November 21st, 12-1pm ET

Examined Lives: Siblings (Session 50)

Diane Sunar leads a discussion about sibling relationships.

December 19th, 12-1pm ET

Examined Lives: An Exploration of Daniel Dennett (Session 51)

Andy Norman will lead an exploration of the work of the late Daniel Dennett

December 5, 2024

2024 Nova Annual Conference - New Horizons: Toward an Era of Global Flourishing

NOVA Institute for Health's free, virtual event will explore innovative approaches to advance an era of well-being for both people and the planet

Friday November 8th at 6PM ET

Seminar: Evolutionary Mismatch and How To Evaluate It: A Basic Tutorial with Sudhindra Rao, Ph.D

Free Seminar and Q&A Session

October 17th, 2024 12-1pm ET

Examined Lives: Gossip (Session 49)

Gossip, often seen as trivial or negative, may have played a critical role in human survival and social cohesion.

Friday October 4th at 12pm ET

Seminar: Using Prosocial to Support Mental Health Services and Special Education: An Evolving Technology with Jordan Belisle & Dana Paliliunas

Free Seminar and Q&A Session

Monday November 11 12:30pm AEST // 8:30pm ET

Gathering of Kindness: Structural kindness - working smarter not harder featuring Robert Styles

Virtual Event presentation featuring ProSocial World Director of Strategic and Bespoke Programs, Robert Styles

Friday December 6th at 12PM ET

Seminar: Participatory Modeling For Collaborative & Equitable Planning: From Potential To Realization with Moira Zellner

Free Seminar and Q&A Session

Friday November 1st at 12PM ET

Seminar: Place Attunement as a Pathway to Holistic Health for Communities with Anna Castonguay & Benji Ross

Free Seminar and Q&A Session

Friday October 25th at 6PM ET

Seminar: The Evolution of the Corrupt American Health Care System and What We Can Do About It with Tony Biglan

Free Seminar and Q&A Session

Friday November 15th at 12pm ET

Seminar: From Grievance to Gratitude: Discovering the Quantum Tunnel to Joy with Emanuel Kuntzelman

Free Seminar and Q&A Session

Friday October 11th at 6PM ET

Seminar: The Future Designer: Anthropology Meets Innovation in Search of Sustainable Design with Michael Leube

Free Seminar and Q&A Session

October 18 at 12pm ET

IHMA Intellectual Shamans Series with Sandra Waddock & David Sloan Wilson

Join Sandra Waddock from the International Humanistic Management Association and David Sloan Wilson for a Webinar on October 18th

Friday September 27th at 6PM ET

Seminar: Stories of Home: Place-based Narratives Creating Cultural Change with Abby Rapoport

Free Seminar and Q&A Session

September 26th, 12-1pm ET

Examined Lives: Live Fast, Die Young: Slow vs Fast Life History Strategies (Session 48)

In evolutionary psychology, life history strategies refer to the ways in which organisms allocate resources to growth, reproduction, and survival.

April 21st, 2022 12-1pm ET

Examined Lives: Honor Cultures (Session 20)

Honor culture is said to prevail in the American South; dignity cultures prevail in many cosmopolitan cities.

August 15th, 2024 12-1pm ET

Examined Lives: Social Norms (Session 47)

In this session of Examined Lives, we will explore social norms from an evolutionary perspective.

July 18th, 12-1pm

Examined Lives: Lonelineness (Session 46)

In this session, Steve Gilbert will lead us in a discussion about "loneliness" and what evolutionary thinking can tell us about it in the modern day.

Monday July 8 at 4pm ET / 8pm GMT

Research Seminar: Conscious Multilevel Cultural Evolution: Theory, Practice, and Two Case Studies with Robert Styles

Free research seminar and Q&A with the speaker

June 20th, 12-1pm ET

Examined Lives: Empathy (Session 45)

Our next session of Examined Lives will be a conversation about the nature of empathy.

