Upcoming Events
Arc + Craft: An Exploration of Creativity and Culture Making with Stephen Jenkinson Hosted by Kimberly Ann Johnson and Tad Hargrave A 5 day gathering in Ghost Ranch, New Mexico. November 16th – 20th 2025 Arc + Craft will be the first and probably only multi day session in which Stephen Jenkinson discusses his creative practice,…
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The Jesus Session The spirit of translation. The translation of spirit. Part cultural critique, part prayerful murmur,this time Jesus will be a prism, and a prompt, and a verb. Jan 10-11, 2026at the Orphan Wisdom Hall From Stephen: You know by now that we've launched a transliteration/translation project, The Scriptorium, that is wrangling the piles…
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~A Winter Boreal Session in the Orphan Wisdom Hall ~ What’s included: Shared accommodation at the Orphan Wisdom Guest House Home cooking Transcribing the 2017 Big Tent Jesus Session Private session with Stephen in the Hall Live participation on Saturday the 10th with Winter stew to follow Live participation on Sunday the 11th Private online…
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~In-person weekend at Orphan Wisdom Hall~ In-person event January 10-11, 2026 in the Orphan Wisdom, Golden Lake, Ontario, Canada. This is a rare invite indeed What’s included: Access to three audio recordings from the 2017 Orphan Wisdom Big Tent Jesus Session Private online community group Live participation on Saturday the 10th from 10am-2pm. Winter Stew…
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Past Events
Stephen will be speaking at the Deep Live Gathering 2025 organised by Katerina Po, Igor Polskiy, and Dorian Cave: How to approach grief and death from a place of wellbeing, and even joy? How to keep walking in the midst of it all? And what might true elderhood mean - and how may it be…
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East West Books Event: Livestream Discussion with Stephen Jenkinson Sunday Oct 12, 11am PT (90 mins) Livestream online event Join Us "Birth is iffy. Rites of passage are iffy. Death is iffy. They're not iffy in their necessity, their belonging in the world. They're iffy in their outcome, their success. Matrimony is iffy, in all…
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The creation of The Scriptorium ~ Echos of an Orphan Wisdom marks a significant milestone in the evolution of the Orphan Wisdom School. After one and a half years of planning, sorting and curating transcriptions we are ready to make our ribbon-cutting announcement. The Scriptorium Library opens to Lineage Members on Monday, September 15th, 2025.…
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To Mother and Father Culture: Village Making and Ritual in a Me-First, AI World A 2-Day Reckoning Live with Stephen Jenkinson & Kimberly Ann Johnson in Oxford, UK September 15 & 16, 2025 What becomes of us when sovereignty is the prize, autonomy the moral code, and AI is a stand-in for critical…
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Wednesday
Sep
10
Banyen Books Event: Free Livestream Discussion with Stephen Jenkinson Wednesday Sep 10, 12 noon PT (60 mins) Livestream online event Join Us Join Stephen Jenkinson—author of the award-winning Die Wise, creator of the Orphan Wisdom School, and a renowned teacher of grief, culture, and elderhood—for a searching discussion of his provocative new book, Matrimony: Ritual, Culture,…
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