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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Process & Coffee
DESCRIPTION:Process & Coffee is about spiritual integration and exploration. We meet weekly to dive into books by mystics and sages. The discussion that follows helps to deepen our own spiritual lives. \n\n\n\nClick here to learn more or join.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-process-coffee-2/2024-12-05/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Jo Paz Dominguez
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Make Turtle Island Indigenous Again: Regenerating Land\, Identity\, and Community \n\n\n\nPresenters: Jo Paz Dominguez \n\n\n\nJo Paz (he/they) is an Indigenous community advocate\, organizer\, and trauma informed facilitator whose work is rooted in the belief that healing—both personal and collective—is a journey of interconnectedness. Guided by decolonial and regenerative principles\, Jo emphasizes relational well-being\, racial equity\, and hyperlocal\, place-based strategies that honor the wisdom of the land and community self-determination. \n\n\n\nJo summarizes the conversation they’ll have with Cobb and Friends this way:  \n\n\n\n\nWhat if the way forward is not forward at all\, but a turning back to the land\, to the stories it whispers\, and to the cracks in the systems that hold us captive? In this workshop\, we will lean into the wisdom of the Peoplehood Matrix and decolonial placekeeping\, unraveling how the entanglements of land\, language\, history\, and ceremony shape who we are and who we might yet become. This is not about fixing a broken world\, but about befriending its brokenness with compassion\, nurturing the soil of community\, and listening deeply to ancestral wisdom. Together\, we will name and weave our collective care\, dreaming strategies for liberation that honor the land\, disrupt the systems we inhabit\, and welcome the impossible. What does it mean to truly belong\, to truly thrive? Let’s ask the land—and each other. \n\n\n\n\nHere are a few links showcasing Jo’s engagement in community building in the Los Angeles area.  \n\n\n\n\nMeet the Outreach Workers Working to End Homelessness\n\n\n\nProtesters call on Garcetti to find shelter for 1\,000 homeless women\n\n\n\nEveryone In – Meet Elyse and Joseph\n\n\n\nL.A.’s homeless agency faces calls to dissolve ties with police\n\n\n\nOur Land\, Our Voice\n\n\n\nFirst Residential Community Land Trust Project in East Los Angeles\n\n\n\nCrenshaw Mall Redevelopment Plan Health Impact Assessment\n\n\n\nGreen Pets Program – Caring for Mother Earth\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo receive the Zoom info for this gathering\, click the Going button and enter your name and email. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you experience any difficulty with the RSVP\, please send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular announcements and updates about activities and events at the Cobb Institute\, please join our list of Friends. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our archive of Cobb & Friends recordings.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-2024-12-10/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241210T160000
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Labor & Creativity
DESCRIPTION:Reading and Reflecting on A. F. Pomeroy’s Integrative Perspective on Marx and Whitehead\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis 9-week learning circle provides a discussion-based study of Anne Fairchild Pomeroy’s text Marx and Whitehead\, which systematically links Whitehead’s process-relational philosophy to Marx’s dialectical critique of political economy\, identifying deep resonances between the two in order to develop a pathway for the vital integration of these two great thinkers into a more comprehensive perspective. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-labor-creativity/2024-12-10/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241212T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241212T090000
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Process & Coffee
DESCRIPTION:Process & Coffee is about spiritual integration and exploration. We meet weekly to dive into books by mystics and sages. The discussion that follows helps to deepen our own spiritual lives. \n\n\n\nClick here to learn more or join.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-process-coffee-2/2024-12-12/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241217T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241217T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Sheri Kling
DESCRIPTION:Topic: A Season of Darkness and Light \n\n\n\nPresenters: Sheri D. Kling \n\n\n\nCosmologically\, this period of late fall marks the increase in hours of darkness until the winter solstice when the hours of light begin to make a return. Many religions have major holidays during this period. For some\, the period of darkness is not feared but is celebrated as a time of rest and renewal or of waiting in a kind of pregnant pause. Most celebrate the increase in light and see this turning of the season as the welcome return of the energies of rebirth and growth. \n\n\n\nIn this Cobb & Friends gathering\, Dr. Sheri Kling\, director of Process & Faith\, will introduce some of the major holidays in late fall and early winter\, 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. \n\n\n\nSheri D. Kling\, Ph.D.\, is the director of Process & Faith with the Center for Process Studies and interim minister of Redeemer Lutheran Church in Bradenton\, FL.  