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  • Kalyanee Mam and Host Serena Bian

    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.” 

  • Deepa Patel and Host Serena Bian

    What Does Love Have To Do With It? Bringing Mystery to Peacebuilding (part 1)

    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.” 

  • Aljosie Aldrich Harding and Host Serena Bian

    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.” 

  • Peter Coyote and Host Steve Heilig

    Things As It Is

    Join Host Steve Heilig as we bring back author, actor, and local celebrity Peter Coyote to The New School. They will talk about Peter’s recent books—Zen in the Vernacular: Things As It Is and Tongue of A Crow—and ramble across many other topics.

  • Christina Baldwin and Host Michael Lerner

    Writing as Legacy: What Do We Leave in the Earth for the Future to Find?

    Join Michael Lerner in conversation with storyteller and storycatcher Christina Baldwin, talking about Christina’s lifework and her beautiful forthcoming novel, The Beekeeper's Question, that chronicles life on the Homefront during World War II and the social issues stirred.

  • Elizabeth Sawin, Beverley Thorpe, and Host Kristin Schafer

    Multisolving for Climate, Chemicals, and Health

    Join Host Kristin Schafer with biologist and systems thinker Dr. Elizabeth Sawin and chemicals expert and clean production advocate Beverley Thorpe as they explore opportunities to prioritize solutions that concurrently address climate change and the global crisis of chemical contamination — while also improving public health, equity, and economic vitality. 

  • Jane Hirshfield and Host Michael Lerner

    Living by Poems

    Join TNS Host Michael Lerner in person or via webinar for a reading and conversation with poet Jane Hirshfield, a lay-ordained practitioner of Soto Zen.

  • Terry Tempest Williams and Host Michael Lerner

    Rejoice! Our Times Are Intolerable

    Join Host Michael Lerner for a reading and conversation with writer, educator, conservationist, and activist Terry Tempest Williams about her extraordinary journey navigating grief and loss, about her current life and work, and about the hope she holds for our world.

  • Graham Leicester, Katherine Fulton, Host Michael Lerner

    Rising to the Occasion: Practical Hope in a Global Polycrisis

  • Pat McCabe and Host Brenda Salgado

    Restoring the Heart of Our Relationships: Racial and Earth Healing / Restaurando el corazón de nuestras relaciones: Cicatrización Racial y de la Tierra

    Join Host Brenda Salgado, director of Commonweal's Racial Healing Initiative, as she speaks with Pat McCabe, a Dine elder and ceremonialist focused on deep social healing. Part 3 of the our Racial and Earth Healing series. Presented in English with a live Spanish-language translator.

  • Rachel Naomi Remen and Karen Drucker

    The Practice of Gratitude: Finding Meaning in Difficult Times

    Join us for a celebration of autumn, a time to harvest all the seeds we’ve planted in our lives. Enjoy a healing hour of stories and music with master storyteller Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, and musician/songwriter Karen Drucker.

  • Sherri Mitchell and Host Brenda Salgado

    Restoring the Heart of Our Relationships: Racial and Earth Healing / Restaurando el corazón de nuestras relaciones: Cicatrización Racial y de la Tierra

    Join Host Brenda Salgado, director of Commonweal's Racial Healing Initiative, as she speaks with Sherri Mitchell, a Penobscot activist, author, and Indigenous attorney. Part 2 of our Racial and Earth Healing series. Presented in English with a live Spanish-language translator.

  • Keith Block and Host Michael Lerner

    Life Over Cancer: A New Model of Integrative Cancer Treatment

    Join Host Michael Lerner in virtual conversation with Keith Block, MD—long regarded as the “father” of integrative oncology—about his model for integrative cancer treatment.

  • Cynthia Li and Host Michael Lerner

    Brave New Medicine: Spiritual Biography

    Join us for another in the Spiritual Biography series, this time with Cynthia Li, MD. Cynthia’s experiences as both doctor and patient through an internal “dark night of the soul” and a medical condition affecting her immune system point to tools for building personal immunity and resilience in the face of crises.

  • Oren Slozberg and Host Michael Lerner

    A Life of Collaborative Leadership: Spiritual Biography