Deep Healing and the Coming Transformation of Human Consciousness

Exploring the Forces Changing What it Means to Be Human

Join us for a day of reflection and conversation exploring healing at a time of transformation—contemplating what Michael Lerner points to as the coming revolution in human consciousness and what it means for all of us as individuals, communities, and as a planetary species.

This event is part of our 50th anniversary celebrations this year at Commonweal. Michael’s founding vision of Commonweal was as a center for healing ourselves and healing the earth. His understanding of healing has been transformed by more than 230 week-long Cancer Help Programs, by Healing Circles, and by many other experiences with personal healing, as well as by the emergence of the global polycrisis and what it signifies for planetary healing. He hopes to bring these threads together in the light of new research on what is known as “the hard problem of consciousness.”

Afterward, please stay for a reception. We’ll be celebrating the publication of What Matters Now: 7 Letters to a Friend with Cancer, a beautiful collection of reflections and guidance Michael has created over decades of his work with the Cancer Help Program. The event will take place at Gallery Commonweal, which is on the 2nd floor of our historic building; there is no elevator.

Join us in person or on Zoom. Art credit: Marla Pedersen, in Gallery Commonweal through June.