But Why Must We Be Well?
Monday July 20th, 2026
9:00-10:30am PST | 12:00-1:30pm EST | 5:00-6:30pm BST
To “be well” has become both the promise and demand of these times.
Healing, recovery, regulation and optimisation have been made an imperative. But what if this constant pursuit of wellness keeps us invested in the systems that make us unwell in the first place?
The wellness industry, an entire ecosystem of medication, therapy, retreats, courses, mindfulness apps, wearable devices and technology, exists to make us well. But what colonial relations between us and others, us and the planet, does it obscure?
This webinar shall be a space for us to ask these questions and sit with the discomfort of ‘wellness’ in these times.
What You’ll Discover
Consider how the pursuit of wellness may sometimes
We start with a more concentrated rhythm, two gatherings each month, where we begin to notice the cracks, to sit with what is already seeping through the marble.
Explore the tensions, paradoxes, and discomforts
within today’s wellness culture through conversation, reflection, music, and collective inquiry, so that you can engage these questions with greater curiosity and nuance.
Consider how the pursuit of wellness may sometimes
reinforce the very systems that contribute to suffering, so that you can imagine new possibilities for care, healing, and collective flourishing.
Báyò Akómoláfé, Ph.D.
Báyò Akómoláfé is a widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, and author of two books, These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home, and We Will Tell our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak.
Báyò is the Founder of The Emergence Network and host of the online postactivist course, ‘We Will Dance with Mountains’. He has lectured at Pacifica Graduate Institute, California, and University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. He sits on the Board of many organizations, including Science and Non-Duality (US) and Local Futures (Australia).
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