Sheri earned her Ph.D. in Religion: Process Studies from Claremont School of Theology. She is a theologian\, songwriter\, and spiritual mentor\, as well as a faculty member of the Haden Institute\, adjunct faculty with Claremont School of Theology\, and the author of A Process Spirituality: Christian and Transreligious Resources for Transformation. She regularly delivers dynamic “Music & Message” presentations to groups\, and offers courses\, concerts\, and spiritual retreats. She may be found online at sherikling.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo receive the Zoom info for this gathering\, click the Going button and enter your name and email. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you experience any difficulty with the RSVP\, please send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular announcements and updates about activities and events at the Cobb Institute\, please join our list of Friends. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our archive of Cobb & Friends recordings.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2024-12-17/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241217T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241217T180000
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Labor & Creativity
DESCRIPTION:Reading and Reflecting on A. F. Pomeroy’s Integrative Perspective on Marx and Whitehead\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis 9-week learning circle provides a discussion-based study of Anne Fairchild Pomeroy’s text Marx and Whitehead\, which systematically links Whitehead’s process-relational philosophy to Marx’s dialectical critique of political economy\, identifying deep resonances between the two in order to develop a pathway for the vital integration of these two great thinkers into a more comprehensive perspective. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-labor-creativity/2024-12-17/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241219T080000
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Process & Coffee
DESCRIPTION:Process & Coffee is about spiritual integration and exploration. We meet weekly to dive into books by mystics and sages. The discussion that follows helps to deepen our own spiritual lives. \n\n\n\nClick here to learn more or join.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-process-coffee-2/2024-12-19/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250107T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250107T180000
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Labor & Creativity
DESCRIPTION:Reading and Reflecting on A. F. Pomeroy’s Integrative Perspective on Marx and Whitehead\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis 9-week learning circle provides a discussion-based study of Anne Fairchild Pomeroy’s text Marx and Whitehead\, which systematically links Whitehead’s process-relational philosophy to Marx’s dialectical critique of political economy\, identifying deep resonances between the two in order to develop a pathway for the vital integration of these two great thinkers into a more comprehensive perspective. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-labor-creativity/2025-01-07/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250114T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250114T180000
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Labor & Creativity
DESCRIPTION:Reading and Reflecting on A. F. Pomeroy’s Integrative Perspective on Marx and Whitehead\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis 9-week learning circle provides a discussion-based study of Anne Fairchild Pomeroy’s text Marx and Whitehead\, which systematically links Whitehead’s process-relational philosophy to Marx’s dialectical critique of political economy\, identifying deep resonances between the two in order to develop a pathway for the vital integration of these two great thinkers into a more comprehensive perspective. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-labor-creativity/2025-01-14/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250121T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250121T180000
DTSTAMP:20260407T135652
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Labor & Creativity
DESCRIPTION:Reading and Reflecting on A. F. Pomeroy’s Integrative Perspective on Marx and Whitehead\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis 9-week learning circle provides a discussion-based study of Anne Fairchild Pomeroy’s text Marx and Whitehead\, which systematically links Whitehead’s process-relational philosophy to Marx’s dialectical critique of political economy\, identifying deep resonances between the two in order to develop a pathway for the vital integration of these two great thinkers into a more comprehensive perspective. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-labor-creativity/2025-01-21/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250122T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250122T183000
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SUMMARY:Course: Introduction to Process-Relational Thought & Practice 2025
DESCRIPTION:Discovering Dynamic Ideas for a Relational Life\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis 6-week course provides an introduction to the process tradition by examining key ideas in Whitehead’s philosophy\, exploring some general ideas that flow from his philosophy\, and considering applications of these ideas in personal life and community development. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/course-introduction-to-process-relational-thought-practice-2025/2025-01-22/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250123T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250125T133000