Wednesday, May 15 at 12pm ET

Eight Criticisms Not to Make about Group Selection: Public Forum

Public Forum and discussion on Group Selection- all are welcome to join this free online event

May 16th 2024, 12-1pm ET (11-12 CT)

Examined Lives: Disgust (Session 44)

The initial function of disgust was to avoid exposure to pathogens, but evolved to also regulate our sexual activity, morality and social interactions

April 18th, 2024 12pm ET

Examined Lives: Shame & Guilt (Session 43)

We will discuss how evolutionary psychology can help us better understand two common and closely related emotions: shame and guilt.

Friday April 19th at 12pm ET

Necessary Conversations: A New Economic Paradigm for Humanistic Management with speakers David Sloan Wilson and Dennis J. Snower

Free Online Seminar

April 22nd - April 26th

Confluence of Hearts: A Global Summit on True Self, Brave Connections, and a Love-Led World

Confluence of Hearts Summit (April 22-26) is a unique online event is set to explore the essence of true connection in our increasingly digital world.

Wednesday 10th April at 6pm ET

Seminar: It’s Not You, It’s Your Environment: Understanding the Prevalence of Burnout in Organizations and Utilizing Systems-Level Remediation Strategies

Free Online Research Seminar and Q&A

Friday 3rd May at 6pm ET

Seminar: Quest for Fire and ChatGPT: AI from the Perspective of Human Evolution with Shigeru Miyagowa

Free Seminar and Q&A Session

March 21st, 2024 12-1pm ET

Examined Lives: Mindfulness (Session 42)

We explore the concept of what is known in the West as "mindfulness", its evolutionary background, current scientific understanding, and practical use

February 15th, 2024 12-1pm ET

Examined Lives: Self-Esteem (Session 41)

What can evolutionary science bring to bear on the questions of what self-esteem is and what functions it performs?

Friday, March 22nd at 6PM ET

Seminar: Exploring socio-economic influence on AI: re-imagination and integration from various worldviews

Free Seminar and Q&A Session

Friday May 24th at 12pm ET

Seminar: Ubuntu and the Noosphere: Exploring Insights for Collective Consciousness and Prosociality with Heinrich Volmink

Free Seminar and Q&A Session

Friday April 26th at 12pm ET

Seminar: The Development and Diversity of Cumulative Culture Learning with Cristine Legare

Free Seminar and Q&A Session

Friday April 12th at 12pm ET

Seminar: Politics, Philosophy, and Prestige with Guru Madhavan

Free Seminar and Q&A Session

Friday March 8th at 12pm ET

Seminar: Psychological Perspectives on Climate Change

Free Seminar and Q&A Session

Friday April 19th at 6pm ET

Seminar: Futures as a place for prosociality

Free Seminar and Q&A Session

Friday March 15th at 12pm ET

Seminar: The Truth About Fiction: Biological Reality and Imaginary Lives

Free Seminar and Q&A Session

FRIDAY 17TH MAY AT 6PM ET

Seminar: Leveraging the UK Household Longitudinal Study to Explore Social Baseline Theory with Blair Gross and David McAleavey

Free Seminar and Q&A Session

January 18, 2024. 9:00 – 10:30 pm UTC +1

Generalizing Ostrom’s Core Design Principles and Putting Them to Use: An Interactive “Practitioner Webinar” for IASC Members & their colleagues

90 minute interactive webinar on how the core design principles can be used as a practical method for increasing the efficacy of groups.

January 18th, 2024 12-1pm ET

Examined Lives: Judgment under Uncertainty (Session 40)

How do how humans make decisions under uncertainty?

