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Experience House is where the world’s leading experience designers and community builders gather.

10/12/2026

Let the venue do the work.

Whenever possible, let the space guide your design. At our last gathering in San Francisco, we were hosted by XH Mastermind member Stephanie Blake at one of her newest real estate projects in San Francisco: Jack’s Restaurant.

Jack’s is an iconic, historic restaurant where San Francisco’s future was imagined over seafood and ice-cold martinis. After the 1906 earthquake, mayors and planners gathered upstairs to sketch the city’s reconstruction. The decision to bid for the 1915 World’s Fair was sealed here, and early conversations about the Golden Gate Bridge unfolded before they reached City Hall. Hitchcock dined here while filming Vertigo and The Birds; Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera traded sketches for dinner. Deals were signed on cocktail napkins. This wasn’t just a backdrop for gathering — it was a room where people helped shape what came next.

So we leaned in to this history, and designed a dinner experience called “The New Frontier”. We curated tables of six and seeded thought-provoking conversation about the new frontier: the future of how we connect in a world being reshaped by AI.

10/10/2026

Last year, Jenny Sauer-Klein — the co-founder of AcroYoga, came out of retirement to teach her first AcroYoga class in over 10 years.

We’re honored to have Jenny in the XH Mastermind, bringing her movement-building expertise to the group.

She and her co-founder created AcroYoga in 2003, and were the figureheads of the movement for over a decade.

10/08/2026

“The Dream Machine” | an experience by the XH Team

11/8/25 | Photos by Nik Tenny

10/05/2026

Audio Acid trip. An experience by Olivia Vagelos

11/7/25 | Photos by Nik Tenny

Note: this experience was facilitated without psychoactive substances.

10/01/2026

Nothin’ like a little rooftop rave to kick off a 2-day mastermind.

An experience guided by the incredible Tasha Blank | DJ + Dance Educator

5/18/26 | Photos by Natalie Schaefer

09/24/2026

Sometimes it’s nice to indulge…

But when you’re mid-Mastermind, you gotta be clear-headed the next day.

Thanks, JC | Matchmaker + Discernment Coach for Entrepreneurs for making sure the fam takes their activated charcoal. 🍸😉

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Photos by Kēkā and Natalie Schaefer

09/22/2026

We’re hiring! 💼✨

We’re now accepting applications for a part-time event producer to oversee our quarterly 3-night gatherings within the Experience House Mastermind.

Reach out if you have questions, and apply via the link in bio.

09/11/2026

Moments from our Experience House Mastermind Summer Assembly in Austin. ☀️

We’re honored to welcome 25 newcomers — our third mastermind edition — into the fold. What a crew.

Highlights included:

- An acroyoga class from the co-founder herself, Jenny Sauer-Klein Jenny Sauer-Klein 🤸
- A provocative masterclass on facilitation and clowning with Institute of Devotional Arts (IDA) 🤡
- “How to talk about yourself,” a workshop with Adam Delehanty 🎤
- A sequence of thematic culinary experiences by Casey Boyles 🍽️
- A personalized edition of Adam Rosendahl’s Late Nite Art 🎨
- Morning tea ceremonies with Carson Linforth Bowley Carson Linforth Bowley 🍵
- A workshop on ritual design with Ritualist 🔮
- A workshop on rites of passage with Jen Z 🚪
- A “website dojo,” where members’ sites were critiqued by master designers, copywriters, and content strategists 🥋
- Live looping by the pool with Andrei Matorin 🎻
- A beautiful closing circle 🕯️
- A surprise game show (lol) 📺
- A closing party DJ’d by Matt Earp and Nico 🕺

Ten members shared their life’s work in five minutes each:

- ISLAS-CERVERA on 25 years of turning historic Mexico City buildings into cultural spaces
- patricia mou on building The Commons, and now a modern-day temple
- Mustafa Khan on hosting Daybreaker SF and throwing a 100-person Midnight Brunch
- Sarah Knapp on creating a ten-day outdoor festival for New York City
- IXCHEL SPIRITUAL CLINIC on two initiations in Gabon and the ceremony practice that followed
- Melissa Laci on building the culture at Zappos and helping Tony Hsieh launch Delivering Happiness
- Charley Hasenbeck on years in the San Francisco underground, and building the Bay Area’s answer to South by Southwest
- Carson Linforth Bowley on designing brands from a cottage in the redwoods — El Gonzo, Denizen, Earth One
- Nico on leaving Snapchat to live in her car and map the communities living outside the default
- Brandon Santiago on going from high school dropout to spoken word to The Peace Studio

We’re consistently humbled by the calibre of the people in this community.

Excited for what this next year has in store. ✨

08/27/2026

Thrilled to have Olivia Vagelos — experiential designer and strategist — as returning member at our XH Mastermind (2nd Edition).

Olivia leads The Design for Feelings Studio, crafting tools and teachings that help people and organizations design experiences that feel, heal, and imagine more just, beautiful, regenerative futures. She recently co-founded Aftermap, bringing the rigor and magic of experience design to end-of-life planning and post-death crisis care, marrying the emotional with the tactical in our most tender transitions.

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EXPERIENCE HOUSE is a community of the world’s leading experience designers and community builders. Visit experiencehouse.co to learn more.

07/02/2026

Meet Brenton Zola (Brenton Zola), one of the multi-talented curators behind the refreshed XH Top 50. ✨

A writer, performance artist, and researcher, Brenton has that special XH curator radar: he can feel the room, clock the craft, and spot the moment when music, story, and ritual start to turn a gathering into a community.

That’s how he draws lines between the experiences he chose for us — happenings as diverse as Berlin’s improvising Stegreif orchestra (Stegreif), Project Playground’s upcoming Playground Express: Mongolia train journey () (!!!), and CultureCon (CultureCon ®), the world’s largest creative homecoming celebrating Black and Brown culture. They don’t all look the same, but each one helps people come alive together.

We’re grateful to Brenton for bringing so much taste, attention, and lived experience to the XH Top 50. Get to know all of our amazing curators: Brenton Zola (Brenton Zola), Nicolás Alcalá (Nicolas Alcala), Bruna Calheiros (BRUNNÄ) (BRUNNÄ 🦂), Charlotte Terrien (Charlotte Terrien), Eamon Armstrong (Eamon Armstrong), Paul Bulencea (.bulencea), Jonny Miller (Jonny Miller), John O’Connor (John O'Connor), Månika (Månika - Monica Dogra) + Victorien (Victorien), and Seth Bunting.

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