Dear Reader,

When I first started imagining this summit, I didn't begin with keynote speakers.

I began with circles.

I wanted to turn the usual conference model a little upside down — not four days of sitting behind a screen listening to expert after expert, but a living gathering where you can enter the conversation yourself.

So throughout the summit there will be live circles — smaller, facilitated spaces built around shared experience. Some are pure experience, like Gaby's drum circle, where a live shamanic journey moves the whole group together before we even speak. Others are deep dives, like Guy's 2.5-hour deep dive session where psychiatry meets animism and Jung — an extended exploration of what it means to live "between worlds." And there are quieter rooms too: spaces for people who know altered states from the inside, where stories can be witnessed, and conversations around what often stays almost invisible — the trauma and scars that professional interventions themselves can leave behind.

These groups are the structural architecture of the summit, not an afterthought. I think they may become some of the most meaningful rooms we create.

Sometimes you don't need another person talking about your experience. You need a place where you can be witnessed and heard, where people recognise the terrain, where lived experience sits beside expert knowledge rather than underneath it.

That matters to me too.

I want these conversations to be accessible, and I want the gathering itself to feel different — something you enter, not just something you watch.

With love, Anneke & the summit team.

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