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 […]
Welcome, Wild Times: Conversation with Resilience Leaders in the Global South

In session number three of our Wild Times conversation series, join Host Michael Lerner in conversation with Anabella Museri and Sofia Nemenmann from Asociación Argentina de Abogados/as Ambientalistas/Colectivo de Acción por la Justicia Ecosocial in Argentina.
Welcome, Wild Times: Conversation with Resilience Leaders in the Global South

Join Host Michael Lerner in conversation with Manisha Gupta from Start Up! in India in part 2 of our series talking with the co-creators of Commonweal’s Omega Resilience Awards global resilience community.
Welcome, Wild Times: Conversation with Resilience Leaders in the Global South

Join Host Michael Lerner in conversation with Nnimmo Bassey from Health of Mother Earth Foundation in Nigeria, in part 1 of our series talking with the co-creators Commonweal’s Omega Resilience Awards global resilience community.
Graham Leicester, Katherine Fulton, Host Michael Lerner

Host Michael Lerner joins Commonweal board member Katherine Fulton in conversation with Graham Leicester, who has pioneered new ways to navigate and even thrive in this complex era.
Maristella Svampa, Enrique Viale, Host Tom Kruse (Spanish-only)

~In Spanish language only~ ~Co-presented by The New School and the Omega Network~ Dr. Maristella Svampa and Enrique Viale join Host Tom Kruse from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund to explore “Ecosocial collapse” in Latin America. They contextualize ecosocial collapse as part of the history of unjust extractive dynamics between Latin America and the Global North. […]
Stan Cox and Hosts Michael Lerner and Joan Diamond

Managing increasing demand for water, clean air, minerals, energy, and food is rapidly becoming one of our greatest challenges. What strategies are available to us? Are there alternatives to winners and losers? Join hosts Michael Lerner and Joan Diamond for a conversation about the issues of scarcity, justice, social order, and planetary limits.
Tatsujiro Suzuki and Host Michael Lerner

~Co-presented by The New School at Commonweal, OMEGA Network, Millennium Alliance for Humanity and Biosphere (MAHB), and the Resilience Project~ Join this rapid-response webinar on the nuclear implications of the invasion of the Ukraine. Host Michael Lerner talks with Tatsujiro about nuclear threat and risk of nuclear weapon use (nuclear security), nuclear power plant safety […]
Ian Goldin and Host Michael Lerner

Join Host Michael Lerner in conversation with Ian Goldin, Oxford professor and author of Rescue, an optimistic vision of the future after COVID-19.