Developing Novel Futures
Bonnitta Roy
Bonnitta Roy is a philosopher, futurist, and insight guide with a focus in 4E cognitive science, process philosophy, phenomenology, and metaphysics. She holds a BA in Biology and Philosophy from Colby College and pursued doctoral studies in neurophysics at UC Berkeley.
From 2014-2022 she designed, developed, and directed the MA Course in Consciousness Studies at The Graduate Institute. In 2022 she launched the virtual POP-UP School that grew to be a home for 10,000 students across 162 countries, offering transformative courses such as "A New Theory of the Body," "Lyric Culture: Ontological Designs for Backloop Realities," and "Varieties of Religious Experience". From 2005-2008 she was the President of the Board of Directors of the National Qigong Association. Before her academic career, Roy built a successful landscape design-build firm in New England. On her ranch, Alderlore Insight Center, she taught transformative workshops on energy awareness, body language, and emotional balance through engaging horses and nature in extraordinary ways where participants learned to recognize their unconscious communication patterns through simple gestures.
Currently, she hosts Originals, a podcast series featuring one-to-one interviews with guests who are enabling underappreciated futures that are expanded into community watch parties, creating a space for generative dialogue grounded in insight practices. She also hosts the Cognitive Widget Show, where she releases video tutorials on bite-sized introductions to frameworks that support people to view topics from meta-cognitive perspectives.
Her teaching methodology is distinctive, highlighting "the embodied, affective and perceptual aspects of the core self, and the non-egoic potentials from which subtle sensing, intuition and insight emerge." Through this approach, she guides individuals in developing meta-cognitive skills and helps groups break away from limiting patterns of thought and action.
Roy’s work is now culminating in The Divinity School, which is based on her four key aspects of world building, which we refer to as The Four Powers, her process-relational metaphysics, ontological design, and overcoming what she calls Metaphysical Malware. This philosophical and leadership curriculum trains a new kind of leader who can operate in the same principles as nature, cultivate trust, and guide us towards the futures we want to build.
Published Works and Resources
Bonnitta Roy’s academic work includes over 20 articles published in academic journals spanning philosophy of mind, metaphysics, organizational design, and leadership studies. She serves as the Associate Editor for Integral Review Journal, where you can find her articles on process approaches to consciousness, perception, and metaphysics. She is currently writing a book titled A Once and Future God.
- “Awakened Perception: Perception as Participation”
INTEGRAL REVIEW, August 2018, Vol. 14, No. 1 - “Why Metaphysics Matters”
INTEGRAL REVIEW, January 2019, Vol. 15, No. 1 - “Born in the Middle: The Soteriological Streams of Integral Theory and Meta-Reality”
INTEGRAL REVIEW, March 2014, Vol. 10, No. 1 - “A Process Model of Integral Theory”
INTEGRAL REVIEW, December 2006, Issue 3 - “The Map, the Gap and the Territory”
INTEGRAL REVIEW, December 2006, Issue 3
- “Complex Potential States vs Complex Adaptive Systems”
- “A Source Code for Team Flow”
- “The Power Matrix”
- “To Trim the System, Tame the Mind”
- “How Self-Organization Happens”
- “How the Invisible and Improbable becomes the Obvious and Inevitable”
- “Resilience Reconsidered”
- "Village Learning"
- "Consumer Ed"
- "Corona: A Tale of Two Systems":
- “Leadership and the Horse: Bonnitta Roy and George Herget”
- Michael Levin, Matt Segal, B. Roy
Consciousness in the World and Universe | 2025 UTOK Conference - Iain McGilchrist & B. Roy
Are we unmaking the world? - The Integral Stage
"NEW EDUCATION: The 'Pop-Up School' w/ Bonnitta Roy" - Future Thinkers
"Human Flourishing in the Time of Turmoil" - Future Thinkers
"Ego & Group Practices" - The Jim Rutt Show
"EP17 – Bonnitta Roy on Process Thinking and Complexity" - Emerge: Making Sense of What's Next
"Bonnitta Roy – Six Ways to Go Meta" - The Stoa
"Collective Wisdom with Nora Bateson, Ria Baeck, and Bonnitta Roy"
- Integral European Conference
Process and Relational Philosophy - United Nations Global Schools & UN World Logic Forum 2024
Education for the Future of Us All - The Infinite Potential Institute
Exploring Complexity with Bonnitta Roy - Parallax Academy
Metamodern Philosophy with Bonnitta Roy
Faculty
The faculty at The Divinity School are professional scholars and leaders who share cutting-edge insights from their fields relevant to our mission, including philosophy, cognitive science, biology, machine learning, finance, economics, infrastructure development, and policy. Working collaboratively, they identify high-leverage opportunities for philosophical and scientific progress, simulate their social and cultural implications, and help students navigate institutional inertia. All faculty are invited to attend our annual 4-day immersion to provide feedback on students' final presentations.
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Team
Our Team sees building next-generation education institutions as the deepest and longest-lasting intervention we can make, helping people become more courageous, insightful, and passionate, and setting the stage for surprising future possibilities.
Zachary Schlosser
Zachary Schlosser
Zach has founded several education and ed-tech companies and has a particular passion integrating character development with R&D on the most significant emerging scientific and technical fields. As Education Director at Endemic, he leads the definition and implementation of all training and research programs, including at The Divinity School. He has consulted for AI platforms focused on metascience and pro-democracy institutional reform. The Human Data Commons Foundation previously funded his research on nature-inspired approaches to supply chain resilience and he executive-produced a Protocol Labs-commissioned docuseries examining blockchain digital art's technology and culture. He also serves on the board of the Ohio Public Banking Coalition and as cofounder and Managing Director of Prosperity of the Commons International, he is responsible for training the next generation of developers, global financiers and investors, and government leaders on development structures and policies that promote sustainable wealth creation and equitable economic development.
Corey Cleland
Corey Cleland
Has founded multiple startups—both successful and unsuccessful—as a founder and strategist archetype. Most notably, he founded Thistle, a next-generation food and beverage company that has raised over $50M and delivered 5.3M healthy, affordable meals in 2023. Corey has managed hundreds of employees across dozens of departments simultaneously. Through his international development company, Prosperity of the Commons International, he collaborates with government bodies, global financial institutions, and large-scale developers to establish and strengthen frameworks, legal structures, and policies that promote sustainable wealth creation and equitable economic development. As Executive Director of Endemic, he leads a nonprofit community R&D ecosystem that develops pathways to rejuvenate society. Endemic develops and operates numerous projects, including The Divinity School and its efforts. Corey has extensive experience scaling health and wellness brands and creating markets that promote high-quality agriculture. He grew up farming and later developed his own small farm and work-trade program for Marines returning home from service.
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