The world is shaped by who and how we are being.
Join the Being Matters Summit, a global virtual event for people who lead, contribute, serve, build, raise, guide, support, and care about the impact they have on others.
Across 3 live days, 18 speakers, and 20 live sessions, this summit invites you to explore the deeper human layer beneath leadership, work, relationships, family, identity, community, and personal growth. This is a 3-day event taking place on June 25, 26, and 27. Your single ticket purchase/registration is valid for all 3 dates. There is no need to register multiple times!
Sometimes growth does not begin with a dramatic reinvention. Sometimes it begins with one new perspective, one honest question, or one opening you had not seen before.
The Being Matters Summit is designed to create those openings.
Through live conversations, practical reflection, and diverse perspectives from authors and practitioners, you will be invited to see yourself, your work, your relationships, and your impact differently.
Why Attend
Most personal and professional development focuses on what we do. Better habits. Better strategies. Better tools. Better communication. Better productivity.
These can all be useful. But for many people who carry responsibility, there comes a point where surface-level improvement is no longer enough.
The deeper question becomes:
Who am I being as I lead, parent, build, relate, decide, serve, and contribute?
Because how we are being shapes what we notice, what we avoid, how we listen, how we respond under pressure, how we relate to others, and what becomes possible through us.
This summit is an invitation to look beneath behaviour and beyond quick fixes, into the deeper patterns, assumptions, responsibilities, and human qualities that influence the lives and systems we participate in.
Who This Summit Is For
The Being Matters Summit is for people who carry responsibility and want to grow with greater depth, clarity, and integrity.
You may be:
A leader, executive, founder, or business owner
A parent, carer, mentor, or guide
A coach, therapist, facilitator, educator, or practitioner
A community builder, volunteer, or person of service
Someone navigating a new level of responsibility or contribution
Someone committed to personal growth, but ready to go deeper than tactics and motivation
Someone who wants to understand how their way of being shapes their work, relationships, leadership, and impact
You do not need prior knowledge of the Being Framework to attend. The summit is designed as an accessible entry point while still offering depth for those already familiar with this body of work.
What You Will Explore
Across the summit, speakers will explore questions such as:
How does the way we make sense of the world shape our decisions?
What changes when leadership is grounded in responsibility rather than control?
How do our relationships transform when authenticity and vulnerability become real practices?
Why can capable people reach new levels when they begin seeing the deeper patterns shaping their impact?
What does parenting reveal about human becoming?
How do organisations change when they are understood as human systems?
How does identity shape what we protect, defend, avoid, and create?
What allows work to become an expression of care, contribution, and integrity?
The sessions move across many domains of life, but they are connected by one central thread:
The quality of who and how we are being shapes the quality of what becomes possible.
About the Event
The Being Matters Summit is a global virtual event by Engenesis, created to launch and bring to life Being Matters Volume 1, a new book exploring the human forces beneath entrepreneurship, organisations, leadership, relationships, vulnerability, disability, identity, parenting, and personal transformation.
Each speaker is a contributing author or practitioner bringing their chapter, lived experience, and practical insight into a live setting.
This is not a collection of unrelated talks but rather a cumulative three-day exploration of the deeper layer beneath human action, performance, connection, and contribution.
Event Details
Dates: Thursday 25 June to Saturday 27 June 2026
Format: Global virtual event
Speakers: 18 authors and practitioners
Sessions: 20 live sessions
Access: Free live access available
Session Themes
The summit explores the application of deeper human transformation across:
Leadership & Organisations
How leaders, founders, teams, and institutions are shaped by the way people relate to responsibility, trust, pressure, collaboration, and purpose.
Relationships & Vulnerability
How authenticity, vulnerability, care, and shared meaning influence the quality of our relationships and the courage required to relate differently.
Identity & Human Thriving
How identity shapes perception, belonging, defensiveness, suffering, and the possibility of living with greater awareness and agency.
Parenting, Family & Legacy
How family systems, parenting, and generational patterns influence human becoming and the future we help shape.
Work, Contribution & Community
How work can become more than performance or survival, and instead become an expression of contribution, integrity, and meaningful service.
Featured Sessions Include
How we make sense of the world - Ashkan Tashvir
Building or burning out? - Ariya Chittasy
Organisations as human systems - Lucy Faulconer
Being human, beyond us and beyond now - Dr Anna Carr
Vulnerability: The pathway to a better world - John Williams
Authenticity: Living by design or by default? - Tanja Caprioli
Standing without armour - Jeanette Mundy
The stories we carry into relationships - Atefeh Tashvir
Beyond parenting: How the parent system shapes human becoming - Melissa Chittasy
Living well with limitations - Wayne Stickel
Why collaborative teams are at the core of every great company - Jacqueline Hofste
Because we can doesn’t mean we should - Caroline New
When the business outgrows the owner - Anthea Stevanovic
Coaching and the transformation of Being - Aydin Yassemi
The leader’s legacy: From authority to coaching - John Smallwood
The joy of coaching: When work becomes an expression of Being - Marlous Teh
Identity has a geography - Dr Jordan Marijana Alexander
Why attachment to identity lies at the heart of human suffering - Dr Ehssan Sakhaee
Speakers
Why This Matters Now
We are living in a time where many people are being asked to carry more responsibility, make better decisions, navigate complexity, and contribute to others with greater care.
But responsibility without depth can become pressure. Growth without reflection can become performance. Contribution without self-awareness can reproduce the very patterns we are trying to move beyond.
The Being Matters Summit offers a different kind of conversation.
One that invites you to slow down enough to see more clearly, inquire more honestly, and discover new openings for how you lead, relate, build, serve, and live.
Claim Your Free Pass
Your Free Pass gives you live access to the Being Matters Summit online sessions.
Attend one session, several sessions, or the full three-day experience. Your single registration covers all 3 dates: June 25, 26, and 27.
If you are ready to explore the deeper layer beneath leadership, relationships, growth, contribution, and transformation, this summit is for you.
Claim your Free Pass and join the Being Matters Summit 2026 at beingmatterssummit.com
