I hope you have had an inspiring and fruitful start to your 2026. I am still in the Sacred Valley of the Incas in Peru. But I have been busy preparing for an important year ahead. I will be writing a lot more this year but first I am excited to announce a very special gathering in the UK over the Summer.

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An Invitation

Humanity is crossing a threshold. Old systems are fracturing and new possibilities are calling. Every civilization is reborn through imagination, through new stories powerful enough to guide collective action. As the narratives of the past lose their grip, the future waits to be authored.

The Embassy of the Future is that invitation.

From 22–26 June 2026, a carefully curated circle of visionaries will gather at Broughton Sanctuary in Yorkshire, UK (a modern-day Esalen Institute), one of the world’s most inspiring regenerative estates to co-create the next chapter of human civilisation.

This is not a conference or retreat. It is a civilizational hearth.

What is the Embassy of the Future?

The Embassy of the Future is a portal from tomorrow into today created to support leaders, innovators and difference-makers shaping what comes next.

We do not see the future as empty. We source insights from a global network of pioneering futurists, economists, technologists, entrepreneurs, artists and consciousness researchers. Yet we believe something deeper: human imagination is a causal force. Vision, storytelling and meaning shape reality.

The Embassy emerged from dialogues held at ancient power sites from Mayan pyramids to Delphi, Olympia and Göbekli Tepe each echoing the same message: The future is waiting to be written.

The Event: where connection meets vision

Across five immersive days, participants experience:

A Mythic Location

Broughton Sanctuary is a landscape of imagination: rewilded lands, sacred gardens, labyrinths, hidden enclaves ranked among National Geographic’s Top 30 Places to Visit. The land itself becomes a co-facilitator.

Espresso Shots of the Imagination

Eight visionary domains: Geopolitics, Economics (crises, post scarcity), Technology (AI agents, robots, quantum), Health (quantum biology), Cities (biophilic and regenerative), Education, Nature (regeneration) and Consciousness delivered by world-class provocateurs chosen to expand what you believe is possible.

Meeting Other Participants

Immerse with inspiring human beings from diverse backgrounds with an open mind, heart and soul.

Immersive Dialogue

For every hour of input, two hours of deep collective sensemaking using advanced dialogue methods.

Time Travel from 2070

Stand in the future and work backward. Discover how humanity arrived there and your role within that story.

The Art of Storytelling

Learn from master storytellers how narratives shape culture, leadership and reality itself.

Consciousness Technologies

Experience cutting-edge tools at the Wyrd Experience, inspired by research from Princeton University’s PEAR Lab.

Guided by proven visionaries

The gathering is led by Benjamin J. Butler, visionary futurist and former investor and Wall Street forecaster known for decoding global mega-trends and Yuri van Geest, bestselling author of the classic Exponential Organizations, Singularity & technology pioneer and boardroom advisor at the intersection of AI, human intelligence, nature intelligence, systems change and civilization design.

Together with a wider circle of world class contributors they create a rare space where leaders move beyond prediction and begin intentional future-making combining our left and right brain faculties like in Snows’ famous Third Culture.

What You will Take Away From the Event

— Expanded insight into the futures now emerging with clarity on tangible insights for tomorrow : 10 year to 50 year foresights.

— A renewed personal and civilizational vision: create stories which will guide you through the short term fragmentation.

—Co-authorship in a science fiction story about the future: each team will dialogue and co create a story in order to deepen one’s understanding. It will be published with your consent.

—Deep relationships with aligned peers: learn together from a hand picked alchemy of leaders across many domains. Invitation into the ongoing Embassy community: we are launching an exclusive member’s club of trusted creators of the future.

—Exclusive megatrend report curated by Yuri Van Geest and I summarising the event and including 10 year forecasts, useful for leaders, decision makers and investors.

For more details go to the main Broughton Sanctuary site

I look forward to revealing more about this event and who is coming