Events
Upcoming Events
Wonder and Enchantment – Iain McGilchrist and Patrick Curry
FREE online event in which Iain and Patrick will be discussing the phenomenon of enchantment, especially the experience of wonder that is at its heart. Why does it matter? And what are some of its attributes and dynamics? We shall also look at how it relates to the two modes of right and left brain hemispheres, and why it might be a possible effect of their integration, and therefore a life of sanity.
Festival of Writing & Ideas
16th June to 18th June 2023 Event description. 2023 will be the eleventh edition of Borris House Festival of Writing & Ideas, and we are proud to have weathered the last few years to bring you another intimate and invigorating weekend, in a place as beautiful as...
THE MATTER WITH THINGS: OUR BRAINS, OUR DELUSIONS, AND THE UNMAKING OF THE WORLD
28th June 2023 (17.30 to 18.30) Event description. Iain McGilchrist will address some of the oldest and hardest questions humanity faces – ones that have a practical urgency. Who are we? What is the world? How can we understand consciousness, matter, space and time?...
The Realisation Festival (St. Giles, Dorset, UK)
29th June 2023 to 2nd July 2023 Event description. Realisation is a gathering that is part retreat, part symposium at St Giles House, Dorset. It is for those actively working at the interface between society and soul, and who feel the gravity of our times. Over the...
SMN Golden Jubilee Celebration – Visions of Interconnectedness in Science and Spiritual Wisdom
5th July 2023 An in-person and live-streamed event to celebrate 50 years of the Scientific and Medical Network Event description. We warmly invite you to come in person or attend online to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of the Network! We have put together a series of...
The Coincidence of Opposites
9th July 2023 (online event - 14:00 - 15:30 BST) Event description. "If there is Oneness, what are the Many? Are they the same? What do we mean? I suggest that the coincidence of opposites is a truth of unsurpassed importance, but that we have been educated into...
Local Futures – Planet Local Summit, A celebration of the worldwide localisation movement
Friday 29th September to Sunday 1st October 2023 Event description. About The Planet Local Summit is a project of Local Futures, an international nonprofit and pioneer of the localisation movement. The Summit will shine light on localisation as a solution-multiplier...
Previous Events
The Matter With Things: The Case for Shifting Our Attention – in person event
9th May 2023 (in person event) Event description. In person at: La Fabrique de la Paix - Geneva Graduate Institute Maison de la Paix (Petal 2, 4th Floor) Chemin Eugène-Rigot, 2 1202 Genève On the 9th of May the Geneva Graduate Institute’s Fabrique de la Paix will be...
Perspectives on the Nature of Reality To Inform Systemic Change – in person event – in person event
8th May 2023 (registration 5th May latest due to limited spaces) Event description. The event aims to share an innovative and trans-disciplinary thesis addressing the nature of reality, from the perspective of the human brain and philosophy. It hopes to bring a fresh...
The Matter with Things: A day’s seminar with Dr Iain McGilchrist: In person event in London
A special thank you to all attendees for making this such a wonderful event, both in person and online. The recording of this event is now available for purchase using the form below. Event description This exclusive day with Iain McGilchrist live on stage is his only...
The Scientific & Medical Network present Dr. Iain McGilchrist – What is the Matter with Things?
17th April 2023 Europe/London 7.30pm to 9.30pm Event description. Many of us are aware that the mindset of reductionist materialism is inadequate, but may find it harder to articulate why. My latest book, The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the...
Diagnosing the Sanity of our Historical Epoch with Bonnitta Roy
Wednesday 29th March 2023 Event description. Bonnitta Roy is an award winning author, philosopher and insight guide. She currently runs the Pop-Up School, an innovative online educational platform, and has previously held esteemed posts as a Professor in Residence for...
Resurgence Talk: Dr Iain McGilchrist, ‘The Value of Values’
Thursday 30th March 2023, 7.30 - 9.00 pm online, via ZoomEvent description. Values cannot be directly observed or measured, and yet are so powerful that they govern the nature and course of individual lives, as well as the nature and course of a civilisation. What are...
Whole Brain – Whole Body, expanding the horizon of our being
Monday 20th March to Friday 24th March 2023 Event description. Our fragmented view of ourselves is reflected in our fragmented world. Bringing together science, traditional wisdom and direct experience, we will explore the realms of our inner and outer ecologies, to...
