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.
Medicine for the Long Dark: Conversation, Listening, Ritual
Join Francis Weller and Host Jaune Evans as we explore the medicine we need for the Long Dark, the medicine we bring to the Long Dark, and surprisingly, the medicine we find in the Long Dark. The event will include conversation with Francis, time to listen, and a community ritual to allow for receiving and “risking revelation.”
Eternal Song: Echoes of Resilience Across Indigenous Worlds
Join us for a conversation and film screening of Eternal Song, the first in a series of award-winning films that explore the devastating impact of colonization on indigenous people and lands, and cultures–and how our collective future depends on remembering the eternal song of existence which calls us back to our original sense of belonging. Co-presented with SAND (Science and Non-Duality) and Bolinas Film Festival.
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.
Exploring the World of Whole-Person Cancer Care
More than 40 years ago, long before integrative cancer care was mainstream, Michael Lerner helped to launch the Commonweal Cancer Help Program. Over the years, he has sat with more than 2,000 souls navigating a cancer diagnosis, learning much about what it means to live—and die—with uncertainty and illness. One insight runs through each experience: cancer can be an invitation to heal our body, mind, and spirit. This course includes some of the most compelling conversations Michael has hosted at Commonweal’s New School in recent years that explore whole-person cancer care. Join in Michael’s exploration, through his letters and interviews, with integrative oncologists, healers, and patients who are leading the understanding and practice of whole-person cancer care.
What Matters Now: 7 Healing Letters to a Friend with Cancer
What Matters Now: 7 Healing Letters to a Friend with Cancer is a personal and practical guide born from over 40 years of intimate counsel with people facing cancer. Written by Commonweal founder Michael Lerner, these 7 letters distill what he’s learned from sitting with more than 2,000 souls navigating a cancer diagnosis, and from his own encounters with life-threatening illness.
It’s a companion, the kind of book you want on hand when a friend tells you they’ve just been diagnosed—something you can give them that says: “You’re not alone. Here’s what matters.”
Healing the Roots, Transforming the Future
In this conversation, Kazu Haga—activist, trainer, and author of Fierce Vulnerability: Healing from Trauma, Emerging Through Collapse—joins host Serena Bian to explore why healing is so essential to radically reimagining the worlds we wish to build in the midst of collapse.