The New School at Commonweal

The New School at Commonweal

The New School presents conversations, book signings, art, and lectures with thought and action leaders of our time. We are a learning community of 4,000 people in the Bay Area and around the world dedicated to learning what matters. TNS focuses on the emergent, seeking out the thought and action leaders who are bringing discussion, beauty, and change to the world. We present events and podcast them in many areas: arts and sciences, health and the environment, and inner life. We follow streams of inquiry, including our End-of-Life Conversations, and series on Resilience, Archetypal Psychology, and Healing Circles.

  1. 1h ago

    The Rematriation of Science: Restoring Balance through Indigenous Knowledges - Melissa K. Nelson | Part 2

    Melissa K. Nelson and Host Jaune Evans How can a rematriated science address the roots of the polycrisis? Can society move beyond an anthropocentric, male-dominated science to a relational one rooted in justice and care? As an Anishinaabe ecologist and transdisciplinary scholar-activist, Commonweal New School Visiting Scholar Melissa K. Nelson is working to find ways to return to and revitalize the Indigenous and feminist roots of science by highlighting ways of knowing that are based on epistemologies of care, belonging, kinship, and respectful intimacy with the natural world and each other. In part 2 of this podcast series, Melissa shares an experiential process around her new work on Rematriating Science. If you would like to join in creative exploration and share notes, go to our Miro board: https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVHgwH5JU=/ Find out about Melissa and Commonweal New School: tns.commonweal.org. *** The New School is Commonweal’s learning community and podcast — we offer conversations, workshops, and other events in areas that Commonweal champions: finding meaning, growing health and resilience, advocating for justice, and stewarding the natural world. We make our conversations into podcasts for listeners world wide and have been doing this since 2007. Please like/follow our channel for access to our library of more than 400 great podcasts.

    The Rematriation of Science: Restoring Balance through Indigenous Knowledges - Melissa K. Nelson | Part 2

  2. 6d ago

    The Rematriation of Science: Restoring Balance through Indigenous Knowledges - Melissa K. Nelson | Part 1

    Melissa K. Nelson and Host Jaune Evans How can a rematriated science address the roots of the polycrisis? Can society move beyond an anthropocentric, male-dominated science to a relational one rooted in justice and care? As an Anishinaabe ecologist and transdisciplinary scholar-activist, Commonweal New School Visiting Scholar Melissa K. Nelson is working to find ways to return to and revitalize the Indigenous and feminist roots of science by highlighting ways of knowing that are based on epistemologies of care, belonging, kinship, and respectful intimacy with the natural world and each other. Meet Melissa and find out more about her worldview in conversation with Host Jaune Evans in this podcast. Watch for part two coming soon, where she will share an experiential process around her new work. Find out about Melissa and Commonweal New School: tns.commonweal.org. *** The New School is Commonweal’s learning community and podcast — we offer conversations, workshops, and other events in areas that Commonweal champions: finding meaning, growing health and resilience, advocating for justice, and stewarding the natural world. We make our conversations into podcasts for listeners world wide and have been doing this since 2007. Please like/follow our channel for access to our library of more than 400 great podcasts.

    The Rematriation of Science: Restoring Balance through Indigenous Knowledges - Melissa K. Nelson | Part 1

  3. Oct 3

    Eternal Song Echoes of Resilience Across Indigenous Worlds - Maurizio Benazzo & Zaya Ralitza Benazzo

    Co-presented with SAND (Science and Non-Duality) and Bolinas Film Festival For tens of thousands of years, indigenous peoples were in deep kinship with the natural world while stewarding ancestral land and wisdom. Through the narratives of colonialism, capitalism, and individualism, our “modern” Western mindset has cast a collective fog of amnesia, and lead us into believing that we are separate from the Earth, each other, and the ancestral realm. Eternal Song is the first in a series of award-winning films that explore the devastating impact of colonization on indigenous people and lands, and cultures--and how our collective future depends on remembering the eternal song of existence which calls us back to our original sense of belonging. Join New School Host Susan Grelock Yusem for this conversation with Zaya Ralitza Benazzo and Maurizio Benazzo, the amazingly prolific filmmakers and founders of SAND (Science and Non-Duality)—a global community that comes together over a series of amazing documentaries. By donation, you can watch the film discussed in this conversation --- The Eternal Song: Ancestral Wisdom for Collective Healing --- on the SAND website at https://scienceandnonduality.com/films/the-eternal-song/. *** The New School is Commonweal’s learning community and podcast — we offer conversations, workshops, and other events in areas that Commonweal champions: finding meaning, growing health and resilience, advocating for justice, and stewarding the natural world. We make our conversations into podcasts for listeners world wide and have been doing this since 2007. Please like/follow our channel for access to our library of more than 400 great podcasts.

