# Conference Schedule ## Conference Schedule Belonging ![White thread overlapping itself](/sites/g/files/omnuum4701/files/styles/hwp_21_9__1920x825/public/2026-07/AdobeStock_222609232.jpeg?itok=JeZGR8O9) ## expand\_more ## Welcome Below you will find the full conference schedule including our virtual-only presentations from September 21–22 and our hybrid presentations from September 24–26. Under each day, you will find a drop-down menu organized by time and room. ### Monday, September 21 ### 8:30–9:00 expand\_more Welcome session hosted by Prof. Dan McKanan. ### 9:00–11:00 expand\_more Note: There are two panels happening simultaneously during this time slot: **Remote Room 1** and **Remote Room 2**. Click on the *panel name* in each room to find the paper abstracts. Click on the *names of the presenters* to find their biographical information. Remote Room 1 Remote Room 2 ## Remote Room 1 ##### Paper Session **Recreating the Past, Connecting to Nature: Slavic Spirituality in Poland** Presenter: Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska **Rituals of Reconciliation: Enacting Kinship with a Living World Among Belgian Pagans** Presenter: Yael Dansac **Neo-Animistic Modes of Belonging to a More-Than-Human World in European Pagan and Ecospiritual Groups** Presenter: Julia Itel **I Am Also Everything That Exists Around Me: Belonging to and Being With the More-Than-Human** **Within Contemporary Paganism in Portugal** Presenter: Joana Martins ## Remote Room 2 ##### Paper Session **Embodied Ontologies of Belonging: Tantric Yoga in Śaivism** Presenter: Vaishnavi **Manifesting the Manifesto: The Call for a Feminist Tarot** Presenter: Payal Anil Padamanabhan **The Social Scientist and the Scholar-Practitioner Conundrum: A Search For Ways to Incorporate Non-Materialist Frameworks of Knowing and Being Within Formal Scholarly Practice in Academia** Presenter: Koyel Lahiri **Multisensory Space Supporting Spirituality and Fearless Belonging in Higher Education** Presenter: Tiina Wikström ### 11:30–12:30 expand\_more Note: There are two panels happening simultaneously during this time slot: **Remote Room 1** and **Remote Room 2**. Click on the *panel name* in each room to find the paper abstracts. Click on the *names of the presenters* to find their biographical information. Remote Room 1 Remote Room 2 ## Remote Room 1 ##### **Workshop** **Phenomenological Ecology: Practices for Belonging on Earth** Presenter: Ryan Shea ## Remote Room 2 ##### **Performance** **Collective Vocal Improvisation as an Ancestral Practice of Interdependence** Presenter: Jaka Vid Škapin ### 13:00–15:00 expand\_more Note: There are two panels happening simultaneously during this time slot: **Remote Room 1** and **Remote Room 2**. Click on the *panel name* in each room to find the paper abstracts. Click on the *names of the presenters* to find their biographical information. Remote Room 1 Remote Room 2 ## Remote Room 1 ##### Paper Session **Belonging to Anthroposophy** Presenter: Ezra Sullivan **Between Ideals and Institutions: The Question of Integrity in Steiner-Informed Education** Presenter: Samantha de Leca **The Inner Life of Nelson Mandela: How He Developed It and What His Inner Life Had It Common With Other Great Spiritual Practices** Presenter: William Manning **The Learning Community in a Waldorf School as a Spiritual Community** Presenter: Martyn Rawson ## Remote Room 2 ##### Paper Sessions and Workshop **Paper** **The Algorithm of Exile: The Three Unconscious Giants That Architect Belonging** Presenter: Rayner Jae Liu **Paper** **The Geometry of Belonging: The Euclidean Error in Large Language Model Processing of Anishinaabe Knowledge Systems** Presenter: Orus Mateo Castaño-Suárez **Workshop** **Play Alchemy: How to Transform Resistance into Belonging** Presenter: Portia Tung ### 15:30–16:30 expand\_more Note: There are two panels happening simultaneously during this time slot: **Remote Room 1** and **Remote Room 2**. Click on the *panel name* in each room to find the paper abstracts. Click on the *names of the presenters* to find their biographical information. Remote Room 1 Remote Room 2 ## Remote Room 1 ##### Workshop **Emergent Dialogue – A Way of Creating Deep Connections** Presenters: Bruce Kirchoff, Sigurd Andersen, Federico Halbrich, Eileen King, Mary Dee Kirchoff, Andy Wistreich ## Remote Room 2 ##### Workshop **Poetry