Resilience in These Times | Graham Leicester and Margaret Hannah, MD
Commonweal New School’s Winter 2026 Visiting Scholar is Graham Leicester, and partner Margaret Hannah, who are interested in human growth and potential in the face of powerful times. Join the exploration by reading Graham’s residency statement and tune in for a live conversation event.
Beyond Survival: Sustaining Human Agency in Challenging Times
Join Commonweal Board Chair Katherine Fulton and Executive Director Oren Slozberg for a conversation with Graham Leicester, founder of International Futures Forum, to explore how we respond to the polycrisis in “a world we do not understand and cannot control.”
Explore a Resilient and Earth-Centered Worldview with Visiting Scholar Craig Chalquist
As a founder of terrapsychology—the study of how the things of the world live in us—The New School’s Spring 2025 Visiting Scholar Craig Chalquist is interested in how imagination, story, and creativity let us tune in on the Greater Conversation unfolding continually around and within us. With the podcasts, videos, writings, and exercises gathered during Craig’s visit, you can join the exploration: growing a more resilient and earth-honoring worldview.
Reclaiming Wildness with Visiting Scholar Jeanine Canty
Jeanine M. Canty is a visionary scholar whose groundbreaking work illuminates the profound connections between consciousness, thought, and our relationship with the natural world. Her teaching weaves together social justice, ecological wisdom, and transformation. By reading her writings and watching or listening to recordings of her time in residence, you can explore how mind and spirit intersect with ecological healing in your own life.
Bridging Mind and Nature
During this second event with Fall 2025 Visiting Scholar Jeanine Canty, we look at various notions of self—ecological, multicultural, and transpersonal—and engage in some experiences and reflections that embody this. Host Susan Grelock Yusem will be in conversation with Jeanine for the first hour, followed by a half hour of experiential work with Jeanine.
Reclaiming Wildness: Introductory Lecture
Within this introductory talk with Fall 2025 Visiting Scholar Jeanine M. Canty, her first event in residence at The New School, we look at dualities within the western human’s psyche to reclaim our ecological and transpersonal identities and to access pathways for healing.
Walk, Dream, Write: Writing Workshop
Join us for writing, dreaming, and discussion about the earth around us in this culminating event with our 2025 summer visiting scholar Craig Chalquist.
Dreaming the Soul of the Earth: Re-imagination as a Remedy for Our Times
In this conversation with 2025 Summer Visiting Scholar Craig Chalquist, Host Susan Grelock Yusem talks with Craig about how we can approach land with curiosity and how we can work with our imagination to re-envision our relationship with the land all around us.
Imagination as a Tool of Wisdom and Transformation
In this introductory lecture from Summer 2025 Visiting Scholar Craig Chalquist, meet him, and learn how imagination has been used in various traditions as a source of wisdom and change-making. To prepare for this lecture, bring an example of a dream with some aspect of nature in it. What about this dream inspires(d) you? How has that inspiration changed you?