AI+Embodiment: panel discussion on Relationscapes
Meet fellow visionaries and practitioners for the most important conversation of our time...
What if taking embodiment seriously reshapes how we design future technologies?
What if the body is the final frontier in understanding ourselves?
Modern AI models reason without bodies, yet Human intelligence emerges through relation, sensation, movement, spatiality, and action. Embodied and extended cognition, long-established fields in neuroscience and cognitive science, now confirm that thinking is not confined to the brain, but arises through interaction with the world.
By bringing together neuroscience, embodiment and AI research, this session explores how Humans regulate attention, perception, and meaning through the body—and how machines attempt to model context, space, and action without one, to reveal what makes us deeply human.
Particularly, we will explore the role of somatic, energetic, relational dynamics in shaping us as we shape our world, and its ramifications on collective well-being, asking-
Where does intelligence take shape? What Humans and AI can learn from each other? How can we build tech that serves or severs Life?
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YOU CAN CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION w/ Ishita on 5/26 -
RELATIONSCAPES: Digital Attachment LAB
on embodied leadership in the AI Era.
ISHITA SHARMA - CONVENER
An unconventional guide for unusual times, Ishita Sharma is a somatic coach, teacher, speaker and writer serving the confluence of awakened leadership, spiritual embodiment, and relational and systemic healing technologies. Through mentoring, retreats, speaking and courses, she helps individuals and groups unify inner splits to get where they want to go, while enjoying who/where they already are!
Having spent her Life studying how Life and people actually work, across various somatic, spiritual, and neurological traditions, she brings a radically practical mystical lens to augment personal and collective coherence in the age of AI.
Ishita has spoken at and facilitated groups at global multinationals and organizations the World Women Summit, and is a quiet catalyst behind numerous realized seekers, renowned entrepreneurs, Silicon Valley CEOs, cultural stewards and creatives (at Google, NASA, Broadway) etc. who want new, deeper ways through old challenges, and fulfillment beyond conventional success.
She is known for her warmth, depth, precision, and a refined capacity to softly unlock the heart of long-standing binds. Contending that direct Self-knowledge and genuine community are medicine for most modern malaise, her work facilitates both.
DR. ALBERT WONG - PANELIST
Dr. Albert Wong is a licensed clinical psychologist, somatic psychotherapist, and founder working at the intersection of embodied healing and artificial intelligence.
He is the founder of Practice Harbor, an AI platform for mental health clinicians, and Somatopia, a somatic psychology training platform. He writes on AI and mental health for Psychology Today's The Body Knows the Way Home.
Albert was formerly Director of Somatic Psychology at JFK University and is the author of The Healing Trauma Workbook. He has presented on embodiment, trauma, and AI alongside teachers including Pat Ogden and Stephen Porges, and his clinical training spans Gestalt practice, Emotion-Focused Therapy, psychoanalytic work, and a long lineage of somatic methods including Hakomi, Feldenkrais, Continuum, and Rubenfeld Synergy.
Before turning to the body, Albert studied physics at Princeton (researching neural networks and prebiotic evolution under Nobel laureate Phil Anderson) and philosophy at Oxford as a Marshall Scholar, with early publications in Biological Cybernetics and the Journal of Theoretical Biology. In 2025, his AI-generated film Dear Younger Me won first place at the Uncanny Valley Festival, produced by Y Combinator and Machine Cinema.
JESH DE ROX - PANELIST
Jesh is a cultural anthropologist, writer, speaker & founder whose work explores the link between emotional intelligence, creative genius and human connection.
One of the most award-winning photographers of his generation, Jesh’s developed a patent-pending technique called Superfeel that gives photographers the ability to spark instant genuine emotion. Superfeel revolutionized the industry & has been used to bring moments of connection and joy to more than 100 million people.
His discoveries also led to the development of Kindrêd, a modern form of meditation that helps participants easily regulate their emotions & access states of creative genius.
Through speaking engagements, retreats, mentorship programs, podcasts & writings, Jesh has shared his rare expertise in the subjects of human connection, relationship, creative genius & the formation of culture with hundreds of thousands of people.
DANIEL JOHN POVINELLI - PANELIST
Daniel John Povinelli is a cognitive scientist, anthropologist, playwright, and visual artist whose work explores what, exactly, is distinctive about being human.
A longtime professor of biology at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, he has spent decades comparing humans and chimpanzees to investigate higher-order cognition, social understanding, causal reasoning, and the nature of the self.
He is the author of Folk Physics for Apes and World without Weight and, with folklorist Brandon Barker, co-editor of The Aesop’s Fable Paradigm: An Unlikely Intersection of Folklore and Science, extending his scientific work into a rich dialogue with story, myth, and the humanities.
His creative works includes Confessions of a Former Monkey Mind Doctor, more theater projects such as Fixing Mister B, and his Inner Face portrait project, which turns self-portraiture into an inquiry of the face as subjectively experienced from the inside out.
Across science, theater, and art, Povinelli begins and returns to one enduring question: what makes humans human?
THIS EVENT IS FOR YOU IF YOU ARE:
* Building technologies to augment human well-being.
* Interested in the nature of humanity, intelligence, Life and consciousness.
* Wanting new ways to make sense of our rapidly changing landscape and deeper ways of addressing hard problems.
* Interested in applying timeless wisdom to timely problems.
* Wanting to more deeply know and love yourself and those around you.
* Intrigued and excited but don't know exactly why...yet!
HOW WE WILL GATHER
Our most important offering is how we are being together. Here we won't just talk about embodiment, we will practice it in a coherent, slow, sacred space.
As a participant, your intention matters. We invite you to tune in and share it with us while registering. You are invited to bring an intention object to charge with the group intention on our shared altar. You can come early, help us set up or stay after to close things out and connect and human together.
INTENDED FLOW:
7:00-7:15pm- Opening ceremonial space, centering, connection.
7:15-8:45pm- Panel discussion and Q&A
8:45-9:00pm- Closing + integration.
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