as a Practice of Spiritual (Un)Belonging: An Exploratory Workshop** Presenter: Ana Reisens ### 17:00–18:00 expand\_more Note: There are two panels happening simultaneously during this time slot: **Remote Room 1** and **Remote Room 2**. Click on the *panel name* in each room to find the paper abstracts. Click on the *names of the presenters* to find their biographical information. Remote Room 1 Remote Room 2 ## Remote Room 1 ##### Workshop **Entangled Roots: Challenging Colonial Isolation with Multidisciplinary Experiments in Eco-Spiritual Belonging** Presenters: Orus Mateo Castano Suarez, Ricky Ray, Sara Gepp, Jenellen Good ## Remote Room 2 ##### Workshop **Reimagining Belonging: Collective Dreaming and Virtual Realities through the Tele’Drama Methodology** Presenter: Daniela Simmons ### Tuesday, September 22 ### 8:30–9:00 expand\_more Welcome session hosted by Prof. Dan McKanan. ### 9:00–11:00 expand\_more Note: There are three panels happening simultaneously during this time slot: **Remote Room 1, Remote Room 2, and Remote Room 3**. Click on the *panel name* in each room to find the paper abstracts. Click on the *names of the presenters* to find their biographical information. Remote Room 1 Remote Room 2 Remote Room 3 ## Remote Room 1 **Belonging Beyond the Academy: Teor Indigenous Cosmology as an Alternative Genealogy of Spiritual and Ecological Knowledge** Presenter: Frejhon Lasatira **Khararchan Kahāng as a Decolonial Practice of Belonging** Presenter: Taimaya Ragui **Practices of Belonging in Contemporary European Polytheisms: Place, Non-Human Agency, and Contested Categories** Presenter: Nephelie Skarlatos **Lusitanian Tradition as a Living Patrimony of Iberic Peninsula** Presenter: Anjali Ana **Red Spotted Exile** Presenter: rezzan gümgüm ## Remote Room 2 **Building and Sustaining Experiences of Belonging and Spirituality Through Community Art Making with Indigenous Communities in Borneo** Presenter: Pangrok Sulap **Feminist Spirituality: Belonging in, with and as Nature, an Arts-Based Exploration** Presenter: Jo Taylor **The Boy Who Belonged: Jangarh-Kalam as a Site of Meshwork** Presenter: Sanskriti Chattopadhyay **Singing Oneness: Bhakti–Sufi Poetry and the Making of an Inclusive Spiritual Space on an Indian Campus** Presenters: Michal Erlich, Raghav Dua ## Remote Room 3 **Weaving the Will of the Land: A Performative Inquiry into Embodied Socio-Ecological Justice on the Land of Garut** Presenter: Muhammad Rhaka Katresna **Practicing Belonging at the Margins: Lived Spirituality, Informality, and the Limits of Inclusion** Presenter: Mai Trọng An Vinh **Depth Psychological Research as Facilitative of Individuated Belonging** Presenter: Minh Tran **From the Goddess of Rice Folktale to Civil Rights: Gender, Indigenous Belief, and Legal** Presenters: Widyarini Putri ### 11:30–12:30 expand\_more Note: There are two panels happening simultaneously during this time slot: **Remote Room 1** and **Remote Room 2**. Click on the *panel name* in each room to find the paper abstracts. Click on the *names of the presenters* to find their biographical information. Remote Room 1 Remote Room 2 ## Remote Room 1 ##### **Workshop** **Who Belongs to Whom? Ecosystem Sovereignty and the Spiritual Roots of Peace** Presenter: Leena Al Olaimy ## Remote Room 2 ##### **Paper Session** **Collective Improvisation: Belonging Beyond Identify** Presenter: Swan Dao **“When it seemed I had lost everything, there was a little light...Something began touching chords and emotions deep inside me" (Simon Pipe): How Musical Creativity Can Facilitate a Healing Sense of Belonging Within the Spiritual Community of the “AA 12 Steps.”** Presenter: Barbara Trieloff-Deane ### 13:00–15:00 expand\_more Note: There is one panel happening during this time slot: **Remote Room 1**. Click on the *panel name* in each room to find the paper abstracts. Click on the *names of the presenters* to find their biographical information. Remote Room 1 ## Remote Room 1 ##### Paper Panel **Afrocentric Spirituality as Belonging and Cultural Transmission: West African Migrant Parenting and Children’s Learning Through Mountain of Fire and Miracles (MFM) in Barcelona** Presenter: Adetola Elizabeth Umoh **Negotiating Belonging in Marginalized Muslim Spiritual Communities: Digital Practices of Inclusion among Young Yoruba Muslims in Southwestern Nigeria** Presenter: