As we navigate through the unknowns of these turbulent times, we invite you to join us for an evening of reflection, connection, and the deep wisdom featuring award winning author and clinical psychologist Bayo Akomolafe. In his latest book, These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home, Bayo explores so many of the challenges that we face as caregivers and as human beings, while bringing us into deep reflection around our own searches for connection and meaning.

The event will be emceed by our very own Director of Partnerships, Renata Moreira. All funds donated at this event will directly benefit the important work of the Fiddleheads Program, which serves as a bridge for neurodiverse children to nature, allowing for deep connection, healing and growth in a world that is so easy for them to feel lost and isolated within. The event is donation based and directly benefits mental health services for children and families. Open to all.

You will not want to miss this opportunity to draw closer to the mysteries of the natural world, our own hearts, families, and communities through this special conversation.

Bayo Akomolafe has worked as a professor, clinical psychologist and now as a writer and Chief Curator for The Emergence Network. You can read more about his work, books, and life, at North Atlantic Books. After registration you will receive a discount code to purchase Bayo Akomolafe's book, These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home from North Atlantic Books.

If you cannot make it to the event, and still enjoy these spaces and offerings that Seeds nurtures, we ask you to consider donating towards our work TODAY. We have the goal of raising $2,000 during the event, toward our overall goal of $100,000 for the Spring. Please help us reach our goal so we can continue providing essential mental health to children and communities.

Bayo Akomolafe Bio:

Bayo Akomolafe left a teaching position as a professor and clinical psychologist in a Nigerian university to pursue “a small and intense life”— a life outside the highways of the familiar, outside of fences. In a sense, his decolonizing journey in the wilds, in the borderlands of globalizing culture, began when he met Ijeoma, his wife of Indian and African descent, and when a healer suggested to him “that I could find my way if I were willing to become generously lost.” His quest is to tell the stories of the occluded, to make room for other spaces of power and invite the proliferation of multiple natures. This, his first book is a foray into the ordinary “which the extraordinary is always trying to become.” Akomolafe lectures and gives talks internationally, mostly keynote speeches, and is Chief Curator for an earth-wide commonwealth of curators working from a different ethos of responsivity, called The Emergence Network. He currently lives in India with his “life-force,” Ijeoma (or Ej), and their two children: Alethea Aanya and Kyah Jayden.