Digital Campfire

The Rebel Wisdom Digital Campfire is where members gather to join and take part in our interviews and dialogues, our practice sessions with top teachers and more. It is a place to find the others, to learn and to develop skills.

We have different calls for the different membership levels, Sensemakers can attend all sessions, Explorers are welcome to all our Monday calls, the Skills Academy and also the member-generated 'Crew Sessions'. Wise Rebels are invited to our monthly AMA. Scroll down to see all upcoming sessions!

Our Monthly AMA (Ask Me Anything) is open to all members, where you can ask any question about Rebel Wisdom content, or the Digital Campfire.
Our flagship sessions are the Sensemaker Showcase (at least one per week) where we have an discussion and Q&A with a fascinating interviewee.
Our Wisdom Gym is where we invite some of the world's best facilitators and teachers to share their skills, and give members the opportunity to work with them.
Our Monday Sessions feature our Philosophical Journeys series and Rebel Wisdom Book Club.
Our Skills Academy features practice sessions to develop your skills with some of the best facilitators we have found.
We also help members put on their own sessions, in our Crews and Member Meetups.

To check out membership options and join the Campfire click here.

Monthly Campfire AMA

This is a regular monthly AMA (ask me anything) session with Rebel Wisdom founder David Fuller and co-founder Alexander Beiner. They are an opportunity to ask any questions, about guests, about any of the films and topics featured on Rebel Wisdom, and also any questions about the Digital Campfire itself. All questions, criticisms and ideas welcome!

(Access: Wise Rebels, Explorers & Sensemakers)

Next Sessions: 26th April / 24th May / 21st June

Sensemaker Showcase

The Sensemaker Showcase is our flagship session for Sensemakers with a top interviewee(s). Typically lasting 75 minutes, you can submit questions for our guests, and join the conversation. We also often have an after-hours open discussion hosted by Campfire members, to stay and continue the conversation.

Heather is an evolutionary biologist and co-host of the Dark Horse podcast with her husband Bret Weinstein. Now 'professor in exile' after famously being chased out of Evergreen College by a cancel culture mob. She says "The scientific process is a main theme in my teaching, and I strive to bring it to the foreground of students' worldviews, so that they become comfortable generating hypotheses for the patterns that they observe around them in the world, and are able to live investigated, conscious lives."

Heather Heying: Sensemaker Q&A

Heather Heying has spoken and written about multiple topics on Rebel Wisdom and elsewhere, including how evolutionary biology can explain complex social topics, how to create the conditions for genuine dialogue around difficult topics, from Evergreen to the IDW, and even asking the controversial question whether such a thing as ‘toxic femininity’ exists. This showcase session will be a discussion between Heather and Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller, followed by an open Q&A with all Sensemakers.

Weds 14th April @ 8pm UK / 3pm EST / 12pm PST

Jamie Wheal is the co-author of the global bestseller and Pulitzer Prize nominated Stealing Fire, and the founder of the Flow Genome Project, an international organization dedicated to the research and training of ultimate human performance. Since founding the organization in 2011, it has gone on to become a leading voice of evidence-based peak performance, counting award-winning academics, legendary professional athletes, special operations commanders, and Fortune 500 business leaders among the hundreds of thousands of people in its global community.

Recapture the Rapture! Jamie Wheal & Guests

Jamie is a long term friend of Rebel Wisdom and returns to launch his new book 'Recapture the Rapture, Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World That's Lost Its Mind', with a series of surprise guests.

The book is divided into three sections, 'Choose Your Own Apocalypse', 'The Alchemist Cookbook' and 'Ethical Cult Building'. It is a call to action, an open source toolkit for individual and societal transformation.

28th April @ 8pm UK / 3pm EST / 12pm PST

Zak Stein studied philosophy and religion at Hampshire College, and then educational neuroscience, human development, and the philosophy of education at Harvard University. His work looks at the implications of seismic shifts to how we learn and understand the world, and particularly the impact on education, explained most fully in his book 'Education in a Time Between Worlds'. He is also co-Founder of the Consilience Project with Daniel Schmachtenberger

Zak Stein, Understanding a Time Between Worlds

Zak is an influential voice among those wrestling with the deep problems with the source code of our culture, and he is particularly focused on the problems of learning and education. We welcome Zak to this Digital Campfire event, where we will dive into his concept of a "Time Between Worlds".

His piece a year ago, "A War Broke out in Heaven" caused a stir, proposing that "We are being shaped by vast and complex forces into becoming new kinds of people."