AbdulGafar Fahm **Heterodox Christians and Post-Christians in Italy: An Exploration** Presenter: Gianluigi Gugliermetto **The Heretics and Holy Faggots: Hermeneutics of Queer Belonging in ‘Progressive Islam’** Presenter: Ans Irfan **We Belong Together: Consciousness and Sentience** Presenter: Maria Jaoudi ### Thursday, September 24 ### 13:00–15:00 expand\_more Note: There is one panel happening during this time slot in **Cader Room**. Click on the *panel name* in each room to find the paper abstracts. Click on the *names of the presenters* to find their biographical information. Cader Room ## Cader Room ##### Opening Plenary **Welcome** Presenter: Dan McKanan **“Is this my Inheritance?" An Exploration of Mexican, Chicanx, and Indigenous Claims to Belonging** Presenter: Rebecca Mendoza **When an Anthropologist Faces “Anthropologists”: On Being Admitted in an Esoteric Movement Amidst Epistemological Tension** Presenter: Fernand Idriss Mintoogue **Traditional African Religion in Ghanaian Public Universities: Ritual Practice, Cultural Continuity, and Contestation at Commonwealth Hall, University of Ghana** Presenter: Ohene Agyemang Opoku ### 15:30–17:00 expand\_more Note: There is one panel happening during this time slot in **Cader Room**. Click on the *panel name* in each room to find the paper abstracts. Click on the *names of the presenters* to find their biographical information. Cader Room ## Cader Room ##### Plenary **The Hidden Voice of Trauma in the Communal Ayahuasca Ceremony of the Santo Daime** Presenter: Lourdes Billingsley **“The Brotherhood of Baba’s Own”: Mary Antin, Meher Baba, and the Malleability of Belonging** Presenter: Rachel Gross **Rejected Knowledge Goes Platinum: Punk, Popularity, and the Paradox of Belonging in Western Esotericism** Presenter: Ayesha Adamo ### 17:30–18:30 expand\_more Note: There are four panels happening simultaneously during this time slot: **Cader Room, Garvin Room, James Room East, James Room West**. Click on the *panel name* in each room to find the paper abstracts. Click on the *names of the presenters* to find their biographical information. Cader Room Garvin Room James Room West James Room East ## Cader Room ##### **Performance** **Creating Sacred Spaces of Belonging Within the Context of Cultural and Historical Trauma** Presenter: Delores Mondragon, Carolyn Hartnes, Snehapriya Rao, Deborah Guerrero ## Garvin Room ##### **Workshop** **Kinship, Kithship, and Collective Resilience** Presenter: CC King, Rebecca Boyes-Watson ## James Room West ##### **Workshop** **Reimagining Belonging: Innovative Spiritual Approaches to Community Mental Health** Presenter: Leslie Molit, Yoel Paredes, Keyana K. Patterson, Yetvart S. Majian, Amanda Tarver, Legend Tarver, Tenzin Lee ## James Room East ##### **Workshop** **Alchemy of Sound** Presenter: Lijane Davis ### 18:30–19:30 Supper expand\_more Supper in the Braun Room for those who have meal tickets. ### 19:30–21:00 expand\_more Note: There are four panels happening simultaneously during this time slot: **Cader Room, Garvin Room, James Room East, James Room West**. Click on the *panel name* in each room to find the paper abstracts. Click on the *names of the presenters* to find their biographical information. Cader Room Garvin Room James Room West James Room East ## Cader Room ##### **Paper Session** **Practicing Grateful Interbeing: Tree-Hugging as Unlearning Unbelonging** Presenter: Jenellen Good **Belonging to the Land: Vernacular Epistemologies among Contemporary Herbalists** Presenter: Susannah Keate **Embracing the Earth as Sacred Community: Eco-Spiritual Practices of Belonging in West African Traditions** Presenter: Binta Moustapha ## Garvin Room ##### **Paper Session** **Belonging Without Singularity: Multiple Religious Belonging as Resistance to the Racial** Presenter: John Adams **The Modularity of Belonging: How to Be All Along** Presenter: Karim Ullah **Belonging at the Limits of Life: Consciousness, Instrumental Transcommunication, and the Spiritual Question of What Endures** Presenter: Sara Siqueira ## James Room West ##### **Paper Session** **Rewriting Belonging: How Women Reconstruct Identity, Agency, and Community After Spiritual Harm** Presenter: Beth Schwartz **The Sin of Withholding Empathy: Authoritarian Detachment and the Paradoxes of “Belonging” in High-Control Christian Communities** Presenter: Dawn