Friday January 26th at 12pm ET

Seminar: The Role of ProSocial in Catalyzing Paradigm Change in Economics and Business with David Sloan Wilson

Free Seminar and Q&A Session

Friday 10th May at 12pm ET

Seminar: The Empathy Commons: The Risks of Caring Without Clear Boundaries

Free Seminar and Q&A Session

Friday March 1st at 6pm ET

Seminar: Social Capital - Reconnecting with the importance and value of social relationships

Free Seminar and Q&A Session

December 21st, 12-1pm ET

Examined Lives: Misunderstandings & Misconceptions about Evolutionary Psychology (Session 39)

Misunderstandings & Misconceptions about Evolutionary Psychology (Session 40)

December 13th, 2023 (4:00-5:30 PM UTC -5)

Generalizing Ostrom’s Core Design Principles and Putting Them to Use: An Interactive “Practitioner Webinar”

Interactive 90 minute webinar on the theory, evidence, examples and interactive discussion around the Core Design Principles

Wednesday December 6th at 12pm ET

Research Seminar: How Multilevel Selection Theory Can Change The World: The Inevitable Convergence of Modern Science with Indigenous Wisdom with Mitch Distin

1.5 hour free research seminar and Q&A session

November 16th, 12-1pm ET

Examined Lives: The Grandmother Hypothesis (Session 38)

The grandmother hypothesis is an attempt to explain the origins of reproductive senescence in Homo sapiens.

Friday November 17th at 12pm ET

Seminar: Wherever I could reach: ProSocial variation in healthcare and community sustainability with Richard Coates

Free Seminar and Q&A Session

Wednesday November 15th at 11am ET

Enabling Future- Ready Organizations

Join us the FEI share exciting research developments and updates, including details on the transformative work within the municipal sector!

October 26th, 12-1pm ET

Examined Lives: The Role of Gossip (Session 37)

Gossip as social regulator and gossip as interpersonal weapon

Friday November 3rd at 6pm ET

Seminar: Fateful Lines – how changing the story can change the world with Sarah Woods

Free Seminar and Q&A Session

Friday October 20 at 12pm ET

Seminar: Competition or Collaboration for a Sustainable Economy? with Denise Hearn

Free Seminar and Q&A

October 24 2023 at 3pm ET / 8pm GMT

Wasan Session: The ProSocial Approach with Paul Atkins

In this month’s Wasan session, ProSocial World’s co-founder and psychologist Paul Atkins will walk us through the ProSocial approach

Friday October 27th at 12pm ET / 4pm GMT

A Conversation About Cooperatives with Jerome Warren

A discussion of Jerome's work on Italy's tradition of self-organized services and exploration collaborative potential among current practitioners

Friday, October 6th at 6pm ET / 10pm GMT

Seminar: The Complexity of Language: Scale as a Conceptual Hook with Nick Enfield

1.5 hour free seminar and Q&A session

September 30th

Apply to the Atlas Hugged Reading Group

A new reading group centered around David Sloan Wilson's novel, Atlas Hugged.

September 28th, 12-1pm ET

Examined Lives: Family Conflict (Session 36)

Family Conflict: How does genetic relatedness help explain family conflicts?

August 24th, 12-1pm

Examined Lives: Evolutionary Aesthetics (Session 35)

What is the role of evolutionary theory in explaining aesthetics in nature and in human culture? How might we explain our own aesthetic experiences?

Friday September 22 at 6p ET / 3p PT

Seminar: Regenerating Sonora

Free webinar presented by Christopher Casillas.

Friday November 10 at 12p ET / 10a MT

Seminar: Leading Change in Ourselves for Our World

Free webinar presented by climate scientist, Heidi Steltzer.

Wednesday, August 30th at 12pm ET

Research Seminar: Organizational Development as Generative Entrenchment with Cody Moser and Paul Smaldino

Research Seminar and Q&A with the Speakers

July 28 at 10:30 AM EDT & August 8 at 7:30 EDT

Introduction to Cohering Community

Free Introductory sessions for the Cohering Community experiential learning lab.

July 28 at 10:30 AM EDT & August 8 at 7:30 EDT

Introduction to Cohering Community

Free Introductory sessions for the Cohering Community experiential learning lab.

