But Why Must We Be Well? – Free Training with Dr. Bayo Akomolafe
Wellness can begin as a source of care and possibility, yet it can also become another demand to keep adjusting, improving, and coping. That tension matters when the conditions producing exhaustion or distress remain largely unexamined.
In “But Why Must We Be Well?”, Dr. Báyò Akómoláfé invites you to slow down and question the assumptions beneath healing, regulation, recovery, and self-optimization. The webinar offers a thoughtful inquiry rather than another formula for becoming better adapted.
Through reflection and conversation, you will consider how personal wellness is shaped by wider cultural, ecological, and relational conditions. The focus is on developing clearer language and deeper discernment without forcing complex questions into easy answers.
This session may be especially meaningful if you feel drawn to wellness practices while remaining uneasy about what wellness culture can leave unexamined. It offers space to explore care, suffering, responsibility, and collective well-being with honesty and nuance.
Why Attend “But Why Must We Be Well?”
Wellness is often presented as an uncomplicated goal, but the pressure to heal, regulate, recover, and improve can create its own burden. This webinar examines what those familiar ideas reveal and what they may quietly ask people to overlook.
These questions matter because individual well-being does not exist apart from culture, history, relationships, and ecological conditions. Dr. Akómoláfé offers a broader frame for considering how wellness practices can become entangled with systems that contribute to exhaustion, isolation, and harm.
The session may support clearer decisions about how you relate to care, discomfort, and personal growth. It does not promise a single solution, but it creates space for more honest questions and a less automatic relationship with the demand to be well.
Who Should Attend
This webinar is for people who are interested in wellness, healing, or personal growth but no longer feel satisfied with simple explanations. It may be particularly relevant when familiar practices feel helpful in some ways while leaving larger social, cultural, or ecological questions unanswered.
The conversation may also support therapists, coaches, educators, caregivers, spiritual practitioners, and other people whose work involves care or human development. It is not necessary to agree with every idea, but a willingness to stay present with complexity will help you engage the session.
- People questioning the pressure to continually improve or self-optimize
- Therapists and coaches exploring wider contexts for healing
- Educators and caregivers interested in relational approaches to care
- Spiritual seekers who value nuance over fixed answers
- Wellness professionals examining the assumptions within their work
- People interested in culture, ecology, and collective well-being
- Thoughtful skeptics who want a deeper conversation about wellness
- Anyone comfortable engaging uncertainty without rushing toward resolution
What You’ll Learn
The webinar begins with the assumptions that often sit inside the language of wellness, so you can notice how ideas such as healing, recovery, and regulation influence the way you understand yourself and your circumstances.
From there, you’ll explore the tensions within contemporary wellness culture, which means examining both its genuine forms of support and the conditions it may leave unchallenged. The conversation connects personal experience with wider cultural, relational, and ecological realities.
Finally, the session considers what other approaches to care might become possible when improvement is no longer the only measure. Rather than offering a rigid method, it supports richer questions, clearer discernment, and a broader understanding of individual and collective well-being.
- How wellness can function as both a source of care and a demand
- Assumptions hidden within healing and self-improvement language
- Why regulation is not always a neutral or purely individual concept
- How personal care can become separated from collective conditions
- Ways wellness practices may overlook cultural and colonial patterns
- What discomfort can reveal when it is not immediately treated as a problem
- How reflection and conversation can support new forms of attention
- Why becoming better adapted may not address the source of distress
- Questions for examining care, suffering, relationship, and belonging
Event Schedule
This free webinar is presented as one live 90-minute session with Dr. Báyò Akómoláfé.
The published time is listed in Pacific Time.
Registration provides the online access information needed to join the event.
Monday, July 20, 2026
- But Why Must We Be Well?Dr. Báyò Akómoláfé — 9:00-10:30am PT
About Dr. Báyò Akómoláfé
Therapy Wisdom is hosting this live webinar with Dr. Báyò Akómoláfé as the featured presenter. The session draws on his work across philosophy, culture, ecology, public inquiry, and lived experience.
Dr. Akómoláfé is an international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, and author. His books include These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home and We Will Tell Our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak.
He is the founder of The Emergence Network and the host of the online postactivist course We Will Dance with Mountains. His work invites people to approach complex social and ecological questions with imagination, humility, and a willingness to remain close to what does not resolve easily.
Dr. Akómoláfé has lectured at Pacifica Graduate Institute and the University of Vermont. He has also served on the boards of organizations including Science and Non-Duality and Local Futures.
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Join Dr. Báyò Akómoláfé and Therapy Wisdom for a thoughtful inquiry into healing, regulation, personal responsibility, and collective well-being.
- Jul 20 2026
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- 9:00 am - 10:30 am
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- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: Jul 20 2026
- Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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