Sutherland **Multiplicity and Transcendence: Queer Mixed Methods for Weaving Religious Trauma and Belonging** Presenter: Schyler Raad ## James Room East ##### **L'Arche Panel** **Access and Belonging: Pedagogical Reflections from the Communities of L’ Arche for Religious Education** Presenter: Thomas Murphy **Ecclesiological Reflections on Belonging in L’Arche Communities: What the Church Can Learn from L’Arche** Presenter: Grace Agolia **Community Stories: Vulnerability, Grief, and Re-Founding Flourishing in L’Arche** Presenter: Olivia Hastie **Learning to Receive: Mutual Care as Spiritual Formation in L’Arche Communities** Presenter: Paul Kuczynski ### Friday, September 25 ### 8:30–8:45 expand\_more Daily welcome with Dan McKanan in the **Cader Room**. ### 9:00–11:00 expand\_more Note: There are four panels happening simultaneously during this time slot: **Cader Room, Braun Room,** **James Room East,** and **James Room West**. Click on the *panel name* in each room to find the paper abstracts. Click on the *names of the presenters* to find their biographical information. Cader Room Braun Room James Room East James Room West ## Cader Room ##### Anthroposophy Panel Moderated by Walter Alexander **Displacement of Human Capacities in Social Media and AI** Presenter: Gopi Krishna Vijaya **The Overcoming of Monistic and Dualistic Philosophies Through Steiner’s Threefold Image of the Human Being** Presenter: Branko Furst **Escaping the Prisoner's Dilemma with Associative Economics** Presenter: Timothy Kennedy **The Relational Alchemy of Karma: Anthroposophical Practice as a Foundation for Radical Belonging** Presenter: Christine Burke ## Braun Room ##### Artist Talks **Prayer in Motion: Indigenous Visual Artists and Spiritual Resistance as Belonging** Presenters: Sol Martinez, Izzy Mondragón, Camryn Growing Thunder **Inherited Futures** Presenter: Ifedolapo Arolawun **Contemplative Land Histories** Presenter: Leslie Polk **Plant Companion Field Guide: Poetry & Art for New(Old) Ecocultural Belonging** Presenter: Linda Russo **Fluid Kinships: Curating Impermanent Water Rituals** Presenter: Arlinda Shtuni ## James Room East ##### Paper Session **The Generative Ground: Theorizing Non-Belonging as Spiritual Praxis** Presenter: Khalid Obasi **The Paradox of Belonging: Ethnocentrism among Spiritual Communities** Presenter: Reema Nayyar, Vivek Arora **When Belonging Ends: Residual Knowledge and the Ethics of Listening After Inclusion** Presenter: Nirbhay Rana **The Gated Third Space: Why Productized Belonging Cannot Hold What It Promises** Presenter: Tamara Sanderson ## James Room West ##### Panel **Being, Belonging and the Longing to Belong** Presenter: Rituparna Das **The Paradox of Unbelonging** Presenter: Subina Aurora Khaneja **Narrative, Trauma and the Muse: Fury Sound Off in Fiction** Presenter: Isabella Christodoulou **The Odyssey Knows First: Belonging as a Somatic Experience** Presenter: Anath Garber **Emotion, Slowness, Sensory Belonging** Presenter: Hildebrand Carl **A Yogi’s Guide to Manage Our Belonging Instinct** Presenter: Sarnath Ramnath **Śāstra–Rūpa–Pāññā: Poetry, Image, and the Wisdom of the Inner Child** Presenter: Giri Nugraha **The Image of Inclusion: Art-Making as a Spiritual Pathfinder in the Search for Purpose and Belonging** Presenter: Mano Sotelo **Beyond the Bubble of Self** Presenter: Johannes Zinzendorf ### 11:30–12:30 expand\_more Note: There are four panels happening simultaneously during this time slot: **Cader Room, Garvin Room, James Room East, Outdoors** (Meet at Welcome Desk). Click on the *panel name* in each room to find the paper abstracts. Click on the *names of the presenters* to find their biographical information. Cader Room Garvin Room James Room East Outdoors ## Cader Room ##### **Performance** **Narratives of Survival: Queer, Spirituality, and Indigenous Filmmaking as Resilience (a screenings and discussion)** Presenters: Jordan Martin, Miles Smith Jr. ## Garvin Room ##### **Workshop** **Sacred Circuits of Repair: AI, Restorative Justice, and the Spiritual Practice of Technological Belonging** Presenter: Julia DeVoy, Maria Peterlin, Kate Bishop ## James Room East ##### **Workshop** **Belonging: Human Family and Web of Life** Presenters: Sarah Karikó, Delores (Lola) Mondragón, Deborah Guerrero ## Outdoors ##### **Workshop** **Tender Power: Great Pyrenees Ministry and