Workshop
Events
What is Process, Anyway?
Online EventTaught by one of the world's leading experts in process thought, Dr. Jay McDaniel will provide a introduction to some of the major themes and concepts found in process-relational philosophy and theology.
$15
The Process of Dying
In this two-session workshop, the Reverends Joelle Johns and Kathleen Reeves will critically examine the denial of death by medical technology, problems with the for-profit death industry, its negative impact on the environment, and offer healthy alternatives for the environment and our psyche that are based on the insights of Buddhism and process thought.
FreeThe Process of Dying
In this two-session workshop, the Reverends Joelle Johns and Kathleen Reeves will critically examine the denial of death by medical technology, problems with the for-profit death industry, its negative impact on the environment, and offer healthy alternatives for the environment and our psyche that are based on the insights of Buddhism and process thought.
Free
Educational Development Meeting – Lynn De Jonghe
Online EventThis month's meeting features a presentation by Lynn De Jonghe on her forthcoming book, Starting with Whitehead: Raising Children to Thrive in Treacherous Times.
Interweavings: Remembering our Ancestors & Honoring our Beloved Dead
The end of October is marked by many cultures as a sacred time when the veil between the world of the living and the world of the dead becomes more porous. Gaelic or Celtic cultures celebrate Samhain and the Christian tradition has honored its dead on All Saints’ and All Souls’ Days. The wonderful animated…
Interweavings: A Season of Darkness and Light
In this event, Dr. Sheri Kling, director of P&F, will introduce some of the major holidays that occur in this season of darkness and light, noting their significance in each tradition. We’ll look at Diwali, Advent, Hanukkah, St. Lucia Day, Winter Solstice, Christmas, Epiphany, Kwanzaa, New Year’s Eve, and Lunar New Year. Come prepared to share a brief memory of a favorite winter holiday food or tradition from your own background!
Process Pop-Up: The Tao Flows on Like a River Forever
Dr. Rosemarie Anderson will provide examples of verses from her own translation of the Tao Te Ching, suggestive of the philosophy of organism and why modern Chinese are now attracted to Process Philosophy.
Process Prep: Exploring Christian Process Theology in Small Groups
A one-hour workshop, led by Dr. Jay McDaniel, on how to teach Christian Process Theology in local churches with help from easy-to-use slideshows offered by the Cobb Institute. For adults and youth, clergy and laity, Christians and Friends, open to any and all.
Process Pop-Up: Family, Parenting, Young Spirituality, and Process
How might a process perspective help parents to raise their children to be spiritual, resilient, creative, and compassionate? Join Jay McDaniel and Bonnie Rambo as they facilitate a conversation on these topics.
Process Pop-Up: Process Mysticism
Drawing from his latest book, PROCESS MYSTICISM, Dan Dombrowski will offer a process philosophical approach to mysticism or religious experience. He will use the process philosophies of Charles Hartshorne, Alfred North Whitehead, and Henri Bergson to explore this subject.
Process Pop-Up: Deconstructing Hell
In this online event, we'll explore why the coauthors of DECONSTRUCTING HELL argue that perhaps no modern church dogma has been more destructive to the mission of Jesus, created more atheists, or generated more religious trauma than that of eternal conscious torment for the non-believer.
Process Pop-Up: Attuning with Things: The Mind According to Nishitani Keiji
In this Pop-Up, Kyoto School scholar Carlos Barbosa Cepeda will explore Nishitani Keiji's philosophy of mind, showing how ideas from the Japanese philosopher help us move beyond metaphors of the mind as a computer and achieve a more vivid understanding of who we are.
Process Pop-Up: The Diabolical Trinity
In this Pop-Up, Dr. Mark Karris will discuss the religious trauma caused by the unholy trinity of traumatizing beliefs in a tormenting Hell, a wrathful God, and human depravity and how such beliefs are traumatizing for individuals and have led to abandonment of the church.
Process Pop-Up: The Secular as Sacred: Taoism & Confucianism from the Perspective of Process Philosophy
In this Pop-Up, Dr. Zhenbao Jin will discuss the cosmology of Taoism and Confucianism from the perspective of process philosophy and explore meditation as the way to embody such a cosmology.