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SUMMARY:Renewing Faith Online Conference
DESCRIPTION:Process & Faith invites you on a sacred online journey to renew your faith and explore how we live into process and open & relational theology together. Let’s bring more beauty into our Christian paths! \n\n\n\nDuring this multi-day online event\, we’ll explore several core themes of Christian faith—not academically\, but in “big conversations” and practices. \n\n\n\n\nRenewing Faith: A Call for Reimagination and Renewal \n\n\n\nRenewing God: Deep Listening\, Creativity\, Transformation\n\n\n\nRenewing Jesus: Atonement\, Salvation\n\n\n\nRenewing Message: Preaching\, Scripture\n\n\n\nRenewing Worship: Liturgy\, Creeds\, Sacraments\, Aesthetics\n\n\n\nRenewing Spirit: Practices\, Religious Experience\n\n\n\nRenewing Community: Education\, Outreach\, Service\n\n\n\n\nWe’re going to do our best to not be all heady about it\, but actually drop down deeper—into our bodies and souls! It’ll be online\, so body and soul can join from home. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLearn More
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/renewing-faith-online-conference/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250129T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250129T183000
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SUMMARY:Course: Introduction to Process-Relational Thought & Practice 2025
DESCRIPTION:Discovering Dynamic Ideas for a Relational Life\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis 6-week course provides an introduction to the process tradition by examining key ideas in Whitehead’s philosophy\, exploring some general ideas that flow from his philosophy\, and considering applications of these ideas in personal life and community development. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/course-introduction-to-process-relational-thought-practice-2025/2025-01-29/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250205T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250205T183000
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SUMMARY:Course: Introduction to Process-Relational Thought & Practice 2025
DESCRIPTION:Discovering Dynamic Ideas for a Relational Life\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis 6-week course provides an introduction to the process tradition by examining key ideas in Whitehead’s philosophy\, exploring some general ideas that flow from his philosophy\, and considering applications of these ideas in personal life and community development. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/course-introduction-to-process-relational-thought-practice-2025/2025-02-05/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250212T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250212T183000
DTSTAMP:20260407T135652
CREATED:20250117T205957Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250117T210015Z
UID:10001108-1739379600-1739385000@cobb.institute
SUMMARY:Course: Introduction to Process-Relational Thought & Practice 2025
DESCRIPTION:Discovering Dynamic Ideas for a Relational Life\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis 6-week course provides an introduction to the process tradition by examining key ideas in Whitehead’s philosophy\, exploring some general ideas that flow from his philosophy\, and considering applications of these ideas in personal life and community development. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/course-introduction-to-process-relational-thought-practice-2025/2025-02-12/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250215T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250215T163000
DTSTAMP:20260407T135652
CREATED:20250117T040808Z
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SUMMARY:Memorial Service | John B. Cobb\, Jr.
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Process Studies is planning a public memorial for Dr. Cobb on Saturday\, February 15th\, 2025 at the Claremont United Church of Christ. The Service will run between 3:00pm – 4:30pm PST. We will also be livestreaming the memorial on YouTube. A reception will be held immediately after the service\, offering a time for fellowship and sharing memories of John. \n\n\n\n\nLearn More & RSVP
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/memorial-service-john-b-cobb-jr/
CATEGORIES:Memorial
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ORGANIZER;CN="Cobb Institute":MAILTO:events@cobb.institute
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250219T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250219T183000
DTSTAMP:20260407T135652
CREATED:20250117T205957Z
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UID:10001109-1739984400-1739989800@cobb.institute
SUMMARY:Course: Introduction to Process-Relational Thought & Practice 2025
DESCRIPTION:Discovering Dynamic Ideas for a Relational Life\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis 6-week course provides an introduction to the process tradition by examining key ideas in Whitehead’s philosophy\, exploring some general ideas that flow from his philosophy\, and considering applications of these ideas in personal life and community development. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/course-introduction-to-process-relational-thought-practice-2025/2025-02-19/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250226T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250226T183000
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SUMMARY:Course: Introduction to Process-Relational Thought & Practice 2025
