The New School at Commonweal

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 pandemic. She has been deeply involved with Commonweal’s work in environmental health, Healing Circles, and Rachel Remen’s Healer’s Art program at UCSF School of Medicine, which began at Commonweal. Listen to Michael's recent conversation with Cynthia ( https://soundcloud.com/tnscommonweal/20200404-cynthia-li-md-brave-new-medicine-building-personal-resilience-and-immunity ) recorded as part of the Awakin Calls series from Service Space. ( https://www.awakin.org )

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, Rachel read a quote from Vaclav Havel, from Disturbing the Peace (pp. 181-182). https://www.vhlf.org/havel-quotes/disturbing-the-peace/ Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., is a Professor of Family Medicine at Wright State Boonshoft School of Medicine and the Founder and Founding Director of the Remen Institute for the Study of Health and Illness (RISHI), which was at Commonweal for decades and is currently at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine. She is one of the best known of the early pioneers of wholistic and integrative medicine. As a medical educator, therapist, and teacher, she has enabled many thousands of physicians to find individual meaning and purpose in the practice of medicine and thousands of patients to remember their power to heal. More than 30,000 medical students have completed The Healer’s Art, her groundbreaking curriculum for medical students taught at the majority of medical schools in America. A master storyteller and observer of life, her bestselling books, Kitchen Table Wisdom andMy Grandfather’s Blessings have sold more than 2 million copies and have been translated into 21 languages. Dr. Remen has had Crohn’s disease for more than 65 years and her work is a unique blend of the wisdom, strength, and viewpoints of both doctor and patient.

~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 School at Commonweal on our website: tns.commonweal.org. And like/follow our Soundcloud channel for more great podcasts.

~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 Illness. The transcript for this call can be found at: https://www.awakin.org/calls/464/cynthia-li/transcript 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 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 times of pandemic, finding community during social distancing, and living with grief in the anthropocene. Three panelists join Francis and Michael on the webinar: Diana Kelly, director of Healing Circles Langley; Ladybird Morgan, executive director of the Humane Prison Hospice Project; and Janie Brown, founder of the Callenish Society. This is a recording of a Zoom webinar. Francis Weller, MFT, is a psychotherapist, writer and soul activist. He is a master of synthesizing diverse streams of thought from psychology, anthropology, mythology, alchemy, indigenous cultures and poetic traditions. Author of The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief, and The Threshold Between Loss and Revelation, (with Rashani Réa) he has introduced the healing work of ritual to thousands of people. He founded and directs WisdomBridge, an organization that offers educational programs that seek to integrate the wisdom from indigenous cultures with the insights and knowledge gathered from western poetic, psychological and spiritual traditions. His work was featured in The Sunmagazine (October 2015) and the Utne Reader (Fall 2016). Francis is currently on staff at Commonweal Cancer Help Program, co-leading their week-long retreats with Michael Lerner. He is currently completing his third book, A Trail on the Ground: Living a Soulful Life and Why It Matters. 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.

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. Listen to the recording of our last conversation with Richard Heinberg. https://tns.commonweal.org/podcasts/richard-heinberg/ Richard Heinberg is the author of thirteen books, including some of the seminal works on society’s current energy and environmental sustainability crisis. He is Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute and is regarded as one of the world’s foremost advocates for a shift away from our current reliance on fossil fuels. He has authored scores of essays and articles that have appeared in such journals as Nature, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, The American Prospect, Public Policy Research, Quarterly Review, Yes!, and The Sun; and has appeared in many film and television documentaries, including Leonardo DiCaprio’s 11th Hour. He is also the author and narrator of Post Carbon Institute’s 22-video Think Resilience online course. https://education.resilience.org http://www.postcarbon.org/ 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.

