London (as part of the group /originforward/slash and in association with The Centre for Philosophy and Art, Kings College). The first monograph of her work, Ymedaca, was published by Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 2015.

Hester is Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University UK. She is a contributor to Holoflux: Codex (Pari Publishing), and is a founding member of the experimental Pari Center Holoflux group.

Richard Burg

In 2003 I retired from consulting, my fourth career (IT, potter, Continuing Medical Education research). My company Simple Idea worked with corporate leaders to integrate human values and productivity in a constantly changing environment – engaging with teams and individuals to build relationships within the organization that nurture the humanity in everyone, even as they work together to achieve audacious goals.

In 1990 I discovered a Bohmian dialogue group in the San Francisco Bay Area, which I attended weekly for the next eight years. Stemming from that group, Lee Nichol and I designed a nine-hour, multi-day introduction to Bohm’s experiment at the first National Conference on Dialogue and Deliberation in Washington DC. I have since engaged in dialogue in many different contexts – most recently, like many, in online dialogues, before and during the covid pandemic.

Richard is a contributor to Holoflux: Codex (Pari Publishing) and a founding member of the experimental Pari Center Holoflux group.

Beyond Bohm 2026 – Part 1, Weekend 3: Unfolding the Senses
2026-07-18 18:00 - 2026-07-19 20:00
Beyond Bohm 2026 – Part 1: Meaning / Cosmology / Poetics

Unfolding the Senses

With Bruce Alderman, Brian Swimme, John Vervaeke, and Lee Nichol

Saturday and Sunday, July 18 and 19, 20269am PDT / 12pm EDT / 5pm BST / 6pm CEST

2 two-hour sessions

All sessions are live, and include Q & A, and all participants will receive the RECORDING.

Our final weekend explores how the sensibility cultivated across the first two weekends — the felt encounter with rheosoma and organismic being — might extend into the domains of perception, cosmology, and the renewal of meaning. Bruce Alderman, drawing from his forthcoming book Unfolding the Senses, will introduce the territory where Bohm’s vision meets the phenomenology of the senses, inviting participants to explore felt sense, motility, and vision as concrete pathways into embodied wholeness.

Two special conversations will deepen this inquiry: with mathematical cosmologist Brian Thomas Swimme (Saturday), whose work on cosmogenesis situates embodied perception within the creative arc of a time-developmental universe; and with cognitive scientist and philosopher John Vervaeke (Sunday), whose account of the meaning crisis and participatory knowing illuminates why the perceptual transformations at the heart of this work are both personally and collectively urgent.

Together, these encounters invite us to sense how a Bohmian poetics — a calling forth of form and meaning — might unfold through the living body, across deep time, and into our most pressing contemporary challenges.

2 Hours, including Q & A

Bruce Alderman is the associate director of the Blue Sky Leaders Program at California Institute of Integral Studies, a faculty with the Consciousness, Psychology, and Transformation program at National University, and author of several forthcoming books, including Feeling Fully Alive, Giving Voice to Time and Space, and Unfolding the Senses. He has followed David Bohm’s work since reading Wholeness and the Implicate Order in the early 1980s.

Brian Swimme is Director of the Center for the Story of the Universe and a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Mathematics at the University of Oregon in 1978 for work in gravitational dynamics.

Dr. Swimme is the author of The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos and The Universe is a Green Dragon. He is co-author of The Universe Story, which is the result of a ten year collaboration with cultural historian Thomas Berry. Dr. Swimme is also the creator of three educational video series: Canticle to the Cosmos, The Earth’s Imagination, and The Powers of the Universe. Most recently he co-wrote and hosted the 60 minute film Journey of the Universe, broadcast on PBS television stations nationwide.

He lectures widely and has presented at conferences sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, The World Bank, UNESCO, The United Nations Millennium Peace Summit, and the American Museum of Natural History.

John Vervaeke is a cognitive scientist and award-winning educator at the University of Toronto, where he has taught in Psychology and the Cognitive Science Program since 1994. His teaching awards include the Students’ Administrative Council & Association of Part-time Undergraduate Students Teaching Award (2001) and the Ranjini Ghosh Excellence in Teaching Award (2012). His research and publications span relevance realization, general intelligence, mindfulness, metaphor, and wisdom, oriented toward addressing the contemporary “meaning crisis.”

Beyond the classroom, Vervaeke is widely known for the 50-episode public lecture series Awakening from the Meaning Crisis, which synthesizes cognitive science, philosophy, and contemplative traditions to diagnose and respond to modern disconnection. This was followed by his second series After Socrates, a series on dialectic-into-dialogos: training wisdom through practices, virtue cultivation, and participatory knowing for meaning beyond belief.

He co-authored the open-access book Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis (Open Book Publishers, 2017) with Christopher Mastropietro and Filip Miscevic, an interdisciplinary study using the zombie figure to illuminate cultural alienation and the loss of shared frameworks.

Lee Nichol is Director of Bohmian Studies at the Pari Center. He was a friend and colleague of David Bohm, and is editor of Bohm’s On Creativity, The Essential David Bohm, and On Dialogue. He has been on the faculty of Denver University in Denver, Colorado, and the Tibetan Nyingma Institute in Berkeley, California.

Lee’s latest book is Into the Blue: Chasing the Spirit of David Bohm, his account of 50 years of experimentation with Bohm’s metaphysics. He is a founding member of the experimental Pari Center Holoflux group.

