A Conversation In Gallery Commonweal or on Zoom
Sunday, May 31st | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Pacific
Followed by Book Release Reception with food 3:00 - 4:00 PM
Find out more and register HERE
Artwork by Marla Pederson
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Exploring the Forces Changing What it Means to Be Human
Join us for a day of reflection and conversation exploring healing at a time of transformation—contemplating what Michael Lerner points to as the coming revolution in human consciousness and what it means for all of us as individuals, communities, and as a planetary species.
This event is part of our 50th anniversary celebrations this year at Commonweal. Michael’s founding vision of Commonweal was as a center for healing ourselves and healing the earth. His understanding of healing has been transformed by more than 230 week-long Cancer Help Programs, by Healing Circles, and by many other experiences with personal healing, as well as by the emergence of the global polycrisis and what it signifies for planetary healing. He hopes to bring these threads together in the light of new research on what is known as “the hard problem of consciousness.”
Afterward, please stay for a reception. We’ll be celebrating the publication of What Matters Now: 7 Letters to a Friend with Cancer, a beautiful collection of reflections and guidance Michael has created over decades of his work with the Cancer Help Program. The event will take place at Gallery Commonweal, which is on the 2nd floor of our historic building; there is no elevator.
Find the books at Pt Reyes Books, and book sellers everywhere.
Artwork: Marla Pedersen, in Commonweal Gallery April-June.
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Commonweal Founder 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 on Health and the Environment, and The New School at Commonweal. He was the recipient of a MacArthur Prize Fellowship for contributions to public health in 1983 and is author of Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Therapies (MIT Press).
Moderator Katherine Fulton
Katherine Fulton is chair of Commonweal’s board and co-chair of the Sonoma Valley Catalyst Fund, a philanthropic fund she founded in her home town. For the first two decades of this century, she was a leading strategic advisor to foundations, high-net-wealth donors, and major nonprofits. Previously, she co-founded an award-winning progressive newspaper in the American South before working alongside some of the world’s best foresight practitioners as a senior practitioner at the Bay Area’s Global Business Network. She aspires to be a change agent who enlarges the possibilities that groups and leaders embrace while grounding action in rigor and reality.