The New School at Commonweal

Learn how outdoorswoman Rue Mapp turned her childhood experiences on family farmland into a national movement of Black joy and healing in nature. Her first book, Nature Swagger, celebrates those she has connected with along her outdoor journey, sharing each contributor's transformative connections to nature. This is the third conversation in our Empowering Women in Today’s World series, co-present...

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 Karen on our website, listen on  Soundcloud, watch on YouTube, or find us on Apple podcasts and Spotify. Rachel Naomi Remen, MD Rachel is a Professor of Family Medicine at Wright State Boonshoft Schoo...

Toward Psychologies of Liberation: Literal and Metaphorical Migrations in the Polycrisis / Mary Watkins and Host Michael Lerner As increasing global economic disparities, violence, and climate change provoke a rising tide of forced migration, many countries and local communities are responding by building walls—literal and metaphorical—between citizens and newcomers. Join depth psychologist, profe...

What Stories Does the Land Hold? is a conversation series co-presented by the Center for Humans and Nature and The New School at Commonweal as part of the Center’s Questions for a Resilient Future Series Across the world, Indigenous people share something in common: a connection to land and their Ancestral territories. This series of conversations spotlights a collection of Indigenous voices telli...

In his newly published spiritual memoir, I Came Here Seeking a Person, Bill Glenn shares the joys and the traumas of growing up gay and Catholic in the 1950s and 60s. A one-time Jesuit seminarian, he explores the longing for and the obstacles to living a life of faith, service, and wholeness in today’s world. He also explores the impact of being a newly out gay man in the terrible opening years of...

Join Host Michael Lerner for a conversation with photographer, environmental campaigner, and writer Ravi Agarwal. Ravi Agarwal Ravi has an inter-disciplinary practice as a photographer/ artist, environmental campaigner, writer, and curator. Bridging the divide between art and activism, he addresses the entangled questions of nature and its futures using photography, video, text, and installation....

~Co-presented by The New School at Commonweal and CancerChoices~ Join Thomas Smith, MD, with Host Michael Lerner for a conversation about easing cancer pain and suffering. Uncontrolled pain creates unnecessary suffering, but when pain is controlled, quality of life improves dramatically. Compassionate, expert help is available for people with cancer experiencing pain. Thomas J Smith, MD Thomas is...

What Stories Does the Land Hold? is a conversation series co-presented by the Center for Humans and Nature and The New School at Commonweal as part of the Center’s Questions for a Resilient Future Series Join Host Christine Luckasavitch (Anishinaabeg and mixed settler) in conversation with Māori artist, designer, activist, and researcher Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka. Tanya’s work is deeply r...

~ Co-presented with CancerChoices ~ Join Commonweal Cancer Help Program alumna Sue Mondello with Host Michael Lerner as they explore her hospice experience and the view from the edge of life. Host Michael Lerner Michael is the president and co-founder of Commonweal. His principal work at Commonweal is with the Cancer Help Program, CancerChoices.org, the Omega Resilience Projects, the Collaborative...

Join Host Michael Lerner for another series of spiritual biography conversations with social activist and community leader Orland Bishop. Together, they look at his life and work, working from his book, The Seventh Shrine: Meditations on the African Spiritual Journey from the Middle Passage to the Mountaintop. This four-part conversation is a follow up to the 2011 spiritual biography (also four pa...

Join Host Michael Lerner for another series of spiritual biography conversations with social activist and community leader Orland Bishop. Together, they look at his life and work, working from his book, The Seventh Shrine: Meditations on the African Spiritual Journey from the Middle Passage to the Mountaintop. This four-part conversation is a follow up to the 2011 spiritual biography (also four pa...

Join Host Michael Lerner for another series of spiritual biography conversations with social activist and community leader Orland Bishop. Together, they look at his life and work, working from his book, The Seventh Shrine: Meditations on the African Spiritual Journey from the Middle Passage to the Mountaintop. This four-part conversation is a follow up to the 2011 spiritual biography (also four pa...

Join Host Michael Lerner for another series of spiritual biography conversations with social activist and community leader Orland Bishop. Together, they look at his life and work, working from his book, The Seventh Shrine: Meditations on the African Spiritual Journey from the Middle Passage to the Mountaintop. This four-part conversation is a follow up to the 2011 spiritual biography (also four pa...