    Eternal Song Echoes of Resilience Across Indigenous Worlds - Maurizio Benazzo & Zaya Ralitza Benazzo

  4. Sep 26

    Richard Tarnas - Astrology, the Deep Psyche, and the Participatory Universe

    Drawing on cosmologist Richard Tarnas' own spiritual and intellectual biography, including his years at Esalen and research with Stan Grof and psychedelic experience, Richard talks with Host Michael Lerner about the mysteries of the ensouled universe and a deeper view of history opened up by the systematic study of planetary correlations with the archetypal patterns of human experience. Find out more about Richard and this conversation at tns.commonweal.org. *** The New School is Commonweal’s learning community and podcast — we offer conversations, workshops, and other events in areas that Commonweal champions: finding meaning, growing health and resilience, advocating for justice, and stewarding the natural world. We make our conversations into podcasts for listeners world wide and have been doing this since 2007. Please like/follow our channel for access to our library of more than 400 great podcasts.

    Richard Tarnas - Astrology, the Deep Psyche, and the Participatory Universe

  5. Sep 12

    How to Think Impossibly - Jeffrey J. Kripal

    In part 11 of this series, Host Michael Lerner talks with author Jeffrey J. Kripal about his book How to Think Impossibly. In this book, a mind-bending invitation to experience the impossible as fundamentally human, Jeffrey asserts that the impossible is a function not of reality but of our everchanging assumptions about what is real. Thinking with specific individuals and their extraordinary experiences in vulnerable, open, and often humorous ways, Jeffrey interweaves humanistic and scientific inquiry to foster an awareness that the fantastic is real, the supernatural is super natural, and the impossible is possible. Jeffrey J. Kripal holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University. In this series, Jeffrey talks with Host Michael Lerner about his body of work—more than 13 groundbreaking books about the mystical and the erotic, the relationship of mind and matter, and parapsychological phenomena. Michael has been reading, talking, and meeting with Jeffrey for more than a year now, immersing himself in the consciousness worldview that Jeffrey presents in his books and teaching. Follow Michael’s journey through these conversations. *** The New School is Commonweal’s learning community and podcast — we offer conversations, workshops, and other events in areas that Commonweal champions: finding meaning, growing health and resilience, advocating for justice, and stewarding the natural world. We make our conversations into podcasts for listeners world wide and have been doing this since 2007. Please like/follow our channel for access to our library of more than 400 great podcasts.

    How to Think Impossibly - Jeffrey J. Kripal

  6. Sep 5

    The Ecology of Resilience: A Conversation with Alejo di Risio and Host Susan Grelock Yusem

