Imagine Retreat

Dr. Bayo Akomolafe
Bayo Akomolafe (Ph.D.), rooted with the Yoruba people in a more-than-human world, is the father to Alethea and Kyah, the grateful life-partner to EJ, son and brother. He is a widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, self-styled ‘trans-public’ intellectual, essayist, and currently the Hubert Humphrey Distinguished Professor of American Studies in Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA (August 2025). 

Bayo is the host teacher at Dancing with Mountains, an educational consultation and the visionary founder of The Emergence Network, a planet-wide networking project and inquiry at the edges of the Anthropocene. For information visit his website.

Cynthia is a modern-day mystic, Episcopal priest, writer, and internationally known retreat leader. She divides her time between solitude and sailing the waters around her seaside hermitage in Maine and a demanding schedule traveling globally to teach and spread the recovery of the Christian contemplative and Wisdom paths.

Cynthia is a core faculty emeritus at the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She has been honored by the annual Watkins Review as one of the 100 most spiritually influential living people in 2021. Follow Cynthia’s work on Substack, Wisdom Way Points, or her website.

Fanny is a Jungian analyst and Professor at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She completed her doctoral degree at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Clinical Psychology. Dr. Brewster is a writer of nonfiction books including Race and the Unconscious: An Africanist Depth Psychology Perspective on Dreaming and The Racial Complex: A Jungian Perspective on Culture and Rac. She has received three Gravida nominations for her writings from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP). She is a Cave Canem Fellow and recipient of the C.G. Jung Houston Center Fay Lectures Honorarium (2023). Follow Fanny Brewster’s work here and here.

The Unfinished Universe: Hope and Responsibility in an Evolving World

Ilia is a Franciscan Sister of Washington, DC and American theologian specializing in the area of science and religion, with interests in evolution, physics, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence and the import of these for theology

Ilia currently holds the Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Theology at Villanova University and is the author of twenty-six books including, The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin and the Relational Whole (2023), The Hours of the Universe: Reflections on God, Science and the Human Journey, which won the 2022 Gold Nautilus Book Award and a Catholic Press Association Book Award for Faith and Science, Re-Enchanting the Earth: Why AI Needs Religion, and The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God, Evolution and thePower of Love (Orbis, 2013) and Making All Things New: Catholicity, cosmology and Consciousness, which was a finalist for the 2019 Michael Ramsey Prize. 

She is Founder and Executive Director for the World Institute for Science, Religion and Culture, an online forum dedicated to the integration of science, religion and culture.  Ilia’s presentation will be offered online due to her travel overseas commitments. You can follow Ilia’s work through the Center’s podcast, Hunger for Wholeness or Instagram and Facebook.

Awakening Cosmo-Ecological Imagination 

Ezekiel Fugate is a scholar-practitioner working at the intersection of art, ecology, culture, and consciousness. His work explores the role of lived experience in healing the cosmological impoverishment of the Western world. He teaches on a wide array of topics including evolutionary cosmology, panpsychism, eco-depth psychology, and autocosmology and has facilitated courses at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Schumacher College, and the Deep Time Network. He is also co-editor of Starborne: The Journal of Autocosmology and a co-founder of Springhouse Community School. 

Follow Ezkiel Fugate’s work here, and here.

Jeremy Johnson is a Mexican-American writer, speaker and philosopher whose work ‘thinks with the root,’ investigating the deep-running transformations of culture and consciousness and their necessary role in opening ecological futures. He is the founder of the Mutations network, a ‘para-academic’ learning community and occasional podcast, author of Seeing Through the World: Jean Gebser and Integral Consciousness (2019), and contributing editor for Mutations Issue Zero: Mutations, Imagination, Futurability (2024). His forthcoming book, Fragments of an Integral Future: Essays on Time, Ecology, and a New Worldview (2026) has been many years in the making. Part philosophical and poetic treatise, part spiritual manifesto, Fragments invites readers to contemplate how the climate crisis has helped bring about a transformation of ecological time. If past and future are now entangled in a weird planetary time, Fragments asks, how can this realization help us to live the future in the present, and further the emergence of a new worldview? 

Jeremy’s academic research, writing, and publishing advocates new forays into integrative thinking and praxis—aligning the scholastic, poetic, and spiritual—as existentially crucial work for pathfinding in a time between worldviews and realities.

Owen is a singer, composer, and teacher, and believes in the power of art to awaken our most dynamic and creative forms into being. He has worked with some of the greatest leaders in the arts such as director Steven Spielberg, actor Russell Crowe, violinist Nigel Kennedy, The Chieftains and poet David Whyte. 

He draws on his experience in performance and on his academic background in philosophy, Greek and Roman civilizations, and Peace Studies as well as the wisdom of Celtic culture to liberate creativity in individuals and organizations. He holds a first-class honors Master’s degree in Peace and Development Studies from the University of Limerick, specializing in national and local hospitality to asylum-seekers in Ireland.

In 2018, Owen co-founded The Studio, a business that inspires leadership, innovation and culture-change through the experience and the inspiration of artistry. In 2024, he established Inner Soul Circle, an online community of enquiry and experience for those seeking to invigorate new purpose in their lives through the wisdom of Celtic spirituality and the arts. Owen hosts this with his mother Rev. Nóirín Ní Riain Ph.D and his brother Mícheál Moley Ó Súilleabháin. 

Owen provides leadership coaching to those who identify as ‘visionary leaders’ – leaders who are pioneering toward new horizons. This work centers on the power of the arts and creativity to inform, inspire and sustain the extraordinary energy and sacrifice that is required of a visionary leader, both on the personal and organizational level.  

Live Performances: Live on The Kate PSB, NYC Poetry reading (Marble Collegiate Church NYC), Turas d’Anam Journeys in Ireland or follow along on Instagram.

Boris is a globally recognized marine ecologist and Professor in Marine Conservation at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is known best for his research on the effects of fishing and climate on marine life and as a leading voice for ocean conservation and restoration. His work has been featured in several feature documentary films, and he is a frequent commentator on ocean issues in the media. He also works to promote ocean literacy and education as Scientific Director for Ocean School, an online learning resource for teachers and students created in collaboration with the National Film Board of Canada.

More about Boris Worm’s work here.

Rosemerry is a poet, teacher, speaker and writing facilitator who co-hosts Emerging Form, a podcast on creative process. Her daily audio series, The Poetic Path, is on the Ritual app. Her poems have appeared on Prairie Home Companion, PBS News Hour, O Magazine, Washington Post’s Book Club, and Carnegie Hall stage. Her recent collections are All the Honey and The Unfolding. The Wonderment comes out September, 2026. She serves as poet laureate for Evermore, helping others explore grief and love through poetry. Since 2006, she’s written a daily poem, sharing them on her blog, A Hundred Falling Veils.

Follow Rosemerry’s work at her website: wordwoman.com or daily poetry blog: A Hundred Falling Veils
Download her daily poetry app for your phone: The Poetic Path, Listen to her Podcast on creative process: Emerging Form, Newest Books: The Unfolding,  All the Honey
TEDx: The Art of Changing Metaphors or the Poetry album Risking Love