Love is all there is. The love for our friends, our family, our work, our home, our country, and for ourselves. Let's make love our way of life. Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, and Karen Drucker will share songs and stories about living from the heart. See all of the events with Rachel and Karen on our website [ tns.commonweal.org/series/story-music ] Rachel Naomi Remen, MD Rachel is a Professor of Family...

~ Co-presented by The New School at Commonweal and the Collaborative for Health and Environment ~ The harm to human health from chemical exposures is now recognized as a global crisis on par with climate change and biodiversity loss. Effectively addressing this challenge means adopting new approaches that recognize the complexity of systems with multi-disciplinary approaches, prioritize precaution...

~ Co-presented with CancerChoices ~ Join Host Michael Lerner in conversation with cancer coach Lindsay McDonell about her journey with cancer, her coaching work, and her work with the Smith Center for Healing and the Arts in Washington, DC. Lindsay McDonell Lindsay is a speaker, cancer coach, and the author of "Your Dance with Cancer." She is an eight-year thriver with metastatic breast cancer and...

What Stories Does the Land Hold? is a conversation series co-presented by the Center for Humans and Nature and The New School at Commonweal as part of the Center’s Questions for a Resilient Future Series Across the world, Indigenous people share something in common: a connection to land and their Ancestral territories. This series of conversations spotlights a collection of Indigenous voices telli...

It’s a time for new beginnings, for releasing the old and claiming greater joy! Master Storyteller Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, and Musician Karen Drucker will share songs and stories about finding the courage to live our best life. Here’s to rebirth! Watch or listen to other events with Rachel and Karen on our website, tns.commonweal.org Rachel Naomi Remen, MD Rachel is a Professor of Family Medicine...

Join Janet Moses, MD, and host Michael Lerner as they discuss the Bob Moses Conference on the Carceral State and continue their exploration of Janet’s life with her husband Bob Moses, the legendary civil rights leader. You can find the earlier conversation between Michael and Janet at: https://tns.commonweal.org/podcasts/janet-moses/ Find out more about The New School at Commonweal on our website:...

~Co-presented by The New School at Commonweal and CancerChoices~ Our knowledge about the biology of cancer has grown tremendously in the last two decades. We now know that the environment in which cancer cells grow are as important as the cancer cell in the management of cancer. Attending to that environment—the immunology, metabolism, microbiome, and our lifestyle and psychosocial environment of...

~ Co-presented with CancerChoices ~ Join The New School Host and CancerChoices Co-founder Michael Lerner for a webinar conversation with CancerChoices Program Manager and Lead Researcher Nancy Hepp and Senior Clinical Consultant Laura Pole. After a brief discussion of using natural products and re-purposed drugs in integrative cancer care, they will explore the surprisingly good evidence of effect...

In a special presentation for the holidays, join us in welcoming Commonweal’s own Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, and musician Karen Drucker: two feisty women of a certain age who have been friends for years. We will sing together, hear stories together, and tell some of our own. Bring the people you love and the cat! Rachel Naomi Remen, MD Rachel is a Professor of Family Medicine at Wright State Boonshof...

Join Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen in conversation with host Michael Lerner as she reads from and discusses her newest children’s book “The Birthday of the World: A Story About Finding Light in Everyone and Everything” Find out more about The New School at Commonweal on our website: tns.commonweal.org. And like/follow our Soundcloud channel for more great podcasts.

~Co-presented by The New School and CancerChoices~ Join TNS Host Michael Lerner for a conversation with Kelly Turner, New York Times bestselling author of Radical Remission and Radical Hope. Kelly featured Michael in a Hay House 10-episode docuseries, Radical Remission, about cancer survivors who defied their diagnoses. The docuseries had a test screening in March 2020 and will be released exclusi...

Acompañe a Lyons Filmer en una conversación con la profesora de derecho Lara Bazelon, defensora, autora y madre, sobre cómo aceptar al desequilibrio cuando se trata del trabajo, la vida y el ser madre. El nuevo libro de Lara, Ambitious Like a Mother: Why Prioritizing Your Career Is Good For Your Kids, (Ambiciosa Como Madre: Por Qué Darle Prioridad a Nuestra Profesión, es Bueno para sus Hijos, que...