Engage

Engage

We host a variety of online and in-person programs and events featuring Emergence staff and contributors, aimed at providing a space to step into an embodied spiritual ecology and explore the ideas, values, and ways of knowing within the magazine. We are excited about finding creative ways for you to engage through workshops, retreats, fellowships, courses, lecture series, and live pop-up events.

May 15–17, 2026

Emergence Magazine at Offprint London

180 Studios

Browse Emergence publications at the annual Offprint London book fair, which offers three days of sharing and celebrating creativity within the publishing community at 180 Studios.

Book Fair

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June 1, 2026

Embodying a Spiritual Ecology

A Live Conversation with Stephen Blackmer, Susan Murphy, Bonnie Nadzam, and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

Join a special live online conversation that gathers together four diverse faith practitioners to explore the role of embodied spiritual practice in cultivating interconnectedness, kinship, and reciprocity with the Earth.

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June 13–14, 2026

Spiritual Ecology Festival

St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace, London, UK

See Emergence contributors and executive editor Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee speak this June along with a line-up of thinkers and artists at St Ethelburga’s Spiritual Ecology Festival in London.

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June 25-28, 2026

Remembering Earth: A Spiritual Ecology Retreat

Sharpham Trust, Devon, UK

Within each of us is a memory of being in relationship with the living world. What will it take to renew our reverence for this ancient bond and learn to live again in communion with Earth? Join us for a four-day retreat in Devon, England that will explore an embodied spiritual ecology.

Artwork by Anne Guest

In-Person Retreat

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Artwork by Anne Guest

July 30, 2026

Remembering Earth through Embodied Spiritual Ecology

An Evening with Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee at CIIS in San Francisco

Join Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee for a special conversation at the California Institute of Integral Studies in July that will draw from his new book to explore the possibilities within an embodied spiritual ecology.

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September 10-13, 2026

Remembering Earth: A Spiritual Ecology Retreat

Whidbey Institute, Washington State, US

Step into a remembrance of the living Earth with Sufi teacher and Emergence founder and executive editor Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee at the Whidbey Institute, Washington State.

Artwork by Anne Guest

In-Person Retreat

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Artwork by Anne Guest

September 26-27, 2026

Remembering Earth: A Spiritual Ecology Workshop

CERES, Melbourne, AU

Join Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee for a weekend workshop at CERES exploring how we can find our way to communion with the living world again by integrating an embodied spiritual ecology into everyday life.

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October 1–4, 2026

Remembering Earth: A Spiritual Ecology Retreat

King Parrot, Victoria, AU

Immersed within the Otway’s ancient eucalypt bushland, explore how a practice of spiritual ecology can be integrated into all aspects of your life in a retreat led by Sufi teacher and Emergence founder and executive editor Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee.

Artwork by Anne Guest

In-Person Retreat

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Artwork by Anne Guest

November 1–4, 2026

Remembering Earth: A Spiritual Ecology Retreat

Monastère de Ségriès, Haute-Provence, France

Awaken the memory of our sacred kinship with Earth and turn towards an embodied spiritual ecology with a retreat led by Sufi teacher and Emergence founder Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee at Monastery of Ségriès in Haute-Provence, France, in autumn 2026.

Artwork by Anne Guest

In-Person Retreat

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Artwork by Anne Guest

November 5, 2026

The Seeds of the Long Story with Sophie Strand

Seeds and Structures Lecture Series

In the first lecture of our fall Seeds and Structures online series, acclaimed author and Volume 7 contributor Sophie Strand will talk about serotinous seeds as a metaphor for the opportunity present in our moment of ecological and social disruption.

Photo by G.P. Selvaggio

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Photo by G.P. Selvaggio

November 12, 2026

Stories Are Living Structures with Tyson Yunkaporta

Seeds and Structures Lecture Series

Aboriginal scholar Tyson Yunkaporta will offer a lecture on story as an epistemic seed that can carry ecological and relational wisdom across generations and spaces as part of our special online Seeds and Structures series.

Photo by James Henry

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Photo by James Henry

November 19, 2026

Seeds and Our Co-Evolved Psyches with Yuvan Aves

Seeds and Structures Lecture Series

In the final episode of our online Seeds and Structures lecture series, writer, naturalist, and environmental defender Yuvan Aves will explore how encounters with seeds throughout our lives shape our psyches and, ultimately, the story of relationship we embody with the land.

Photo by Tedx Napier Bridge

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Photo by Tedx Napier Bridge

Host a screening of the series for your community or event, explore its themes in writing and reflection, and facilitate a discussion with our new companion Engagement Guide.

Shifting Landscape Film Series

Engagement Guide

Host a screening of the series for your community or event, explore its themes in writing and reflection, and facilitate a discussion with our new companion Engagement Guide.

Open Guide

PRACTICES

Our practices offer meaningful ways of connecting to the living world, inviting you to bring an element of one of our stories into your life. You can take our practice exercises with you wherever you go—listen with our audio versions, view on your device, or have in your hands with our simple and elegant practice booklets.