More-Than-Human Belonging** Presenter: Kris Walker Please meet at the Welcome Desk before proceeding outside. ### 12:30–13:30 Lunch expand\_more Lunch in the Braun Room for those who have meal tickets. ### 13:30–15:30 expand\_more Note: There are four panels happening simultaneously during this time slot: **Cader Room, Garvin Room, James Room East, James Room West**. Click on the *panel name* in each room to find the paper abstracts. Click on the *names of the presenters* to find their biographical information. Cader Room Garvin Room James Room West James Room East ## Cader Room ##### **Paper Session** **Rapture and Repair: Unveiling the Sacred in Academia** Presenter: Sumaya Durrani **The Initiates of Sais?: The Emic-Etic Dichotomy, Esotericism, and Academia** Presenter: Simon Magus **Reconfiguring Methodological Naturalism and the Exclusion of Religious Sensibilities and Spiritual Realities Within Academia** Presenter: Binta Moustapha **Listening for Belonging: Sonic Practice, Care, and Ethical Tension in a Marginalized Sufi Community** Presenter: Kythe Heller ## Garvin Room ##### **Paper Session** **Green Ram Katha: Performative Narratives of Sustainability and Belonging** Presenter: Amrapali Vyas **Living Tradition in Action: The Chronotope of the Manas Epic Performance** Presenter: Aibek Baiymbetov **Jakkai Siributr: (Im)material Culture and The Antinomy of Ornamentation** Presenter: Veronica Caciolli **“I Am Because I Belong”: The Thermodynamic System of Being in Igbo-African Cosmology** Presenter: Ikechukwu Anthony Kanu ## James Room West ##### **Paper Session** **Practicing Nonself, Negotiating Belonging: The Limits and Possibilities of Alternative Spirituality in a British Chan Buddhist Community** Presenter: Haiying Ni **Dr. Howard Thurman and The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples** Presenter: Kathryn Benton **Belonging Through Direct Experience: Formation and Community Beyond Belief** Presenter: Alex Patterson **Belonging Without Faith: A Day-to-Day Experiment in Awakening** Presenter: Martin Lenclos ## James Room East ##### **Paper Session** **Belonging for Whom? Whiteness, Godmen, and the Alienation of Heritage Hindus in Contemporary Ashram Culture** Presenter: Shivani Parikh **Ashtanga Yoga, Rocket Yoga, and the Limitations of Lineage** Presenter: Trish Tillman **Community Stories: Vulnerability, Grief, and Re-Founding Flourishing in L’Arche** Presenter: Olivia Hastie **Abstraction: Moving Away from Linguistic Meaning** Presenter: Kaustavi Sarkar **Of Monasteries and Caregiver Confines: The Agency of the Caregiving Framework on Caregiver Spirituality and Belonging** Presenter: Carol Langley ### 16:00–18:00 expand\_more Note: There are four panels happening simultaneously during this time slot: **Cader Room, Garvin Room, James Room East, James Room West**. Click on the *panel name* in each room to find the paper abstracts. Click on the *names of the presenters* to find their biographical information. Cader Room Garvin Room James Room West James Room East ## Cader Room ##### **Paper Session** **Freedom and Imperative in Spiritual Practice** Presenter: Liz Beaven **The Fate of Belonging in an Era of Personalization** Presenter: Jeff Frank **Caring and Sharing: Cultivating a Deep Sense of Belonging** Presenter: Melanie Reiser **The Tension Between Freedom and Community Experiences of House Coordinators and Volunteers in the Camphill Community Vidaråsen Landsby in Norway** Presenter: Marianna Schweyher ## Garvin Room ##### **Paper Session** **Order of Bezalel: Covenantal Participation in the Creatio Dei as the Ground of Spiritual Belonging** Presenter: Uday Balasundaram **The Black Sheep: The Story of Black Catholics in the Diocese of St. Augustine, Florida** Presenter: Sheila Hodges **United in Worship: A Case Study of Belonging in The Christian Community** Presenter: Daniel Kalinov **African-Led Pentecostal Liturgies and Spiritual Mediation of Migration in Czechia** Presenter: Samuel Uwem Umoh ## James Room West ##### **Workshop and Performance** **Workshop** **Animal Medicine Ceremony as a Site of Building Belonging** Presenter: Stefan Sanchez, DeVante Love **Performance** **Song, Magic, Invocation: Expressions of Belonging with Ireland’s Living Landscape** Presenter: Rivka Desbordes, Murphy Lamb ## James Room East ##### **Workshop** **Creating Belonging Through Awakening