Where curious people meet to realise what's possible.
Curiosity connects.
Where it comes from
In the lineage of a tea house.
An offering, in the lineage of.
The seed that grew into Beings Club was planted at a tea house. At a 2019 retreat at Plum Village — Thich Nhat Hanh's monastery in the south of France — conversations between people about things beyond the retreat schedule, over tea, became the most powerful thing: with the discovered friendships, ideas, and insights still being lived.
It was an atmosphere more than a method — a quality of attention and openness people carried into and out of the tea house. When I left that retreat, I longed to find such an atmosphere again. Beings Club is an offering in the lineage of that atmosphere: a lineage of feeling, not a body of doctrine, a space for conversations of all kinds.
— John
Stay curious.
What this looks like, in practice.
The shape of a salon
We meet on a Sunday for about two hours. We settle into a shared field of individual practice, meet in small group conversations, and close as a whole group. Fixed vessel, free contents — the form stays reliable so that what happens inside it can be free.
Who holds it
A host, often John. The host tends the conditions for genuine meeting and then trusts what comes. No gurus here — the host holds the space; the meeting does the work.
● Status — Beings Club is hosting Salons.
We gather on the last Sunday of the month — pausing over summer.
Leave us a note via the door at the bottom of the page to join us next time.
What unfolds is unplanned, ordinary, and sometimes magic.
A culture of creative realisation in support of life's flourishing.
Creativity is only ever limited by our sense of what's possible.
Beings Club is a place where that sense of what's possible is invited to expand.
Each meeting is situated in a field of intentional curiosity, mutual care, and responsibility; creating the conditions for our individual and collective sense of what is possible to grow, and to find more ways to reach towards it.
These things make up the conditions for creative realisation. Possibility, met with curiosity, in our own lives and in what is shared with others, landing in bodies that care, unfolds into action. Through this process, new worlds can be born.
The world where we meet across everything that makes us different, and make something beautiful of it, is not ahead of us. It exists in groups of people who recognise it as possible. In the spaces where it is allowed to happen. Beings Club is one such space, making the future a place you can be part of.
So come along. Bring curiosity, care, and responsibility.
Recognise yourself as one of the beings who make the world more beautiful.
The moment you stop treating the edge of the possible as fixed — in yourself, and in everyone you meet — reality reveals its true nature.
Almost everything here can change. The questions, the answers, what we make, who we become. One thing doesn't.
We hold each other as precious. Each life in the room, including the ones nothing like yours, are treated as real and valuable and worth our care.
This posture does not ask that you erase yourself. It asks you to extend care in every direction. Your own life is precious on the same terms, held by you and others by the same care you extend.
This is held sacred, and it is why everything else is free to change.
We are beings together here. That is the whole of it.
We do this together.
I'll be honest about why this exists.
The more beautiful world our hearts know is possible isn't a thing one person builds and others visit. It only happens if we live in it together, which means it only happens if you're part of it.
So this isn't an invitation in the usual sense. I'm not offering you something finished. I'm telling you it doesn't exist without you, and asking you to be part of making it real.
We do this together, or it doesn't happen.
A space to slow down, reflect together, and make sense of things out loud.Ana C · Designer
90 minutes of nothing in particular could fly by and also be so energizing.Mark F · Product
Genuine encounters with people whose timelines wouldn't typically intersect with mine.Zak EF · Engineer-philosopher
Beings Club became my Sunday ritual.Sean P · Founder, tbd.zip
I have had several experiences of being seen, heard, and held.Manansh S · Founder
It was amazing. I found genuine connection on each call.Catra · Contributor, HIGHER
It feels like a kind of therapy — really enriching to discover new ways of thinking.Victor · Brands & Design
I'm so so grateful this space exists.Jordan N · Designer & Creative Director
Highly recommend it to anyone who's curious but on the fence.Esme · Joy Seeker, esmemadethis.com
I leave every week feeling more human, more like a being.The Dude
Register your interest.
After mutual discernment, you'll be added to our Guest List and be able to join upcoming Salons.
Seats are offered on a donation basis.
Beings will be uninvited if required.
A single true meeting is already the more beautiful world — emerging through us.
For the benefit of all beings
Wonderfool — letters on being, every 1st and 3rd Tuesday.