The Rematriation of Science: Restoring Balance through Indigenous Knowledges | Part 1
As an Anishinaabe ecologist, Commonweal New School’s fall Visiting Scholar Melissa Nelson is working to find ways to return to and revitalize the Indigenous and feminist roots of science. Meet Melissa and find out more about her worldview at this event—first in conversation with Host Jaune Evans, and then in an experiential process around her new work.
Trust in the Life Forces of Unity
Join us as we welcome back visionary healer and community leader Orland Bishop for a conversation in ritual space with Host Jaune Evans.
Eternal Song: Echoes of Resilience Across Indigenous Worlds
Join New School Host Susan Grelock Yusem for this conversation with Zaya Ralitza Benazzo and Maurizio Benazzo—the amazingly prolific filmmakers and founders of SAND (Science and Non-Duality)——the amazingly prolific filmmakers and founders of SAND (Science and Non-Duality)—about their award-winning film The Eternal Song, the first in a documentary series that explores the devastating impact of colonization on indigenous people, lands, and cultures. Explore how our collective future depends on remembering the eternal song of existence which calls us back to our original sense of belonging.
Our Genuinely Unprecedented Moment in History
The crisis of our current moment in time demands that we do our utmost to see through a glass darkly. In this conversation, Richard Tarnas will join Host Michael Lerner to discuss insights and perspectives that might help shed light on the current turning point in human evolution.
Astrology, the Deep Psyche, and the Participatory Universe
Drawing on cosmologist Richard Tarnas’ own spiritual and intellectual biography, including his years at Esalen and research with Stan Grof and psychedelic experience, Richard talks with Host Michael Lerner about the mysteries of the ensouled universe and a deeper view of history opened up by the systematic study of planetary correlations with the archetypal patterns […]
How to Think Impossibly
In part 11 of the Secret Body series of conversations, Michael Lerner talks with author Jeffrey Kripal about his book How to Think Impossibly.
The Ecology of Resilience
As part of Commonweal’s Omega Resilience Awards’ narrative research initiative, the Ecology Team of researchers led by Alejo di Risio—journalist, environmental consultant, and cultural strategist—set out to document emerging stories of resilience grounded in environmental stewardship, land connection, and sustainable practices across the Global South. In this conversation, Host Susan Grelock-Yusem will talk with Alejo to explore their journey and what they learned about ecological imagination, narrative as resistance, local wisdom at global scale, and the power of community. Following the conversation, join us for a live interactive dialogue with the full Ecology Research Team.
Reimagining the Future
Do you want to be of service? This question greeted the earliest people who came to work at Commonweal. For 50 years, Commonweal has followed that calling and developed organically, more like an ecosystem than an institution. We have grown deep roots in our physical home place in Bolinas, California, as we also developed a […]
Leading Through the Polycrisis: Healing, Resilience, and the Future of Environmental Health and Justice
Some leaders have said we are the first generation to understand the full dimensions of the climate crisis and the last generation to do something about it. As leaders, how can we hold the polycrisis without being crushed by the enormity of the personal, political and planetary challenges? Join Host Michael Lerner for a conversation with Gary Cohen, Annie Leonard, and Brandi Jenkins about the long road that has brought the environmental health and justice movement to where we are in this moment.