DESCRIPTION:Discovering Dynamic Ideas for a Relational Life\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis 6-week course provides an introduction to the process tradition by examining key ideas in Whitehead’s philosophy\, exploring some general ideas that flow from his philosophy\, and considering applications of these ideas in personal life and community development. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/course-introduction-to-process-relational-thought-practice-2025/2025-02-26/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250227T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250227T180000
DTSTAMP:20260407T135652
CREATED:20250211T040616Z
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SUMMARY:Process Pop-Up: From Amipotence to All-Encompassing Mercy: Integrating Oord’s Theology of Love into the Islamic Tradition
DESCRIPTION:In this session\, Adis Duderija\, a scholar of Islamic theology\, will explore his agreement with Thomas Jay Oord’s critique of classical theistic omnipotence and his compelling concept of amipotence.  \n\n\n\nDrawing from Oord’s work as well as his own scholarship\, Dr. Duderija will guide participants through the theological landscape\, examining both the obstacles and opportunities for integrating amipotence within the Islamic interpretive tradition. We’ll delve into how we can reframe our understanding of the Qur’an and its portrayal of God’s mercy\, emphasizing that divine love and mercy are not just attributes but the essence of God’s nature.  \n\n\n\nExpect to engage in thought-provoking discussions about the implications for human flourishing and well-being within our faith traditions. \n\n\n\nTopics include: \n\n\n\n\nHuman Flourishing and Well-Being: Analysis of how the concept of amipotence relates to human well-being and the challenges of defining and applying these concepts in various contexts.\n\n\n\nCritique of Classical Theism: Examination of Oord’s critique of traditional concepts of omnipotence and the introduction of amipotence.\n\n\n\nIntegration into Islamic Tradition: Exploration of theological obstacles and opportunities for incorporating amipotence within the Islamic interpretive framework.\n\n\n\nUnderstanding Divine Attributes: Discussion on the Qur’an’s portrayal of God’s attributes\, particularly focusing on mercy (Ar-Rahman) and its implications for divine love.\n\n\n\n\nRSVP required to receive ZOOM info. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP at Process & Faith
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-pop-up-from-amipotence-to-all-encompassing-mercy/
CATEGORIES:Pop-Up
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250311T100000
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Kathleen Wakefield
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Songs “Planted in Clay” \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Kathleen Wakefield \n\n\n\nIn this session of Process Explorations\, Kathleen Wakefield shares her creative\, trans-disciplinary thinking in a program that promises to be evocative for poets and artists\, activists and philosophers alike. She will present “Songs ‘Planted in Clay\,’” a plea for the liberating and healing power of Whiteheadian metaphysics and poetry. This theme was her Springboard Project for the 2024 Certificate Program in Process Studies.Kathleen explores how the process of writing exemplifies Whitehead’s theory of prehensions and how poetry as an art form evoking the thickness of experience “embodies a protest against the ‘bifurcation’ of nature.” (PR 289) Poetry is gradually recognized as a form of earth speech\, aligning with Whitehead’s notion of a work of art as “a fragment of nature.” In the light of Process Thinking\, a family trauma is excavated through family letters which provide new lures for healing\, transformation\, and poetic expression. \n\n\n\nKathleen A. Wakefield is the author of two books of poetry\, Notations on the Visible World (Anhinga Press\, 2000)\, winner of the Anhinga Prize for Poetry\, and Grip\, Give and Sway  (Silver Birch Press\, 2016). She holds degrees from Mount Holyoke College (Chemistry) and the University of Michigan (History of Art). She  taught creative writing at the Eastman School of Music and the University of Rochester\, worked as a poet-in-the-schools\, and shares poetry through public libraries. Her work has appeared in numerous journals\, including the Alaska Quarterly Review\, Christian Century\, Georgia Review\, Poetry\, Sewanee Review\, and Visions International\, with work forthcoming in Half-Mystic and Amethyst Review. She serves on the leadership committee of the Cobb Institute Certificate Program. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo receive the Zoom info for this gathering\, click the Going button and enter your name and email. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you experience any difficulty with the RSVP\, please send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular announcements and updates about activities and events at the Cobb Institute\, please join our list of Friends. Can’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our recordings archive.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-explorations-2025-03-11/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250313T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250313T190000
DTSTAMP:20260407T135652
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SUMMARY:Course: Whitehead's Process Philosophy 2025
