The New School at Commonweal

The Learning Community Series at The New School Join TNS Host Michael Lerner in our next Friday morning webinar conversation, this time with Diana Lindsay, co-founder of Commonweal's Healing Circles Langley and Healing Circles Global. Diana Lindsay is co-founder of Lindsay Communications, WOW!Stories, Healing Circles Langley, and Healing Circles Global. She is the author of Something More Than Hop...

Join TNS Host Michael Lerner in a webinar conversation with Irwin Keller, jewish spiritual leader, musician, and faculty member of Commonweal’s Taproot Gathering. Irwin Keller Irwin is the spiritual leader of Congregation Ner Shalom in Sonoma County, California, since 2008. His past work included LGBT advocacy, HIV legal services, and 21 years as a singing drag queen with The Kinsey Sicks, America...

Join us for this rare “two host” conversation between TNS hosts Michael Lerner and Steve Heilig. Michael will talk with Steve about his work as a public health specialist and expert in epidemiology and medical ethics, specifically with regard to COVID-19. Steve Heilig Trained at five University of California campuses in public health, epidemiology, medical ethics, addiction, economics, environment...

Join us for the next webinar from The Learning Community series at The New School at Commonweal, this time with Host Michael Lerner and Cynthia Li, MD. Cynthia's experiences as both doctor and patient through an internal “dark night of the soul” and a medical condition affecting her immune system point to tools for building personal immunity and resilience in the face of crises like the current pa...

Join us for this webinar from The Learning Community series at The New School at Commonweal, this time with Host Michael Lerner and Rachel Naomi Remen, MD. Rachel is a long-time part of the Commonweal family and co-founder of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program—as well as a master story teller and author of best selling books Kitchen Table Wisdom and My Grandfather’s Blessings. During the webinar,...

~Co-presented by The New School at Commonweal, the Commonweal Resilience Project, Beyond Conventional Cancer Therapies, and Healing Circles~ Join TNS Host Michael Lerner in a virtual conversation with Janie Brown, nurse, psychologist, and founder of the Callanish Society—a grassroots non-profit organization in Vancouver for people living with, and dying from, cancer. Find out more about The New Sc...

~Recorded from the Awakin Series by Service Space~ Cynthia Li, MD, is a physician, author, and speaker. Currently, she has a private practice in integrative and functional medicine, and serves as faculty for the Healer’s Art program at the University of California San Francisco Medical School. She is author of a new book, Brave New Medicine: A Doctor's Unconventional Path to Healing Her Autoimmune...

~Co-presented by The New School at Commonweal, the Commonweal Resilience Project, Beyond Conventional Cancer Therapies, and Healing Circles~ Resources, links etc. from the webinar can be found here: https://tns.commonweal.org/audio/resources-from-weller-webinar/ Join TNS Host Michael Lerner in a virtual conversation with psychotherapist, writer, and soul activist Francis Weller about living in tim...

Due to the Coronavirus outbreak, this New School conversation with Richard Heinberg was held as a webinar instead of meeting in person at Commonweal. Richard Heinberg of the Post Carbon Institute is one of the visionary thinkers of our time on community resilience. Join Richard and TNS host Michael Lerner for a searching exploration of building community resilience for the coming turbulent decades...

Please join TNS Host Steve Heilig for a conversation with physician BJ Miller and writer Shoshana Berger about their new collaboration: A Beginners Guide to the End-–Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death. BJ Miller is a hospice and palliative medicine physician and educator and has worked in all settings of care: hospital, clinic, residential facility, and home. His career has been ded...

~Co-presented by KWMR radio~ https://kwmr.org Join us for a concert by three-time Grammy nominees Quartet San Francisco, a non-traditional and eclectic string quartet led by violinist Jeremy Cohen. https://www.quartetsanfrancisco.com Quartet San Francisco has toured Italy, China, South Korea, Japan, Turkey, and Guam, performing in Cremona, Foggia, Seoul, Tokyo, Hyogo, Sanda, Istanbul, Hagatna, and...

Please join us in an investigation into the life and times of Polish painter Józef Czapski, following further along the path of discussion begun between Eric Karpeles and TNS Host Michael Lerner in the spring of 2019. That talk was prompted by the release of Karpeles’s biography of Czapski, “Almost Nothing,” and his translation of the painter's lectures on Proust given in a Soviet prison camp. The...

