Based on how 2025 has unfolded, we're not going to be able to host a centralized convening this year. But we're excited to try to get people together in place through regional dinner parties.

Visit the Dinner Party List to see where gatherings will take place and RSVP to attend!

If you don’t see your region on the list, you can still sign up to host! The spreadsheet will auto-update as dates and details are added.

Dinners can be any time in September or October at homes, public spaces (e.g. parks) or restaurants. We suggest potluck style or each-pay-their-own-way, but leave the logistical details up to you.

Documenting the Interstitium in Action

This group will synthesize the information we have already collected, and identify and document examples of the Interstitium in action in support of both refining our understanding of the Interstitionary archetype and building evidence about the power of the approach. We’ll decide together the form and strategy for what we decide to share back with the network and the broader world.

Building an Interstitionary Toolkit

This group will start by integrating feedback for the Interstitionary self-assessment tool we beta-tested earlier this year, and deciding what else to do with it. After that, we’ll begin to surface and curate resources for Interstitionaries.

If you’re interested in either or both working groups, fill out this form by September 3, 2025 to let us know!

Our first storytelling event (recording linked below!) highlighted many of the more theoretical and emotional facets of the nature of being an Interstitionary. Our next event will delve into the practical and tangible ways people are moving through the world in these ways. Join us Monday, September 15th from 7:00-8:30PM (Registration Link) EST for an exercise in collective storytelling. (With much gratitude to folks who sent feedback and ideas!) 

On May 6, 2025 we held a virtual storytelling event (VIDEO HERE), inviting six self-identified Interstitionaries from different fields to tell stories about how they have worked in Interstitionary ways, and the impact of their interventions. At the end of the event, we split into small groups to discuss themes that we heard across stories, and what those themes revealed about the nature of being an Interstitionary. 

So many great resources were generated during the gathering, we compiled them HERE.

We learn from complexity theory that a goldilocks number of random encounters are critical for creative emergence. Too many encounters and we’re overwhelmed. Too few and we get stuck in the bubble of our own pre-existing thinking.

For 2025, we’re beginning with the hypothesis that bi-monthly encounters with other Interstitionaries - randomly assigned - has the potential to generate a lot of “adjacent possibilities*”!

If you click here to sign up, you’ll be asked to share your name, email address, geographic location (if you desire IRL matches) and to consent to having your information shared with other members of our community.

As of July 2025, we have about 100 people signed up, and made 50 matches. There’s still tie to sign up to be matched in September and November of 2025!

*A term coined by complexity scientist Stuart Kauffman.

We received lots of feedback that it would be useful to be more precise about the qualities of Interstitionaries, and what differentiates them. (Read this essay if you’re new to the word “interstitionary” and what it means.)

We designed this self-assessment tool to help Interstitionaries feel more seen and valued, and for teams to be able to see how different members' strengths and orientations may relate to one another.

We’d love your feedback about this assessment! You can see all the results here and provide any thoughts via this form.