Our first ever in-person Sentientism meetup was a picnic. So is our next one! Come join us if you're in range of London on 26th July. All sentients welcome! Why not bring a friend or two? Sign up for free here. And look out for our next global online meetup. The first one back in May was a great success.

While I've got you, a few more quick updates:

Our Sentientism YouTube/Podcast has been running a little slow as I've been focusing on the book project. Apologies to my wonderful guests still waiting in the pipeline. I haven't forgotten you, honest. I have some more amazing interviews scheduled too. Now is a great time to dig into our recent episodes and back catalogue. Don't forget to subscribe and share with everyone you know! We've now had 300k views on YouTube and 85k listens on the Podcast. That means most of the 8 billion humans still haven't come across the gold mine of insights from my guests.

We've had a flurry of engagement from schools in the UK this term. I and a small (but growing!) group of volunteers have run Sentientism workshops and classes and assemblies with kids from 5-18 years old, as well as continuing our work to train religious and worldviews education and philosophy teachers. It's an interesting time here, as England moves towards having a national curriculum for Religious (and worldviews!) Education. We need to ensure Sentientism's sentiocentric ethics (serious compassion for all sentient beings) and naturalistic epistemology (evidence and reason) are both well represented. Please get in touch if you're interested in the classroom materials we use or would like to explore getting involved with Sentientist Education, wherever you are in the world.

I had the pleasure of running a workshop on worldviews and Sentientism for the UK Animal Law Conference (where I also met some of my podcast guests for the first time in person), did an online presentation for the London Vegans group, and am looking forward to speaking at the Great Vegan Gathering later in the summer. I hope to see some of you there.

The Sentientism book, tentatively titled "Everything and Everyone: Why Evidence, Reason, And Compassion Should Guide Our Shared Future – The Sentientism Worldview," is creeping forward. I'm 15 chapters and 130,000 words in so far. No doubt some brutal editing will be required. I've had wonderful support from writing coach Paulette Perhach and my potential publisher. We're aiming at publishing in Spring 2027. Let me know if you're interested in scanning a draft of a particularly relevant chapter or the whole thing.

As ever, thank you everyone who is helping to fund our worldview work via our Sentientism Patreon, our Ko-Fi page and via YouTube membership. You can do the same or help by picking out some Sentientism merch on Redbubble (mugs, t-shirts, stickers…) or buying our guests’ books from your local bookstore via the Sentientism Bookshop. Every cent or rupee or penny goes towards normalising the Sentientism worldview. Thanks for helping make a better future for all sentient beings.