Beyond Survival: Sustaining Human Agency in Challenging Times
We are living in challenging times. Commonweal has been a trailblazer in recognizing this as a moment of long- and short-term peril and opportunity–a rolling “polycrisis.” It may feel overwhelming, but we have copious capacity to rise to the challenge of these times. What will it take to muster a fully human response to polycrisis? […]
Narrative, Resilience, and Social Change
What’s happening in our world—and how do we respond? For the past four years, Commonweal’s Omega Resilience Awards project has been exploring this question with fellows and research teams across Africa, India, and Latin America. Now we’re ready to share what we’re learning. Join us for a conversation with two of the researchers, who will share […]
Pre-Read for The Secret Body Series
In this introductory document to the Secret Body self-paced course, Host Michael Lerner offers an introduction to Jeffrey Kripal’s work, as well as suggestions on what to read to orient yourself to his work before, or while, you explore the conversations.
Resilience in These Times | Graham Leicester and Margaret Hannah, MD
Commonweal New School’s Winter 2026 Visiting Scholar is Graham Leicester, and partner Margaret Hannah, who are interested in human growth and potential in the face of powerful times. Join the exploration by reading Graham’s residency statement and tune in for a live conversation event.
CHE Café: How States Can Lead on Environmental Health
Join Host Kristin Schafer for a conversation with Susan Kaplan, an environmental health lawyer and professor, and Sarah Doll, longtime leader of the Safer States coalition, for a discussion on rollbacks in federal regulation of chemicals and how the potential for state action offers hope.
A Terrapsychological Glance at Bolinas, California
In this playful terrapsychological exploration of Bolinas, California, Summer 2025 Visiting Scholar Craig Chalquist exemplifies how his worldview brings the land around us to life, affecting our decisions, thoughts, and our relationship with the land itself.
A Call for an Earth-Honoring Worldview
In this concluding article, Summer 2025 Visiting Scholar Craig Chalquist summarizes his residency experience, which exemplified for him how imaginative modes of consciousness allow us to perceive places, beings, buildings, and the elements, normally considered mute objects, as speaking presences, and how tending the living presence of place helps assemble a worldview that centers Earth, humaneness, justice, equity, reenchantment, participation, and imagination.
Invitation to Land All Around Us
In this invitation to Land All around Us, Summer 2025 Visiting Scholar Craig Chalquist invites us to join him as he embarks on his residency. In his worldview, imagination, story, and creativity let us tune in on a Greater Conversation unfolding continually within us and with the land around us. He asks: How are we called to respond deeply and soulfully to our turbulent time? Might that response include joining others to weave into being a new worldview?
There Is a Field
In this concluding article from 2025 Visiting Scholar Jeanine M. Canty, Jeanine summarizes the synchronicities that happened during her residency, giving examples of how living in relationship with the phenomenal and transpersonal worlds allows for harmonious relationship with our more earth-based selves.