A Modern Council for Crafting Culture and Nurturing Our Shared Futures Together

906 St. Francis, Unit B
10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
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Creative Devotion is a modern council for crafting culture and nurturing our shared futures. It’s not a typical panel discussion where the audience passively receives top-down wisdom from artists or founders. Instead, it’s an invitation into a multi-perspective space where we gather to share experiences, ask questions, and listen across difference.

Each gathering centers a guiding question around something that feels alive in the culture and in us. We’re not asking for finished, polished answers. We’re asking for presence, curiosity, and the willingness to be in shared inquiry about how we live, how we grieve, how we repair, and how we cultivate the futures we long to inhabit together.

We’re calling in creators, culturemakers, and keepers of wisdom who have used their creativity and devotion as a way to meet challenge, cultivate new possibilities, and nurture a sense of belonging within their community.

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VOL III: ON GRIEF AND VISION

AUGUST 8 • 11:00 a.m - 1:00 p.m.

Grief often marks the beginning of visionary work. It shows up as an unmet need, a rupture, or a loss of someone, something, or some part of ourselves. And in the wake of that loss, a question often rises:

Why aren’t we talking about this more? Why doesn’t this exist yet? What’s missing, and how can I help shape it?

Grief opens a space in us that can often fill with longing, creative will; and with a quiet urgency to build, say, or tend to something that hasn't been created yet. Sometimes, what we call vision is simply the answer to a question our grief is asking on our behalf. A response to a prayer we didn’t know we (or others) were praying.

In this session of Creative Devotion, we’ll explore how grief and vision are intertwined. How the work of making culture, telling stories, and building new possibilities can come directly from our losses and how these creative acts can become a kind of collective healing.

This is a space for honest conversation, creative reflection, and shared presence. You don’t need to come with answers. Just your lived experience, your questions, and your care are requested.

VOL IV: ON CONFLICT AND REPAIR

Creative work doesn’t exist apart from conflict. Often, it emerges because of it. Tension reveals what matters. It sharpens our sense of what needs to change. And it calls us into deeper responsibility for what we’re shaping in our lives, our communities, and the cultures we’re part of.

Conflict can be uncomfortable, but it’s also instructive. It asks us to clarify our values. To define our boundaries. And to listen for what’s no longer working. In this way, the creative process becomes a kind of prophetic practice: every choice, every word, every gesture we make now ripples into the future.

It’s in this way that repair isn’t just about mending a rupture. It’s about the small acts of courage that nurture the world we want to live inside of. It’s a form of relational stewardship. A way of tending to the threads of trust, care, and possibility that connect us.

In this session of Creative Devotion, we’ll explore the relationship between conflict and creativity and how our ability to repair becomes a vital part of vision development within a communal context. We’ll look at how artists, entrepreneurs, and cultural workers may act as bridge-builders, truth-tellers, and culturekeepers especially when things break down.

This is a space to ask: What kinds of spaces want to be created now? What forms of truth, beauty, and belonging are worth fighting for? And how can we meet conflict as an opening, not just a wound that is being created?

VOL V: VISION AND THE SUBTLE BODY

Some visionary awakening experiences come gently. Others arrive like lightning—uninvited, fragmenting to the psyche, and overwhelming to the physical body.

During this cultural era, many people are navigating grief-stricken, and almost violent spiritual awakenings and even find themselves touching the rim of spiritual psychosis without support, language, or a community to hold them. And often, these experiences are pathologized before they’re ever fully witnessed as sacred thresholds for the soul’s becoming.

In this session of Creative Devotion, we’ll explore what it means to meet visionary rupture with care at both the individual and communal level. What happens when we catch these moments early, at a lay level, before they escalate to crisis or reach the threshold of needing clinical intervention? What tools do our wisdom traditions offer for recognizing, holding, and integrating these states?

We’ll discuss rites of passage as a form of community containment for spiritual emergencies and psyche fragmentation. We’ll ask: what are the signs that someone is in the midst of a spiritual breaking-open? What can mythology and depth psychology teach us to help us recognize the terrain of these experiences? And how do we design culture that holds space for these disorientating experiences and respect them as opportunities for soul maturation and an individual’s becoming?

This conversation is for artists, visionaries, caregivers, and culturekeepers who know that spiritual emergence is real, common, and often misread in community contexts. Together, we’ll consider how creative practice, collective presence, and storywork might offer a bridge back to a shared experience of human wholeness.

Past panelists have included artists, a medical doctor, designers, a restauranteur, startup founders, an urban farmer and ceremonialists––individuals whose work lives at the intersection of deep sensitivity and cultural impact. Each brings not only care for the world, but a tangible contribution to the conversations shaping it.

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