Our August session is with Lori Sortino

Date and Time: August 25, 2026 10-11 AM Pacific Time (7-8pm Central European Time)

Title: Curiosity and Connection: What Horses Are Teaching Me

Aim: The heart of the talk draws on what I am learning through my observations and interactions with horses. Horses, as highly sensitive and relational beings, offer a powerful mirror for understanding presence, curiosity, boundaries, and trust. Horses demonstrate connection as an embodied, moment-to-moment practice essential to safety and life itself. 

From there, we’ll look at how these lessons apply to human systems that flourish through healthy relationships, co-regulation, and responsiveness. We’ll also consider what becomes difficult when safety, curiosity, and connection are missing.

Biography: Lori Sortino is a photographer, facilitator, and lifelong student of connection, shaped by decades of work at the intersection of community, systems thinking, healing, and the natural world. Her path has included leadership and facilitation in organizational transformation, immersion in indigenous and ceremonial practices, and deep engagement with somatic awareness and relational presence. Through her work with horses—as an equine photographer, observer of herd behavior, and participant in horse–human collaborative spaces—Lori brings a living-systems lens to understanding connection as an emergent, embodied intelligence—one that is continuously negotiated through presence, responsiveness, and relationship. Grounded in lived experience and close observation of the natural world, her work explores connection not as an abstract ideal, but as a survival-based intelligence shared across species. 

Platform:  Zoom, with link provided following registration