The New School at Commonweal

Love Heals: A Talk at the Intergral Yoga Institute in San Francisco Michael talks about the healing power of love, the different fates of romantic love and friendship, the question of whether the universe is a living creative force, and the play of archetypes in love. He reads love poems from Rilke, Rumi, Hafiz, Mary Oliver and others.

High John Eve-holiest day in New Orleans – with Amikaeyla Gaston drumming, singing, and calling in the spirits. Cahoot with Caroline Casey as she presents astro*politico*mytho*ritual navigational guidance for the wild ride ahead. Caroline Casey Caroline is the host-creator and weaver of context for The Visionary Activist Show on Pacifica Radio Network Pacifica station KPFA (94.1) in Northern Calif...

Join TNS Host Steve Heilig for a conversation with Don Lattin, award-winning journalist and author of Changing Our Minds: Psychedelic Sacraments and the New Psychotherapy. There’s a quiet revolution underway in our understanding of how psychedelic drugs work and how they can be used to treat depression, addiction and other disease. In his new book, Don offers an engaging look at the recent history...

Join TNS Host Michael Lerner in conversation with Lynn Getz, therapist, social worker, and founder of Portland-based organization AEIOU&Y. Lynn is multi-disciplinary therapist and classically trained social worker. She understands the inner connectedness of dynamic relationship. She has focused on cultivating the union between experience and perception. Her work grows out of the earliest tradition...

Join TNS Host Steve Heilig for a conversation with Frank Ostaseski—Buddhist teacher, international lecturer, and a leading voice in contemplative end-of-life care—about his new book: The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully. The profundity of the dying process is so powerful any notion we have of managing or controlling this experience is naïve. To imagine that...

Join Commonweal Co-Founder and TNS Host Michael Lerner in a new series of community conversations drawing on 40 years of Commonweal work and his diverse interests outside Commonweal. “I take the title from Carl Jung’s autobiography. This new series is an exercise in personal freedom for me. I hope you will join us for a new chapter at The New School, an experiment in the emergent.” Michael Lerner...

Join us for a conversation with Elise Miller, long time director of CHE, the Collaborative on Health and the Environment and Michael Lerner.

Alison Luterman The Largest Possible Life Join New School host Irwin Keller for an evening of talk with poet and playwright Alison Luterman about how we live our lives to the fullest, and how we tell our stories – turning our days into poetry, written sometimes in ink and sometimes in flesh and blood, breath, and action. Alison Luterman is a poet, essayist and playwright. Her books include the poe...

Join TNS Host Michael Lerner with Walter Murch for conversation and discussion from the new book about Walter’s astrophysics work, Waves Passing in the Night: Walter Murch in the Land of the Astrophysicists. Written by Pulitzer Prize nominee Lawrence Weschler, the book is a profile of Walter Murch—a film legend and amateur astrophysicist whose investigations could reshape our understanding of the...

Anna O’Malley The Ecology of Community Medicine The approach to medicine and healing within our current medical system is falling short of achieving improved health outcomes, much less optimal vitality. A majority of chronic diseases, so costly to “manage” and “treat” medically, are preventable and often reversible by aligning our behaviors, our thoughts, our actions with that which heals. Deliver...

TNS host Irwin Keller in conversation with Chas Nol in a spirited discussion titled "Radical Faeries - Unleashing the Sissy Boy."

~with Gail Needleman offering an introduction to the Gurdjieff music~ Join TNS Host Michael Lerner for a fourth conversation in a series with philosopher and author Jacob Needleman. They explore his “life-within-life” as both an engaged pupil of the Gurdjieff Work and also as a scholar and teacher confronting the great unanswerable questions of the heart.

Co-sponsored by the “Of One Soul” Campaign of the Interfaith Council of Sonoma County~ Join TNS Host Irwin Keller in a conversation with scholar, writer, and speaker Sumbul Ali-Karamali. Sumbul is a lawyer, scholar, and frequent spokesperson on matters of interest to Muslim Americans and Muslim women. Her books and columns have helped translate for mainstream Americans both the history of Islam an...

