In Service Towards Resilience
Join us for a unique conversation on resilience, with Michael Fischer, a volunteer for multiple organizations, amateur radio guru K6MLF, formerly an environmental executive and consultant, philanthropic director, and city planner. Our sound engineer, Ken Adams, jumps to the other side of the mic to host the conversation.
What Do We Know? Exploring Non-Western Approaches to Wisdom
In this conversation, join Host Susan Grelock Yusem and Nigerian-born “ambassador of entanglement” Okhiogbe Omonblanks Omonhinmin in a conversation that begins a series about non-western approaches to wisdom.
Consciousness, Intuition, and Animal Communication
Join us for a conversation with intuitive animal communicator, Joanna Bornowski. Michael and Joanna talk about consciousness, accessing deeper states of intuition, and the innate human ability to be in conversation with the natural world.
Dreaming as One: Poetry, Poets and Community in Bolinas
Join Kevin Opstedal, author of Dreaming as One: Poetry, Poets and Community, in Bolinas, California, from 1967-1980, in conversation with editor, critic, and ethicist (and New School Host) Steve Heilig at the Bolinas Museum.
Storytelling for Thriving Communities: A Spiritual Biography
Join host Michael Lerner for an exploration of Jerry Millhon’s life and work—his life journey to founding Thriving Communities and the many other projects he helped found or nourish in a life dedicated to service.
CHE Café: Protecting Scientists from Industry Intimidation
At a time when strong, independent science is more important than ever, corporations are ramping up attacks on scientists in the environmental health field. In this conversation, Dr. Lisa Bero and Dr. Lariah Edwards will share their own stories of industry intimidation, and reflect on steps needed to protect researchers and maintain scientific integrity. Hosted by CHE Director Kristin Schafer.
What Does Love Have To Do With It? Bringing Mystery to Peacebuilding, Part 3
In this series, join Host Serena Bian in speaking with three people who bear witness to the best and worst of humanity, holding a courageous moral imagination. Working and witnessing the front lines of injustice, war, climate change, these peacebuilders, mystics, and storytellers hold space for the miraculous to emerge, refusing to be bound by a perceived reality of “what is possible.”
Festival of Sacred Music
Join us for the first in a series of sacred music celebrations at Commonweal, designed to elevate the soul and be a source of inspiration and delight for the months in between concerts. In this first concert of the series, join us in welcoming pianist Maryliz Smith, who brings pieces of her own composition as well as other inspiring and sacred music.
What Does Love Have To Do With It? Bringing Mystery to Peacebuilding, Part 2
In this series, join Host Serena Bian in speaking with three people who bear witness to the best and worst of humanity, holding a courageous moral imagination. Working and witnessing the front lines of injustice, war, climate change, these peacebuilders, mystics, and storytellers hold space for the miraculous to emerge, refusing to be bound by a perceived reality of “what is possible.”