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The Senate is a monthly gathering in The Walled Garden led by Rocco Jarman and Simon Drew. In the Senate, we employ courage and discernment as we collectively debate the most complex challenges of our age.

The Senate is available for all members of The Walled Garden Philosophical Society. We’d love to have you in our community, where you’ll get the following membership benefits:

Bypass Event Registration

Join all our events free and skip registration with direct links to event waiting rooms. 

 

The Senate

Join Rocco Jarman and Simon Drew in a monthly meeting where we encourage courage and discernment as we collectively debate the most complex challenges of our age. 

 

The Town Hall

Join Scott Balentine and Simon Drew in a monthly Town Hall meeting to compile, discuss, and vote on ideas and projects that serve our community mission and vision.

 
 

The Fireside

Join Sharon Lebell and Simon Drew in a monthly fireside where we share great stories, lessons learned, poetry, music, and hard-earned wisdom with discerned vulnerability. 

 
 

Mentoring Discounts

Our members enjoy 20% off our philosophical mentoring services. 

 

Discern Our Direction

We give our members more ways to contribute to the direction of our community by suggesting ideas for future guests, topics, projects, or features to be added. 

 

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"I'll play it first and tell you what it is later."
- Miles Davis
"There's a rhythm in my heart... Incredible."
- The Musician
"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."
- Marcus Aurelius
"To heed is to have faith in one’s own ability to be transformed."
- The King
"Things are not all as graspable and sayable as we are led to believe."
- Rainer Maria Rilke
"To the distant hills we go, with philosophy as our guide."
- The Poet
"If I had not been admitted to these studies it would not have been worth while to have been born."
- Seneca
"The Logos hath risen."
- The Philosopher
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
- Henry David Thoreau
"The key is offered to all, and yet not all have opened the door to peer within."
- The Prophet
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To interview me on your podcast, or to have me speak at your next event or gathering, simply fill in the form below and I’ll be in touch as soon as possible. 

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