Inner Agency (Via Brahma Kumaris Contemplative Practice)** Presenter: Sudarshan Sundar, Rita Cleary **Performance: Poetic Inquiry** **Workshop: New Impulses for Steiner's Six Subsidiary Exercises** Presenter: Alison Davis **Belonging Through Each Breath: A Practice of Re-membered Connection to Ourselves, Others, and Earth** Presenter: Michelle Erard ### 18:00–19:30 Supper expand\_more Supper in the Braun Room for those who have meal tickets. Additionally, an alternative supper will be hosted by presenter Victoria Husain available to those who have previously registered for the event. **Dinner Time** Presenter: Victoria Husain ### 19:30–21:00 expand\_more Note: There are four panels happening simultaneously during this time slot: **Cader Room, Garvin Room, James Room East, James Room West**. Click on the *panel name* in each room to find the paper abstracts. Click on the *names of the presenters* to find their biographical information. Cader Room Garvin Room James Room West James Room East ## Cader Room ##### **Parzival Panel** **Parzival & Feirefiz - Co-Creating a New Musical Grail Narrative for Diversity** Presenters: Emmanuel Vukovich, Orland Bishop, Tambuco Percussion Ensemble **Strategies of Inclusivity and Exclusivity Relative to Rudolf Steiner’s Reading of the Literatures and Mythologies of the Grail** Presenter: Bruce Donehower Artistic Combinations of Cultural Capacities of Ethnic Groups Presenter: Gopi Krishna Vijaya **The Parcival Project** Presenter: Ceren Türkmenoğlu **Amenti - Embodying the Magic of Being, the AMM (Amenti MoveMeant Method)** Presenters: Gil Gomes Leal, Elia Vitadamo ## Garvin Room ##### **Paper Session** **HONK! If You’re Part of the Resistance** Presenter: Sarah Summers **Vocal Embodiment: A Well Beyond Humanity** Presenter: Michelle Bentsman **Belonging through Emotional Resonance in Carnatic Music** Presenters: Snehapriya Rao, Mallika Vadlamani ## James Room West ##### **Performances** **The Eco-Mystical Art of Belonging** Presenter: Ricky Ray **Tracing Spiritual Practices and Expressions in the Poetics of Women** Presenter: Elizabeth Kirwin **Belonging in the Woods: Familiar Flora and Phantom Frequencies** Presenter: Eric Millikin ## James Room East ##### **Heathen Panel** **Fika, Friendship, and Frith - Building Belonging** Presenter: Cortney Greyhawk **Beyond Inclusivity: Frith in Heathen Spaces** Presenter: Jai Mohan **There are No Nazis in Valhalla** Presenter: Ryan Smith ### Saturday, September 26 ### 8:30–8:45 expand\_more Daily welcome with Dan McKanan in the **Cader Room**. ### 9:00–11:00 expand\_more Note: There are five panels happening simultaneously during this time slot: **Cader Room, Braun Room,** **Garvin Room,** **James Room East,** and **James Room West**. Click on the *panel name* in each room to find the paper abstracts. Click on the *names of the presenters* to find their biographical information. Cader Room Braun Room Garvin Room James Room East James Room West ## Cader Room ##### Workshops and Performance **Workshop** **Belonging and the Stories We Live By: Myth, Self-Narrative, and Spiritual Quest in Community** Presenter: Eric Garvanne **Workshop** **The Pedagogy of Joy: Conscious Love as a Pathway to Spiritual Belonging** Presenter: Elijah Nicholas **Performance: Poetic Inquiry** **Workshop: New Impulses for Steiner's Six Subsidiary Exercises** Presenter: Alison Davis ## Braun Room ##### Artist Talks **Spiritual Beekeeping: Interspecies Initiation into the Sacred Superorganism** Presenter: Jake Eshelman **Social Artist At Large** Presenter: Lisa Giuliano **The Tales of Sincerely, Mike** Presenter: Paige Scanlon **Belonging Through Spiritual Identity: Drishti as an Experiential Practice of Inclusion and Transformation: Experiencing Inner Virtues Through Art and Shared Awareness** Presenters: Monika Kalra, Abhishek Kalra **The World of We: Power of Art Creates Belonging in Sanctuaries Working for Transformative Change for All Life** Presenter: Leslie Plato Smith **Life Altaring: Adult Learning as Participatory Art & Devotional Science** Presenter: Jordan Walker ## Garvin Room ##### Papers Sessions and Workshop **Paper** **Opening of the "Quantum" Field: Poetics of Legitimacy in High-Commitment Spiritual Entrepreneur Communities** Presenter: Jason Canniff **Paper** **Institutional Betrayal, DARVO, and the Failure of "Belonging" in a High-Control