The Economy of Being
Presence as value
The Economy of Being
Value generated by presence, coherence, and clarity—rather than transaction.
Evening Welcome Reception
An intimate opening to set the field—intention, warmth, rhythm.
Presented by Group 6-22
– | Little Rock, AR
Transformational voices convening to think differently about everything that matters.
Meet the Speakers
The Convergence is a conferring, a summons, a mobilization. It draws from the structure of summits and campaigns while moving with a deeper rhythm—one rooted in clarity, coherence, and sacred design.
Stewarded by Group 6-22, The Convergence gathers leaders, visionaries, and cultural architects whose lives already move beyond inherited consensus. Together we train our collective attention, presence, and imagination toward the systems, stories, and practices that shape the future.
It emerges when presence meets precision. When the right lives converge, a distinct field forms—charged, attuned, unmistakable.
Each participant enters through invitation. The call emerges through the signal a life carries—through presence, authorship, and the quiet coherence that shapes culture without demand.
This is a framework of shared rhythm. A communion shaped through pattern and care. A place where edges meet and architecture remembers its source.
Those present carry awareness across disciplines—holding space in ways that dignify emergence, restore memory, and steward the unseen.
PORTALS
Here, food becomes entry.
Sound becomes offering.
Language becomes instrument.
Presence becomes infrastructure.
The Convergence exists already. This is where we recognize it—together.
Each theme is a portal. A pattern. A practice.
Presence as value
Value generated by presence, coherence, and clarity—rather than transaction.
Beyond disposability
Sustaining cultural, artistic, and spiritual inheritances across generations.
Creation as sponsorship
Creators as sponsors of possibility, underwriting continuity through authorship.
Food as portal
Hospitality that restores memory and dignity; nourishment as cultural architecture.
Intelligence as infrastructure
Celebrating Black intelligence as structural, not performative or extractive.
Systems under review
Interrogating how dominance is protected, reproduced, and normalized in form.
Jazz-informed authorship
Moving from reaction to authorship through flow, listening, and real-time design.
Recovery as belonging
A conversation on addiction, imagination, and the crisis of belonging—where recovery becomes a spiritual, creative, and communal act.
Machine, mirror, & muse
AI is changing not only how we think, but how we work, and who gets to. Explore these shifts in self-discovery, labor, and the architecture of agency.
October 23–24, 2025 · Little Rock, AR
An intimate opening to set the field—intention, warmth, rhythm.
Curated dialogues and fieldwork across the Economy of Being, Continuity of Goods, cultural sovereignty, and creative authorship.
UnMuted–style supper club with live performance curated cuisine—where food, sound, and presence serve as portals.
A spiritual strategist restoring cultural infrastructure from the inside out.
A guide for those unlearning inherited rhythms and leading from embodied clarity.
Arkansas-rooted clinician and Army veteran integrating a biopsychosocial lens in practice and consulting, advocating for disability rights and veterans, mentoring new clinicians, and building cultures that heal and thrive.
Cultural architect of Group 6-22, stewarding frameworks of presence, authorship, and the Economy of Being.
A culinary educator and cultural host, centering food as portal, presence, and practice for transformation.
A seasoned voice in economics and social justice, shaping leadership and community transformation.
Tax attorney & educator advancing access to justice through clinical practice, mentorship, and ethical leadership.
Ubuntu-rooted chaplain and scholar linking healing, justice, and resilient community.
Higher-education strategist advancing belonging and excellence through leadership, organizational design, and equity-centered practice.
Gastroenterologist and interfaith advocate bridging medicine, pluralism, and human rights across cultures and traditions.
Veteran, pastor, retired state court judge, writer, and activist concerning faith, justice, and peace.
Emmy-nominated multidisciplinary artist and ecosystem builder bridging creativity, culture, and social impact.
Culture-forward operator shaping Arkansas dining and events through service excellence and community leadership.
Global storyteller shaping bridges through language, culture, and restorative communication.
The Convergence is an invitational.
Not for titles. Not for visibility. For the authorship your life carries.
You are being invited for how you hold space. How you transmit clarity. How you open pathways others didn’t yet know they could walk.
FIELD NOTE
This is not a gathering to attend.
It is a framework to enter.
A rhythm to be co-stewarded.
A continuity to be carried.
