Below you’ll find the latest schedule for our upcoming online events. For local (in-person) offerings visit here.
All conversations and discussions are on Zoom.
Also, directly below is a Google Calendar that includes Gaian events and holidays, the moon phases, and celestial events (last courtesy of the New York Times space calendar). For local Gaian Guild events, visit this page.
Gaian Skies: The Importance of dark nights for pollinators and ecological cycles (September 2, Time TBD)
Robinne Gray will explore the important but often overlooked role of nighttime pollinators and the challenges they face due to light pollution. Join on Zoom here.
Fall Equinox (Late September, details TBD)
Equal day and night is upon us again! For us in the north, fall is here and winter is nigh! For our southern participants, spring is here! Join the celebration on Zoom here.
Webinar Exploring Ecological Worldviews, September 23 at 12-1:15pm ET
As part of the Garrison Institute Speaker Series on the Living Earth Community, Lisa Dahill of Hartford International University and Erik Assadourian of the Gaian Way will explore how ecological worldviews shape human responses to a living Earth community. This session will consider ancestral and contemporary traditions, stories, rituals, practices, and lifeways that affirm interdependence, kinship, and belonging within the community of life. This is in conjunction with the inaugural Living Earth Community conference to be held on October 17, 2026 at the Yale Peabody Museum at Yale University (and online). Webinar details forthcoming.
“Nature Joins the Board: A Look at How Can the More Than Human Guide Decision-Making” (September 26, 11:30-12:30pm, Harvard Divinity School and Online)
Erik Assadourian will lead a workshop on how to bring nature (generally or in the form of non-human representatives) onto the boards of companies, academic institutions, nonprofits, and churches. The talk will draw on case studies of those companies and organizations that have successfully integrated nature into their boards and decision-making processes, such as UK company Faith in Nature, and the Gaian Way. After an initial introduction and discussion, individuals will work on a proposal to bring to their organizations to incorporate a nature or more-than-human representative to their board.
SAVE THE DATE: June 27 to July 4, 2027: The Institute on Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS) annual conference: Kinship and Accountability: Rethinking Animal Lives in a Human-Dominated World
Erik Assadourian is co-chairing this conference and invites Gaians to convene here for the conference and a chance to spend a week together in person! The conference will examine our profound interrelatedness with non-human animals, drawing from science, philosophy, religion, and ethics, exploring what it means for non-human animals to find a place — indeed, even to exist — in a world we thoroughly dominate. The conference will explore how humans can transition from disruptors to responsible kin within the community of life that includes individual creatures, complex populations, and evolving species. The call for speakers should open in the fall. More details then!