Come join us!

Our third in-person Sentientism meetup will be in London on Sunday 7th December. Sign up here.

We’ll be chatting informally about how education could be a little more “evidence, reason, and compassion for all sentient beings.” In particular, in light of Religious (and worldviews!) Education and Citizenship becoming part of the UK national curriculum.

Everyone is welcome whether you agree with the Sentientism worldview or not! Thanks to Michael (who facilitates our Sentientism England group) for organising! I love that you’ve unearthed our old-school Sentientism logo for the invite page.

A few other quick updates:

• I had a great afternoon workshopping the Sentientism worldview with the new class of trainee UK Religious (and worldviews!) Education teachers on the University College London PGCE course. Many thanks to Alexis Stones for inviting me
• We have a new local Sentientism group… Sentientism Canada! Many thanks to Billie for setting this up. Come join if you have a Canada connection
• Our friends at the Humanism Now podcast have kindly cross-posted our Sentientism episode with Frans de Waal, who sadly has since died, to help introduce their audience to the Sentientism worldview. Give it a listen there if you missed it on the Sentientism podcast/YouTube
• Book update: I’m 67k words in now. Chapters done so far (no doubt subject to further massive revision) are: Being Ten Again, Why Worldviews?, What’s True?, What Does Matter?, What Should Matter?, Who Matters?, What Is Sentience?, and Who Is Sentient? Up next are Why Do We Harm? and How Much Do We Matter? Then I’ll go on to lay out the Sentientism worldview, contrast it with a range of other worldviews (both overlaps and differences) then move into sections on all the radical implications for a more Sentientist World
• I hope you’ve enjoyed our recent Sentientism episodes with David Clough, Joan Slonczewski, Michelle St John & Heather Marshall, Tom Cledwyn, Jack Waverley and Keith Frankish. There are plenty more in the pipeline. Feedback is always welcome
• I try not to over-spam our social media groups with the resources I come across, but if you ever want a deeper dive, our Sentientism Sub-Reddit is a treasure trove of content, including more academic depth than we normally post elsewhere. Come join ~two thousand members there, search, comment and post your own!

And, as ever, thank you to alyn1988 (our first ever YouTube “member”!), Tarabella, Steven, Roy and Denise for helping to fund our costs 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.