The Human Flourishing & AI Retreat: A meditation retreat for the age of AI

The HUMAN FLOURISHING & AI RETREAT
A meditation retreat for the age of AI

With Sophie Maclaren and Jonathan Garner
Joined by Dr. Ruben Laukkonen

Over six transformative days at Broughton Sanctuary, we will gather as a community of thoughtful leaders, builders and changemakers to explore contemplative practice, human flourishing, and the relationship between technology and wisdom. Through meditation, reflection, dialogue and silence, this retreat offers a path toward greater clarity, resilience, compassion and purpose.

Facilitators

Sophie Maclaren

Sophie works globally as a consultant, coach, and facilitator for senior leaders in business and politics. After 13 years as a fellow and Expert in Residence on Mindfulness in Business at University of Oxford’s Said Business School, she has recently moved within the University to the Oxford Centre for Eudaemonia and Human Flourishing where she works on applied flourishing, and designs leadership programmes for students and executives. She co-founded Europe’s leading consultancy for mindfulness and wellbeing in the workplace. Her clients include magic circle law firms, global banks, the UK Parliament, the European Commission, tech execs, and Formula 1.

Sophie was raised in a family of Tibetan Buddhist practitioners with teachers in the Kagyu, Nyingma, and Shambhala lineages, and has had a lifetime of practice, study and teaching in these traditions. In her early twenties, at the request of her teachers she began teaching full time and has completed multiple meditation instructor and Buddhist teacher trainings in these traditions, working with thousands of students. She has led over 100 retreats and considers this form of practice to be particularly essential for our times.

Jonathan Garner

Jonathan is founder of Mind over Tech, co-founder of the Wisdom+AI network, author of Your Best Digital Life and a meditation instructor with over twenty years of study and practice in the Tibetan Nyingma school. His work focuses on the intersection of technology and the human mind, finding practical ways to bring awareness and intention into our digital lives.

Alongside leading meditation courses and retreats, Jonathan combines a breadth of experience including writing code, demystifying machine learning to senior leaders at fortune 500 companies and consulting organisations like Google and Deloitte on Digital Wellbeing and intentional AI adoption. He regularly speaks at events around the world, mainly splitting his time between the UK and Germany where he currently lives in a buddhist community in Berlin.

Dr. Ruben Laukkonen

Ruben is the director of the Flourishing Intelligence Program (FLIP) at Linacre College, University of Oxford. He is also a senior researcher and co-director of the Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing at Linacre College, University of Oxford, and a visiting Professor at the Centre for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. Ruben has made significant theoretical and empirical contributions to the science of consciousness, meditation, and insight. His work reveals a pathway towards better and safer artificial intelligence based on the neuroscience of consciousness and the mechanisms underlying contemplative wisdom. Together with an interdisciplinary team of physicists, neuroscientists, computer scientists, and Buddhist scholars, he initiated the Contemplative Artificial Intelligence and Contemplative Superalignment projects. His research has been featured widely, including The New York Times, TIME, Scientific American, TEDx, Vice, ABC, Aeon, VOX, New Scientist, and in the Nature collection.

Learn more about the retreat here:
https://broughtonsanctuary.co.uk/retreat/human-flourishing-ai-retreat/