Kinship, a 6-week online course exploring community, relationality and belonging in a world of islands.
31st January 2023 to 7th March 2023 Event description. We inhabit a world of islands… Our pale blue dot; a constellation of archipelagos buoyed amidst an even greater cosmos of celestial atolls. Like the billowing ocean tides, our terraqueous isle undulates toward the...
‘HowTheLightGetsIn’ HAY 2023
26th May 2023 to 29th May 2023 Event description. Debate is the beating heart of HowTheLightGetsIn Hay 2023. From Nobel Laureates to Pulitzer Prize winners, HowTheLightGetsIn is home to world-leading thinkers pushing their disciplines forward. Explore our wide-ranging...
The Brain, the Sacred and the Soul – evolve LIVE! online event with Dr Iain McGilchrist
Friday, February 3rd 2023, from 18:00 - 21:00 CET Event description. An online event with Dr Iain McGilchrist, a British psychiatrist, received global attention for both, Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World and his new book...
18th November 2022 AIMA Conference – New Zealand
Friday 18th November and Saturday 19th November 2022. Event description We are excited to invite you to the (fully in-person!) 2022 AIMA Conference on Friday 18th and Saturday 19th November 2022 at the Auckland University of Technology in central Auckland, New...
Conversations with Dr Iain McGilchrist – New Zealand
18th November 2022 Event description Conversations with Dr Iain McGilchrist. Renowned psychiatrist, author, thinker, and former Oxford literary scholar. Friday November 18th - 6pm - The Matter with ThingsOur Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World....
The Coincidence of Opposites with Dr Iain McGilchrist – The Fintry Trust
Saturday 12th November 2022 2:00-3:15pm UK time.
Dr Iain McGilchrist: The Brain And A Sense Of The Sacred
11th November 2022. Dr Iain McGilchrist: The Brain And A Sense Of The Sacred. Modern Church offers you a chance to hear and engage with one of the most remarkable and highly-acclaimed intellectuals of our time. Iain’s talk will be based on his encyclopaedic book The...
Reflections on Iain McGilchrist’s The Matter with Things – the Pari Centre (Free Online Event)
8th November 2022, 7 - 9pm CET. FREE EVENT Reflections On Iain McGilchrist’s The Matter With Things Anniversary event, hosted by The Pari Center in conjunction with Channel McGilchrist, Perspectiva, The Scientific and Medical Network and The Arthur Conan Doyle Centre....
Recovering the Sacred – the Pari Online Series
5th - 27th November 2022. with Anne Baring, Bernard Carr, Matthijs Cornelissen, Alex Gomez-Marin, Jeremy Lent, David Lorimer, Iain McGilchrist, Peter Reason, Mary-Jayne Rust Curated by John Pickering Pari Center Online Series November 5 – 27, 2022 9:00am PST | 12:00pm...
Live Q&A with Iain
MEMBERS ONLY
The live Q&A Zoom session with Iain will take place on Thursday 3rd November 2022 from 6:00 to 7:45pm UK time.
World Summit AI : Iain McGilchrist – The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
12 - 13th October 2022, Amsterdam. What’s World Summit AI? The world’s leading and largest AI summit gathers the global AI ecosystem of Enterprise, Big Tech, Startups, Investors and Science, the brightest brains in AI as speakers every October in Amsterdam to tackle...
The Divided Brain Conference Retreat
Saturday 8th October – Tuesday 11th October 2022 Tewkesbury Park Hotel – UK
This four day event has been organised by Field & Field and aims to bring together like-minded people immersed in the work and ideas of Dr Iain McGilchrist
A Revolution in Attention: perceptual awakening in Iain McGilchrist’s work – a talk by Dr Mark Vernon
Introduced by Iain McGilchrist. 6th October 7:00pm-8:30pm UK time.
A Sense of the Sacred
This event was recorded and is now available in the Members Area. Click into post to find out more.
In conjunction with the Centre for Myth, Cosmology and the Sacred.
In this seminar, Dr Iain McGilchrist draws on his new work, The Matter with Things, and addresses some of the oldest and hardest questions humanity faces – ones that have a practical urgency for all of us today.