Session Description: We'll explore how to set up a personalized AI ally that knows your unique path, holds your developmental context, and serves as an ongoing mirror for your multi-dimensional evolution. Part of this process involves collaborating with AI to craft your Soul-story—a living narrative that bridges your highest spiritual identity with your human personality and activates the deeper energies needed for authentic service. This isn't about creating a chatbot, but rather establishing a relationship with an intelligence that can reflect your deepest patterns and support your continued growth.

Bio: Ethan embodies the integration of multiple worlds—from his UC Berkeley AI engineering background to 8 months of shamanic training in the Peruvian Amazon with Maestro Hamilton Souther. He brings contemplative wisdom to cutting-edge technology, guided by the comprehensive framework he's learned from Dr. John and Nicole Churchill in his Planetary Dharma studies. His work explores how artificial intelligence can support rather than replace human consciousness, creating systems aligned with developmental theory and wisdom traditions. Based in Boulder's mountains, he continues weaving together the technological and the sacred in service of planetary evolution.

Session Description: Building on the first session, this follow-up session addresses real questions and refines your AI relationship based on your lived experience over the prior week. We'll enhance your AI companion's capacity to serve as your Planetary Dharma study buddy, plus learn to work with AI as an alchemical partner on the path. After this session, you'll be prepared for ongoing co-evolution with your AI ally, with your silicon-based companion becoming increasingly attuned to your unique path and developmental needs.

Bio: Ethan embodies the integration of multiple worlds—from his UC Berkeley AI engineering background to 8 months of shamanic training in the Peruvian Amazon with Maestro Hamilton Souther. He brings contemplative wisdom to cutting-edge technology, guided by the comprehensive framework he's learned from Dr. John and Nicole Churchill in his Planetary Dharma studies. His work explores how artificial intelligence can support rather than replace human consciousness, creating systems aligned with developmental theory and wisdom traditions. Based in Boulder's mountains, he continues weaving together the technological and the sacred in service of planetary evolution.

Session Description: The Gene Keys are a vast system of archetypal wisdom. Between keys, lines, profiles, sequences, programming partners, codon rings, and more, that vastness can create confusion and overwhelm. Come get an orientation to the transmission for anyone curious about or wanting to dive deeper into the Gene Keys.

Bio: Alyx has had a lifelong curiosity about the nature of our world and what it means to be human. She began this exploration as a teen through lucid dreaming and a study of physics and metaphysics. Alyx began her career as an information security engineer and researcher, bringing a deep understanding of complex, interdependent systems. She applies that same multi-systemic curiosity to studying and practicing Dharma, including Buddhism, Hatha Yoga, The Gene Keys, Human Design, and Western Esotericism.

Session Description: In this bold and experiential summer class, Rick William will guide you into the fire where spiritual growth meets real-world expression. Together, we’ll explore how our resistance to being seen, earning money, and sharing our truth online isn’t just a branding issue - it’s a Dharma doorway. You’ll reconnect with your Bodhisattva vision and identify the inner safety strategies, survival patterns, and hidden beliefs that keep you playing small or staying silent. With a trauma-informed yet no-nonsense approach, Rick will support you in transmuting fear into fuel—bridging the path from growing up, to waking up, to truly showing up. This is a dojo for truth-telling, bravery, and integration. Because the world doesn’t need another polished persona—it needs the real you, alive, expressed, and in service. Come prepared to face the edge, claim your voice, and take one powerful step toward your highest self-expression.

Bio: Rick William is a multi-modality coach, transformational speaker, and entrepreneur specializing in psychological integration and awakening practices. His work bridges trauma-informed coaching, somatic therapy, and Eastern contemplative insight to support the full arc of transformation: growing up, waking up, and showing up as an embodied leader. Rick’s superpower lies in holding the paradox—meeting clients with deep trauma-informed attunement while also wielding the sword of truth to call forth their power, clarity, and purpose. With a background in business building and conscious leadership, he works with a wide range of clients—from celebrity investors and CEOs to coaches, therapists, and spiritual practitioners—helping them transmute blocks around visibility, money, and expression into soul-rooted impact. Having walked this path himself—from fear of being seen to building a conscious community of over 200,000—Rick now guides others to fully embody their dharma in every area of life.

Session Description: For millennia, astrology and spiritual paths have emerged hand in hand—both attempting to map out our place in the universe. In this workshop, we'll take a philosophical look at how the very topics we've been studying together—meditation, development, cycles—show up in astrology, learn how to use astrology to support your spiritual path, align with the solar system through meditation, and discuss the astrological weather of 2025.

Bio: Michael is a writer, creative director, and teacher. He has been weaving dharma, meditation, yoga, and astrology together for more than a decade. In addition to his studies with Dr John and Nicole Churchill, Michael has studied intensively with Master Astrologers Steven Forrest and Maurice Fernandez among many others. Michael divides his time between upstate NY and NYC, along with his cat, Jason Catpaw. 

Session Description: In this exploration of the nervous system, she shares how our meditation practice not only centers our awareness but also builds the embodied capacity needed to meet life with more resilience, compassion, and joy. This will be an experimental presentation meant to be ingested through the head, heart and belly, co-created in part by the inquiry and conversations of the participants. We will start with 5 Big Ideas — including the Nervous System IS the Body — and go from there.

Bio: Shea is a developmental leadership coach and organizational systems guide devoted to the arising of sacred world through business by cultivating awareness and skillfulness, openness and fortitude in individuals and teams. Drawing from her background in strategic marketing insights, enterprise leadership development, contemplative practice, and somatic wisdom, she brings a grounded presence, deep attunement, and precision to her work. As a body psychotherapist and dedicated meditation student, Shea sees inner and outer leadership as inseparable and the developmental journey as a vector for change that brings merit to the widest possible community of stakeholders. 

