The New School at Commonweal

The Paleovedic Diet: A Complete Program to Burn Fat, Increase Energy, and Reverse Disease Join TNS Host Michael Lerner and Rebecca Katz, Director of the Healing Kitchens Institute at Commonweal, for a conversation on a deeply sophisticated approach to integrating the Paleolithic diet with Ayurvedic Medicine with Akil Palanisamy, MD. Participants may find that what they thought was a healthy paleol...

Michael Lerner and Waz The Commonweal Story (part 2) During this 40th anniversary year for Commonweal, Commonweal co-founder Michael Lerner and long time Cancer Help Program staffer and yoga teacher Waz offer the second of a series of talks about Commonweal for The New School Michael Lerner Michael is the president and co-founder of Commonweal and of Smith Center for Healing and the Arts in Washin...

Michael Lerner and Burr Heneman The Commonweal Story (part 1) During this 40th anniversary year for Commonweal, Commonweal co-founders Michael Lerner and Burr Heneman offer the first of a series of talks about Commonweal for The New School. During this first presentation, and in future presentations in the series to be held later in the year, Michael hopes to explore the following: Sometimes a Gre...

Caroline Casey Vernal Eclipse Scheherezade Convening Trickster Medicine Story-Telling Vernal Eclipse Palm Sunday -Venus-Neptune fantastic romance in Pisces (exalted and all) (note to all melancholics – you can have just as much melancholy as makes you a genius) Scheherezade Convening Trickster Medicine Story-Telling Council Tea The world is raging – so let’s bee the balm! Cahoot with Caroline Case...

Jonah Raskin The Strange Life and the Mysterious Death of Jack London Join TNS Host Steve Heilig with biographer and journalist Jonah Raskin about the life and the work of Jack London, one of the most popular American writers. London died 100 years ago, in 1916, at the age of 40. Steve and Jonah, both longtime readers of London’s work, talk about his literary and cultural achievements as well as t...

Bill Glenn Enneagram: An Archetypal Psychology Join TNS Host Michael Lerner for a conversation with Bill Glenn, a former Jesuit, licensed psychotherapist, and spiritual director with a private practice in San Francisco and Santa Rosa, California. Bill has been working with the Enneagram, an authoritative and unique self-integration system, since 1978, and has conducted workshops across the Bay Are...

Larry Robinson Reanimating the World: Ecopsychology, Mystery, and Poetry Join TNS Host Irwin Keller in conversation with psychotherapist, poet, politician, and activist Larry Robinson. In his wide-ranging work, Larry Robinson addresses the ways in which the world is in need of healing—both on a macro level and in our own suffering souls. He brings to this work a sense of mystery, an openness to pa...

Rabbi Rachel Cowan Wise Aging: Living with Joy, Resilience and Spirit ~Co-presented with Point Reyes Books~ Join TNS Host Michael Lerner for an exploration of spiritual biography with Rabbi Rachel Cowan, known nationally as a pioneer of contemplative practice in Judaism. Her latest book is Wise Aging: Living with Joy, Resilience and Spirit. Rabbi Rachel Cowan Rabbi Rachel Cowan, formerly the execu...

Join Michael Lerner in conversation with Sadja Greenwood as they discuss the science of supplements. Sadja Greenwood, MD Sadja Greenwood is a primary care physician with a special interest in women’s health. She has been an activist for women’s health throughout her career, in family planning, reproductive rights, self-care, education, and services for mid-life women. She is the author of Menopaus...

Sadja Greenwood, MD A Life of Changing the Rules Join TNS Host Steve Heilig for a conversation with long-time Bolinas resident Sadja Greenwood, MD, about her life of action and activism in women’s health, teaching, nutrition, and more. They’ll talk about her most recent book, published in 2013, called Changing the Rules: “This novel is set in the 1950s: romance, bohemian life (before the Beatniks)...

Enso House: The Story of a Zen Hospice Join TNS Host Michael Lerner in conversation with Ann Cutcher, MD, director of Enso House—a hospice on Whidbey Island in Washington State affiliated with the nearby Tahoma One Drop Zen Monastery (founded by Zen Master Shodo Harada Roshi). Enso House began in 2001 as a result of his vision of a home for the dying where the qualities of humility, service, compa...

Shodo Harada Roshi The Calligraphy of Emptiness, The Zen of Dying Part of the End-of-Life Conversations Series Join Michael Lerner in conversation with Roshi about his experiences with death and dying and for an unforgettable demonstration of his calligraphy. Shodo Harada Roshi Shodo Harada Roshi is Abbot of Sogen-ji, a 300-year-old Rinzai Zen monastery in Okayama, Japan. He is also Abbot of Tahom...

