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Hosting important conversations on anything and everything from an evolutionary perspective.
From culture to ethics, bridging disciplines & minds.
An initiative of ProSocial World.
Learn how to design institutions, organizations, and communities that function as adaptive, cooperative systems.

✨Dennis J. Snower (Global Solutions Initiative) & David Sloan Wilson
‍ 📆Start Date: 19 March 2026 | 12 pm EST | 7 Online weekly sessions
🔗 www.prosocial.world/prosocial-in...
February 16, 2026 at 4:10 PM
🌱For this Saturday, here's an idea worth returning to: our inner attitudes shape the lives we build.
February 14, 2026 at 9:05 AM
🌎On this Darwin Day, historian and author Oren Harman argues evolution isn’t just ruthless competition.

🔗Read the article: bit.ly/4amH6MT

#Darwin #DarwinDay #Evolution #EvolutionaryScience #Science #History
February 12, 2026 at 12:00 PM
💡Join our upcoming course! It combines spiritual wisdom with evidence-based scientific knowledge to create meaningful transformation on individual and collective levels.

🔗https://courses.prosocial.world/course/exp-prosocial-spirit-0226
📆Feb 19th | Online | Limited Seats
February 11, 2026 at 6:00 PM
🔍Psychologist Steven C. Hayes argues that our global crises stem from outdated ways of thinking that shape how we see and act in the world.

🔗https://www.prosocial.world/posts/from-paradigms-to-purposes-why-the-real-paradigm-shift-is-evolution-on-purpose

#Psychology #Culture #Evolution #History
From Paradigms to Purposes: Why the Real Paradigm Shift Is 'Evolution on Purpose'
A genuinely new paradigm must pair evolution and complexity with purpose-driven, testable interventions that help societies 'evolve on purpose' toward explicit values.
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February 10, 2026 at 2:31 PM
✨The complexity–evolution paradigm explains how systems change, but it doesn’t tell us what we should do.

🔗https://www.prosocial.world/posts/the-theory-of-appropriate-action-the-underspecified-dimension-of-the-new-paradigm

#economy #politics #history #evolution
The Theory of 'Appropriate Action': The Underspecified Dimension of 'The New Paradigm'
The complexity–evolution paradigm explains systems well but needs a stronger ethical and institutional framework to guide effective action.
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February 9, 2026 at 10:15 AM
✨Feeling stretched thin? In our upcoming course, we will experience how contemplative practice + science can help us reconnect — without religion, dogma, or burnout.

🔗Join now: courses.prosocial.world/course/exp-p...
#Spirituality #Meditation #Mindfulness #SelfGrowth #PersonalGrowth #Coaching
February 6, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Acts of kindness save lives. Meta-analysis: prosocial programs (like pay-it-forward vaccines) improve health outcomes for vulnerable communities.

🔗Read the research: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

#Prosocial #PublicHealth #HealthEquity
Prosocial Interventions and Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
This systematic review and meta-analysis investigates associations between prosocial interventions and health outcomes as well as barriers to and facilitators of such interventions.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
February 4, 2026 at 2:35 PM
🌱Economist Dennis Snower argues that social-science paradigms don’t just interpret reality; they shape institutions and behavior. Multilevel selection explains why paradigms rise, fall, and shift during crises.

🔗 www.prosocial.world/posts/social...

#economy #society #evolution #science
Social Science Paradigms as Evolutionary Selection Environments
Social science paradigms don’t just explain society — they shape it, acting as selection environments for institutions and behavior
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February 3, 2026 at 5:17 PM
🌿In this video, we go over Nobel Prize Winner Elinor Ostrom's 8 Core Design Principles, evolution, and contextual behavioral science can shape a journey of both inner and outer work.

🔗https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QVAbyCGWEQ&t=105s

#spirituality #selfgrowth #growth #mindfulness #meditation
ProSocial Spirituality
Evolutionary biologist, Dr. David Sloan Wilson, has assembled a team of researchers focused on understanding the social contexts in which cooperative behaviors are reinforced more than selfish behaviors. Introduction to ProSocial Spirituality, featuring ProSocial World team members: David Sloan Wilson, President Kate Sheehan-Roach, Director of ProSocial Spirituality Susan Soleil, Partnership Coordinator Jeff Genung, Managing Director In addition to ProSocial Spirituality collaborators: Will Rucker Gard Jameson Made possible by the support of the Templeton Religion Trust #spirituality #spiritualawakening #spiritualgrowth #spiritual #spiritualjourney #journey #coaching #mindfulness #meditation #prosocial
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January 30, 2026 at 1:45 PM
✨Donna Haraway’s 'Primate Visions' argues primatology isn’t neutral: it’s shaped by gender, race, and colonial power.