Weds 12th May, 8pm UK / 3pm EST / 12pm PST

In 2017, I founded Bismarck Analysis, a consulting firm that investigates the political and institutional landscape of society. I’m a Research Fellow at the Long Now Foundation where I study how institutions can endure for centuries and millennia. I write and speak on history, institutions, and strategy with a focus on exceptional leaders that create new social and political forms.

Samo Burja - What is a Live Player?

Samo is a deep thinker with a talent for creating concepts that help make sense of the cultural landscape. One of these is the conception of 'Live Player', meaning a person or organisation capable of novelty, versus one only able to run existing scripts. In this Showcase we will discuss how this concept of Live Player helps to make sense of the cultural landscape, and talk about his "great founder theory" of social change.

Tues, 20th April @ 6PM UK / 1PM ET / 10AM PT

Tim Freke is an internationally respected authority on world spirituality and the bestselling author of more than 20 books, which have been translated into 15 languages. He is pioneering a new philosophy of awakening that has touched the lives of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. He has often been featured in the international media including the BBC and The History Channel. Tim appeared on Rebel Wisdom talking about 'The Split in the Western Soul'.

Tim Freke: Individualism to Unividualism

Tim is a philosopher and facilitator looking to shift from a culture of individualism to what he calls 'unividualism'. He says: "I want to explore a new worldview I believe can bring together science and spirituality into one coherent narrative, that is both intellectually rigorous and emotionally inspiring. The depths of spirituality in all traditions are concerned with an experience of awakening to a state of oneness. I want to suggest that the next evolution jump, which is taking place at a quickening pace in recent decades, is for human individuals to become ‘unividuals’ … conscious of unity with the universe."

12th April @ 8pm UK / 3pm EST / 12pm PST

Mary is a writer and journalist. She spent her 20s experimenting with intentional communities, gender nonconformity and unconventional relationship forms. After the crash of 2008 she worked in marketing while training as a psychotherapist, before discovering marriage, motherhood and small town life - along with an audience as a writer via her blog. Her writing has been published by the New Statesman, The Spectator and Mail on Sunday, and she is a contributing editor at UnHerd.

Mary Harrington: Reactionary Feminism?

Mary recently took part in Rebel Wisdom's first 'Sex and Culture' event, where there was a great deal of interest in her concept of 'reactionary feminism'. She returns to Rebel Wisdom for a showcase event, in dialogue with Raven Connolly. She says: "The central contention of reactionary feminism is that the ideas of 'freedom' and 'progress' themselves are now delivering diminishing returns for all but a shrinking elite. And this is impacting especially severely on women, meaning that in order to remain true to the central task of feminism - advocating for women's political interests - feminists must turn against the theology of progress."

15th April @ 6pm UK / 1pm EST / 10am PST

Wisdom Gym

In the Wisdom Gym, we invite the world’s leading teachers in psychology, personal development and embodiment to share their wisdom live with Sensemakers. It’s a chance to learn from and interact with world-renowned figures like Gabor Mate, Peter Levine, Shauna Shapiro and many more. In the process, you’ll practice techniques and learn models that help us sharpen our awareness, develop sovereignty and deepen connection.

Shauna Shapiro is a best-selling author, professor, clinical psychologist and internationally recognized expert in mindfulness and self-compassion. She has spent two decades studying the benefits of mindfulness and compassion, publishing over 150 papers and three books. Her TEDx Talk has been viewed over 2 million times.

Shauna Shapiro

Shauna Shapiro is a best-selling author, professor, clinical psychologist known for her ground-breaking research on mindfulness and self-compassion. In this session, she'll be explaining the neuroscience behind her IAA (Intention, Attention, Attitude) model of mindfulness, and showing us how we can apply it to our everyday lives.

7th April @ 8PM UK / 3PM ET / 12PM PT

Dr. Molly Maloof is a lecturer at Stanford and has worked as an independent advisor & strategy consultant to over 45 technology companies in Silicon Valley. She also regularly speaks at conferences and with wellness travel companies across the globe on topics such as the future of medicine, scientific wellness, and digital health.

Dr. Molly Maloof

Dr. Molly Maloof is on a mission to radically extend healthspan, maximize human potential, and redefine health care. A lecturer at Stanford and a Ketamine practioner, she works at the cutting edge of medicine. In this session, she'll answer our questions around biohacking, smart drugs and how we can hack our biology for optimum performance.

