About

This is the frontier of the neural architecture of collectives beyond collapse, a horizon charting the coordinates of possibility.

We are the team behind Hearth Science, the Restorative Practices Alliance, the Academy of Applied Social Medicine, Jaguar Imprints, and The Original Fire.

Our work is grounded in the hard-won understanding that relatedness is the foundation of individual and collective wellbeing, and that everything must be organized around this centerpoint.

We have a global faculty that comprised of nearly 100 members from more than 25 disciplines of wellbeing in more than 24 cultures, including more than a dozen of the world’s leading experts in connection and wellbeing.

Our software division architected and produced the Restorative Practices Deep Learning platform, which may be the most sophisticated mindbody wellness platform in the world, and is used by people in 50 countries.

Our literary imprint Jaguar Imprints has produced the Connection Phenomenology series, including Restorative Practices of Wellbeing, Keywords: A Field Guide to the Missing Words, Sing the Body Electric: Essays on the Mysterious Beauty of the Deep Nervous System, How Whiteness Operates, Origin Stories for Children, and So, About that Death Cult you Joined: Essays Unmasking Empire in Modernity

Our film division has produced The Restorative Practices Film Series, and the Connection Masterclass Interview series.

Our visual design division has produced the Autonomic Spectrum poster, the Official Polyvagal Theory poster (with Dr. Stephen Porges, PhD), the Connection Keywords poster and the Ways of Knowing poster.

We steward a Northern California eco-reserve, which is where we have our global headquarters and film studio.

We walked away from a partnership with a billionaire impact investor (Bo Shao's fund Evolve Ventures) because their managing director was not clear about whether he wanted us to make a billion dollars or help a million people, a partnership with the Stanford University School of Medicine because they tried to steal our work twice (yes, we said that) (here's the first time), and a partnership with the Leadership Circle, one of the world's leading executive coaching and leadership development firms, because despite their protestations to the contrary, at the end of the day they operate in a domination paradigm. As a result of this firmness in staying true to the values of a small band hunter gatherer ethic, we have been rebuilding the organization from zero in a post-capitalist paradigm.

Our work on villaging is a deep inquiry into a post-capitalist organization of human potentials in an ancestral futures framework and the next horizon of flourishing.