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Stephen Reid is a teacher, technologist and coach devoted to the flourishing of Life on Earth who has trained in the fields of complexity science, physics, software development, transformational coaching, meditation and plant medicine. He writes a regular newsletter, teaches the Life as Practice course, and is a member of the not-for-profit worker co-operative Dandelion Collective, where he leads the development of the Dandelion platform for regenerative events and co-created gatherings.
Previously, he founded The Psychedelic Society, taught the How to DAO, Tools for the Regenerative Renaissance, The Promise of Decentralisation & Introduction to web3 courses, served as the youngest ever board member of Greenpeace UK, and consulted for organisations including the New Economics Foundation, the Living Wage Foundation and 350.org. Stephen has an MPhys in Physics from the University of Oxford, where he specialised in quantum field theory, and an MRes in Complexity Sciences from the University of Bristol.
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Ancestry
Training and teachers
Shipibo plant dietas
- Guayusa dieta with Maestras Ynes, Laura and Lila near La Fortuna, Costa Rica (Oct 2021, 10 days)
- Noya Rao dieta with Maestra Manuela near Pucallpa, Peru (Dec 2017, 10 days)
Meditation
- The Boundless Heart of Metta at Gaia House with Zohar Lavie and Jake Dartington (Mar 2022, 5 days)
- The Courageous Heart at Gaia House with Kirsten Kratz and Laura Bridgman (Dec 2021, 4 days)
- Liberating Ways of Looking at Gaia House with Kirsten Kratz and Yahel Avigur (Oct 2022, 7 days)
- Vipassana at Dhamma Dipa (Feb 2017, 10 days)
- Sensory Awareness at the Esalen Institute with Lee Lesser (Nov 2015)
Soulcraft & Wild Mind
- Wild Mind Intensive at Lūžņa, Latvia with Sage Magdalene and Sara McFarland (Aug 2021)
- Betwixt: Exploring the Threshold between Worlds with Rebecca Card and Bell Selkie Lovelock (Mar 2022)
Psychotherapy & coaching
- Foundation in Core Process Psychotherapy from the Karuna Institute (Mar 2020)
- One-on-one Core Process Psychotherapy sessions (Aug 2020 – Oct 2021)
- Awakening of Love by Path Retreats (Mar 2017)
- HER men's retreat with coach Alain Lagger at Brave Earth, Costa Rica (Oct 2021)
- In training towards becoming an ICF-certified transformational coach (Feb 2022 – ongoing)
Conscious sexuality
- ISTA 1 with Elaine Yonge, Binoy Milton D'souza & Frank Mondeose including the Wheel of Consent (Sep 2019)
- ISTA 2 with Elaine Yonge, Laurie Handlers & Eugene Hedlund (Apr 2022)
- The Tantric Opening with Gaia Ma at Inanitah, Ometepe, Nicaragua (Nov 2017)
- Ma Ananda Sarita's Tantra Essence course (2020)
Music
- Natural Voice Camp (Aug 2022)
- Member of the Natural Voice Network
- Music retreats with Rainer Scheurenbrand (Mar 2018, Feb 2020)
Other
- Mushroom cultivation at Fungi Academy, Lake Atitlán, Guatemala (Jan 2018)
- Recapture the Rapture online course with Jamie Wheal (Aug 2021)
- Deep Magic retreat with Julian Vayne and Nikki Wyrd at St. Nectan's Glen (May 2018)
- Short course in Erotic Ecology at Schumacher College with Andreas Weber (Mar 2018)
- Haka with Matiu Te Huki at Canaan Downs, Golden Bay, Aotearoa New Zealand (Feb 2019)
- Clowning at the Divine Ridiculous Lupercalia (Feb 2020)
- Platform Co-ops Now! by The New School & Mondragon University (Oct 2020)
Physics
- MPhys in Physics at the University of Oxford (2004-2008)
- Graduated with first-class honours
- Final year specialisations in quantum field theory and condensed matter physics
- Dissertation on community detection in complex networks supervised by Mason Porter
- Main tutor Dr Candadi Sukumar
Complexity science
- MRes in Complexity Science at the Bristol Centre for Complexity Sciences, University of Bristol (2008-2009)
- Graduated with distinction
- Research projects on automated trading agents in financial markets and synthetic biology
- Lead developer of the software that won Best Model at the iGEM 2009 competition
Burns
- Nowhere (2014, 2015, 2016)
- The Borderland (2016, 2017, 2019, 2022)
- Kiez Burn (2019)
Triathlons
- Weymouth Sprint Triathlon 2022 (1h38m)
Maestra Ynes
Maestra Manuela
Recent speaking engagements
- Aug 2022, Medicine Festival
- Web3 and the Radical Imagination
- Jun 2022, Life Itself
- Stephen Reid & Rufus Pollock on Worker Cooperatives and DAOs
- Apr 2022, Schelling Point
- Teaching ReFi: Insights from a web3 Educator
- Mar 2022, Google
- DAOs and the future of co-operation
- Jan 2022, Life Itself
- Richard D. Bartlett, Stephen Reid & Rufus Pollock on Critical Exploration of Web3
Feedback on my courses
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Previous affiliations
- Enspiral, Contributor
- The Psychedelic Society, Founder
- Breaking Convention Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness, Press officer
- Greenpeace UK, Board member
- New Economy Organisers Network, Network organiser
- Extinction Rebellion, Livestreaming & Wellbeing
- UK Uncut, Co-founder
- The Intruders, Co-founder
- Digital consultancy work for organisations including the New Economics Foundation, 38 Degrees, the Labour Party, the Green Party, 350.org, the Living Wage Foundation, Positive Money, SumOfUs, 10:10 and Brandalism
Peer-reviewed research
- Aug 2012, APS Physical Review E
- Taxonomies of networks from community structure
- Sep 2012, PLOS One
- BSim: An Agent-Based Tool for Modeling Bacterial Populations in Systems and Synthetic Biology
Airtable