Over the last three years I have endeavored to bring people together online in deeply human ways.  The origins of this work started in 2011, through a sort of personal epiphany.  At the time, I felt a deep call to bring more love and peace into the world through my

Truly transformative learning often happens offline, in person, and in small groups.  People have an opportunity to spend time together in community and experience new ways of being together.  The idea behind Sutra revolves around delivering this kind of experience online. Our work emphasizes dialogue based experiences that involve deep

When I was a child co-creation meant playing cops and robbers in the front yard.  In my teens co-creation happened through deep existential conversations. In my late twenties it meant participating in the creativity of Burning Man.  Now well into my thirties, I’m asking myself what is co-creation and where

The heart of Sutra is small group interaction. Our emphasis is on improving the quality of interaction and relationship between people involved in any collaborative endeavor. We focus on learning because learning gives us opportunity to practice new ways of being – deeper levels of listening, dialog, and co-creation. Learning

This is an essay about online learning, the future of work, and building community. It is about learning together, collaborating with the people that we learn with, and cultivating real community through co-creative relationships. And it is about Sutra, an open source software project that supports the integration of these

Over the last few years I’ve been thinking a lot about how to connect people in deeper and more meaningful ways. A lot of my thinking has revolved around the role of community in that function. I think people have (at least) two essential needs: a need for love and