Healing-Centered Futures:
Education, Business, and Technology Summit
October 3rd - 4th, 2025
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Welcome
Welcome to the 2025 Healing-Centered Futures Virtual Summit. We’re glad you’re here. This space was created for reflection, honest conversation, and connection, especially in the midst of change. Over the next two days, you’ll hear from educators, creatives, technologists, and organizers who are thinking deeply about what it means to live, learn, and build with care. Use this site to join all the sessions live. Recordings will be added here within 24 hours after each one ends, sometimes sooner. Take what you need, leave what you can, and thank you for being part of this with us.
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DAY 1
Friday, October 3rd
AGENDA
Live Session 1
Opening Ceremony & Morning Sessions
11:00am - 1:30pm EST | 8:00am - 10:30am PST
Opening Ceremony & Welcoming Remarks
with Angel Acosta, Drisana McDaniel, and Maria Tan
Step into a space of possibility as we begin the 2025 Healing-Centered Futures Virtual Summit. Together, we’ll ground in the vision behind this gathering and reflect on what it means to build with care, creativity, and clarity in times of rapid change. This summit is an invitation to pause, listen, and consider the futures we’re shaping in our communities, our work, and ourselves.
Superintelligence for What?
with Dr. Angel Acosta
Dr. Angel Acosta opens Day 1 with a critical inquiry into the emotional and ethical terrain of artificial intelligence. He asks: In a time of accelerating technology, what are we doing to strengthen our inner capacities? What are we sacrificing in the name of speed and scale?
Quantum Methodological Leaps & Transcultural Universes
with Samar Younes
Samar brings a poetic, creative lens to the question of knowledge systems. Drawing on quantum theory and cultural imagination, she explores how we build meaning across identity and borders. This is an artistic, mind-expanding session meant to stretch the way we think and feel.
Cultural Geography & Our Collective Liberation
with Musa Murchison
In a world shaped by speed and extraction, Musa invites us to reflect on how geography and belonging shape healing. Rooted in culturally responsive pedagogy, this session explores liberation through the lens of place.
Live Session 2
Symbiotic Creativity & the Post-Industrial Economy with Vincent Hunt & Community Adaptation & Resilience in the Face of Exponential Technologies with Rose Genele
2:30pm - 4:00pm EST | 11:30am - 1:30pm PST
Symbiotic Creativity & the Post-Industrial Economy
with Vincent Hunt
Vincent's talk unpacks how AI can support, not replace, human agency. Expect tangible models and reflection on ethics, design, and dignity.
Community Adaptation & Resilience in the Face of Exponential Technologies
with Rose Genele
With a deep grounding in systems thinking and community foresight, Rose shares strategies for building collective resilience, not in theory, but in everyday life.
Live Session 3
Building Liberatory Technologies
with Dr. Sará King & Kierstin Gray
Building Liberatory Technologies with Dr. Sará King & Kierstin Gray
Sará and Kierstin come together to discuss how technology, design, and healing can coexist. With real examples from their work, they speak about building tools and systems that center justice, empathy, and embodiment.
DAY 2
Saturday, October 4th
AGENDA
Live Session 4
Sensuous Knowledge in Times of Enclosure with Minna Salami and Dr. Angel Acosta
11:00am - 12:15pm EST | 8:00am - 9:15am PST
Sensuous Knowledge in Times of Enclosure
with Minna Salami and Dr. Angel Acosta
Through poetic framing, story, and conversation, Minna Salami and Dr. Angel Acosta invite us to consider a way of knowing that is rooted in the senses, spirit, and interconnection.
Live Session 5
Healing-Centered Education in Times of Overwhelm
with Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Arlené Casimir & Dr. Justis Lopez
Healing-Centered Education in Times of Overwhelm
with Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Arlené Casimir & Dr. Justis Lopez
This powerful session brings together three education leaders reflecting on how to hold space for healing inside systems that often generate harm. Through stories, strategies, and presence, they share practices for racial literacy, care, and sustainability in education.
Live Session 6
Business as Ceremony
with Clarinda Tivoli
3:30pm - 4:45pm EST | 12:30pm - 1:45pm PST
Business as Ceremony
with Clarinda Tivoli
Clarinda shares how ceremony, ancestral wisdom, and cultural continuity can shape business models that are relational and sacred. Drawing on Samoan and Fijian traditions, this session is part story, part ritual, and part reimagining.
Live Session 7
Closing Ceremony & Fortitude and Discernment in Times of Change
with Maria Tan, Dr. Angel Acosta, and Drisana McDaniel
