Hi, I'm Stephen.

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Stephen Reid is a technologist, educator and facilitator who has trained in the fields of AI/ML, complexity science, physics, transformative coaching and insight meditation. Current projects include writing a book on Technological Metamodernism, hosting courses and residencies as a founder of Futurecraft, and leading the development of Dandelion as a founder of not-for-profit worker co-op Symbiota.

Previously, he founded The Psychedelic Society, which established the first legal psilocybin retreat programme in Europe, and served as the youngest ever board member of Greenpeace UK.

Stephen has an MPhys in Physics from the University of Oxford, where he specialised in quantum field theory, an MRes in Complexity Science from the University of Bristol, and a Professional Certificate in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence from UC Berkeley.

He lives with his partner Laura in Stockholm, Sweden, and in his free time enjoys swimrunning in the archipelago.

Training and teachers

Technical

Coaching & psychotherapy

Meditation

Shipibo plant medicine

Soulcraft & Wild Mind

Pleasure & sexuality

Other residencies and retreats

Online

Burns

Swimrun & triathlon

Scuba diving

Recent speaking engagements

Nov 2024, Illuminating Life
Community Weaving with Stephen Reid
Sep 2024, Future Fossils
Stephen Reid on Technological Metamodernism
Aug 2024, Buddhist Geeks
Technological Metamodernism with Stephen Reid
Jul 2024, The Borderland
The Metamodern Art of Ironic Sincerity
Jun 2024, Ma Earth
Exploring AI and the Metacrisis

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Previous affiliations

Peer-reviewed research

Sep 2012, PLOS One
BSim: An Agent-Based Tool for Modeling Bacterial Populations in Systems and Synthetic Biology
Aug 2012, APS Physical Review E
Taxonomies of networks from community structure

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