Explore the Worldview of Rachel Naomi Remen
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.
Art for Our Common Good: Creativity, Health, and Civic Life | Part 2
What role can art play in helping us meet this moment? As communities face growing loneliness, burnout, environmental anxiety, and civic division, the arts can create spaces for healing, connection, and hope. Join us for part 2 of this podcast, a conversation with Visiting Scholar Dr. Catherine Olweny and Host Lisa Simms Booth.
Exploring Art and Creativity as a Space for Healing, Connection, and Hope
Throughout our 50 years of work healing people and the Earth, Commonweal has always embraced the power of arts and creativity in bringing inspiration, vision, and healing in our bodies, souls, and communities. In this course, join in our exploration of how art and creativity bring healing, connection, and hope—through conversation, writing, poetry, music and sound, film, visual arts, and more.
Art for Our Common Good: Creativity, Health, and Civic Life | Part 1
What role can art play in helping us meet this moment? As communities face growing loneliness, burnout, environmental anxiety, and civic division, the arts can create spaces for healing, connection, and hope. Join us for part 1 of this podcast, a conversation with Former National Endowment of the Arts Chair Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson, Stanford Arts Director Deborah Cullinan, and Host Lisa Simms Booth.
The Superhumanities
In part 10 of the Secret Body series of conversations, Michael Lerner talks with author Jeffrey Kripal about his book The Superhumanities.
Let’s Go Quiet
What are the technologies that help you navigate these times? Slowly, over our 50 years as an organization, Commonweal has naturally developed tools that help us work and live with more ease and grace. These are simple practices, including silence, deep hospitality, listening circles, and poetry. This summer exhibit shares a sense of these practices […]
Deep Healing and the Coming Transformation of Human Consciousness
Join us for a 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.
How Flowers Made Our World
Join Host Susan Grelock Yusem in conversation with David George Haskell to talk about his new book, How Flowers Made Our World: The Story of Nature’s Revolutionaries.
Radio Facility Tour with Richard Dillman
As part of Commonweal’s 50th anniversary year celebrations, please join the Maritime Radio Historical Society’s Richard Dillman (call name W6AWO), for this tour of the radio facilities in the “back half” of the Commonweal main building.