Integral Futuring

Join author Jeremy D Johnson for three-part weekend seminar exploring the vital connections between time, ecological thinking, and living new futures in the present.

In a time of civilizational crises, it has become more important than ever to begin living other kinds of futures in the present. These futures are ecological and relational. They are not just ‘far off’ on the distant horizon. Beyond modernity’s narrow sense of the present, beyond mechanical conceptions of linear time, the future insists on remaining present—in relation with us, here and now.

Like the past, the future shapes us in understated and often imperceptible ways that nevertheless involve us in the processes of our own transformation.

The future arrives each day in the form of erratic weather, the anticipatory grief of ‘solastalgia,’ the melting of the clocks of progress, and overall, the increasing presence of weird time. Past and future horizons seem to converge upon a ‘thick’ present whose tangle of relations will no longer be denied.

What happens when we begin to heed these teeming emissaries from tomorrow, to really listen to what they have to tell us?

What they share is not warning, but an invitation, a calling in towards actualizing new forms of embodiment, and new perceptions of time beyond the clocks of progress.

They challenge us to live in such a way that we become so many ‘fragments,’ so many zones where the future is once again open, and planetary cultures are already in-the-making.

In this 3-part weekend seminar, participants will move between sense and story, theory and practice, as they begin to cultivate a way of seeing through the manifestations of the future—the ways in which the future is already living us, often as unintegrated and unconscious crisis—as they begin to cohere their own ‘medicine bundles,’ experimental practices of ‘integral futuring’ that link personal transformation with social and ecological.

In order to move beyond the story of progress, it is necessary for us in the present to begin to live new kinds of futures. These futures are already in relation with us, and to the degree that we can learn to sense and imagine, hear and think with them, we begin to live them.

Something of us already belongs to the future, and so we become emissaries from other ways of being and knowing. We live the present in such a way that other futures beyond that of collapse become ‘effective’ in our time and begin to provide the ‘adaptive’ strategies that go beyond mere survival. Living in a relational time of the present is how we open the future, and take the first tentative steps towards planetary community.

Integral Futuring is a three-part online event occurring over the course of a weekend (Friday, December 5, Saturday, Dec. 6, and Sunday, Dec. 7.).

Upon registration, participants receive access to the class discussion forum (hosted on Mighty Networks), where all class materials and recordings are made available indefinitely.

About Your Host

Jeremy Johnson is an author (Seeing Through the World: Jean Gebser and Integral Consciousness), publisher (Integral Imprint), podcaster (Mutations), senior research associate at Perspectiva, and integral philosopher.

His academic research, writing, and publishing advocates new forays into integrative thinking and praxis—aligning the scholastic, poetic, and spiritual—as existentially crucial work for pathfinding in a time of planetary crisis.

Jeremy is attending a doctoral program in Philosophy at the California Institute of Integral Studies. His new book, Fragments of an Integral Future: Essays on Time, Ecology, and a New World View is nearing completion, and due for publication in early 2026.

Schedule:

Sessions occur over the course of three, consecutive days: December 5, 6, and 7. Talks begin at 9:30 am PT / 12:30 pm ET.

Daily sessions are organized into two, 90 minute segments: morning presentation and breakout discussion, a brief intermission, followed by concluding talk and Q&A.

Sessions are recorded and made available for future viewing.

Day I (Dec. 5) -

Introduction: “Listen, For Tomorrow Has Already Arrived”

9:30 am PT/ 12:30 pm ET [One hour]

Breakout Discussions & Intermission

10:30 am PT / 1:30 pm ET [15 minutes discussion, 15 minutes intermission]

Old Time, New Time, Weird Time: Solastalgia, Climate, and Time Beyond the Clock

11 am PT / 2 pm ET [One hour talk, 15 minutes breakout sessions, 15 minutes general Q&A and closing]

Day II (Dec. 6) -

From Time Crisis to Time Relation

Breakout Discussions

Fragment I: Time Gathers like a Medicine Bundle

Fragment II: Salvagepunk, Bricoleurs, Pollinators, and other Arts of Planetary Futuring

Day III (Dec. 7) -

Wayward, Wandering, Futuring - Praxis and Embodiment

Breakout Discussions

Becoming Emissaries, Becoming Zones of Relation

Coda -

Participants receive a transmedia document, “Reclaiming Time,” with excerpts from the forthcoming manuscript, Fragments of an Integral Future, a reading syllabus, and bibliography.

Access to the “Integral Futuring” class forum remains open for participants to return to.

Weekend Registration (all three sessions): $90

Student and hardship rates available. No one will be turned away. Please reach out to jeremy (at) nuralearning (dot) com requesting a registration link.

Alumni Registration: