Calendar

April 19, 2024

Seminar: Futures as a place for prosociality

Free Seminar and Q&A Session

April 19, 2024

Necessary Conversations: A New Economic Paradigm for Humanistic Management with speakers David Sloan Wilson and Dennis J. Snower

Free Online Seminar

April 18, 2024

Examined Lives: Shame & Guilt (Session 43)

We will discuss how evolutionary psychology can help us better understand two common and closely related emotions: shame and guilt.

April 12, 2024

Seminar: Politics, Philosophy, and Prestige with Guru Madhavan

Free Seminar and Q&A Session

April 10, 2024

Seminar: It’s Not You, It’s Your Environment: Understanding the Prevalence of Burnout in Organizations and Utilizing Systems-Level Remediation Strategies

Free Online Research Seminar and Q&A

March 22, 2024

Seminar: Exploring socio-economic influence on AI: re-imagination and integration from various worldviews

Free Seminar and Q&A Session

March 21, 2024

Examined Lives: Mindfulness (Session 42)

We explore the concept of what is known in the West as "mindfulness", its evolutionary background, current scientific understanding, and practical use

March 15, 2024

Seminar: The Truth About Fiction: Biological Reality and Imaginary Lives

Free Seminar and Q&A Session

March 8, 2024

Seminar: Psychological Perspectives on Climate Change

Free Seminar and Q&A Session

March 1, 2024

Seminar: Social Capital - Reconnecting with the importance and value of social relationships

Free Seminar and Q&A Session

February 15, 2024

Examined Lives: Self-Esteem (Session 41)

What can evolutionary science bring to bear on the questions of what self-esteem is and what functions it performs?

January 26, 2024

Seminar: The Role of ProSocial in Catalyzing Paradigm Change in Economics and Business with David Sloan Wilson

Free Seminar and Q&A Session

January 19, 2024

ProSocial Commons Cafe

Informal, weekly gatherings for Prosocial Commons members to connect, provide updates, and host discussions.

January 18, 2024

Generalizing Ostrom’s Core Design Principles and Putting Them to Use: An Interactive “Practitioner Webinar” for IASC Members & their colleagues

90 minute interactive webinar on how the core design principles can be used as a practical method for increasing the efficacy of groups.

January 18, 2024

Examined Lives: Judgment under Uncertainty (Session 40)

How do how humans make decisions under uncertainty?

December 21, 2023

Examined Lives: Misunderstandings & Misconceptions about Evolutionary Psychology (Session 39)

Misunderstandings & Misconceptions about Evolutionary Psychology (Session 40)

December 13, 2023

Generalizing Ostrom’s Core Design Principles and Putting Them to Use: An Interactive “Practitioner Webinar”

Interactive 90 minute webinar on the theory, evidence, examples and interactive discussion around the Core Design Principles

December 6, 2023

Research Seminar: How Multilevel Selection Theory Can Change The World: The Inevitable Convergence of Modern Science with Indigenous Wisdom with Mitch Distin

1.5 hour free research seminar and Q&A session

November 17, 2023

Seminar: Wherever I could reach: ProSocial variation in healthcare and community sustainability with Richard Coates

Free Seminar and Q&A Session

November 16, 2023

Examined Lives: The Grandmother Hypothesis (Session 38)

The grandmother hypothesis is an attempt to explain the origins of reproductive senescence in Homo sapiens.

November 15, 2023

Enabling Future- Ready Organizations

Join us the FEI share exciting research developments and updates, including details on the transformative work within the municipal sector!

November 10, 2023

Seminar: Leading Change in Ourselves for Our World

Free webinar presented by climate scientist, Heidi Steltzer.

November 9, 2023

A New Human Story for the Future with David Sloan Wilson, hosted by the Garrison Institute

A Daylong Public Forum Gathering Leaders and Practitioners in Contemplative-Based Social Change held in New York City

November 3, 2023

Seminar: Fateful Lines – how changing the story can change the world with Sarah Woods

Free Seminar and Q&A Session

November 1, 2023

Prosocial Commons Book Club: Two Plays with Evolutionary Themes (The Hard Problem by Tom Stoppard and The How and the Why by Sarah Treem)

Weekly book club for two plays with evolutionary themes: The Hard Problem by Tom Stoppard and The How and the Why by Sarah Treem.

November 1, 2023

ProSocial Commons Welcome & Introductions

One hour welcome call for new ProSocial Commons members

October 27, 2023

A Conversation About Cooperatives with Jerome Warren

A discussion of Jerome's work on Italy's tradition of self-organized services and exploration collaborative potential among current practitioners

October 27, 2023

ProSocial Commons Welcome & Introductions

One hour welcome call for new ProSocial Commons members

October 26, 2023

Examined Lives: The Role of Gossip (Session 37)

Gossip as social regulator and gossip as interpersonal weapon

October 24, 2023

ProSocial Commons Welcome & Introductions

One hour welcome call for new ProSocial Commons members

October 24, 2023

Wasan Session: The ProSocial Approach with Paul Atkins

In this month’s Wasan session, ProSocial World’s co-founder and psychologist Paul Atkins will walk us through the ProSocial approach

October 20, 2023

Seminar: Competition or Collaboration for a Sustainable Economy? with Denise Hearn

Free Seminar and Q&A

October 20, 2023

ProSocial Commons Welcome & Introductions

One hour welcome call for new ProSocial Commons members

October 18, 2023

Generalized Darwinism: A New Paradigm for Positive Cultural Change with David Sloan Wilson

Public colloquium held in person at The University of Kentucky

October 17, 2023

ProSocial Commons Welcome & Introductions

One hour welcome call for new ProSocial Commons members

October 6, 2023

Seminar: The Complexity of Language: Scale as a Conceptual Hook with Nick Enfield

1.5 hour free seminar and Q&A session

October 2, 2023

ProSocial Commons Book Club: Our Tribal Future

Biweekly book club discussion hosted by the ProSocial Commons

September 30, 2023

Apply to the Atlas Hugged Reading Group

A new reading group centered around David Sloan Wilson's novel, Atlas Hugged.

September 28, 2023

Examined Lives: Family Conflict (Session 36)

Family Conflict: How does genetic relatedness help explain family conflicts?

September 22, 2023

Seminar: Regenerating Sonora

Free webinar presented by Christopher Casillas.

September 20, 2023

Child Development & Learning

Weekly meeting for Child Development and Education from an Evolutionary Perspective: A New ProSocial Commons Learning to Action Group

September 15, 2023

Seminar: Our Tribal Future: Using ProSocial to Overcome Evolutionary Mismatch in 21st century communities

Free seminar and Q&A sponsored by the ProSocial Commons

September 1, 2023

ProSocial Commons Welcome & Introductions

One hour welcome call for new ProSocial Commons members

August 30, 2023

Research Seminar: Organizational Development as Generative Entrenchment with Cody Moser and Paul Smaldino

Research Seminar and Q&A with the Speakers

August 25, 2023

ProSocial Commons Welcome & Introductions

One hour welcome call for new ProSocial Commons members

August 24, 2023

Examined Lives: Evolutionary Aesthetics (Session 35)

What is the role of evolutionary theory in explaining aesthetics in nature and in human culture? How might we explain our own aesthetic experiences?

August 16, 2023

ProSocial Commons Welcome & Introductions

One hour welcome call for new ProSocial Commons members

August 8, 2023

Introduction to Cohering Community

Free Introductory sessions for the Cohering Community experiential learning lab.

July 28, 2023

Introduction to Cohering Community

Free Introductory sessions for the Cohering Community experiential learning lab.

July 27, 2023

Examined Lives: Adaptive Fictions (Session 34)

July 13, 2023

ProSocial in the Workplace Seminar: Organizational Behavior Management and ProSocial

Biweekly seminar for ProSocial in the Workplace: A new Prosocial Commons Learning-to-Action Group

July 13, 2023

Introduction to ProSocial Spirituality

Free online introduction to ProSocial Spirituality's spiritually-grounded approach to cultural evolution

July 7, 2023

ProSocial Commons Welcome & Introductions

One hour welcome call for new ProSocial Commons members

June 29, 2023

Examined Lives: Human Synchrony (Session 33)

How does synchrony- the matching of actions in time with others- shape the human experience?

June 26, 2023

Regenerating the Earth with ProSocial Introduction Webinar

Attend an introductory webinar to learn more about Regenerating Earth with ProSocial learning journey.

June 25, 2023

Complexity Adventures June Basecamp

Self-organizing intermingling with complexity-aware groups. This is not a ProSocial World sponsored event.

June 21, 2023

Wellbeing in Organized Groups: From Rule Governance to Value Based Governance with Ramona A. Houmanfar

Free Research Seminar and Q&A

June 20, 2023

Prosocial Commons Book Club: How Indigenous Thinking Can Change the World

Bi weekly book club for "Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Change the World" by Tyson Yunkaporta

June 16, 2023

ProSocial Commons Welcome & Introductions

One hour welcome call for new ProSocial Commons members

June 14, 2023

Child Development & Learning Meeting: Cesar Nunes

Weekly meeting for Child Development and Education from an Evolutionary Perspective: A New ProSocial Commons Learning to Action Group

June 1, 2023

For the Good of All, NOW! Official Launch - Experience the Shift

Join us for this introduction to a unique joint venture to co-create the future we want to see in the world for the good of all.

May 31, 2023

Research Seminar: The Behavioural Science of ProSocial World Part II

1.5 hour Free Research Seminar and Q&A

May 25, 2023

Examined Lives: War (Session 32)

Each month in Examined Lives we have lively discussions about cutting-edge developments in—and applications of—evolutionary thinking.

May 24, 2023

Boston Area Research Initiative: Integrating Data and Research with Community with Kimberly Lucas and Daniel T. O’Brien

Free Research Seminar and Q&A

May 23, 2023

Related On-the-Ground Events: Design School for Regenerating the Earth Travels the Colorado River Basin

In-person talks about bioregionalism and weaving ProSocial relations. These are not ProSocial World sponsored events.

May 19, 2023

Seminar: Embracing Interdependence: Toward a Multi-Level Theory of Coordinated Change with Jody Hoffer Gittell

Free seminar and Q&A sponsored by the ProSocial Commons

May 18, 2023

ProSocial in the Workplace Seminar: ProSocial in the Conscious Capital Movement

Biweekly seminar for ProSocial in the Workplace: A new Prosocial Commons Learning-to-Action Group

May 17, 2023

Research Seminar: The Behavioural Science of ProSocial World Part I

1.5 hour Free Research Seminar and Q&A

May 12, 2023

Seminar: Doughnut Economics, from a Radical Idea into Transformative Action with Carlota Sanz Ruiz

Free Seminar with Q&A

May 5, 2023

Seminar: Sharing Resources and Sharing Risk with Athena Aktipis

Lessons from Small-scale Societies and Biological Collectives about How to Manage Catastrophic Risk- 1.5 hour Free Seminar and Q&A

May 4, 2023

ProSocial in the Workplace Seminar: Mapping Agile Tools onto the Core Design Principles

Weekly meetings for ProSocial in the Workplace: A new Prosocial Commons Learning-to-Action Group

May 4, 2023

Integrating the Human Sciences to Scale Societal Responses to Environmental Change: A Workshop

Free Workshop from the National Academies of Science

May 1, 2023

EvoS Seminar Series: Hormones in Milk, Primarily Cortisol, and Impacts on Infant Development

Free seminar talk with Q&A

April 28, 2023

Complexity Adventures Unconference: ProSocial World, Earth Regenerators, Deep Transformation Network, and WEALL Network Collaboration

Free unconference exploring the intersection of Prosocial and complexity amongst multiple organizations

April 27, 2023

Examined Lives: The Execution Hypothesis and the Evolution of Morality (Session 31)

April 21, 2023

Seminar: Prosocial Planet: Guiding the Evolution of Social-Ecological Development with Erle Ellis

Free Seminar with Q&A

April 17, 2023

EvoS Seminar Series: Technological Origins: Behavioral Evolution Across the Plio-Pleistocene

Free seminar talk with Q&A

April 14, 2023

UMass Amherst Lecture: Multilevel Cultural Evolution with David Sloan Wilson

PERI will cohost a public lecture with David Sloan Wilson, President, Prosocial World and SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus Binghamton University

April 12, 2023

Research Seminar Series: Dual Inheritance Theory and a Theoretical Examination of the Symbotype-Phenotype Relationship - Part 2

Free Seminar and Q&A

April 12, 2023

Curriculum Overload: Empowering Students as Community Scientists in the Search for Higher Concepts

Free 1.5 hour Seminar and Q&A

April 7, 2023

Seminar: Prosocial and the Professions

Free seminar and Q&A sponsored by the ProSocial Commons

April 5, 2023

Research Seminar Series: Dual Inheritance Theory and a Theoretical Examination of the Symbotype-Phenotype Relationship - Part 1

Free Seminar and Q&A

April 5, 2023

Child Development & Learning Meeting

March 28, 2023

Prosocial Commons Book Club: How Indigenous Thinking Can Change the World

ProSocial Commons Book Club: Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Change the World, by Tyson Yunkaporta

March 27, 2023

EvoS Seminar Series: Time Travel in Experimental Evolution

Free seminar talk with Q&A

March 24, 2023

Seminar: Becoming Prosocial From the Inside Out: Adapting Prosocial Applications Using a Multilevel Framework That Nests the Individual in Their Group

Free seminar and Q&A sponsored by the ProSocial Commons

March 23, 2023

ProSocial in the Workplace A ProSocial Commons Learning-to-Action Group

Free Introductory Meeting for ProSocial in the Workplace, a new Prosocial Commons Learning-to-Action Group

March 20, 2023

EvoS Seminar Series: Evolution of Sociality and Multilevel Selection (including spiders)

Free seminar talk with Q&A

March 17, 2023

Seminar: Integrating Principles and Practices for Healthy Power-Sharing with Cecile Green

Free seminar and Q&A session sponsored by the ProSocial Commons

March 16, 2023

Examined Lives: Positive Evolutionary Psychology (Session 30)

In our next Examined Lives on Positive Evolutionary Psychology we will explore what evolutionary psychology has to tell us about happiness.

March 13, 2023

EvoS Seminar Series: Trade-offs That Shape Our Genomes: Surviving Starvation and Microbes

Free seminar talk with Q&A

March 9, 2023

Seminar: "Interspirituality" and Upshifting Global Prosocial Behavior with Kurt Johnson

Free seminar and Q&A session sponsored by the ProSocial Commons

March 2, 2023

Seminar: The Forever Green Partnership: A Multi-level System for Regional Diversification of Agriculture with Nick Jordan

Free seminar and Q&A session sponsored by the ProSocial Commons

March 2, 2023

Child Development and Education Learning-to-Action Group Introductory Meeting

Intro Meeting for Child Development and Education from an Evolutionary Perspective: a new “Learning-to-Action” group

February 17, 2023

Seminar: Music, Pleasure, and Culture: Soundly Organized People in a Musically Organized Hunter-Gatherer Civilization with Jerome Lewis

Free seminar and Q&A session sponsored by the ProSocial Commons

February 16, 2023

Examined Lives: Dual Inheritance Theory (Session 29)

In humans, genes and culture are intertwined streams of inheritance. Ours is a story of Dual Inheritance.

February 9, 2023

Seminar: The Role of Cooperation in the Evolution of Cooperatives with Tim Waring

Free seminar and Q&A sponsored by the ProSocial Commons

February 3, 2023

Seminar: Egalitarian Societies with Jerome Lewis

Free 1 hour seminar with Q&A

January 29, 2023

A New Economic Paradigm for People and Planet

Can we re-define and re-design economics to respond more effectively to the complex collective challenges facing us now, and in the future?

January 27, 2023

Seminar: Facing the Dark History of Evolutionary Science: The Role of the Individual in Learning How to Evolve on Purpose with Steven C. Hayes

Free seminar and Q&A