🔗https://www.prosocial.world/posts/haraway-primate-visions-gender-sexuality-primatology
#Evolution #Biology #Gender #Feminism #Diversity #Anthropology #LGTBQ #Diversity
January 28, 2026 at 4:40 PM
💡 Paul shares why Becoming ProSocial focuses on practical ways to build trust and collaboration in real groups. The course starts in one week, and there are only a few seats left.

🔗Join us:
courses.prosocial.world/course/becom...

#coaching #growth #goals
January 26, 2026 at 4:06 PM
💬 Great group outcomes don’t happen by accident. They’re shaped by mindful listening, shared vision, and responsive action—you can explore these with Becoming ProSocial.

🔗https://courses.prosocial.world/course/becoming-prosocial-0226
Becoming ProSocial
This guided learning journey will introduce the basics of the ProSocial method as an applied change process and welcome participants into our growing global ProSocial Commons community. This course provides weekly peer-group meetings to discuss, explore and deepen the work. Participants will be supported in identifying and working on their particular collaborative needs and goals.
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January 25, 2026 at 2:01 PM
📢We’re excited to share 2 new volumes on shared human values and cooperation across cultures — featuring chapters by David Sloan Wilson and Jeff Genung.

Get them at:
🔗 bit.ly/islolp
January 23, 2026 at 11:37 AM
🧠 What if collaboration wasn’t just a goal—but something you could learn to do more skillfully? Becoming ProSocial explores trust, connection, and purposeful group work in a supportive community.

🔗https://courses.prosocial.world/course/becoming-prosocial-0226
January 22, 2026 at 2:55 PM
💡Sarah Blaffer Hrdy reflects on how gender bias shaped evolutionary biology, and how her work on female strategies, motherhood, and cooperative breeding transformed the science of human nature.

Read the article: www.prosocial.world/posts/the-ge...

#Anthropology #Gender #Biology #Science
The Gender Bias in Biology: How Sarah Hrdy Rewrote Human Nature
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy reflects on a career that exposed how gendered assumptions distorted evolutionary science and shows how taking mothers, infants, and female strategies seriously reshapes our understanding of human nature.
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January 21, 2026 at 1:45 PM
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we reflect on a vision of a world rooted in dignity, cooperation, and care for one another.

#MLKDay2026 #MLK #Community #Society #ProSocial #Wellbeing
January 19, 2026 at 9:40 AM
This February, we’re launching two courses that support practical skill-building and personal reflection. As a gift from us, we give you the NEWYEAR26 code to get 20% OFF for any of them!

🔗Enroll now: courses.prosocial.world/home

#Growth #Coaching #Learning
January 16, 2026 at 12:40 PM
🎯Biological sex and genital anatomy are not fixed binaries but products of complex, lifelong interactions among genes, hormones, development, and social environments, with variation playing a normal and essential role in evolution.

🔗Read more: www.prosocial.world/posts/genita...
January 14, 2026 at 2:25 PM
✨ Are you ready to explore and discover spirituality - on your own terms?

What if spirituality wasn’t about labels or one specific religion — but about your growth, peace, and inner clarity? If you are curious and want to learn more, click here:

🔗 courses.prosocial.world/course/exp-p...
January 13, 2026 at 12:05 PM
💡 @davidsloanwilson.bsky.social defines what paradigms are, shows why individualistic and reductionist models no longer work, and argues for a new paradigm rooted in complexity and evolutionary science to guide better action.

🔗https://bit.ly/4jyPzkr
#Evolution #Society #Science #ProSocial
January 9, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Prosocial messaging — like “protect your loved ones” — actually works. New evidence shows it can increase health-protective behaviors. Relevant for anyone working on behavior change & community health.

🔗https://www.nature.com/articles/s43856-025-01296-6

#ProsocialBehaviour #ProSocialWorld
January 7, 2026 at 7:30 PM
We're pleased to announce that Seattle has a new Mayor! 🚨 And she happens to be our co-founder's daughter, Katie Wilson.

#SeattleElections #Politics #Society #Elections #Democrats #Republicans

🔗Read Full Article: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
Katie Wilson, a Political Newcomer, Is Elected Mayor in Seattle
Ms. Wilson, a self-described socialist, joined the race after Mayor Bruce Harrell opposed taxing high-income residents to finance construction of new housing.
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January 3, 2026 at 1:00 PM