Here’s what’s happening this Fall 2026 at Capita:
September 10, 11:30 AM | Newark, New Jersey: Roundtable—Insights from New Jersey Families
Cohosted with the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Burke Foundation, and Turrell Fund, this convening will bring leaders together to examine the latest survey data on the pressures facing New Jersey families—from child care and job quality to income volatility and parents’ mental health—and to surface opportunities for meaningful action. Message [email protected] if you’re interested in attending.
September 17 | Madison, Indiana: Roundtable & Town Hall—Common Good Lab on Tour
In partnership with the Bethany Legacy Foundation, Capita will bring the Common Good Lab on Tour to Madison for a day of dialogue and civic engagement. A morning roundtable will convene local leaders and policymakers for a focused discussion, followed by a public town hall that brings together citizens, elected officials, philanthropists, and business leaders to explore belonging, polarization, and what a renewed politics rooted in the common good could look like. Message [email protected] for details to attend.
September 22, 09:30 AM | New York, New York: Intentional Futures: Navigating Disruption, Seizing Opportunities
What if education systems could harness disruption to shape positive outcomes? The forces reshaping education, work, and health aren’t waiting for systems to catch up. This interactive workshop challenges participants to look beyond today’s pressures, explore radically different futures and identify choices they can make now to shape better ones. Through scenarios, futures thinking activities and sensemaking, participants will surface assumptions, spot emerging opportunities and explore strategies for navigating disruption. You’ll uncover new ways to foster resilience, equity and agility in your context. Together, we can uncover ways to create positive futures for children and families. Registration opens August 20.
September 24, 2:00 PM | Virtual Gathering: me.MD Skill-Sharing Session
Join Joscha Wirtz for a practical, nontechnical introduction to me.md, a tool designed to help people engage with AI in ways that reflect their values, priorities, and lived perspectives. Through guided conversation and hands-on exploration, participants will reflect on how to make their interactions with AI more intentional, expressive, and human-centered—shaping technology to better reflect who they are and what matters to them. Message [email protected] for meeting details.
September 28–30 | Denver, Colorado: Seminar—Family Policy Lab State Peer Learning
With support from the Buell Foundation and Gary Community Ventures, this peer learning gathering will explore Colorado’s approach to building family-focused systems through site visits, dialogue, and cross-state exchange. Participants will leave with new relationships, practical insights, and actionable ideas for strengthening family policy. Message [email protected] if you’re interested in attending.
October 14, 7:00 PM | Downtown Boone, North Carolina: Charlie Baker Endowed Lecture Series—A Special Evening with Leslie Jamison
UNC Health Appalachian welcomes New York Times best-selling novelist and essayist Leslie Jamison, an acclaimed writer whose work explores empathy, illness, addiction, motherhood, love, and the complicated ways we make meaning from our lives. The conversation between Jamison and Capita Co-Founder + CEO Joe Waters is intended for healthcare professionals and anyone interested in stories, relationships, and the shared human experience. Message [email protected] if you’re interested in attending.
October 29, 12:00 PM | Virtual Gathering: Book Launch—To Arrive Where We Started
We warmly invite you to join us for the launch of To Arrive Where We Started: Belonging in the Modern World, a new book by Ian Marcus Corbin, Senior Fellow at Capita and Director of Harvard’s Public Culture Project. Drawing on philosophy, history, and examples from communities whose ways of life are grounded in mutual care, Ian explores how modern individualism has reshaped our understanding of security, belonging, and our place in the world—and asks what it might take to recover a deeper sense of connection. Message [email protected] for meeting details.
November 5, 11:30 AM | Statesville, North Carolina: Roundtable—Families in North Carolina Under Pressure
We are bringing Capita’s roundtables to North Carolina to convene leaders and examine the urgent challenges facing families across the state. This gathering will share evidence-based insights on family well-being, focusing on identifying opportunities for meaningful, practical action. Message [email protected] if you’re interested in attending.
November 12, 6:00 PM | Washington, DC: Salon—AI, Families, and the Common Good
The family, not just the individual, must be a central lens for AI governance and safety. Building on the learnings from Capita’s seminar AI, Families, and the Common Good, this event will be led by DC-based seminar participants to explore AI’s impact on and promise for the family in the Washington, DC, metro area. Message [email protected] for details to attend.
November 16–19 | Cape Town: Retreat—Think Beyond 2026
Think Beyond is Capita’s immersive leadership retreat, designed to create space for participants to step away from the urgency of daily demands and reflect more deeply on the systems, stories, and assumptions shaping their work. Through reflection, dialogue, and shared learning, leaders are invited to renew their sense of purpose, expand their imagination, and return with greater clarity, alignment, and strategic direction. Register here.
Past:
August 25, 12:00 PM | Virtual Gathering: Recoloring the Stories that Shape Renewal
An interactive exploration of how the structures of our institutions shape the stories through which we understand the world—and how those stories, in turn, shape what we build. Drawing on the Institute for the Future’s Systems Mythology framework, this session invited participants to surface the often-unseen assumptions embedded in our systems and to consider how they might be reimagined in service of renewal, resilience, and collective flourishing.