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Rachel Naomi Remen and Karen Drucker - Yo Mama! Celebrating Mother’s Day with...

Join us for the next stories and music event in our series with master storyteller Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, and musician/songwriter Karen Drucker. See all of the music and story events with Rachel and...

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Rachel Naomi Remen and Karen Drucker - Yo Papa! Celebrating Father's Day with...

Join us for another healing hour of stories and music in our series with master storyteller Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, and musician/songwriter Karen Drucker. The post Rachel Naomi Remen and Karen Drucker...

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Kristina Marusic, Nsedu Obot Witherspoon, Sandra Steingraber, Host Kristin...

If we can stop cancer before it begins, why don’t we? This question motivated a deep-dive inquiry into cancer prevention for award-winning journalist Kristina Marusic. Her exploration uncovered an...

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Dick Russell and Host Michael Lerner - Biography of the Biographer

How Dick Russell wrote the definitive biography of James Hillman Join TNS Host Michael Lerner with author Dick Russell in a conversation about his defintive biography of James Hillman, founder of the...

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Rachel Naomi Remen and U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy - Can We All Become...

In this incredible conversation, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, makes a “House Call” at The New School at Commonweal–to talk with one of his long-time mentors and friends, Dr. Rachel Naomi...

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Erlene Chiang and Host Michael Lerner - Traditional Chinese Medicine for...

Join TNS Host Michael Lerner with Commonweal Cancer Help Program Qigong teacher and acupuncturist, Erlene Chiang, for a spiritual biography conversation. Erlene comes from a long lineage of classical...

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Rachel Naomi Remen and Karen Drucker - Autumn: Celebrating the Time of...

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...

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Gary Cohen and Host Michael Lerner - The Evolution of the Modern Health and...

Join Host Michael Lerner in a conversation with Gary Cohen, founder of Healthcare without Harm. They trace the evolution of the modern health and environmental justice movement over the years. The post...

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Rebecca Katz and Host Michael Lerner - Eat, Paint, Pray: A Portrait of an...

Join us for this two-part spiritual biography conversation with artist, chef, and cookbook author Rebecca Katz. The post Rebecca Katz and Host Michael Lerner appeared first on The New School at...

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Grace Sesma and Host Brenda Salgado - Restoring the Heart of Our...

~Co presented with the Racial Healing Initiative at Commonweal’s Retreat Center Collaboration~ What would it mean to “become indigenous” to the place we are now? How would we live if we were? Our...

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Oren Slozberg and Host Michael Lerner - A Life of Collaborative Leadership:...

Join Host Michael Lerner in conversation with Commonweal’s Executive Director, Oren Slozberg. Together, they explore Oren’s life, his quest for justice and inclusion, and journey in this Spiritual...

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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...

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Keith Block and Host Michael Lerner - Life Over Cancer: A New Model of...

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. The post Keith Block and...

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Sherri Mitchell and Host Brenda Salgado - Restoring the Heart of Our...

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...

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Rachel Naomi Remen and Karen Drucker - The Practice of Gratitude: Finding...

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...

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Pat McCabe and Host Brenda Salgado - Restoring the Heart of Our...

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...

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Graham Leicester, Katherine Fulton, Host Michael Lerner - Rising to the...

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. The post Graham...

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Terry Tempest Williams and Host Michael Lerner - Rejoice! Our Times Are...

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...

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Elizabeth Sawin, Beverley Thorpe, and Host Kristin Schafer - Multisolving for...

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...

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Christina Baldwin and Host Michael Lerner - Writing as Legacy: What Do We...

Thursday, March 28 - 2:00 pm PDT - 4:00 pm PDT Commonweal 451 Mesa Rd Bolinas The post Christina Baldwin and Host Michael Lerner appeared first on The New School at Commonweal.

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Justin Nobel, Larysa Dyrszka, James Brugh and Host Kristin Schafer -...

Join Host Kristin Schafer will explore the toxic by products of the gas and oil industry with author Justin Noble, Dr. Larysa Dyrszka, and James Brugh, a tribal member of Fort Berthold in western North...

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Christina Baldwin and Host Michael Lerner - Writing as Legacy: What Do We...

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...

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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. The post Jane Hirshfield and Host Michael Lerner...

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Nnimmo Bassey and Host Michel Lerner - Welcome, Wild Times: Conversation with...

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...

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Deepa Patel and Host Serena Bian - What Does Love Have To Do With It?...

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...

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Aljosie Aldrich Harding and Host Serena Bian - What Does Love Have To Do With...

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...

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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...

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Festival of Sacred Music - Maryliz Smith

Join us (in person or via webinar) 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...