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 dedicated to moving healthcare towards a human-centered approach and he speaks on this topic both nationally and internationally. He is a Mesa Refuge alum, has been featured in the New York Times, and interviewed by Oprah Winfrey, Tim Ferriss, Krista Tippett, and GQ Magazine. Shoshana Berger Shoshana Berger is the editorial director at IDEO, where she has worked on projects ranging from the end of life to modern Judaism to school lunch. She was a senior editor at WIRED, and has written for the New York Times, Fast Company, TIME, WIRED, Popular Science, Marie Claire, and Quartz. She cofounded the DIY design magazine, ReadyMade, later turning it into a book, Ready Made: How to Make (Almost) 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 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 throughout central and eastern China. As winners of the Argentine Consulate’s International Tango Competition in New York, they performed tangos for an Argentine audience at the historic Café Tortoni in Buenos Aires. In 2018 they performed the opening concert for the Cremona Music Festival in northern Italy and their CD release, A QSF Journey, reached the #1position in Amazon’s new chamber music releases. U.S. appearances include New York's Le Poisson Rouge, Yoshi's Jazz Clubs in San Francisco and Oakland, the Brubeck Room in the Wilton Library (at the invitation of Dave Brubeck), the Mendocino Music Festival, in concerts with the Marin Symphony, the Peninsula Symphony, and the Tulsa Symphony, and guest appearances with numerous chamber orchestras.

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 upcoming publication of a lavishly-illustrated monograph of Czapski’s paintings and drawings, “An Apprenticeship of Looking,” is the occasion of this further inquiry in which the question "how does an artist live his life?” will be addressed.

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 ServiceSpace.org — an incubator of projects that support a gift culture. In his mid-twenties, Nipun quit his job to become a "full time volunteer" and over the last 15 years, his work has reached millions, attracted more than 500 thousand volunteers, and mushroomed into numerous projects like DailyGood, Awakin Circles, and Karma Kitchen. Tirelessly, he has addressed thousands of gatherings around the world, speaking next to wide-ranging leaders from Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak to author Elizabeth Gilbert to civil rights legend John Lewis. One of his most formative experiences was a walking pilgrimage across India, with his wife of six months, whose profound lessons also became the subject of his widely-read address at UPenn commencement. Nipun's mission statement in life reads: "Bring smiles in the world and stillness in my heart."

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 practicing Jungian psychotherapy in the same San Francisco office since 1971. Guided by such Northern California Jungian pioneers as Thomas Kirsch, Jo and Jane Wheelwright, and Joseph Henderson, John became an analyst member of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco in 1978. John gives lectures around the world on various topics, including psychological types, moral integrity, the I Ching, and film. For the past twenty years, he has been part of the training of the first generation of Jungian analysts in China. The many books he has worked on include, under his name as sole author, Integrity in Depth and Energies andPatterns in Psychological Type: The Reservoir of Consciousness.

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 speakers are Nate Hagens and Joanna Macy, leading authorities in the field.

~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 speakers are Nate Hagens and Joanna Macy, leading authorities in the field.

~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 speakers are Nate Hagens and Joanna Macy, leading authorities in the field.

~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 speakers are Nate Hagens and Joanna Macy, leading authorities in the field.

~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 speakers are Nate Hagens and Joanna Macy, leading authorities in the field.

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 2012) which won The Poetry Center Book Award. He has also written three books of literary criticism. He taught at Mills College for many years and has lived in Bolinas since 1973.

~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 cares for in a meditation on impermanence and the role of medicine in helping us to live and die well. Kirkus Reviews magazine calls her book, “A profound meditation on a problem many of us will face; worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal.” Sunita Puri, MD is the medical director of the Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care Service at the Keck Hospital and Norris Cancer Center of the University of Southern California, where she also serves as chair of the Ethics Committee. She graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Anthropology and studied Modern History at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. She completed medical school and residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of California San Francisco, and fellowship training in Hospice and Palliative Medicine at Stanford University.

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 featured the 5, 6 & 7 types—the Head Center Types. This day was recorded in 5 parts. Find all of the videos on our YouTube site. https://www.youtube.com/user/NewSchoolCommonweal

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 featured the 5, 6 & 7 types—the Head Center Types. This day was recorded in 5 parts. Find all of the videos on our YouTube site. https://www.youtube.com/user/NewSchoolCommonweal

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 featured the 5, 6 & 7 types—the Head Center Types. This day was recorded in 5 parts. Find all of the videos on our YouTube site. https://www.youtube.com/user/NewSchoolCommonweal

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 featured the 5, 6 & 7 types—the Head Center Types. This day was recorded in 5 parts. Find all of the videos on our YouTube site. https://www.youtube.com/user/NewSchoolCommonweal

