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The New School at Commonweal
by The New School at Commonweal
The New School presents conversations, book signings, art, and lectures with thought and action leaders of our time. We are a learning community of 4,000 people in the Bay Area and around the world dedicated to learning what matters. TNS focuses on the emergent, seeking out the thought and action leaders who are bringing discussion, beauty, and change to the world. We present events and podcast them in many areas: arts and sciences, health and the environment, and inner life. We follow streams of inquiry, including our End-of-Life Conversations, and series on Resilience, Archetypal Psychology, and Healing Circles.
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The Rematriation of Science: Restoring Balance through Indigenous Knowledges - Melissa K. Nelson | Part 2
Melissa K. Nelson and Host Jaune Evans How can a rematriated science address the roots of the polycrisis? Can society move beyond an anthropocentric, male-dominated science to a relational one rooted in justice and care? As an Anishinaabe ecologist and transdisciplinary scholar-activist…
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The Rematriation of Science: Restoring Balance through Indigenous Knowledges - Melissa K. Nelson | Part 1
Melissa K. Nelson and Host Jaune Evans How can a rematriated science address the roots of the polycrisis? Can society move beyond an anthropocentric, male-dominated science to a relational one rooted in justice and care? As an Anishinaabe ecologist and transdisciplinary scholar-activist…
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Eternal Song Echoes of Resilience Across Indigenous Worlds - Maurizio Benazzo & Zaya Ralitza Benazzo
Co-presented with SAND (Science and Non-Duality) and Bolinas Film Festival For tens of thousands of years, indigenous peoples were in deep kinship with the natural world while stewarding ancestral land and wisdom. Through the narratives of colonialism, capitalism, and individualism, our “modern”...
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Richard Tarnas - Astrology, the Deep Psyche, and the Participatory Universe
Drawing on cosmologist Richard Tarnas' own spiritual and intellectual biography, including his years at Esalen and research with Stan Grof and psychedelic experience, Richard talks with Host Michael Lerner about the mysteries of the ensouled universe and a deeper view of history opened up by the...
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How to Think Impossibly - Jeffrey J. Kripal
In part 11 of this series, Host Michael Lerner talks with author Jeffrey J. Kripal about his book How to Think Impossibly. In this book, a mind-bending invitation to experience the impossible as fundamentally human, Jeffrey asserts that the impossible is a function not of reality but of our...
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The Ecology of Resilience: A Conversation with Alejo di Risio and Host Susan Grelock Yusem
"Bicherío, Chi no parakuya, Durga, Farafara, Guruni, Isong, Kasem, Koya, Nanda Devi, Nisarg, Njuzu, Parisara, Paryavaran, Psocodea, Prakriti, Pull of nature, Sankofa, Sango, Sasia, Tekoha, Teguala, Tutulegbte, Ubuntu, Ykua Ñe'e, Zumbani." These words and phrases are some of the ways that...
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Re-Dreaming Healing through Narrative & Story - Visiting Scholar Catherine Olweny
Bringing with her the traditional Aboriginal practices of dadirri—a sacred practice of deep listening, reflection, stillness, and connection to the land—and yarning—a conversational practice used by indigenous Australians to share knowledge, stories, and culture—Catherine Olweny talks about ways...
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Tending Our Future: Spirituality, Service, and the Art of Healing - Dr. Vivek H. Murthy
Known for bringing loneliness and social connection into the national conversation, former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy joins host Serena Bian at Commonweal’s New School to reflect on the deeper currents beneath his work. Beginning with his spiritual biography, we explore the questions,...
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Art for Our Common Good: Creativity Health & Civic Life P2: Dr. Catherine Olweny
Art for Our Common Good: Creativity, Health, and Civic Life - Part Two Hosted by Lisa Simms Booth What role can art play in helping us meet this moment? As communities face growing loneliness, burnout, environmental anxiety, and civic division, the arts can create spaces for healing, connection,...
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Art for Our Common Good: Creativity Health & Civic Life P1: Maria Rosario Jackson & Deborah Cullinan
Art for Our Common Good: Creativity, Health, and Civic Life - Part One Hosted by Lisa Simms Booth What role can art play in helping us meet this moment? As communities face growing loneliness, burnout, environmental anxiety, and civic division, the arts can create spaces for healing, connection,...