Peter Orner Not Alone Tonight at Least ~Co-presented by the Bolinas Library, The New School at Commonweal, and Point Reyes Books~ Join us for a reading and conversation with TNS Host Steve Heilig and writer Peter Orner. Peter teaches at the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers as well as at San Francisco State University, where he is currently chair of the Creative Writing Department. He is a mem...

A Community Reading with Eric Karpeles ~Co-sponsored by Point Reyes Books~ Please join TNS host Eric Karpeles for another panoramic community event, a chorus of mixed individual voices reading from the pages of one of America’s most impassioned nature lovers.

Join us for a conversation with TNS Host Michael Lerner and film maker Lata Mani. The Poetics of Fragility (63 minutes) is a kaleidoscopic exploration of the texture, vitality, and aesthetics of fragility. Shot in the San Francisco Bay Area in September 2015 by co-directors Lata Mani and Nicolás Grandi, the film features internationally renowned scholar-activist Angela Davis, the acclaimed playwri...

Join TNS Host Irwin Keller in a conversation with musician, teacher, and activist Holly Near. Holly is an acclaimed songwriter, producer, and recording artist with more than 40 creative years and 30 recordings. Respected around the world for her music and activism, her joy and passion inspire people to join in her celebration of the human spirit. Holly Near Born in Ukiah, CA in 1949, Holly began s...

Listen to remarks from Commonweal Founder Michael Lerner, Chief Strategies Officer Oren Slozberg, and Cancer Help Program Medical Director Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, at the occasion of Commonweal's 40th anniversary luncheon.

During this 40th anniversary year for Commonweal, Michael Lerner, Commonweal Co-Founder, and Rachel Remen, MD, Medical Director of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program, offer the fourth in a series of conversations about Commonweal’s story for The New School. In addition to being the Medical Director of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program for almost 30 years, Rachel directed the Institute for the Stu...

Join TNS Host Michael Lerner for a two-part spiritual biography conversation with Jerry Jampolsky, MD, and Diane Cirincione-Jampolsky, PhD. Jerry is the founder of Attitudinal Healing and the first Center for Attitudinal Healing in 1975 and Diane founded and currently directs Attitudinal Healing International. Health is defined as inner peace and healing as the letting go of fear. Attitudinal Heal...

Join TNS Host Michael Lerner for a two-part spiritual biography conversation with Jerry Jampolsky, MD, and Diane Cirincione-Jampolsky, PhD. Jerry is the founder of Attitudinal Healing and the first Center for Attitudinal Healing in 1975 and Diane founded and currently directs Attitudinal Healing International. Health is defined as inner peace and healing as the letting go of fear. Attitudinal Heal...

Join TNS Host Steve Heilig in conversation with Andreas Weber, a Berlin-based book and magazine writer and independent scholar. Andreas’ work has focused on a re-evaluation of our understanding of the living, and the disconnection between humans and nature, arguably the root cause of most of the environmental catastrophes unravelling around us. In his recent book, The Biology of Wonder, Andreas pr...

Michael Lerner speaks at Tahoma One Drop Monastery on Whidbey Island in Washington State. Find out more about The New School at tns.commonweal.org.

During this 40th anniversary year for Commonweal, Michael Lerner, Commonweal Co-Founder, and Steve Lerner, former Commonweal Research Institute Director, offer the third of a series of conversations about Commonweal’s story for The New School. Steve Lerner was among the earliest partners in founding Commonweal. He directed the Commonweal Research Institute, and he and Burr Heneman launched the cam...

Steve Lerner The Commonweal Story (part 3) During this 40th anniversary year for Commonweal, Michael Lerner, Commonweal Co-Founder, and Steve Lerner, former Commonweal Research Institute Director, offer the third of a series of conversations about Commonweal’s story for The New School. Steve Lerner was among the earliest partners in founding Commonweal. He directed the Commonweal Research Institut...