Human flourishing in a time of transition
A different kind of conference designed for connection
What is Perennial Gathering?
Perennial Gathering is a global convening for social innovators, funders, and ecosystem builders who believe that relationships drive change. When people come together in a relational space rooted in generosity, restoration, and meaningful connection, collaboration grows and innovation flourishes.
That’s why Perennial Gathering exists.
From May 31 to June 4, 2026, Perennial Gathering will invite 250+ leaders from around the world to the forest village of Karuizawa, Japan for a one-of-a-kind experience that blends the best of a conference, leadership training, and personal retreat—all thoughtfully designed and facilitated to build the trust and alignment needed to navigate today’s complexities and co-create a more generative future.
The Perennial Gathering lives at the intersection of professional conference, immersive training, and transformational retreat.
It is a global, invitation-only convening of 250 social-impact leaders—social entrepreneurs, funders, and ecosystem builders—where trust becomes strategy and relationships are the soil from which bold ideas and shared, funded work grow.
Invitations to explore, question, and reimagine together
Well-Being and Inner Work
This field explores practices, frameworks, and experiences that help leaders sustain themselves while navigating complexity. It centers on reflection, resilience, and the cultivation of inner clarity, enabling participants to show up with presence and authenticity.
Climate and Nature
This field engages with the urgent ecological challenges of our time, while also recognizing the wisdom and cycles of the natural world. Conversations here examine strategies, innovations, and relationships that move us toward climate resilience and a restored relationship with Earth.
Human Systems
This field examines the structures—political, economic, social, and cultural—that shape our collective lives. It invites inquiry into how systems are designed, where they fall short, and what it would take to reconfigure them toward justice and equity.
AI and Technology
This field considers how emerging technologies, especially artificial intelligence, are reshaping human experience, relationships, and society. The focus is not just on risks and opportunities, but on how to be in right relationship with technology.
Catalytic Capital
This field explores how capital—philanthropic, investment, and blended—can move in ways that accelerate meaningful change. It highlights new models, risks, and pathways that shift money toward long-term, systemic transformation.
Regenerative Prosperity
This field envisions futures where prosperity is measured not by extraction but by renewal, equity, and abundance. It calls for rethinking economies and livelihoods in ways that sustain both people and planet.
Why Perennial Gathering?
Because relationships drive change.
Perennial Gathering is rooted in a simple belief: social innovation grows through meaningful relationships. And for those relationships to truly flourish, they need time, trust, and a foundation of mutual respect. Yet most professional conferences aren’t designed for that. They move fast, stay surface-level, over-prioritize information exchange, and leave little room for the kind of human connection that lasting change requires.
Perennial Gathering is different.
It’s a space for a different kind of leadership in social innovation—one grounded in reflection, relationship, and renewal.
Blending the best of a leadership retreat, a global convening, and a peer-led learning experience, the Gathering offers what leaders rarely receive: time to slow down, space to connect in meaningful ways, and the conditions to co-create a more generative future—together.
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