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The Superhumanities - Jeffrey J. Kripal with Host Michael Lerner
In part 10 of the Secret Body series of conversations, Michael Lerner talks with author Jeffrey Kripal about his book, The Superhumanities. What would happen, Jeffrey asks, if we reimagined the humanities as the superhumanities? If we acknowledged and celebrated the undercurrent of the fantastic...
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Deep Healing and the Coming Transformation of Human Consciousness - Michael Lerner
Michael Lerner with Moderator Katherine Fulton, and introductory remarks by Oren Slozberg. Exploring the Forces Changing What it Means to Be Human Join us for a day of reflection and conversation exploring healing at a time of transformation—contemplating what Michael Lerner points to as the…
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How Flowers Made Our World - David George Haskell
Co-presented with Pt Reyes Books Join Host Susan Grelock Yusem in conversation with David George Haskell to talk about his new book, How Flowers Made Our World: The Story of Nature's Revolutionaries (Viking). In this exquisite exploration of the role flowers played in creating the world we know...
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Healing the Roots, Transforming the Future - Kazu Haga
What becomes possible when we understand social and political harm not only as injustice, but as expressions of collective trauma? In this conversation, Kazu Haga—activist, trainer, and author of Fierce Vulnerability: Healing from Trauma, Emerging Through Collapse—joins host Serena Bian to…
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Robert Mullhall - A Spiritual Biography
Join Michael Lerner in a spiritual biography conversation with Robert Mulhall—Commonweal board member, former president of Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, and a consultant whose work sits at the intersection of leadership development, organizational health, and human potential. *** The New…
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The Medicine of Flow: Conversation & Experiential Workshop on Effortless Healing Pt 2 - Cynthia Li
What is healing, really—below the story or journey, and even beyond any meaning? After Dr. Cynthia Li experienced a radical healing firsthand, she began studying the science of physiological coherence, and deepening in her practice of embodied flow. Since then, she has been supporting others in...
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The Medicine of Flow: Conversation & Experiential Workshop on Effortless Healing Pt 1 - Cynthia Li
What is healing, really—below the story or journey, and even beyond any meaning? After Dr. Cynthia Li experienced a radical healing firsthand, she began studying the science of physiological coherence, and deepening in her practice of embodied flow. Since then, she has been supporting others in...
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The Flip - Jeffrey Kripal and Host Michael Lerner
In part 9 of the series, Michael Lerner talks with author Jeffrey Kripal about his book, The Flip. Jeffrey J. Kripal holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University. In this series, Jeffrey talks with Host Michael Lerner about his body of work---more than…
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Some Themes at the Heart of His Oeuvre - Jeffrey Kripal and Host Michael Lerner
In part 8 of the series, Michael Lerner talks with author Jeffrey Kripal about some of the key themes that weave through all of his books, especially exploring the nature of consciousness itself. Jeffrey J. Kripal holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice...
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Beyond Survival: Sustaining Human Agency in Challenging Times - Graham Leicester
Beyond Survival: Sustaining Human Agency in Challenging Times | Graham Leicester and Hosts Oren Slozberg and Katherine Fulton We are living in challenging times. Commonweal has been a trailblazer in recognizing this as a moment of long- and short-term peril and opportunity--a rolling…
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Narrative, Resilience, and Social Change - Urmitapa Dutta, Susan James, and Host Susan Grelock Yusem
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...
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How States Can Lead on Environmental Health - Susan Kaplan, Sarah Doll, and Host Kristin Schafer
Many protections from pollution and toxic chemicals have moved from the federal level to the states. This isn’t just a recent phenomenon; it goes back decades, to changes in the structure of agencies that manage environmental health and to a growing partisan divide. As federal regulation of...
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An Afternoon of Gospel and Jazz - Michelle Jacques and Matt Berkeley
Part of the Festival of Sacred Music Series at Commonweal New School Michelle’s music weaves the sacred and the soulful, drawing from traditions, rhythms, and ancestral memory of the African diaspora. Her love of the music connects her to something much larger than herself—community, history, and...
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Mutants and Mystics - Jeffrey Kripal and Host Michael Lerner
In part 7 of the series, Host Michael Lerner talks with Jeffrey Kripal about his book Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal. In the book, Jeffrey shows how creators turned to science fiction to convey the reality of the inexplicable and the paranormal they...