DESCRIPTION:Diving Deeper Into Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhile “process philosophy” is wider than the work of Alfred North Whitehead\, the depth and dynamism of his thought principally inspire its modern expression. This five-part course introduces students and life-long learners to the central themes\, contours\, and ideas of Whitehead’s “philosophy of organism.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/course-whiteheads-process-philosophy-2025/2025-03-13/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250318T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250318T120000
DTSTAMP:20260407T135652
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Jared Morningstar
DESCRIPTION:Topic: The Practice\, Spirituality\, and History of Ramadan \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Jared Morningstar \n\n\n\nIn this session of Process Explorations\, Jared Morningstar will introduce the Islamic holiday of Ramadan. Jared will share his own experiences of the spiritual and physical practices central to this holiday\, dwelling on the ways that this month of fasting offers opportunities for connecting more deeply with Muslim community\, the natural world\, and the Divine. He will also share the origins and the history of Ramadan\, drawing connections with other religious communities and practices. \n\n\n\nRather than just introducing the basic features of this central Islamic practice\, Jared will draw connections between aspects of Ramadan and central values and themes present in process thought. Through presenting Ramadan from both personal and academic perspectives\, Jared hopes to share insights and make connections that may be taken up by Muslims and non-Muslims alike and carried forward long after Ramadan 2025 has concluded. \n\n\n\nAbout the Presenter(s) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJared is an independent scholar living in Madison\, Wisconsin with academic interests in philosophy of religion\, Islamic studies\, comparative religion\, metamodern spirituality\, and interfaith dialogue. His work in these areas seeks to offer robust responses to issues of inter-religious conflict\, contemporary nihilism\, and the “meaning crisis\,” among other things. Jared graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in 2018 with degrees in religion and Scandinavian studies and currently works for the Center for Process Studies\, the Cobb Institute\, and the Psychedelic Medicine Association. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo receive the Zoom info for this gathering\, click the Going button and enter your name and email. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you experience any difficulty with the RSVP\, please send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular announcements and updates about activities and events at the Cobb Institute\, please join our list of Friends. Can’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our recordings archive.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-explorations-2025-03-18/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250320T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250320T190000
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SUMMARY:Course: Whitehead's Process Philosophy 2025
DESCRIPTION:Diving Deeper Into Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhile “process philosophy” is wider than the work of Alfred North Whitehead\, the depth and dynamism of his thought principally inspire its modern expression. This five-part course introduces students and life-long learners to the central themes\, contours\, and ideas of Whitehead’s “philosophy of organism.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/course-whiteheads-process-philosophy-2025/2025-03-20/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250325T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250325T120000
DTSTAMP:20260407T135652
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Eric Shafer\, Sid Mohn\, and Karla Leitzman
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nSeries: Responding to a Fractured World: Re-think\, Re-act\, Re-create \nTopic: The US and its Global Leadership for Refugees \n\n\n\nPresenters: Eric Shafer\, Sid Mohn\, and Karla Leitzman \n\n\n\nIn the aftermath of World War 2\, the United States emerged as a leader in the resettlement of persons displaced by war.  With the birth of the United Nations\, the global community articulated a commitment to the protection of refugees to which the US was party\, and which was ultimately codified into U.S. law in 1980.  The Trump Administration in its first term significantly reduced refugee admissions and within the initial weeks of Trump’s second Administration\, all refugee admissions were suspended. The Rev. Dr. Sid Mohn\, The Rev. Eric Shafer\, and Karla Leitzman will join us for a discussion of the history of refugee resettlement and its current realities. \n\nAbout the Presenter(s)\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Rev. Eric C. Shafer\, a pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)\, is Global Refuge’s “Pastor-in-Residence.”  (Global Refuge is the new name for Lutheran Immigration and Refuge Service).  He recently retired after more thaneight years asSenior Pastor at Mt. Olive Lutheran Church in Santa Monica\, CA. There he helped open the Students4Students Shelter at Mt. Olive\, the first shelter for homeless college students in the USA.  For this work he has received awards from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints\, the Santa Monica Rotary Club\, and the Westside Coalition for Housing\, Hunger\, and Health.” His previous positions include Senior Vice President for Odyssey Networks in New York City and Director of Communication for the ELCA in Chicago. Shafer has taught in South Africa and Madagascar and made multiple trips to Jerusalem and the West Bank.  