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Kalyanee Mam and Host Serena Bian - What Does Love Have To Do With It?...

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...

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Lisa Bero, Lariah Edwards, and Host Kristin Schafer - Protecting Scientists...

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....

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Jerry Millhon and Host Michael Lerner - Storytelling for Thriving...

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...

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Manisha Gupta and Host Michel Lerner - Welcome, Wild Times: Conversation with...

Join Host Michael Lerner in conversation with Manisha Gupta from StartUp! in India in part 2 of our series talking with the co-creators of Commonweal's Omega Resilience Awards global resilience...

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Sofia Nemenmann and Anabella Museri with Host Michael Lerner - Welcome, Wild...

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...

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Kevin Opstedal and Host Steve Heilig - Dreaming as One: Poetry, Poets and...

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...

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Joanna Bornowski and Host Michael Lerner - Consciousness, Intuition, and...

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...

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Okhiogbe Omonblanks Omonhinmin and Host Susan Grelock Yusem - What Do We...

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...

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Michael Fischer and Host Ken Adams - 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,...

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Jeffrey J. Kripal and Host Michael Lerner - The Superhumanities: Historical...

~recordings coming soon~ Join Host Michael Lerner in conversation with Jeffrey J. Kripal, Rice University Department of Religion professor and author of more than a dozen books including The...

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Norma Wong and Host Serena Bian - Listening to the Soul of Conflict

Join TNS Host Serena Bian in conversation with Norma Wong, Zen priest and teacher about the art of war and conflict, who recently served to help facilitate a mutual path through the conflict between...

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Tara Geer and Host Susan Grelock Yusem - What Do We Know? Exploring...

“Imagine you are in an aging public school classroom with 30 elementary students. No one is facing forward and everyone is squirming in their seats. You put up an image of a young girl walking with a...

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Rabbi Irwin Keller and Host Michael Lerner - Words, Worry, Wonder

Join Host Michael Lerner in conversation with Rabbi Irwin Keller about his long-awaited volume of essays, memoir, and poetry: Shechinah at the Art Institute: Words, Worry, Wonder. The post Rabbi Irwin...

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David Sheff and Host Steve Heilig - Yoko

Saturday, March 29 - 2:00 pm PDT - 3:30 pm PDT Commonweal 451 Mesa Road Bolinas The post David Sheff and Host Steve Heilig appeared first on The New School at Commonweal.

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Mariah Parker and Matthew Montfort Duo - A Celebration of Sympathetic Strings

Join us for the second in a series of sacred music celebrations at Commonweal, this time with Mariah Parker (piano, sauntur) and Matthew Montford (scalloped fretboard guitar). Held at the solstice and...

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Howard Gardner and Host Michael Lerner - On Mind and Education

Join Host Michael Lerner in two conversations with cognitive psychologist, Harvard professor, and author Howard Gardner, who is best known for his theory of multiple intelligences. The post Howard...

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Forum on Healing with Integrative Cancer Care -

We invite you to join the 2024 Forum on Healing with Integrative Cancer Care, a gathering that bridges wisdom traditions with emerging frontiers in healing. This year's forum explores transformation...

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Bayo Akomolafe, Pat McCabe, Matthew Monahan, Baljeet Sandhu, Julian Corner,...

We are living through prophetic times—what some call the metacrisis, others name as a rupture, others see as an opening. What does it mean to navigate this moment with wisdom? And what role does wealth...

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Deborah Koff-Chapin - Songbath Sanctuary

Friday, March 7 - 5:30 pm PST - 7:00 pm PST Gallery Commonweal 451 Mesa road Bolinas The post Deborah Koff-Chapin appeared first on The New School at Commonweal.

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Yeye Luisah Teish with Host Cassandra Fererra - The Plants Know, but Do We?...

Saturday, April 5 - 11:00 am PDT - 1:30 pm PDT Commonweal 451 Mesa Road Bolinas The post Yeye Luisah Teish with Host Cassandra Fererra appeared first on The New School at Commonweal.

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Susan Page Tillett and Kim Klein - Ethical Wills Workshop

Tuesday, April 29 - 1:00 pm PDT - 3:00 pm PDT Commonweal 451 Mesa Road Bolinas The post Susan Page Tillett and Kim Klein appeared first on The New School at Commonweal.

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Deborah Koff-Chapin - Songbath Sanctuary

Rest and renew in a rich sonic atmosphere. Deborah creates deep, resonant sounds through evocative vocal tones accompanied by alchemy crystal bowls and antique Himalayan bowls. Co-presented with...

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