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Why Parkinson’s Disease Is Preventable - Ray Dorsey, Ted Schettler, and Host Kristin Schafer
An estimated 1.1 million people in the U.S. are currently living with Parkinson's disease (PD), and this number is expected to rise to 1.2 million by 2030. Globally, more than 10 million people are estimated to be living with PD, which is now the fastest growing brain disorder in the world.…
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Beyond Cancel Culture: on Healing, Conflict, and Community - Shilpa Jain and Host Serena Bian
“Conflict is the spirit of the relationship asking itself to deepen” --Sobonfu Somé Facilitator and writer Shilpa Jain deeply understands the nature of being human. She is well known in her East Bay community for hosting more than 250 “Yes Jams!” over the last decade, encouraging laughter and…
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Authors of the Impossible - Jeffrey Kripal and Host Michael Lerner
In part 6 of our series with Jeffrey Kripal and Host Michael Lerner, they discuss Jeffrey's Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred. The history of psychical phenomena, Jeffrey contends, is an untapped source of insight into the sacred. The cultural history of telepathy,...
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Serpent's Gift - Jeffrey Kripal and Host Michael Lerner
In part 6 of this series, Host Michael Lerner talks with author Jeffrey Kripal about his book The Serpent's Gift--Reflections on the Study of Religion. The book is a provocative call for a complete reorientation of religious studies, a reversal of the Adam and Eve story, aimed at a larger...
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The Art of Peacebuilding: Haiku, Accompaniment, and Courageous Love - John Paul Lederach
Widely recognized as one of the most influential and beloved figures in the field of peacebuilding, John Paul Lederach embodies both the rigor of the scholar and sensitivity of the poet. A pioneer of the concept of conflict transformation (as distinct from resolution), his work has redefined...
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Bridging Mind and Nature | Jeanine Canty
~Ecopsychology, Depth Psychology, and Ecological Healing~ Jeanine M. Canty was Visiting Scholar at The New School at Commonweal in October 2025. She is a visionary scholar whose groundbreaking work illuminates the profound connections between consciousness, thought, and our relationship with the...
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Reclaiming Wildness | Jeanine M. Canty
~ Integrating Self Through Practice~ Jeanine M. Canty, PhD, was Visiting Scholar at The New School at Commonweal in October 2025. She is a visionary scholar whose groundbreaking work illuminates the profound connections between consciousness, thought, and our relationship with the natural world....
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Esalen - Jeffrey Kripal and Host Michael Lerner
In part 4 of this series, Jeffrey Kripal and Host Michael Lerner explore Jeffrey’s remarkable history of Esalen in Esalen---The American Religion of No Religion. This astonishing cultural history of the famed retreat and conference center in Big Sur provides a panoramic insight of West Coast...
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A Life Immersed in the Imaginal | Arthur Colman and Host Michael Lerner
Join Professor Arthur Colman in conversation with Host Michael Lerner about his life and work using Jungian depth psychology as a foundation to bridge individual psychological understanding with group dynamics. Arthur D. Colman, MD Arthur is a psychiatrist trained at Harvard College and Medical...
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Tending the Soul in Uncertain Times - Francis Weller and Anderson Cooper
Join us along the wild coast of California, for an afternoon of dialogue, community, and ritual with author and soul activist, Francis Weller, and host of the All There Is podcast and CNN anchor, Anderson Cooper. Attendees gathered on the sacred grounds of Commonweal, a site of healing and…
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Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom - Jeffrey Kripal and Host Michael Lerner
In part 3 of this series, Host Michael Lerner talks with author Jeffrey Kripal about his book Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom: Eroticism and Reflexivity in the Study of Mysticism. Roads continues and expands Jeffrey's exploration of homoerotics themes in world religion. It focuses on the inner...
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Opening the Gate of the Heart - Christine Tulis
Part of the Festival of Sacred Music Series The harp has been loved all over the world for its healing powers since ancient times and is considered a bridge between Heaven and Earth in many cultures. Join us for a special concert of original sacred music to free your imagination and open your…
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Kali's Child - Jeffrey Kripal and Host Michael Lerner
In part 2 of this series, Host Michael Lerner talks with author and professor Jeffrey Kripal about his book Kali’s Child: The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna. This was a revised version of his PhD dissertation at the University of Chicago. It was greeted with...
