Salons
Next
September 27, 2026 
Format
Online — join from anywhere
Sits
Next
To be announced
Format
Online — join from anywhere
About

Where curious
people meet to
realise what's possible.

In the lineage of a tea house.

Beings Club exists because of a tea house at Plum Village, where I found myself in conversations over tea that expanded my sense of what is possible.

Whilst the retreat schedule was truly valuable, I was drawn again and again to a little tea house and the conversations that could happen there – free from a prescribed topic or theme.

Beings Club is a realisationhouserealisationhouse[rɪəlaɪˈzeɪʃᵊnhaʊs]n.A gathering place where contemplative practices become a means of realising new possibilities. in the lineage of that atmosphere: a lineage of feeling, not a body of doctrine, a space for conversations of all kinds.

— John

Offerings

Salons are Beings Club's classic format — where curiosity connects.

Space to connect — to oneself, to each other, and to what is possible.
Salons have a simple format: a period of individual practice held in a shared field, time for breakout conversations, and a closing that brings everyone back together.

The form stays reliable so that what happens inside it can be free.

You don't need to prepare anything. You don't need to have it figured out.

Come as you are, and see what happens.

Duration
About two hours
Rhythm
Last Sunday of the month
Where
Online — join from anywhere
Cost
Offered on a donation basis

Sits are meditation classes that offer the fundamentals for cultivating clarity, resilience, and ease.

A contemporary approach to meditation — available to exploring tradition without relying on it for reassurance.

The techniques are simple and explained simply — with time for questions.

What you learn here is portable: it works on a Tuesday morning, in a difficult conversation, and in the foothills of the Himalayas.

Offered by John. Accessible to all backgrounds, experience-levels, and dispositions.

Duration
About one hour
Rhythm
One-offs or in multi-week series
Where
Online — join from anywhere
Cost
Offered on a sliding scale basis

Happenings are in-person social experiences for the curious.

The first was The O Field, in November 2024. A new kind of social experience, its guests gathered from the street. Tea was served alongside beer; vinyl played, with intentional gaps left between the records.

More are taking shape — occasions to meet in person, made with the same care as everything else.

Come as you are, and see who you meet.

Format
In person
Rhythm
Occasional
Where
Per Happening
Cost
Ticketed

Field Trips are in-person, small-group journeys to places around the world.

A handful of curious people, somewhere worth going, for a few days of shared attention.

For now, Field Trips are on the horizon — an ambition taking shape, not yet a schedule. If travelling together sounds like your kind of thing, say so when you leave us a note.

Format
In person
Group
Small
Where
Around the world
Status
On the horizon

SHARED GROUND

What makes Beings Club possible.

Beings Club is built on minimal scaffolding that ensures that everyone who arrives can find shared ground.

1.

We hold each other as precious

Each life in the room, including the ones nothing like yours, is 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.

This is held sacred, and it is why everything else is free to change. It frames how we meet each other and how we meet ourselves.

We are beings, together.

2.

Curiosity connects

Beings Club defines curiosity as "an orientation to experience that is open to discovery".

Practiced in this way, we create the conditions for the discovery of connection – to ourselves, to each other, and to what is possible.

We can meet whatever arises with curiosity, inclusive of any conflict or tension. We can even be curious about if we should be curious at all.

Stay curious.

What we're building

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 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 toward it.

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.

The moment you stop treating the edge of the possible as fixed, reality reveals its true nature.

On meditation

Why Beings Club
practices meditation.

Meditation supports curious minds to stay open to discovery, possibility, and change.

A room full of open, generous attention doesn't appear on its own. It's made by people who have practised meeting their own experience without flinching from it — who can stay present when a conversation gets real, and stay kind when it gets difficult.

So we sit. Not to escape our lives or to reach some special state, but to become more available — to ourselves, to each other, and to what a moment is actually offering. The practice is simple and the aim is ordinary: to be here, on purpose, with care.

That capacity is what the Salons are built on, and what the Sits cultivate directly.

Every Salon begins with meditation. Sits are offered for those who want to go deeper.

A note from John

We do this together.

I'll be honest about why Beings Club exists.

There's a more beautiful world our hearts know is possible. And to realise it, we're asked to be the ones who can live in it.

It isn't a thing that one person can build and others will visit. It only happens as we live it together — which means it only happens if you're part of it.

Beings Club is held and designed to be a place where we can live it together. Salons are for meeting each other with genuine curiosity and care across difference. Sits are for deepening our own capacity to meet every moment with heart and strength.

So this isn't an invitation in the usual sense. I'm not offering you something finished. I'm inviting you into something that doesn't exist without you, and asking you to help make it real.

We do this together, or it doesn't happen.

— John

Testimonials

Curious people love Beings Club.

Words from those who’ve spent time at Beings Club.

"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

What unfolds is unplanned, ordinary, and sometimes magic.

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Wonderfool

Letters on being, every 1st and 3rd Tuesday. Written by John — the same voice that hosts the room.