Join TNS Host Michael Lerner in the next of our spiritual biography series conversations, this time with Nipun Mehta. During his mid-20s, Nipun left the .com world to cultivate projects that support a gift culture. Among other accolades, President Obama appointed him on a council for social change and the Dalai Lama recognized him as an “Unsung Hero of Compassion." Nipun is the founder of ServiceS...

Join TNS Host Michael Lerner in a spiritual biography conversation with Jungian analyst John Beebe. John Beebe Born in Washington, DC, in 1939, John Beebe lived in many parts of the United States, as well as two years in China, before his desire to pursue psychiatric education led him to settle in the Bay Area. Since completing his residency at Stanford’s Department of Psychiatry, John has been pr...

Join TNS Host Michael Lerner in a conversation with author, activist, and anti-preneur Alnoor Ladha. Find out more about Alnoor by reading his article in Kosmos Journal: "Mystical Anarchism: A Journey to the Borderlands of Freedom." https://www.kosmosjournal.org/article/mystical-anarchism-a-journey-to-the-borderlands-of-freedom/

~Co-presented with Commonweal Resilience Project, Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere, and The Fan Initiative~ Can we avoid civilizational collapse? We face a “perfect storm” of interacting global stressors. Is resilience a possible response? What does real resilience look like? Join some of the foremost thinkers in an inquiry into the greatest challenge of our time. Our keynote spe...

~Co-presented with Commonweal Resilience Project, Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere, and The Fan Initiative~ Can we avoid civilizational collapse? We face a “perfect storm” of interacting global stressors. Is resilience a possible response? What does real resilience look like? Join some of the foremost thinkers in an inquiry into the greatest challenge of our time. Our keynote spe...

~Co-presented with Commonweal Resilience Project, Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere, and The Fan Initiative~ Can we avoid civilizational collapse? We face a “perfect storm” of interacting global stressors. Is resilience a possible response? What does real resilience look like? Join some of the foremost thinkers in an inquiry into the greatest challenge of our time. Our keynote spe...

~Co-presented with Commonweal Resilience Project, Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere, and The Fan Initiative~ Can we avoid civilizational collapse? We face a “perfect storm” of interacting global stressors. Is resilience a possible response? What does real resilience look like? Join some of the foremost thinkers in an inquiry into the greatest challenge of our time. Our keynote spe...

~Co-presented with Commonweal Resilience Project, Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere, and The Fan Initiative~ Can we avoid civilizational collapse? We face a “perfect storm” of interacting global stressors. Is resilience a possible response? What does real resilience look like? Join some of the foremost thinkers in an inquiry into the greatest challenge of our time. Our keynote spe...

2019.04.27 - Michael Lerner at Healing Circles Langley - Inquiry as Method by The New School at Commonweal

Stephen Ratcliffe’s “sound of wave in channel” is the fifth in a series of 1,000 poems written in 1,000 consecutive days (1.1.13 – 6.26.16). He and TNS host Steve Heilig discuss this newest epic and his career in poetry, with readings from his work. Stephen Ratcliffe is the author of more than 20 books of poetry, including most recently Painting (Chax Press 2014) and Selected Days (Counterpath 201...

~Part of the End-of-Life Conversations Series~ ~Co-presented with the Mesa Refuge and Point Reyes Books~ Join TNS Host Steve Heilig in conversation with physician, author, and medical ethicist Sunita Puri in the next in our End-of-Life Conversations series. In her new book, That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour, she weaves evocative stories of her family and the patients she care...

Join TNS Host Michael Lerner in an interview with painter, writer, and translator Eric Karpeles as they discuss two new books about Polish painter and writer Józef Czapski: Almost Nothing: The 20th-Century Art and Life of Józef Czapski and Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp.

Enneagram is an archetypal depth psychology. It has enormous power to deepen our insight into ourselves and others. As a follow-up to our last TNS conversation with author and enneagram expert Beatrice Chestnut, we offered a three-part series of workshops to explore enneagram further in depth. Each workshop features a three- to five-person panel of enneagram “types.” This part three of the series...