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The Secret Body - Jeffrey Kripal and Host Michael Lerner
In this conversation, Host Michael Lerner talks with author and professor Jeffrey Kripal about his book The Secret Body: Erotic and Esoteric Currents in the History of Religions. Jeffrey considers this unusual autobiographical journey through his work as the key to much of the rest of his…
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The Way of the Buddha - Shodo Harada Roshi and Host Michael Lerner
~ The Japanese dialogue in this English language video podcast has been shortened for timing purposes. ~ The way of the Buddha is more a philosophy than a religion. It is a path, not a faith. Its core precepts describe a practice that leads to an experience. Arnold Toynbee once said that the…
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The Courage to Love - Anne and Terry Symens-Bucher with Host Serena Bian
Inspired by Franciscan spirituality and Joanna Macy’s body of teachings known as the Work That Reconnects, Canticle Farm in Oakland, California, brings together more than 40 people living into the question of how we heal ourselves and the planet together. In this conversation, host Serena Bian...
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On a Roll: A Story of Change, Courage, and the Road Still Rising: Jerry Millhon
Co-presented with Healing Circles Global With Host Elin Stebbins Waldal Join us for a live conversation with Jerry Millhon---father, life partner, friend, educator, and founder of Thriving Communities---as he reflects on the life-changing impact of a devastating bike accident. In this honest and...
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Life Wisdom from a Lifelong Healer: Rachel Naomi Remen with Host Irwin Keller
After years of friendship, Host Rabbi Irwin Keller sits with Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen to explore the influences of her childhood and young life on her lifelong calling as a healer and teacher. Listen closely for the story of her stint as a race car driver. Perhaps you weren’t expecting that. Rachel...
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Liberating Places | Rako Fabionar and Host Cassandra Ferrera
A new-old way of living in place is emerging through a variety of projects and pathways where people are deepening their relationship to land and place-making. Join Host Cassandra Lynn Ferrera with Rako Fabionar as they share about how they are personally and professionally engaging in…
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An Afternoon of Indian Classical Music with Manik Khan and Nilan Chauduri
Part of the Festival of Sacred Music Series at The New School at Commonweal Join us for the third in a series of sacred music celebrations at Commonweal, an afternoon duet of sarod and tabla with Manik Khan and Nilan Chaudhuri. Part of the Festival of Sacred Music Series These concerts are...
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Walk, Dream, Write: Writing Workshop with TNS Visiting Scholar Craig Chalquist
Join us for the culminating event with our spring 2025 visiting scholar Craig Chalquist. We listen to the earth around us, talk about how our dreams reflect events in the world, discuss and practice active imagination, and practice creative writing as a continuation of engaging the imaginal…
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Dreaming the Soul of the Earth: Re-imagination as a Remedy for Our Times | Craig Chalquist, PhD
How can we heal ourselves and the earth? How can we engage with the soul of a place? At Commonweal, we have always been grounded by our home place in the southern end of Point Reyes National Seashore. Though our work takes place around the world these days, we are always rooted here with the...
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Land All Around Us: Imagination as a Tool of Wisdom and Transformation with Craig Chalquist
We usually think of the land as a backdrop to human affairs. But in ancient tales, places and their creatures show up as vital characters in the story. What do hills and fields say? Streams and rivers? Geology? How do all these and other eco-presences show up in our moods, our struggles, even in...
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The Plants Know, but Do We? Healing Ourselves by Healing the Earth with Yeye Luisah Teish
Join us for conversation with author and spiritual advisor Yeye Teish and host Cassandra Ferrera, director of Commonweal’s Center for Ethical Land Transition. Chief Iyanifa Fajembola Fatunmise (Yeye Luisah Teish) Yeye is an American author of African and African-diaspora spiritual cultures. She...
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2025:03.29 - David Sheff - Yoko
John Lennon once described Yoko Ono as the world’s most famous unknown artist. Join us for a conversation with David Sheff—author of this intimate and revelatory biography of Yoko Ono, and the #1 New York Times bestseller, Beautiful Boy. David’s biography delves into her groundbreaking art…
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2025:03.07 - 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. This is a time to let go of social engagement while being together in sacred space. Find something to lie or sit upon…
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The New School presents conversations, book signings, art, and lectures with thought and action leaders of our time. We are a learning community of 4,000 people in the Bay Area and around the world dedicated to learning what matters. TNS focuses on the emergent, seeking out the thought and action leaders who are bringing discussion, beauty, and change to the world. We present events and podcast them in many areas: arts and sciences, health and the environment, and inner life. We follow streams of inquiry, including our End-of-Life Conversations, and series on Resilience, Archetypal Psychology, and Healing Circles.
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