Be • Become • Belong
Weekly Group Gatherings exploring how we meet life through practice, dialogue and relationship.
What is SOMOS?
SOMOS is a community that gathers every Thursday to explore what it means to be human, together.
Facilitated each week by SOMOS founder Zach Evans, our Group Gatherings move through the many domains of human life:
Nature & Place
Embodiment & Movement
Culture, Arts & Creativity
Relationships, Community & Care
Each Thursday brings a different inquiry, with extraordinary Guest Contributors regularly joining our groups to share their work, living questions, and practices.
You can come every Thursday, once or twice a month, or whenever something on the calendar calls you in. The gatherings are designed to be replenishing, to help you know yourself more deeply, explore your growth edges, develop your capacity to relate, try something new, and leave feeling more connected and available for life.
Over time, the people become familiar. Your questions evolve. Relationships grow. Your capacity to stay present with what life brings, and to meet other people there, will deepen. Thursday becomes somewhere you know you can return to: a living community for being, becoming, and belonging.
Be • Become • Belong.
See what we're exploring together.
Every Thursday brings a new question, practice, perspective or possibility.
Structure
Each month follows a recurring weekly structure. The domain rotates, the practice deepens.
First Thursday
Nature & Place
How we inhabit and relate to the living world and the places that shape us.
Second Thursday
Embodiment & Movement
How we experience and participate in life through the body.
Third Thursday
Creativity, Arts & Culture
How we make, express, inherit and reshape meaning.
Fourth Thursday
Relationships, Community & Care
How we meet one another through intimacy, friendship, family, dialogue, conflict, care and shared responsibility.
Fifth Thursday — when one exists
The Hearth
The Hearth — a special members-only gathering that shapes the culture of SOMOS in months with a fifth Thursday.
Encounter
Meet a Guest Contributor and encounter their work.
Reflect
Slow down and notice what becomes alive within you.
Small-Group Practice
Enter an unrecorded breakout space and practice the SOMOS Method of Holding Life in Process.
Collective Witnessing
Return to the wider group and share what emerged through the small-group experience.
Integration
Leave with a lived insight, a meaningful encounter and something to carry into life.
Breakout spaces are never recorded.
The Breakout Space
Knowledge becomes wisdom through relationship.
After encountering a Guest Contributor's work, participants enter small groups not to debate or analyze what they have heard, but to notice what has become alive and newly available within them.
These spaces are where participants begin learning the SOMOS Method: an adaptive way of holding life in process.
Participants practice
When the wider group returns, people speak less from abstract opinion and more from lived, felt experience.
Breakout spaces are intentionally never recorded.
The Contributor Network
Each contributor brings a distinct domain and a shared commitment to depth, honesty and care.
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Before Facilitating
Every Guest Contributor is asked to attend at least one Group Gathering before joining us as a Contributor.
This allows them to experience the rhythm, breakout practice, collective witnessing and culture of SOMOS from within before bringing their work into a gathering.
Membership
Membership is not an attendance requirement. It is an invitation to go deeper — to have a relationship with the community over time rather than simply passing through it.
Members choose how and when they participate. What the membership opens up is access, continuity and the possibility of genuine contribution.
What membership includes
All public Group Gatherings
Attend every Thursday session across all four domains — no separate booking required.
Organised recording library
A curated archive of past gatherings, indexed by domain and facilitator.
The Hearth
In months with a fifth Thursday, members gather for a session devoted to reflection, integration and tending the community.
One member-led practice each month
Members who are not currently scheduled as Guest Contributors have the opportunity to offer a practice to the group.
Co-creation of the annual live gathering
Opportunities to contribute to the shape, programme and spirit of the annual in-person SOMOS gathering.
Member reciprocity
When someone joins because of you, 10% of their membership contributions return to you as SOMOS Credit for the entirety of their first year with us.
Member-led practices are offered by members who are not currently scheduled as Guest Contributors — a natural distinction between those who have trained within the SOMOS ecosystem and those who bring their own practice to the group.
Membership details are available when you join.
The Container
A few quiet agreements help us hold something real together.
Participants may enter no later than ten minutes after the start, so that the container can form without interruption.
Participants are asked to remain for at least the first hour, allowing the work to settle before the room shifts.
Main-room portions may be recorded and made available to members through the organised library.
Breakout spaces are never recorded. What happens there stays there.
Participants may request that a sensitive personal contribution be removed from the replay at any time.
Group discussion is designed for witnessing, integration and constructive inquiry rather than prolonged debate.
These agreements exist not as rules but as care — for you, for the person beside you, and for the work we are doing together.
Join us for a particular Group Gathering that calls you in.
Come experience SOMOS, take part in the gathering, and see what a Thursday feels like.
Choose a Gathering →If you decide to join SOMOS within seven days, your payment counts toward your membership, bringing the remainder of your first month to just $20.
Most chosen
Come every Thursday—or simply whenever something on the calendar calls you in.
Everything included in membership, with full access to the SOMOS platform for an entire year.
Our regular annual membership is $480. During this opening season, you can join for your first year at our $400 founding rate.
Founding rate available until the December Solstice Celebration of 2026.
Join for the Year →Existing members retain their current arrangements.