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 featured the 5, 6 & 7 types—the Head Center Types. This day was recorded in 5 parts. Find all of the videos on our YouTube site. https://www.youtube.com/user/NewSchoolCommonweal

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 two of the series featured the 2, 3 & 4 types—the Heart Center Types. This day was recorded in 5 parts. Find all of the videos on our YouTube site. https://www.youtube.com/user/NewSchoolCommonweal

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 two of the series featured the 2, 3 & 4 types—the Heart Center Types. This day was recorded in 5 parts. Find all of the videos on our YouTube site. https://www.youtube.com/user/NewSchoolCommonweal

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 two of the series featured the 2, 3 & 4 types—the Heart Center Types. This day was recorded in 5 parts. Find all of the videos on our YouTube site. https://www.youtube.com/user/NewSchoolCommonweal

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 two of the series featured the 2, 3 & 4 types—the Heart Center Types. This day was recorded in 5 parts. Find all of the videos on our YouTube site. https://www.youtube.com/user/NewSchoolCommonweal

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 two of the series featured the 2, 3 & 4 types—the Heart Center Types. This day was recorded in 5 parts. Find all of the videos on our YouTube site. https://www.youtube.com/user/NewSchoolCommonweal

~Co-Presented with Black Mountain Circle and Point Reyes Books as part of the Geography of Hope Series of Events~ Join TNS Host Michael Lerner in another conversation with Mary Evelyn Tucker, whose new book, Thomas Berry: A Biography is due at bookstores in May. Written by Mary Evelyn with co-authors John Grim and Andrew Angyal, the book is the first biography of Thomas Berry, illuminating his remarkable vision and showing the ongoing significance of Berry’s conception of human interdependence with the Earth within the unfolding journey of the universe. Mary Evelyn Tucker teaches at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Yale Divinity School, where she co-directs the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology with her partner, John Grim. They worked closely with Thomas Berry for more than thirty years as his students, editors, and literary executors and are the managing trustees of the Thomas Berry Foundation. With Brian Thomas Swimme, she wrote Journey of the Universe (Yale 2011) and was the executive producer of the Emmy award winning Journey film that aired on PBS.

Integrative and functional medicine are medical frontiers that draw more and more patients and practitioners with every passing decade. While drawing on best practices of conventional medicine, they seek out root causes of illness and utilize a wide range of complementary approaches. Join TNS Host Michael Lerner for a conversation with Dr. Sunjya Schweig, an expert in functional medicine, chronic illness, and lyme disease. Sunjya K. Schweig, MD: Sunjya is an expert in complex chronic illnesses which require rigorous investigation and management. He has been studying, teaching, and practicing integrative and functional medicine for more than 20 years. Sunjya studied at University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Irvine, and did his residency at the University of California, San Francisco, Family Practice Residency Program in Santa Rosa, CA where he helped found the Integrative Medicine Fellowship program. He currently holds an adjunct faculty position at Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine and has lectured nationally and internationally at conferences, hospitals, and universities. He is the founding chair of the Integrative Medicine Committee for the International Lyme and Associated Disease Society (ILADS), and serves on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Bay Area Lyme Foundation. He has been in private practice since 2007.

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 one of the series featured the 8-9-1 types—the Body Center Types. This day was recorded in four parts. Find all of the videos on our YouTube site. https://www.youtube.com/user/NewSchoolCommonweal

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 one of the series featured the 8-9-1 types—the Body Center Types. This day was recorded in four parts. Find all of the videos on our YouTube site. https://www.youtube.com/user/NewSchoolCommonweal

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 one of the series featured the 8-9-1 types—the Body Center Types. This day was recorded in four parts. Find all of the videos on our YouTube site. https://www.youtube.com/user/NewSchoolCommonweal

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 one of the series featured the 8-9-1 types—the Body Center Types. This day was recorded in four parts. Find all of the videos on our YouTube site. https://www.youtube.com/user/NewSchoolCommonweal

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 one of the series featured the 8-9-1 types—the Body Center Types. This day was recorded in four parts. Find all of the videos on our YouTube site. https://www.youtube.com/user/NewSchoolCommonweal

Point Reyes Books is a thriving bookshop and cultural center in Western Marin. How does it thrive in the era of the "death of print" and the internet age, in a town of only hundreds? https://www.ptreyesbooks.com Steve Sparks and Molly Parent, who have owned and operated Point Reyes Books since January 2017, will tell us, and discuss trends in publishing, selling, and more. They will also share some of their own personal favorite titles. Book addict and critic and TNS host Steve Heilig will interrogate them.

