Anthropos 2026

Real relationships aren’t always smooth. Human intimacy is defined by “rupture and repair.” The inevitable, messy misunderstandings that, when navigated, build true trust. 
But now, we’re entering a world where AI companions can offer constant validation, ease and “perfect’ responses, without friction. Are these interactions eroding our tolerance for the vulnerability required in human-to-human relationships?
Can we maintain the capacity for authentic human connection if we spend most of our time interacting with systems designed to never offend or disappoint us?
This talk explores how our growing reliance on digital relationships may be reshaping what we expect from each other, and what we’re willing to tolerate in real human connection.
You’ll be invited to reflect on your own patterns and what it takes to stay in the complexity, vulnerability, and depth of real human connection.

We invest in roads, broadband, and housing – but the strength of any community comes down to something simpler: people who know and trust each other. 
So why does real community feel so hard to build?
This talk explores why intentional community may be one of the most important forms of infrastructure we have in an uncertain future.
It looks at what it takes to create spaces where people show up, stay engaged, and feel a genuine sense of belonging.
You’ll leave with practical frameworks for building communities that foster depth, accountability, and real human connection.

Menopause is often framed as a decline. A loss of youth, vitality, sexuality, or relevance. Something to manage quietly while continuing to function in a world that rarely makes space for the changing hormonal body.
Yet for many women, this transition also brings something else: less tolerance for self-abandonment, changing relationships to desire, and a growing pull toward honesty, boundaries, authenticity, and embodied truth.
As hormones shift, so can emotional regulation, libido, sleep, stress responses, relational dynamics, and the experience of power within the body and in connection with others. What can initially feel disruptive may also become an invitation into a different relationship with self, intimacy, and personal authority.
This talk explores the interplay between hormones, the nervous system, desire, embodiment, stress, bonding, and conscious relational dynamics during perimenopause and menopause.
Participants will be invited to reflect on how hormonal transition may reshape not only the body, but identity, relationships, pleasure, power, and the capacity to live more fully from embodied truth.

AI may not be creating disconnection, but revealing how disconnected we already are.
As it becomes harder to know what’s real, many of us are being pushed to rely less on external certainty and more on our inner sense of knowing. The challenge is that constant stimulation and a dysregulated world have deeply disconnected us from ourselves.
This talk explores a different way of relating to AI, not as something that replaces human thinking, but as a mirror that can bring us back into awareness. And what becomes possible when we stop looking to AI for answers and begin using it to listen more closely to ourselves. With the support of new AI-powered productivity systems, people can get back into rhythm with themselves and the universe. Rather than using AI to think for them, it can be are used it to support a return to their own inner knowing.
This work sits at the intersection of consciousness and emerging technology, reframing AI not as something to fear, but as an invitation to reconnect with ourselves, and pointing to a future that depends less on smarter technology and more on deeper human attunement.

We live in a world that pushes us to think fast, decide quickly, and stay logical. But not everything meaningful in life works that way. 
Creativity, intuition, attraction, and timing often move in cycles, not straight lines. The earth and body know no straight lines.
This talk explores a different kind of intelligence, one that lives in the body, senses what isn’t being said, and responds in real time. Human nonlinear intelligence moves through curves, chaos, embodiment, and relational leaps: it harmonizes with living complexity, feels the unspoken, and adapts in ways no algorithm can replicate.
How do we access that way of knowing in a world that rewards speed and certainty?
This session invites you to reconnect with a different kind of intelligence, the kind that lives in your body, your instincts, and your deeper awareness.
This talk-performance blends story, spirit-dialogue, science, and embodied exploration. It offers a grounded way to step out of constant mental processing and into a more intuitive, responsive way of living.

We’re living in a time that pulls us out of our bodies and into constant stimulation, distraction, and disconnection.
Tantra offers a different path.

Rooted in ancient wisdom, it invites us back into presence. Back into the body, into relationship with others, and into a deeper connection with life itself. The ancient Tantriks saw the Divine in every breath and every touch. By learning how to merge our physical reality with our spiritual essence, we heal a 5,000-year-old pattern of disconnection and suppression.
This talk is a guide to living a fully ecstatic life, in which the creational masculine and feminine forces are finally restored to their intended union.
What becomes possible when we stop reaching outward for connection and begin to cultivate it from within?
You’ll be invited to reflect on your own patterns and explore what it means to live with greater presence, connection, and embodied awareness in everyday life.

We once turned to silence, sweat, tears, and each other in moments of need.  Now we type our deepest longings into glowing rectangles that answer with perfect empathy and zero judgment.
This workshop pin-points the spot where AI collides with what some are calling a collective spiritual emergency – the pull toward euphoric highs that can, at times, spiral into disorientation or digital overdependence. 
Together, we’ll explore the seductive trap of techno-spiraling, along with practical harm reduction strategies for the growing use of AI as a source of emotional and life guidance.
In this workshop, a grounded approach brings the focus back to embodiment and community, supporting a more balanced relationship with technology and a return to direct, human experience.

AI is essentially a pocket narcissist; an algorithmic echo chamber designed to constantly tell you that you’re right. But flawless agreement is sterile. Real human intimacy requires friction, rupture, and the messy, high-voltage reality of conflict and the unpredictability of being with another person..
Most of us experience conflict as something going wrong, leading to escalation, avoidance, or shutdown.  This workshop reframes conflict as a portal to deeper connection. You’ll be introduced to, a trauma-informed, 9-Step Repair Protocol that supports you in navigating rupture, taking responsibility, and moving toward repair in a grounded, practical way.. 
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there,” – Rumi
Stop outsourcing your reality to perfectly curated algorithms and learn the mechanics to stay present in moments of friction, and to repair and connect like humans again.

In the Tshiluba language of Central Africa, the word ku manya means both “to know” and “to make love.” Not as a metaphor, but as a reflection of a worldview where connection, awareness, and intimacy are not separate.
This talk introduces a Central African lens on the body, presence, and relating, one that sees the body not as something to fix or transcend, but as inherently whole and alive.
This perspective offers a different orientation to intimacy, one that moves beyond performance, expectation, or striving, and instead opens into recognition, presence, and connection. 
This isn’t about learning techniques. It’s about noticing what shifts when you relate to yourself and others in a more natural, grounded way.
Whether this perspective is new to you or resonates with something you’ve always felt, you’re invited to engage with it in your own way.

The digital world increasingly pushes us desperately wants to sanitize the human experience, filtering out what is dark, messy, and taboo in the name of “safety” and “growth”. But suffocating these parts doesn’t eliminate them; it creates pressure in your psyche that eventually leaks out as passive aggression or unconsented harm.
But what happens to those parts when they’re ignored?
True relational safety requires bringing the dark erotic into the light. This talk explores the transformative nature of holy pain and sacred sadism as a profound practice and how these can be approached with consent, structure and care, as a way to work with intensity rather than push it aside. We will explore how to ethically channel destructive urges into consensual, high-voltage portals of connection.
You will be introduced to the principles that make these practices safe, intentional, and relational and what it takes to stay present and responsible at the edges of experiences. You’ll also learn why the deepest edges of kink require the highest levels of presence, care, and structural integrity.