Religious Community (A Case Study of the Latter-day Saint Tradition)** Presenter: Suzanne Greco **Workshop** **From Scripture to Self: Reclaiming Story After Spiritual Harm** Presenters: Jonathan Fleming, Kimberly Ding ## James Room East ##### Paper Session **Elderberry | An Exploration of Spirituality Through the Lens of AI** Presenter: Imani Joye Samuels **Choosing Faith in a World of Choice: Designing a Multifaith Practice-Matching Platform for Modern Spiritual Seekers** Presenter: Anupriya Kukreja **Why Do We Feel Connected in a Spiritual Group? Hyperscanning Spiritual Communities** Presenter: Robert Forman **Broken Trust: Institutional Betrayal and the Neurobiology of Belonging** Presenter: Christopher Germann **GhostLab: Analyzing Sociocultural Patterns and Psychological Factors in Thai Ghost Stories from the ‘Man vs Ghost’ Program** Presenter: Taechasith Kangkhuntod ## James Room West ##### Performances and Workshop **Performance** **Einzelton presents “Verses in Color”** Presenters: Michael Hernández, Emmanuel Vukovich **Workshop** **To Be-Longing: The Drum as Technology of Sacred Homesickness** Presenter: Sofya Yampolsky **Performance** **The Unheld Note: Belonging in the Age of Distraction** Presenter: Umer Piracha ### 11:30–12:30 expand\_more Note: There are four panels happening simultaneously during this time slot: **Cader Room, Garvin Room, James Room East, Outdoors** (Meet at Welcome Desk). Click on the *panel name* in each room to find the paper abstracts. Click on the *names of the presenters* to find their biographical information. Cader Room Garvin Room James Room East James Room West TBD ## Cader Room ##### **Workshop** **From Othering to Belonging: Growing Beloved Community in a Climate-Changed World** Presenters: M. Paloma Pavel, john a. powell, Princess Daazhraii Johnson, Melanie DeMore ## Garvin Room ##### **Workshop** **Abracadabra Herbaria: Mythmaking Through Collective Drawing** Presenters: Anson Leung, Michelle Li ## James Room East ##### **Workshop** **Experiments in Meaning Making Among Multireligious Groups** Presenter: Monica Sanford ## James Room West ##### **Workshop** **Communing with the Beverage of the Gods: A Cacao Ceremony & Introduction to Q’eqchi’ Maya Spirituality** Presenter: Eduardo Viezca ## TBD ##### **Workshop** **Nature Joins the Board: A Look at How Can the More Than Human Guide Decision-Making** Presenter: Erik Assadourian **Mapping Belonging: How Inclusion and Individuation Unfold Across the Life Course** Presenter: Angela Assis ### 12:30–13:30 Lunch expand\_more Lunch in the Braun Room for those who have meal tickets. ### 13:30–15:30 expand\_more Note: There are four panels happening simultaneously during this time slot: **Cader Room, Garvin Room, James Room East, James Room West**. Click on the *panel name* in each room to find the paper abstracts. Click on the *names of the presenters* to find their biographical information. Cader Room Garvin Room James Room West James Room East ## Cader Room ##### **Paper Session** **Feminine Belonging and Resistance in Mexican Santa Muerte Devotional Communities** Presenter: Cassandra Morales **The Lakou: A Phenomenological Lens into Haitian Vodou’s Communotheistic Cosmovision** Presenter: Christie Lindor **The Spirit Belongs: Vodou Possession, Sacred Kinship, and the Reimagining of Spiritual Belonging** Presenter: Adulin Prophete ## Garvin Room ##### **Paper Sessions and Performance** **Cultivating Experienced Belonging in Higher Education: Collective Art-Making & Sounding** Presenters: Ava Neal, Anne Dorothy Harley, Talia Mickelson, Ashley Onate **Place-Based Microcolleges as a Context for Cultivating Meaning and Purpose with Young Adults** Presenters: Jacob Hundt, Philip Francis **Jakkai Siributr: (Im)material Culture and The Antinomy of Ornamentation** Presenter: Veronica Caciolli **The Beloved Community** Presenter: Paz Samuels, Imani Joye Samuels ## James Room West ##### **Paper Session** **The Evolution of Spiritualities Through Spiritual Touch and Bodies in Movement Therapy** Presenter: Kristen Symbula **When the Need to Belong Becomes a Transaction, Harm Happens** Presenter: Jac O' Keeffe **Containment Without Coercion: Meeting Developmental Vulnerability in Ethical Spiritual Communities** Presenter: Lucille Tures **The Paradox of Belonging: Balancing the Needs for Community and Independence** Presenter: Philip