21st April @ 8PM UK / 3PM ET / 12PM PT

Past Wisdom Gym with Gabor Mate

Previous Wisdom Gyms

Dr. Gabor Maté joined us for the Wisdom Gym in January 2021. He talked about how the pandemic is affecting our ability to connect, and what we can do in relation to it. He also demonstrated a powerful psychotherapeutic approach he has developed called Compassionate Inquiry, and answered audience questions. Click here to watch it.

Philosophical Journeys & RW Book Club

Every month philosopher and author Jules Evans takes us on a philosophical journey, applying some of the timeless wisdom of the past to current cultural dilemmas. Past sessions have included "Existentialism and the Meaning Crisis", and "Aldous Huxley and the Human Potential Movement", and these sessions are available as recordings for members. We have also just launched the Rebel Wisdom book club. We will choose a book a month in advance, to give time to read it in advance of the session, and then we will discuss it together. (For Explorers and Sensemakers)

Philosophical Journeys: 'Should we Hack Death?

For many wealthy tech oligarchs, defeating death and hacking longevity has become an obsession. Is this something that we should be trying? What are the ethical issues that emerge if it proves possible, but limited to the super wealthy? What does it say about our current culture, and our collective phobia of death and dying? Jules will draw on philosophers like John Gray (Straw Dogs) and the Russian Cosmists.

19th April @ 8pm UK / 3pm EST / 12pm PST

The Book, by Alan Watts.

"Explaining man's role in the universe as a unique expression of the total universe, and interdependent on it, Alan Watts offers a new understanding of personal identity. It reveals the mystery of existence, presenting and alternative to the feelings of alienation that is prevalent in Western society, and a vision of how we can come to understand the cosmic self that is within every living thing."

RW Book Club. Alan Watts & 'The Book' with Tim Lott

For our second edition of the Rebel Wisdom Book Club we will be looking at one of Alan Watts's most influential works, "The Book: On the Taboo of Knowing Who You Are". Our host Jules Evans will be joined by author Tim Lott, an expert in Alan Watts's work, to discuss a book that had a huge impact on his thinking. If you wish to read the book before the conversation, a PDF is available here

3rd May @ 8pm UK / 3pm EST / 12pm PST

Who is Jules Evans?

Jules is a writer, speaker and practical philosopher, interested in ideas and practices which help people suffer less and flourish more. His bestselling first book, Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations, explored how people are rediscovering ancient Greek and Roman philosophies and how Greek philosophy (Stoicism) inspired Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). His second book, The Art of Losing Control, explored how people find ecstatic experiences in modern western culture.

Skills Academy

Our skills academy is a regular practice session with some of the best guest facilitators we’ve discovered. It’s designed to help you develop some of the skills we’ve explored on the channel, as well as models and theories essential for developing capacities like sovereignty, collective intelligence, somatic awareness and more. (For Explorers and Sensemakers)

Kai is a certified New Ventures West Integral Coach®. He is also Certified in Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychology, and supports training in both the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento. He brings his coaching, psychology, mindfulness and 20+ years of tech experience to helping leaders in both the tech and nonprofit spaces excel with practical leadership skills.

Building Collective Intelligence with Kai Mantsch

If we want to tap into our collective intelligence, we have to develop our own agency and awareness. The first stage in accessing coherence and collective intelligence is to learn to track our own inner state first, and these are skills we just aren't taught. This four part series is designed to give members a chance to expand their somatic and emotional awareness through guided meditation, and interactive exercises.

Next sessions: 30th March, 13th April

Pippa Evans is an award winning performer, specialising in improvisation. She performs regularly with Showstopper! The Improvised Musical. Her most recent book 'Improv Your Life' came out in February 2021 to rave reviews.

Improv Your Life with Pippa Evans

Improv is known as a hilarious way to create comedy content, however, it is also an excellent personal and collective intelligence tool. Improvisation creates a space where we explore our ideas to the very limit of what we think is possible and experiment with how to be an individual amongst the collective. In this session we will explore building on each other's ideas, giving up control and trusting the flow state.

Next sessions: 27th April, 8th June

Past Skills Academy Sessions

Previous Skills Academy Sessions

We've hosted dozens of skills academy sessions for members, including Dialogue and Disagreement Lab with Jason Digges, Exploring Emergence with Pamela von Sabljar and Collective Presencing with Ria Baeck. In the process, facilitators have trained Rebel Wisdom members to develop capacities like agency, discernment and presence that we believe are required to meet the challenges of a complex world.