The New School at Commonweal

Join us for a conversation with Celeste Mergens and host, Michael Lerner. Celeste Mergens, Founder & CEO, Days for Girls Celeste founded Days for Girls after a trip to Kenya in 2008, when she learned that girls in an orphanage were facing huge challenges each month because they lacked access to hygiene options. What first began as an effort to supply disposable pads quickly evolved into a more sus...

Join TNS Host Michael Lerner in part two of a two part conversation with Beatrice Chestnut, one of the most accomplished interpreters of the enneagram in our times. Her book, The Complete Enneagram, is widely recognized as one of the best resources for enneagram students. This seminar is primarily designed for people with at least a basic knowledge of enneagram. Reading or a familiarity with Chest...

Join TNS Host Michael Lerner in part two of a two part conversation with Beatrice Chestnut, one of the most accomplished interpreters of the enneagram in our times. Her book, The Complete Enneagram, is widely recognized as one of the best resources for enneagram students.  To follow along with Beatrice Chestnut's presentation while listening to part one of the podcast, or just for reference, pleas...

Join TNS Host Michael Lerner in a spiritual biography conversation with retired psychotherapist and Vedic astrologer Kristina Flanagan.

~Co-presented by Point Reyes Books and the Mesa Refuge~ Join us for a conversation between TNS Host Michael Lerner and Author and Journalist Michael Pollan about his new book, How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence. How to Change Your Mind explores the medical and scientific revolution taking pla...

Join TNS Host Michael Lerner in conversation with Dr. Brian Bouch for a conversation about integrative oncology—part of our Healing Circles series of conversations. Brian Bouch, MD, has forged a career in medicine incorporating the best of conventional therapies with proven complementary and alternative therapies. A skilled acupuncturist and acupuncture teacher, he founded Hillpark Integrative Med...

Join TNS Host Michael Lerner in conversation with Dr. Brian Bouch for a conversation about integrative oncology—part of our Healing Circles series of conversations. Brian Bouch, MD, has forged a career in medicine incorporating the best of conventional therapies with proven complementary and alternative therapies. A skilled acupuncturist and acupuncture teacher, he founded Hillpark Integrative Med...

Join TNS Host Michael Lerner in conversation with Dr. Brian Bouch for a conversation about integrative oncology—part of our Healing Circles series of conversations. Brian Bouch, MD, has forged a career in medicine incorporating the best of conventional therapies with proven complementary and alternative therapies. A skilled acupuncturist and acupuncture teacher, he founded Hillpark Integrative Med...

Join Dr. Lael Duncan and TNS host Steve Heilig for a wide-ranging discussion of innovations and controversies in end-of-life care. Lael is the medical director of consulting services for the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California, a Sacramento-based non-profit organization and interdisciplinary partnership of thought-leaders dedicated to promoting high-quality, compassionate care for every...

Join TNS Host Steve Heilig in conversation with one of the most renowned voices of our time, ecophilosopher Joanna Macy. Joanna is a scholar of Buddhism, living systems theory, and deep ecology. Respected in the movements for peace, global justice, and ecological sanity, she interweaves her scholarship with six decades of activism. As the root teacher of the Work that Reconnects Network, her groun...

2018:04.16 - Rachel Naomi Remen - Out of the Fire: A Time of Discovery by The New School at Commonweal

We are being called to a new mode of being human in the age of the Anthropocene. We are discovering our role within a vast evolving universe that gave birth to us and that orients and grounds us. We are seeking ways to nurture ourselves and the life community in an age of disruption and diminishment. Journey of the Universe narrates the epic story of the unfolding of the Universe, Earth, and human...

Noted actor, narrator, author and activist Peter Coyote discusses the current state of money and falsehood in politics and the news.

In the second of our TNS-Sonoma Living in the Ashes series events exploring issues related to the 2017 North Bay fires, join TNS Host Irwin Keller in conversation with Sharyle Patton, director of the Health and Environment Program and the Biomonitoring Resource Center at Commonweal. Much of Sharyle’s work involves understanding and testing the effects of toxic chemicals on our bodies. Particularly...

Noted author, editor and futurist Stephan A. Schwartz in conversation with Michael Lerner.

Join TNS Host Michael Lerner and Commonweal Integrative Law Institute’s Pauline Tesler for a conversation with Dr. Fred Luskin about his work on the powers of forgiveness. The conversation will explore the intersection of Fred’s work with Commonweal’s many healing programs and with the Integrative Law Institute’s work on conflict resolution in legal disputes involving important human relationships...

Hanmin Liu and Jennifer Mei of Wildflowers Institute in conversation with Commonweal president and TNS host, Michael Lerner.

Historian and author Adam Hochschild wrote King Leopold's Ghost, To End All Wars, and Bury the Chains. He was a civil rights worker in Mississippi in 1964, a co-founder of Mother Jones, and a writer and editor for Ramparts. This conversation had a slide presentation given during the first approximately 45 minutes. A PDF of that presentation is available at the following link so that listeners may...

Join TNS Host Michael Lerner for a conversation with composer, educator, and internationally recognized consultant on learning, Aaron Stern. Aaron founded the Academy for the Love of Learning, an innovative non-profit educational institution based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Academy has led to community-based programs including Teacher Renewal, El Otro Lado in the Schools, multi-generational prog...

Benjamin P. Marcus is the Religious Literacy Specialist with the Religious Freedom Center of the Newseum Institute, where he examines the intersection of education, religious literacy, and identity formation in the United States. Join Commonweal Executive Director Oren Slozberg in conversation with Ben on the subject of religious studies in the educational system. Benjamin P. Marcus has developed...

Fall of 2017 has seen radical changes in the physical and psychic landscape of Northern California. The fires that began late Sunday night, October 8th, quickly engulfed homes and dreams, woodlands, and security. Many of us awoke in the middle of the night to the acrid smell of smoke, sensing that something was wrong. Only later, with the dawn light, were we able to see the extent of this disturbi...

Join TNS Host Michael Lerner for another conversation with physician, artist, and author Michael Samuels, one of the foremost experts in body, mind, spirit medicine today. Michael Samuels, MD, is a physician, artist, guided imagery specialist, and author. His best selling books The Well Body Book and the Well Pregnancy Book were amongst the first books in self help and holistic medicine. As a phys...

David Best and his crews built the first Burning Man Temple in 2000, which marked the beginning of a new and profound ritual for the tens of thousands of participants who attend Burning Man each year. After days of writing prayers on the structures, of affixing offerings from one’s life such as pictures, paintings, or of leaving the ashes of loved ones, the Temple are burned on Sunday nights. Davi...

Michael Lerner in conversation with Dr. Erlene Chiang

Join TNS Host Steve Heilig for a conversation with David Smith, co-founder of the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic in San Francisco on Haight Street. David served as medical director at the clinic for 39 years, which was originally founded as a response to the medical needs of thousands of young people who descended upon San Francisco for the Summer of Love. The clinic was initially funded throu...