Goldberg ## James Room East ##### **Paper Session** **Our Inner Healing Intelligence: The Self Archetype and Soul Retrieval** Presenter: Manuel Cruz Dominguez Jr. **Carl Gustav Jung and Confucianism in his Correspondences: Special Reference to Adolf Keller, Richard Wilhelm, and Victor White** Presenter: Chae Young Kim **Remaining Within Life: Mental Suffering, Spiritual Practices, and the Ethics of Belonging** Presenters: Sara Siqueira, Amanda Siqueira, Gabriel Padua, Maria Simon ### 15:30–17:00 expand\_more Note: There are four panels happening simultaneously during this time slot: **Cader Room, Braun Room, Garvin Room, James Room East, James Room West**. Click on the *panel name* in each room to find the paper abstracts. Click on the *names of the presenters* to find their biographical information. Cader Room Braun Room Garvin Room James Room East James Room West ## Cader Room ##### **Paper Session** **Belonging to a Fractured Land: Ingrian Spirituality, Domestic Ecologies, and the Afterlives of Displacement** Presenter: Anya Shatilova **Ancient Greek Religion: Making It Inclusive and Relevant** Presenter: Tony Mierzwicki **Exploring Sense of Belonging through Contemplative Architectural Experience** Presenter: Burcak Altay ## Braun Room ##### **Artist and Book Talk** **Artist Talk** **To Decode AI Is to Decode Yourself: How AI Could Help Humanity Be Decoded Through Time** Presenter: Taechasith Kangkhuntod **Artist Talk** **Why We Gather: Soul Lineage and the Hidden Architecture of Spiritual Communities** Presenter: Stephanie Smit (Giek) **Book Talk** **Re-membering to Belong in Disenchanted Times: Starvation of Being and Transitions to Ancestral Futures** Presenter: Fernanda Gebara **Book Talk** **Belonging to the Forbidden: Shadow, the Dark Feminine, and the Power of Becoming Whole** Presenter: Flávia Oliveira **Book Talk** **Soil, Stars, and Sexuality: Belonging Across Body, Land, Spirit, and Community** Presenter: Toya L. Walker ## Garvin Room ##### **Paper Session** **An Intercultural Proposal for the Strengthening of Social Interactions Through Religious Education** Presenters: Erika Márjory Huamaní Rimachi, Joseph Hernán Peña Echevarría **Reclaiming the Adolescent Voice: Cultivating Spirituality, Identity, and Belonging Through Sound Healing** Presenter: Angie Lee **From Struggle to Belonging: Educating the Human Capacity for Resilience** Presenter: Chiaki Uchiyama ## James Room East ##### **Paper Session** **Belonging and the Hidden Norms of Spiritual Knowing: Neurodiversity, Meaning-Making, and the Development of Spiritual Insight** Presenters: Heléna Kate **Belonging Without Identity: Hospital Chaplaincy in Wartime Ukraine as a Practice of Moral Presence** Presenter: Valentyna Kuryliak **The Exiled Voice Cries Out: Evolution of the Nigun and Spiritual Accessibility for the Jews of Rikers Island** Presenter: Frankie Wiener ## James Room West ##### **Workshop and Performance** **Workshop** **The World is Sound - Experiencing Co-regulation and Belonging through Collective Resonance** Presenter: Suzanne Sterling **Performance** **In Praise of Sacred Transition** Presenter: Jai Mohan ### 17:30–18:30 expand\_more Note: There are four panels happening simultaneously during this time slot: **Cader Room, Garvin Room, James Room East, James Room West**. Click on the *panel name* in each room to find the paper abstracts. Click on the *names of the presenters* to find their biographical information. Cader Room Garvin Room James Room East James Room West TBD ## Cader Room ##### **Workshop** **Anime as Spirituality: Finding Faith and Family in Fandoms** Presenter: Stella Oloye ## Garvin Room ##### **Workshop** **The Grammar of Survival: Capoeira, Somatic Sovereignty, and the Practice of Belonging** Presenters: Abraham Sharkas, Mestre Gaivota David Morgan ## James Room East ##### **Workshop** **Living the Future Now: Vision Lab's Laboratory of Belonging** Presenter: Kythe Heller ## James Room West ##### **Workshop** **Mama Coca’s Chaka (Bridge) Weaving: A Ceremonial Storying of Plant-Human Kinship and Andean Spiritual Wisdom** Presenter: Teresa Mateus ## TBD ##### **Workshop** **Trauma-Awareness in Modern Polytheism: Foundations for Inclusive and Resilient Spiritual Communities** Presenter: Izzy Swanson ### 18:30–19:00 Conference Closing expand\_more Conference closing in the Cader Room with Dan McKanan.