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Rabbi Irwin Keller and Host Michael Lerner
Words, Worry, Wonder
Join Host Michael Lerner in conversation with Rabbi Irwin Keller about his long-awaited volume of essays, memoir, and poetry: Shechinah at the Art Institute: Words, Worry, Wonder.
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Zachary Scholz
Maintenance as Meditation
Join us for a hands-on workshop at Commonweal with artist Zachary Scholz. Zac will be introducing simple meditation techniques and showing the way these practices relate to his situationally generated art practice, and how we can use them as we work to maintain his outdoor art exhibit on the Commonweal grounds.
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Jerry Millhon and Host Michael Lerner
Storytelling for Thriving Communities: A Spiritual Biography
Join host Michael Lerner for an exploration of Jerry Millhon's life and work—his life journey to founding Thriving Communities and the many other projects he helped found or nourish in a life dedicated to service.
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Lisa Bero, Lariah Edwards, and Host Kristin Schafer
Protecting Scientists from Industry Intimidation
At a time when strong, independent science is more important than ever, corporations are ramping up attacks on scientists in the environmental health field. In this conversation, Dr. Lisa Bero and Dr. Lariah Edwards will share their own stories of industry intimidation, and reflect on steps needed to protect researchers and maintain scientific integrity. Hosted by CHE Director Kristin Schafer.
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What Do We Know? Exploring Non-Western Approaches to Wisdom
A Three-Part Series of Conversation and Shared Inquiry
In this new kind of collaborative learning experience, join us live on Oct 30, Nov 21, and Dec 4 for three 60-minute conversations followed by 1/2-hour shared community inquiry that could include breakout groups, writing prompts and sharing, demonstrations, or other processes. Hosted by Commonweal Narrative Director Susan Grelock Yusem. Register once for the whole series; join us for one or all of the conversations.
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Kalyanee Mam and Host Serena Bian
What Does Love Have To Do With It? Bringing Mystery to Peacebuilding (part 3)
In this series, join Host Serena Bian in speaking with three people who bear witness to the best and worst of humanity, holding a courageous moral imagination. Working and witnessing the front lines of injustice, war, climate change, these peacebuilders, mystics, and storytellers hold space for the miraculous to emerge, refusing to be bound by a perceived reality of “what is possible.”
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Festival of Sacred Music
Maryliz Smith
Join us (in person or via webinar) for the first in a series of sacred music celebrations at Commonweal, designed to elevate the soul and be a source of inspiration and delight for the months in between concerts. In this first concert of the series, join us in welcoming pianist Maryliz Smith, who brings pieces of her own composition as well as other inspiring and sacred music.
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Aljosie Aldrich Harding and Host Serena Bian
What Does Love Have To Do With It? Bringing Mystery to Peacebuilding (part 2)
In this series, join Host Serena Bian in speaking with three people who bear witness to the best and worst of humanity, holding a courageous moral imagination. Working and witnessing the front lines of injustice, war, climate change, these peacebuilders, mystics, and storytellers hold space for the miraculous to emerge, refusing to be bound by a perceived reality of “what is possible.”
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Sofia Nemenmann and Anabella Museri with Host Michael Lerner
Welcome, Wild Times: Conversation with Resilience Leaders in the Global South
In session number three of our Wild Times conversation series, join Host Michael Lerner in conversation with Anabella Museri and Sofia Nemenmann from Asociación Argentina de Abogados/as Ambientalistas/Colectivo de Acción por la Justicia Ecosocial in Argentina.
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Peter Coyote and Host Steve Heilig
Things As It Is
Join Host Steve Heilig as we bring back author, actor, and local celebrity Peter Coyote to The New School. They will talk about Peter’s recent books—Zen in the Vernacular: Things As It Is, and Tongue of A Crow—and ramble across many other topics.
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Manisha Gupta and Host Michel Lerner
Welcome, Wild Times: Conversation with Resilience Leaders in the Global South
Join Host Michael Lerner in conversation with Manisha Gupta from StartUp! in India in part 2 of our series talking with the co-creators of Commonweal's Omega Resilience Awards global resilience community.
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Deepa Patel and Host Serena Bian
What Does Love Have To Do With It? Bringing Mystery to Peacebuilding (part 1)
In this series, join Host Serena Bian in speaking with three people who bear witness to the best and worst of humanity, holding a courageous moral imagination. Working and witnessing the front lines of injustice, war, climate change, these peacebuilders, mystics, and storytellers hold space for the miraculous to emerge, refusing to be bound by a perceived reality of “what is possible.”
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Nnimmo Bassey and Host Michel Lerner
Welcome, Wild Times: Conversation with Resilience Leaders in the Global South
Join Host Michael Lerner in conversation with Nnimmo Bassey from Health of Mother Earth Foundation in Nigeria, in part 1 of our series talking with the co-creators Commonweal's Omega Resilience Awards global resilience community.
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Christina Baldwin and Host Michael Lerner
Writing as Legacy: What Do We Leave in the Earth for the Future to Find?
Join Michael Lerner in conversation with storyteller and storycatcher Christina Baldwin, talking about Christina’s lifework and her beautiful forthcoming novel, The Beekeeper's Question, that chronicles life on the Homefront during World War II and the social issues stirred.