Experiencing Consciousness: Connecting With Our Greater Guidance
2026-07-26 19:00 - 20:30
International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL) and The Pari Center present:

Experiencing Consciousness: Connecting With Our Greater Guidance

with Tanya Sacramento

Sunday, July 26, 202610:00AM PDT | 1:00PM EDT | 6:00PM BST | 7:00PM CEST

There will be no recording.

An invitation to ignite, enliven and expand your connection to a Greater Guidance through a channelled Guided Journey…

We are all capable of connecting intuitively to a source of wisdom and knowing. It could be one’s Soul, Angels, Animals Spirits, Guides, Ancestors (to give a few examples) or something that is beyond a name or label – and none of these are mutually exclusive! Our beliefs and experiences are diverse. The term “Greater Guidance” serves as an umbrella for this ineffable, loving wisdom. How we sense, perceive and receives prompts, messages and signs is also different for each of one us. This changes over time, as we ourselves change and develop. There is no right or wrong way; the magic happens when we nurture our own way.

You will be led on a Guided Journey, to have an experience. It is not just what is spoken, but the energy being brought through, to create a conduit and container. Trance mediums, in an expanded state of consciousness, can channel words, art, healing – but the essence of it all is energy. Tanya will co-create an energetic space to facilitate your abilities to connect, receive and discover.

Often we have preconceptions about what should happen during a Guided Journey. Cast these aside and be open to exploring and expanding your personal way of communing with the Cosmos!

The aim is not to have a one-off experience, but to use this as a stepping stone to develop your relationship with this Greater Guidance, in your daily life.

Tanya Sacramento is a psychic medium with a passion for trance mediumship and working with expanded states of consciousness, including Holotropic Breathwork. She has trained and studied evidential and trance mediumship under a number of Arthur Findlay College tutors and internationally renowned mediums. Tanya works in a one-to-one or group setting, to support individuals in developing their intuition and connection to a Greater Guidance, and in so doing, foster their self-empowerment. She also offers readings that are a mix of modalities and seeks to involve her client in the process.

What to Bring

Participants will be writing and/or drawing during the session, so be sure to have paper and a writing implement or two on hand.

Signing Up

Spaces are limited – Register now to reserve your spot!

As you will see in the registration form, there are two options for registering. However, thanks to the generosity of Neal Grossman, we are able to offer reduced (or even free) registrations to ensure that money never stands in the way of people expanding their horizons. If you are like Neal and are motivated to contribute a little more to help others, please selected the Supporting Angel ticket to make another free ticket available for future participants.

If you would like to receive a free or discounted registration, please just get in touch at eleanor@paricenter.com

Note: We use a service called Zeffy to handle registrations because it eliminates credit card fees. However, the system defaults to including a donation to Zeffy at the same time. That fee is not required and can be easily eliminated or adjusted by simply selecting ‘Other’ in that section.

You will also have the option to include an additional donation on top of the ticket price. Despite what it says on the form (which, alas, cannot be changed), any additional donations are divided equally between the Pari Center and ICRL.

Art of Hosting 2026
2026-10-23 12:00 - 2026-10-26 17:00 | Pari, Italia
Art of hosting / Arte Della leadership partecipativa per la trasformazione sociale

Pari (GR), dal 23 al 26 Ottobre 2026.

Un’esperienza immersiva per esplorare pratiche di leadership partecipativa, facilitazione e intelligenza collettiva.

Viviamo un tempo caratterizzato da crescente complessità e interdipendenza. Le sfide che affrontiamo richiedono nuovi modi di collaborare, ascoltare e agire insieme.

L’Art of Hosting offre pratiche e strumenti per creare conversazioni significative, facilitare processi partecipativi e generare cambiamento collaborativo.

Questo training è un invito a esplorare nuove possibilità insieme ad una comunità internazionale di praticanti.

Cliccate qui per info e registrazione

A chi si rivolge

Questa formazione è dedicata a persone che lavorano con gruppi, team e comunità e desiderano facilitare processi di cambiamento collaborativo.

Invitiamo:

facilitatrici e consulenti;

leader e manager;

educatori e formatrici;

imprenditrici sociali;

operatori del settore pubblico e del terzo settore;

comunità e reti collaborative;

artisti e anime creative

persone interessate al cambiamento sistemico e alla trasformazione sociale.

Cosa imparerai

Insieme esploreremo pratiche, prospettive e metodologie partecipative per coinvolgere gruppi eterogenei e lavorare con complessità, cambiamento e conflitto.

Imparerai a:

progettare iniziative collaborative;

facilitare conversazioni generative;

utilizzare i metodi dell’Art of Hosting;

lavorare con complessità e processi emergenti;

raccogliere apprendimenti e intuizioni attraverso l’harvesting;

trasformare idee e visioni in esperimenti concreti;

introdurre la leadership partecipativa nei tuoi contesti professionali e comunitari.

Il luogo

Pari Center · Toscana

Il training si svolgerà presso il Pari Center, un borgo medievale immerso nella natura nel cuore della Toscana.

Un contesto che favorisce apprendimento, connessione e momenti informali di incontro.

Il corso è residenziale e i partecipanti potranno soggiornare nelle strutture del borgo, raggiungibili a pochi minuti a piedi.

Pari è facilmente raggiungibile in macchina e con mezzi di trasporto pubblico.
