What is the Reimagine Summit?

Short answer: it's a free day of gathering, online, for anyone carrying a loss.

Thursday, October 15, 2026, from 10 AM to 3 PM Pacific. More than thirty sessions. More than fifty speakers, artists, facilitators, and people who have simply been through it. You can come for the whole five hours or drop in for one thing and leave. No ticket, no cost, no catch. Donations are welcome and never required.

What a day like this looks like

It opens at 10 with a welcome and a candle lighting, led by Reimagine's board chair Corey L. Kennard and our co-founder Brad Wolfe. If you want to light a candle at home, bring one.

From there the day splits into seven tracks running side by side, so at any given moment there are several rooms you could be in.

Main Stage is the through line. Keynotes and conversations, moving from the grief we carry alone to the grief we carry together. Meggan Roxanne opens it. She founded The Good Quote, a platform reaching tens of millions of people, and wrote You Deserve to Live Again out of her own loss. Francis Weller closes it. He's a psychotherapist and the author of The Wild Edge of Sorrow, the book a lot of people get handed when nothing else has helped. In between: a conversation on loving someone after they're gone, with the writer Colin Campbell, the author Kelly Cervantes, and the Broadway actor Miguel Cervantes. A conversation on illness and identity with the Emmy-winning television host Keltie Knight. A restorative session on the weight of the world. And a live music debut from Brad Wolfe & the Moon.

Conversations is really two tracks, listed under one heading on the schedule to keep it simple, with two conversations running side by side in every slot. Eight sessions in total, on specific losses: bereavement, relationship loss, caregiving, aging, political grief, regret, and what artificial intelligence is doing to our sense of what a person is for. Small rooms, led by people who have lived it or spent years sitting with people who have.

Creative Workshops are hands-on. Sound and listening. Movement and dance. Visual art about how we keep the dead present for people who never met them. Poetry drawn from watching animals. No artistic experience required, and nobody is going to look at what you make.

Embodied Practices are for grief that has settled in the body: breathwork, somatic practice, journaling, and rest. This track is often the one people are most surprised by.

Grief Support is the drop-in rooms. They stay open across the day. You can arrive without a plan, stay ten minutes, and say nothing at all.

Reimagine Room is where we explain ourselves. How a personal loss and a guitar turned into an organization. What the post-traumatic growth research actually says, and where it falls short. Past participants describing what shifted for them, in their own words.

The day ends with a closing ceremony where people share, in the chat, the names of who and what they're grieving, and we put the candles out together.

If you'd rather see the whole thing laid out on one page, you can download the full schedule as a PDF.

Is this for me?

The most common reason people talk themselves out of a day like this is deciding their situation doesn't qualify.

So, plainly: it isn't only for the bereaved. It's for the person whose marriage ended. The one caring for a parent who's still alive and no longer knows them. The one whose body stopped doing what it used to do. The one who lost a career, a country, a faith, a version of themselves they had plans for.

It's also for people who feel something enormous about the state of the world and have quietly concluded they're too sensitive.

And it's for people who aren't grieving anything in particular but want to be more useful to somebody who is. That turns out to be a large group.

The questions people actually ask

Is it really free? Yes. A seat is always free. Donations are welcome if you want to support the work, and never required to attend.

Do I have to be on camera? No. Cameras are optional everywhere.

Do I have to talk? No. Plenty of people spend the whole day listening, and that counts.

Do I have to stay five hours? No. Drop in for one session. Come at noon. Leave at 11 and come back at 2.

What if I miss something? Every session is recorded. You'll be able to watch what you skipped.

Do I need to download anything? No. It runs in your browser.

Can I see the full schedule? Yes. Download it as a PDF, or browse the agenda on the program page and filter it by track.

Do I need to pick my sessions in advance? No, and nothing you pick is binding. You can move between tracks freely on the day. Having a look at the schedule beforehand just makes the day feel less unfamiliar when it arrives.

What should I bring? A candle, matches or a lighter for the opening. Something to write with, if you're going into a workshop. That's it.

What if I get upset? Reasonable odds, honestly. That's what the drop-in rooms are for, and they're open all day.

What Reimagine is, if you've arrived here cold

We're a nonprofit. More than 250,000 people have come through our programs and citywide festivals: vigils, workshops, conversations, and week-long gatherings about life, death, loss, and what people do afterward. Fast Company named the work a World-Changing Idea.

We organize our work around fifteen life challenges, because grief was never only about death. Loss and bereavement is on the list. So are identity struggles, relationship challenges, others' illness or hardship, physical health challenges, life transitions, facing bias or prejudice, financial and material losses, work-related issues, violence and abuse, collective traumas and events, ecological grief, regrets and failings, and mental health challenges. The fifteenth is "other life challenges," which is there because people kept arriving with something the other fourteen didn't cover.

Why we call it Grief in Our Time

Because the losses are stacking, and because most of the structures that used to hold grief are gone. Nearly every culture that ever existed built something: a season of mourning, a set of clothes you wore so strangers knew, a job the neighbors were expected to do without being asked. Very little replaced any of it.

That's what the day is for. Not more sorrow than there used to be. Fewer places to put it.

Have a look around the schedule · Download the full schedule (PDF) Thursday, October 15, 2026 · 10 AM to 3 PM PT · Online · Free to attend, donations welcome