Kevin Starr, MD Hippocratic Philanthropy: Helping the Poorest Around the Globe Most people agree that philanthropy, whether in the form of foreign aid or local grassroots projects, is a worthy undertaking. But many have long held that philanthropy often fails, wholly or in part, in terms of impact and sustainability. Sometimes it can even make things worse. How do we make philanthropic efforts mos...

Betsy MacGregor, MD In Awe of Being Human ~Part of the End-of-Life Conversation Series~ Join TNS Host Michael Lerner for a conversation with Dr. Betsy MacGregor, cancer survivor, retired medical doctor, author, and founding board member of Enso House, a hospice residence providing compassionate, holistic care for terminally ill patients and their families. From decades of work as a hospital-based...

Ananda Brady Ten Years on the Hippie Trail, and Beyond A ten-year odyssey around the world, and what did it all mean? An open exploration of “the sixties” and the legacies of the times. Join TNS Host Steve Heilig in an interview and dialogue with long-time Bolinas denizen Ananda Brady about his new book, Ten Years on the Hippie Trail—an engrossing retelling of his worldwide wandering in the 1960s...

Catherine Baumgartner Embodied Ecologies: Exploring Biocultural Neuroscience Join TNS Host Michael Lerner in conversation with Catherine Baumgartner, project director at Embodied Ecologies, a new organization dedicated to building large-scale knowledge and action partnerships that leverage the latest research findings in neuroscience, cognitive science, somatic psychology, and biocultural diversit...

Frances McDormand and Joel Coen Adventures in Collaboration Join us for a conversation with stage and film actor Frances McDormand and writer and director Joel Coen, moderated by Commonweal board member, Eric Karpeles. Up for discussion are the ways in which the creative act, kindled in an individual, often requires active input from others to be realized. Collaboration manifests itself on many le...

Peter Gleckler Climate Change: What We Know and Don't Know about Where We're Going Join TNS Host Michael Lerner in a conversation with Peter Gleckler, a lead climate change scientist for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an entity established by the United Nations Environmental Programme. Peter Gleckler Peter Gleckler, a Bolinas resident, has been studying climate change for more than...

Suzanne Ciani Piano Concert Hear the inauguration of our newly gifted grand piano with a concert by Bolinas composer-pianist Suzanne Ciani. Suzanne performed original compositions for piano solo, followed by a conversation with TNS Host Michael Lerner. Ciani’s many recognitions include five Grammy nominations for Best New Age Album, the Indie Award for Best New Age Album and Keyboard Magazine’s “N...

Ken Wilson On the Resilience of Connected Diversities and the Backing of Indigenous Innovation Dr. Ken Wilson serves as executive director of The Christensen Fund, a private foundation established in 1957 and currently focusing on sustaining the “biocultural”—the rich but neglected adaptive interweave of people and place, culture, and ecology. The Fund backs indigenous initiatives to restore relat...

Ramblin’ Jack Elliott Ramblin' On with Ramblin' Jack Jack was King of the Folksingers. -Bob Dylan Nobody I know—and I mean nobody—has covered more ground and made more friends and sung more songs than the fellow you’re about to meet right now. He’s got a song and a friend for every mile behind him. Say hello to my good buddy, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott. -Johnny Cash One of the last true links to the gr...

Michael Lerner Body, Soul, and Spirit in Archetypal Psychology In this podcast, Michael Lerner continues his exploration of archetypal psychology with a talk at the Smith Farm Center for Healing and the Arts in Washington, DC. Michael Lerner, PhD Michael is the president and co-founder of Commonweal and of Smith Farm Center for Healing and the Arts in Washington, D.C. His principle work at Commonw...

Michael Lerner Body, Soul, and Spirit in Archetypal Psychology In this podcast, Michael Lerner continues his exploration of archetypal psychology with a talk at the Smith Farm Center for Healing and the Arts in Washington, DC. Michael Lerner, PhD Michael is the president and co-founder of Commonweal and of Smith Farm Center for Healing and the Arts in Washington, D.C. His principle work at Commonw...

Oren Slozberg Dialogue, Art, and Group Intelligence Wicked Problems: problems that are difficult or impossible to solve because of incomplete, contradictory, and changing requirements that are often difficult to recognize. (Wikipedia) Many of our core issues—like climate change, economic inequality, and the Middle East—are examples of “wicked problems.” How can we use group intelligence to re-wire...

John Gouldthorpe Imagination Is Reality ~Part of the Archetypal Psychology Series~ Join Michael Lerner in his second conversation with archetypal psychologist John Gouldthorpe. Find the transcript of the lecture by James Hillman (mentioned in the podcast) here. Find Michael’s first conversation with John Gouldthorpe here. John Gouldthorpe John has been immersed in the work of archetypal psychology...