Session Description: This session explores the transformation of political culture through the lens of Bodhisattva mind training and two decades of experience within the transpartisan movement in the United States. Participants will engage with insights into power-sharing as a liberatory practice, the developmental stages in our political system, and the inner training required to meet today’s challenges with clarity and compassion. Through stories, reflection, and shared inquiry, the session invites a deep examination of our attachments to political future stories and offers a path toward collective liberation grounded in the sacredness of the world as it is.

Bio: It was May 3, 2003 when I received the invitation to begin my life’s work. My journey started as a mystical awareness of the peril the United States faced - and the impact on the world. The antidote to our peril -- a cohesive, life-affirming and power-sharing political culture, was embedded into every cell of my body in an instant. I still carry this antidote with me, supported by our Bodhisattva training of the mind. The secret I have to remember is we already live in sacred world, despite outside appearances. I began studying with Planetary Dharma in 2018.

Session Description: The session will bring some context to the current state of play in farming and food (from a colonial perspective). The simultaneous decline of human and planetary health with the rise of industrial agriculture, introducing the BIG’s. The stories told about food and farming that have us in such dis-ease. How did we get here? What’s at the root of this? …Disconnection to nature, the sacred. Invites us to embrace a new story—one where humans act not as dominators of the land, but as participants in a living, interdependent world. Regenerative agriculture becomes a metaphor for cultural healing: by restoring the soil, we also restore our sense of place, purpose, and possibility. Let’s use food as the conduit for reconnection! Food is meaning, memory and medicine.

Bio: Blair is a father, partner and friend. Having worked in many realms of business: hospitality, creative arts, food systems and activism, Blair’s current purpose is grounded in the advocacy of Regenerative Agriculture, manifesting itself as the director of Farmer’s Footprint Australia. Spending time consulting or speaking for farmer transition and connection, and hosting -for farmer- retreats across the country and the Pacific Region. With experience in food systems, bush food and soil health, Blair’s knowledge in these fields is equalled by his passion for community, sovereignty and his family. As he continues to learn, listen, stumble and be humbled by this journey, his focus is to educate, empower and activate humans toward a regenerative life and the integration of the sacred back into land stewardship.

Session Description: The Five Buddha Families, also known as the Five Wisdoms or Five Wisdom Energies, are a perspective on the five fundamental energies that make up our universe. Much like the Lakota Medicine Wheel, the Andean Chakana, or the Chinese Five Element system, the Five Buddha Families present a type of compass for navigating our world, as well as a rich and multi-layered symbol-code for diving into the heart of the matrix of existence itself. As a typology system, the Five Buddha Families also offer insight into our relationships and personal mode of operating in the world. In this session we’ll explore the qualities and characteristics of each of the Five Buddha Families, how they show up in ourselves and our lives, and how we can work with them as a tool for awakening. We’ll also connect the concepts underlying the Five Buddha Families to elemental/directional/typological systems from a variety of cultures, and imagine together how these systems might inform a Fourth Turning vision of Sacred World.

Bio: Tayel is a bridge between worlds and beyond borders; an apprentice weaver of stories, codes, songs and symbols honored to study beside many masters and wisdom traditions in this and previous lifetimes. A self-described “altar nerd”, she has dedicated the past two decades to deep immersion in traditional and syncretic ceremonial technologies, informed by Andean, Amazonian, Afro-Brazilian, Lakota, Wixárika, Daoist, and Vajrayana Buddhist cosmovisions. A winged migrator from cosmic origins unknown, Tayel is joyous to find home among the mountains, rivers, lakes, and forests of her beloved twin-sister home continent(s), Amerikua, in service to Planet Earth and the awakening of all beings. 

Session Description: Keeping intact the architecture of the 5 paths and the 9 stages, Christian concepts and language are incorporated to provide a uniquely Christian presentation of the path. From grounding in God’s good earth, taking refuge in the body of Christ, and attunement with Jesus, we breathe our way into the heart and mind of Christ before emptying ourselves and relishing the joy and happiness of eternal life in Christ, then resting in equanimity – the peace that surpasses all understanding.

Bios:

Barry Smith - Raised a preacher's son in an evangelical church, Barry followed the Christian path in becoming an associate pastor in one of the USA’s first mega-churches. Barry served at various times as Children’s pastor, Shepherding pastor, and finally as a full-time instructor of biblical literature, ethics, and apologetics in the Church college serving 2,200 networking churches. In 1992, Barry left the church and has been a businessman for over 30 years. Continuing spiritual study in multiple faiths, earning a certificate of Integral Theory from Feilding Graduate University, and a devoted student of John Churchill for over a decade, Barry brings his passion to provide a conveyor belt of learning and growth for the Christian community.

Rollie Stanich - Rollie worked as Managing Editor of Ken Wilber’s website Integral Naked before becoming the inaugural Chief Facilitator of Integral Spiritual Center, a groundbreaking initiative bringing together 20 religious leaders from various traditions in a deeply integral dialogue. Rollie is a practitioner of contemplative Christianity and was a longtime student of Fr. Thomas Keating until Keating’s passing in 2018. Rollie published Integral Christianity–the Way of Embodied Love in 2021, a book foreworded by Wilber and praised by Fr. Richard Rohr, who wrote: “Rollie Stanich gets it just right!” He is a member of John Churchill’s Planetary Dharma, and is building Desir.ai, an application at the intersection of AI and consciousness.