Thursday, July 27th, 12 - 1pm ET

Examined Lives: Adaptive Fictions (Session 34)

Monday June 26 at 7p EDT

Regenerating the Earth with ProSocial Introduction Webinar

Attend an introductory webinar to learn more about Regenerating Earth with ProSocial learning journey.

Thursday June 29, 12-1pm ET

Examined Lives: Human Synchrony (Session 33)

How does synchrony- the matching of actions in time with others- shape the human experience?

Wednesday, June 21st at 6pm ET

Wellbeing in Organized Groups: From Rule Governance to Value Based Governance with Ramona A. Houmanfar

Free Research Seminar and Q&A

Thursday, July 13th at 12pm ET

Introduction to ProSocial Spirituality

Free online introduction to ProSocial Spirituality's spiritually-grounded approach to cultural evolution

Wednesday May 31st at 6pm ET

Research Seminar: The Behavioural Science of ProSocial World Part II

1.5 hour Free Research Seminar and Q&A

Wednesday May 24th at 12pm ET

Boston Area Research Initiative: Integrating Data and Research with Community with Kimberly Lucas and Daniel T. O’Brien

Free Research Seminar and Q&A

May 25th, 12-1 PM ET

Examined Lives: War (Session 32)

Each month in Examined Lives we have lively discussions about cutting-edge developments in—and applications of—evolutionary thinking.

Thursday May 4th and Friday May 5th

Integrating the Human Sciences to Scale Societal Responses to Environmental Change: A Workshop

Free Workshop from the National Academies of Science

Friday, May 12th at 12pm ET

Seminar: Doughnut Economics, from a Radical Idea into Transformative Action with Carlota Sanz Ruiz

Free Seminar with Q&A

Wednesday, May 17th 6pm ET

Research Seminar: The Behavioural Science of ProSocial World Part I

1.5 hour Free Research Seminar and Q&A

Friday, May 5th 6pm ET

Seminar: Sharing Resources and Sharing Risk with Athena Aktipis

Lessons from Small-scale Societies and Biological Collectives about How to Manage Catastrophic Risk- 1.5 hour Free Seminar and Q&A

Friday April 28 at 5p EST / 21 UTC - Sunday April 30 at 4p EST / 20 UTC

Complexity Adventures Unconference: ProSocial World, Earth Regenerators, Deep Transformation Network, and WEALL Network Collaboration

Free unconference exploring the intersection of Prosocial and complexity amongst multiple organizations

Friday, April 14th at 2:30pm ET / 6:30 pm UTC

UMass Amherst Lecture: Multilevel Cultural Evolution with David Sloan Wilson

PERI will cohost a public lecture with David Sloan Wilson, President, Prosocial World and SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus Binghamton University

Friday, April 21st at 6pm ET / 10pm UTC

Seminar: Prosocial Planet: Guiding the Evolution of Social-Ecological Development with Erle Ellis

Free Seminar with Q&A

Friday, September 15th at 12pm ET

Seminar: Our Tribal Future: Using ProSocial to Overcome Evolutionary Mismatch in 21st century communities

Free seminar and Q&A sponsored by the ProSocial Commons

Wednesday, April 12th at 1pm GMT // 9am ET

Curriculum Overload: Empowering Students as Community Scientists in the Search for Higher Concepts

Free 1.5 hour Seminar and Q&A

Friday, April 7th 6pm ET / 11pm UTC

Seminar: Prosocial and the Professions

Free seminar and Q&A sponsored by the ProSocial Commons

THURSDAY, APRIL 27TH, 12-1PM ET / 4-5PM UTC

Examined Lives: The Execution Hypothesis and the Evolution of Morality (Session 31)

Wednesday, April 12th at 12pm ET

Research Seminar Series: Dual Inheritance Theory and a Theoretical Examination of the Symbotype-Phenotype Relationship - Part 2

