Join us for a conversation with TNS Host Steve Heilig and Dr. Anna O’Malley—both public health experts and music lovers—for a conversation about how creative play, including music-making and dancing, is soul medicine and builds individual and community resilience. This conversation took place live at the Commonweal Open House.
In this third conversation in the 2022 Roots of Resilience series, Host Anna Lappé talks with Leah Douglas, Ligia Guallpa, and Suzanne Adely about the crisis facing food chain workers—from farm fields to meat packing factories to grocery stores—whose jobs were already among the most low-paid, exploitative, and dangerous in the economy before COVID-19.
Part of the Resilience Series
Join TNS Host Michael Lerner for a conversation with Yvonne Smith Tanas, a Jungian analyst, psychotherapist, and astrologer, and Rachel Lang, astrologer and intuitive.
Part of the Archetypal Psychology Series
Join Host Michael Lerner in conversation with systems researcher, cultural activist, and social entrepreneur Rufus Pollock.
Part of the OMEGA Network Series
Join Host Michael Lerner in conversation with director and producer David Grubin. His recent film, “Free Renty: Lanier v. Harvard,” tells the story of an African-American woman’s struggle to reclaim her heritage.
In this second conversation in our 2022 Roots of Resilience in An Age of Crisis series, join Host Tiffani Patton with Peleke Flores and Carl Wassilie to talk about their efforts to protect keystone species, livelihoods, and cultures along the Pacific Northwest and in Hawai’i.
Part of the Resilience Series
Bringing with her the traditional Aboriginal practices of dadirri—a sacred practice of deep listening, reflection, stillness and connection to the land—and yarning—a conversational practice used by indigenous Australians to share knowledge, stories, and culture, Dr. Catherine Olweny offers another pathway to Mastering the Art of Being. Cultivating this presence is a gift she found in her own life, one she shares with other clinicians, and one we can learn from as well. Follow along with Commonweal New School’s Summer 2026 Visiting Scholar Catherine Olweny journey as resident through her writings, podcasts, and exercises gathered during her visit.

Jeanine M. Canty is a visionary scholar whose groundbreaking work illuminates the profound connections between consciousness, thought, and our relationship with the natural world. Her teaching weaves together social justice, ecological wisdom, and transformation. By reading her writings and watching or listening to recordings of her time in residence, you can explore how mind and spirit intersect with ecological healing in your own life.
Jeffrey J. Kripal holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University. In this ongoing series of conversations, Jeffrey 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. Michael has been reading, talking, and meeting with Jeffrey for more than a year now, immersing himself in the consciousness worldview that Jeffrey presents in his books and teaching. Follow Michael's journey through these conversations.
One of our most beloved voices, Rachel Naomi Remen, died August 8, 2026. We offer this course in honor of her presence, which will be greatly missed. Rachel spent a lifetime at the threshold between medicine and mystery. This course gathers recordings from her decades at Commonweal New School, inviting you to sit with her not as a distant authority but as a companion—someone who spent her life listening closely to what it means to be human.
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