    "Bicherío, Chi no parakuya, Durga, Farafara, Guruni, Isong, Kasem, Koya, Nanda Devi, Nisarg, Njuzu, Parisara, Paryavaran, Psocodea, Prakriti, Pull of nature, Sankofa, Sango, Sasia, Tekoha, Teguala, Tutulegbte, Ubuntu, Ykua Ñe'e, Zumbani." These words and phrases are some of the ways that communities across Africa, India, and Latin America speak about nature—gathered by Alejo di Risio, María Belén Felix, and Mauro Fernández through their recent research into narratives of nature and social change. As part of Commonweal’s Omega Resilience Awards' narrative research initiative, the Ecology Team set out to document emerging stories of resilience grounded in environmental stewardship, land connection, and sustainable practices across the Global South. Working with a spirit of collaboration, they listened for ecological imagination as a political force, and they documented how people articulate visions of desirable futures and translate local wisdom into movements for change. In this conversation, Host Susan Grelock-Yusem will talk with Alejo di Risio—journalist, environmental consultant, and cultural strategist—to explore their journey and what they learned about ecological imagination, narrative as resistance, local wisdom at global scale, and the power of community. Following the conversation join us for a live interactive dialogue with the full Ecology Research Team—Alejo, María Belén and Mauro Fernandez. Find out more at tns.commonweal.org. *** The New School is Commonweal’s learning community and podcast — we offer conversations, workshops, and other events in areas that Commonweal champions: finding meaning, growing health and resilience, advocating for justice, and stewarding the natural world. We make our conversations into podcasts for listeners world wide and have been doing this since 2007. Please like/follow our channel for access to our library of more than 400 great podcasts.

    The Ecology of Resilience: A Conversation with Alejo di Risio and Host Susan Grelock Yusem

  7. Aug 29

    Re-Dreaming Healing through Narrative & Story - Visiting Scholar Catherine Olweny

    Bringing with her the traditional Aboriginal practices of dadirri—a sacred practice of deep listening, reflection, stillness, and connection to the land—and yarning—a conversational practice used by indigenous Australians to share knowledge, stories, and culture—Catherine Olweny talks about ways that art and narrative techniques allow difficult experiences to be shared. Catherine has been using narrative therapy with doctors and other healthcare workers to help them describe the unique experiences and challenges faced in remaining empathetic and whole-person focused in today’s healthcare system. In this workshop, Catherine will share the work she is discovering and building upon during a 45-minute lecture. Following that, she leads us in a short experience of narrative therapy, in which we can begin to explore and repair our own stories of illness and healthcare. Find out more about Catherine and her residency at Commonweal New School on our website: tns.commonweal.org. *** The New School is Commonweal’s learning community and podcast — we offer conversations, workshops, and other events in areas that Commonweal champions: finding meaning, growing health and resilience, advocating for justice, and stewarding the natural world. We make our conversations into podcasts for listeners world wide and have been doing this since 2007. Please like/follow our channel for access to our library of more than 400 great podcasts.

    Re-Dreaming Healing through Narrative & Story - Visiting Scholar Catherine Olweny

  8. Aug 22

    Tending Our Future: Spirituality, Service, and the Art of Healing - Dr. Vivek H. Murthy

    Known for bringing loneliness and social connection into the national conversation, former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy joins host Serena Bian at Commonweal’s New School to reflect on the deeper currents beneath his work. Beginning with his spiritual biography, we explore the questions, traditions, and experiences that shaped his understanding of service, healing, and what it means to belong. From there, the conversation expands into an exploration and re-imagining of our collective future. How do we nurture meaning and purpose in an age increasingly defined by technology? What new forms of community, institution-building, and collaboration are emerging amid social fragmentation and uncertainty? Through stories, reflection, and imagination, Dr. Murthy will offer insights into how we might become more fully human while building a future rooted in connection, dignity, and care. Find out more on tns.commonweal.org. *** The New School is Commonweal’s learning community and podcast — we offer conversations, workshops, and other events in areas that Commonweal champions: finding meaning, growing health and resilience, advocating for justice, and stewarding the natural world. We make our conversations into podcasts for listeners world wide and have been doing this since 2007. Please like/follow our channel for access to our library of more than 400 great podcasts.

    Tending Our Future: Spirituality, Service, and the Art of Healing - Dr. Vivek H. Murthy
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The New School presents conversations, book signings, art, and lectures with thought and action leaders of our time. We are a learning community of 4,000 people in the Bay Area and around the world dedicated to learning what matters. TNS focuses on the emergent, seeking out the thought and action leaders who are bringing discussion, beauty, and change to the world. We present events and podcast them in many areas: arts and sciences, health and the environment, and inner life. We follow streams of inquiry, including our End-of-Life Conversations, and series on Resilience, Archetypal Psychology, and Healing Circles.

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    The New School at Commonweal
  • Years Active
    2007 - 2026
  • Episodes
    500
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