Free Seminar and Q&A

Wednesday April 5th at 6pm ET

Research Seminar Series: Dual Inheritance Theory and a Theoretical Examination of the Symbotype-Phenotype Relationship - Part 1

Free Seminar and Q&A

Tuesday March 28th at 6pm ET

Prosocial Commons Book Club: How Indigenous Thinking Can Change the World

ProSocial Commons Book Club: Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Change the World, by Tyson Yunkaporta

Thursday March 23 12pm ET / 5pm UTC

ProSocial in the Workplace A ProSocial Commons Learning-to-Action Group

Free Introductory Meeting for ProSocial in the Workplace, a new Prosocial Commons Learning-to-Action Group

Friday, May 19th 12pm ET

Seminar: Embracing Interdependence: Toward a Multi-Level Theory of Coordinated Change with Jody Hoffer Gittell

Free seminar and Q&A sponsored by the ProSocial Commons

Monday, May 1 5:15pm ET / 10:15pm UTC

EvoS Seminar Series: Hormones in Milk, Primarily Cortisol, and Impacts on Infant Development

Free seminar talk with Q&A

Monday, April 17 5:15pm ET / 10:15pm UTC

EvoS Seminar Series: Technological Origins: Behavioral Evolution Across the Plio-Pleistocene

Free seminar talk with Q&A

Monday, March 27 5:15pm ET / 10:15pm UTC

EvoS Seminar Series: Time Travel in Experimental Evolution

Free seminar talk with Q&A

Monday, March 20 5:15pm ET / 10:15pm UTC

EvoS Seminar Series: Evolution of Sociality and Multilevel Selection (including spiders)

Free seminar talk with Q&A

Monday, March 13 5:15pm ET / 10:15pm UTC

EvoS Seminar Series: Trade-offs That Shape Our Genomes: Surviving Starvation and Microbes

Free seminar talk with Q&A

Thursday, March 16th, 12-1pm ET / 4-5pm UTC

Examined Lives: Positive Evolutionary Psychology (Session 30)

In our next Examined Lives on Positive Evolutionary Psychology we will explore what evolutionary psychology has to tell us about happiness.

Friday, March 24th at 6pm ET / 11 pm GMT

Seminar: Becoming Prosocial From the Inside Out: Adapting Prosocial Applications Using a Multilevel Framework That Nests the Individual in Their Group

Free seminar and Q&A sponsored by the ProSocial Commons

Friday, March 10 6pm ET / 11pm UTC

Seminar: "Interspirituality" and Upshifting Global Prosocial Behavior with Kurt Johnson

Free seminar and Q&A session sponsored by the ProSocial Commons

Friday, March 3 12pm ET / 5pm UTC

Seminar: The Forever Green Partnership: A Multi-level System for Regional Diversification of Agriculture with Nick Jordan

Free seminar and Q&A session sponsored by the ProSocial Commons

Friday, March 17 12pm ET / 5pm UTC

Seminar: Integrating Principles and Practices for Healthy Power-Sharing with Cecile Green

Free seminar and Q&A session sponsored by the ProSocial Commons

Friday, January 27th at 6pm ET / 11 pm GMT

Seminar: Facing the Dark History of Evolutionary Science: The Role of the Individual in Learning How to Evolve on Purpose with Steven C. Hayes

Free seminar and Q&A

Thursday, February 16 12pm ET / 5pm UTC

Examined Lives: Dual Inheritance Theory (Session 29)

In humans, genes and culture are intertwined streams of inheritance. Ours is a story of Dual Inheritance.

Friday, February 10th 6pm ET / 11 pm UTC

Seminar: The Role of Cooperation in the Evolution of Cooperatives with Tim Waring

Free seminar and Q&A sponsored by the ProSocial Commons

Friday, February 17th 12pm ET / 5pm UTC

Seminar: Music, Pleasure, and Culture: Soundly Organized People in a Musically Organized Hunter-Gatherer Civilization with Jerome Lewis

Free seminar and Q&A session sponsored by the ProSocial Commons