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Anna O’Malley

Opening the Channels: The Medicine of Nature

Join physician-healer Anna O’Malley in the Commonweal Garden to connect with land, nature, and our inner way of knowing.

Michelle Jacques and Matt Berkeley

Afternoon of Gospel and Jazz

Join us for an afternoon of Gospel and Jazz the next in our series of sacred music celebrations at Commonweal.

Resilience in These Times | Visiting Scholars

Graham Leicester and Margaret Hannah

Ray Dorsey, Ted Schettler, and Host Kristin Schafer

CHE Café: Why Parkinson’s Disease Is Preventable

Susan James, Urmitapa Dutta and Host Susan Grelock Yusem

Narrative, Resilience, and Social Change

Join Host Susan Grelock-Yusem for a conversation with ORA Researchers Susan James and Urmitapa Dutta to explore the question: How do we respond to these times—not just through individual stories, but through the larger work of changing our collective narratives?

Graham Leicester and Hosts Oren Slozberg and Katherine Fulton

Beyond Survival: Sustaining Human Agency in Challenging Times

Join Commonweal Board Chair Katherine Fulton and Executive Director Oren Slozberg for a conversation with Graham Leicester, founder of International Futures Forum, to explore how we respond to the polycrisis in “a world we do not understand and cannot control.”

Shilpa Jain with Host Serena Bian

Beyond Cancel Culture: On Healing, Conflict, and Community

Join Host Serena Bian with community builder, facilitator, and writer Shilpa Jain for a conversation exploring how conflict can bring us into greater clarity, purpose, and alignment.

John Paul Lederach with Host Serena Bian

The Art of Peacebuilding: Haiku, Accompaniment, and Courageous Love

Join Host Serena Bian and international peacebuilder John Paul Lederach in exploring questions about how—in a world filled with animosity—we can choose courageous love.

Jeanine Canty and Host Susan Grelock Yusem

Bridging Mind and Nature

During this second event with our visiting scholar Jeanine Canty, we will look at our various notions of self—ecological, multicultural, and transpersonal—and engage in some experiences and reflections that embody this. Meet our visiting scholar, and join the conversation about mind and healing.

Jeanine Canty

Reclaiming Wildness: Integrating Self Through Practice

Within this introductory lecture with our visiting scholar Jeanine Canty, we will dive into the dualities within the western human’s psyche in order to reclaim our ecological and transpersonal identities and to access pathways for healing. Meet our visiting scholar, and join the conversation about mind and healing.

Arthur Colman with Host Michael Lerner

A Life Immersed in the Imaginal

Francis Weller and Anderson Cooper

Tending the Soul in Uncertain Times

Join us along the wild coast of California, for an afternoon of dialogue, community, and ritual with author and soul activist, Francis Weller, and host of the All There Is podcast and CNN commentator, Anderson Cooper. This event was held live in September 2025 as a conversation and community grief ritual.

Christine Tulis

Opening the Gate of the Heart: An Afternoon of Celtic Harp

Join us for a special concert of original sacred music to free your imagination and open your heart to the celestial sounds of the Celtic harp. Christine Tulis shares songs inspired by the poetry of Rumi, other mystical saints, and her personal inner experiences. 

Shodo Harada Roshi, Chisan Storandt, Host Michael Lerner

The Way of the Buddha

Join us for a unique and precious experience of the Buddhist truth, the Buddhist way, and the Buddhist community with Shodo Harada Roshi and Chisan Storandt.

Jeffrey J. Kripal and Host Michael Lerner

The Secret Body (Series)

In this series, Author and Professor Jeffrey J. Kripal talks with Host Michael Lerner about his body of work—more than 13 groundbreaking books about the mystical and the erotic, the relationship of mind and matter, and parapsychological phenomena.