Our Mission
We investigate the fundamental processes through which people, communities, and living systems flourish. By advancing the Field of Deep Belonging, we explore how participation, continuity, and coherence shape human development, knowledge, culture, and the living world—and translate these insights into research, education, and practical action.
UNDERSTAND
Advance understanding of how belonging, participation and continuity give rise to human flourishing across individuals, communities, cultures, and living systems.
CONNECT
We bring together Indigenous knowledge, science, philosophy, and lived experience to deepen understanding across disciplines and cultures.
TRANSLATE
We transform knowledge into research, education, and practical action that benefits people, communities, and the living Earth.
Research & Creative Team
The Humans of Destiny Institute is built through collaboration. Our team brings together complementary expertise across Indigenous knowledge, psychology, systems science, philosophy, archaeology, education, and the arts. United by a shared interest in belonging, participation, and continuity we work together to advance the emerging Field of Deep Belonging and develop new approaches to human flourishing.
Our team is growing. Full biographies, research interests, and current projects will be added soon.
Damien
Co-founder
Research, Deep Belonging, Living Continuity, Consciousness
Natalie
Co-founder
StoryField, Third Story, Living Continuity
Sara
Psychology, Consciousness
What We Do
We work across three interconnected domains.
Foundational Inquiry
Exploring belonging, participation, continuity, consciousness, and the nature of living systems.
Human Flourishing
Investigating belonging, purpose, healing, creativity, and human development.
Applied Transformation
Applying these insights through education, community programs, leadership, technology, and regenerative practice.
Shaping the Field of Deep Belonging Together
Understanding grows through relationship. Deep Belonging is an emerging interdisciplinary field exploring how participation, continuity, and coherence give rise to human flourishing. We bring together researchers, Indigenous knowledge holders, scientists, educators, artists, and practitioners who are advancing this shared inquiry across disciplines, cultures, and ways of knowing.
Human flourishing invites many ways of knowing. Deep Belonging creates conversations through which they can explore shared questions together.
Contributors to the Field
Deep Belonging is an emerging field. This page will gradually introduce researchers and collaborators whose work contributes to its development.
André
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Purpose, Human Development, Future Generations
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Ocean and water
Earth law and Indigenous law
Marc
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Music & Creativity
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Neuroscientist, Consciousness
Alfred
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Ubuntu, Belonging, African culture and knowledge
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Environment Stewardship
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Wellbeing, mental health, health
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Neuroscience
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Music, Wellbeing, Human Development
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Cultural and Ecological Diversity, Local Communities
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Languages, Cognition
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Anthropology
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Physicist, Systems Sciences
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African culture and knowledgeC
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Astrophysics
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Philosophy of Science
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Artist, Sound & Frequency
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Ecology
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Music, Human Flourishing
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Field Science
Invitation
Humans of Destiny is a space of exploration.
A place where different ways of knowing can meet.
Where science, story, and lived experience come into dialogue.
Where new possibilities for human potential can emerge.
We invite those who feel aligned to:
contribute to the research
participate in the applications
or collaborate in bringing this work into the world
This work is relational by nature.
It grows through connection.
Our Partners