Join Jaune Evans in conversation with host Michael Lerner.

Join Christina Baldwin and host Michael Lerner in conversation.

Join TNS Host Michael Lerner in conversation with Investigative Historian Mark Dowie about the struggle shared by thousands of native peoples around the world for aboriginal title and self-determination. Mark’s recently published book is The Haida Gwaii Lesson: A Strategic Playbook for Indigenous Sovereignty. Mark Dowie is an investigative historian, a former publisher and editor of Mother Jones magazine and former editor-at-large of InterNation, a transnational feature syndicate based in Paris. His recent books include The Haida Gwaii Lesson: A Strategic Playbook for Indigenous Sovereignty, Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict Between Global Conservation and Native Peoples, and American Foundations: An Investigative History. During his forty year media career Mark has written, edited, or published more than 200 investigative magazine articles and has won 19 journalism awards including four National MagazineAwards. He is a founding director of the Center for Investigative Reporting and taught science, environmental reporting, and foreign correspondence at the U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters by John F. Kennedy University.

Join author Brian C. Wilson in conversation with Michael Lerner as they discuss Brian's book, "John E. Fetzer and the Quest for the New Age."

Join TNS Steve Heilig in conversation with Marsha Rosenbaum, author and director emerita of the San Francisco office of the Drug Policy Alliance, where she spearheaded work on youth and drugs. Marsha Rosenbaum received her doctorate in medical sociology from the University of California at San Francisco in 1979. From 1977 to 1995, Rosenbaum was the principal investigator on National Institute on Drug Abuse-funded studies of heroin addiction, methadone maintenance treatment, MDMA (Ecstasy), cocaine, and drug use during pregnancy. She is author of Women on Heroin, Pursuit of Ecstasy: The MDMA Experience (with Jerome E. Beck), and Pregnant Women on Drugs: Combating Stereotypes and Stigma (with Sheigla Murphy). Rosenbaum has written opinion pieces for the San Francisco Chronicle, Oakland Tribune, Chicago Tribune, San Jose Mercury News, Newsday, and many others. She regularly speaks to PTAs, other parent groups, schools, drug treatment and prevention professionals, and the media about teenagers and drugs, Ecstasy, and drug policy issues.

Join TNS Host Michael Lerner for a conversation on why microgrids are gaining popularity in California, the United States and around the world with the experts: Peter Asmus (Research Director with Navigant Research); Margaret Bruce (Local Government Sustainable Energy Coalition); and Darren Malvin (CEO of Marin-Based American Solar).

Community-Led Conservation: Zambia's Mukungule Nature Conservancy In the North Luangwa Valley—one of the most biodiverse and intact wilderness areas left in Africa, with some of the highest remaining concentrations of wildlife left on the continent—illegal wildlife poaching had decimated wildlife, bringing once-vast elephant herds to the brink of extermination. Hammer Simwinga, a Zambian environmentalist, saw that extreme poverty was driving villagers to environmentally harmful practices, counter to traditional African values. He created an innovative program that reduced poverty and transformed poachers into caring conservationists protecting their cultural and natural heritage. Elephant and wildlife populations rebounded. The deep link between indigenous communities and their lands—experiential, spiritual, biological—is something not yet fully appreciated in conventional approaches to conservation, but that may be key to saving the earth’s future. Join TNS Host Michael Lerner in conversation with award-winning environmentalist Hammer Simwinga.

Join us for a conversation with James K Thornton, founder of Client Earth and host, Michael Lerner.

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 sustainable solution. Her engineering and sewing experience drove the Days for Girls Kit design, which went through 28 iterations all informed by extensive feedback from women and girls around the world. ​

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 Chestnut's book in advance of the event will help prepare you for the conversation.

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, please download the following PDF file at: https://tns.commonweal.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/03/Commonweal_Enneagram_talk.pdf This seminar is primarily designed for people with at least a basic knowledge of enneagram. Reading or a familiarity with Chestnut's book in advance of the event will help prepare you for the conversation.