He is the host of the YouTube program Hope Matters and a regular contributor to the Church Anew website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSid Mohn is Director of Interfaith Action of SW Michigan\, a peace and justice collaborative of more than thirty faith-based communities. As a non-profit leader\, he has focused on human rights advocacy\, especially migrant rights and child rights. He was President and CEO of Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights for thirty-five years (1980–2015)\, launching such initiatives as Neon Street Center for Homeless Youth\, International Children’s Centers for Unaccompanied Minors\, Kovler Center for the Treatment of Survivors of Torture\, and Mexico-US Advocates Network. He also worked closely with the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement. For twenty-five years\, Sid oversaw Heartland Alliance’s unaccompanied child migrant programs\, working with governmental\, legal\, and social service organizations. Further\, he coordinated the second sanctuary church in the U.S. (Wellington Ave United Church of Christ\, Chicago)\, providing safe haven to refugees from El Salvador. His awards include: Executive Director of the Year (United Way of Chicago)\, Wright Award for Human Rights Leadership (Chicago Commission on Human Relations)\, LGBT Hall of Fame of Chicago\, Founder’s Award (Illinois Coalition on Immigrant & Refugee Rights)\, and Human Rights Leader’s Award (Centro Romero). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKarla Leitzman has served as a Philanthropic Advisor with Global Refuge/ LIRS for two and a half years. A native Minnesotan who lives in St. Paul\, Karla is responsible for connecting with donors in the Midwest and Southern California to solicit and steward support for the missions and ministries of Global Refuge. In addition to her work\, Karla is also an endorsed candidate for Word and Sacrament in the St. Paul Area Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and is a senior Master of Divinity Student at Luther Seminary. She is currently serving as a part time vicar/ pastoral intern at Faith Lilac Way Lutheran Church in Robbinsdale\, MN\, a northern suburb of Minneapolis. Karla is passionate about the church’s role in justice- and peace- making around the world\, and she is grateful for the multiple hats she is fortunate to wear during such a tumultuous time.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTo receive the Zoom info for this gathering\, click the Going button and enter your name and email. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nIf you experience any difficulty with the RSVP\, please send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular announcements and updates about activities and events at the Cobb Institute\, please join our list of Friends. Can’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our recordings archive. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-explorations-2025-03-25/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250327T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250327T190000
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SUMMARY:Course: Whitehead's Process Philosophy 2025
DESCRIPTION:Diving Deeper Into Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhile “process philosophy” is wider than the work of Alfred North Whitehead\, the depth and dynamism of his thought principally inspire its modern expression. This five-part course introduces students and life-long learners to the central themes\, contours\, and ideas of Whitehead’s “philosophy of organism.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/course-whiteheads-process-philosophy-2025/2025-03-27/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250401T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250401T120000
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Sheri Kling
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nSeries: Responding to a Fractured World: Re-think\, Re-act\, Re-create \nTopic: Healing our Collective Pain: Whitehead\, Jung\, and Transformation \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Sheri Kling\, Director of Process and Faith \n\n\n\nCan we understand both cosmos and psyche in a way that promotes integration rather than fragmentation? Our present societal landscape\, particularly in the West and the United States\, is marked by fragmentation and division across multiple dimensions. Societally\, there is significant polarization. Interpersonally\, many individuals face growing loneliness and isolation. Intrapersonally\, there is a surge in antidepressant use and a clear link between early adverse experiences and adult challenges. This highlights a deep-rooted crisis in how individuals perceive their existence and connections with others. \nTo heal our fragmentation\, we must seek an understanding of both the cosmos and the psyche that unifies rather than divides. In this talk\, Sheri D. Kling\, Ph.D.\, will offer Whitehead and Jung as integrating resources that reveal a Reality that shows us that we matter\, we belong\, and we can experience positive change. \n\nAbout the Presenter(s)\n\n\n\n\n\nSheri D. Kling\, Ph.D. is the director of Process & Faith with the Center for Process Studies and interim minister of Redeemer Lutheran Church in Bradenton\, FL. Sheri earned her Ph.D. in Religion: Process Studies from Claremont School of Theology and her MATS from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. She is a theologian\, songwriter\, and spiritual teacher who draws from wisdom and mystical traditions\, relational worldviews\, depth psychology\, and the intersection of spirituality and science to help people find meaning\, belonging\, and transformation. Sheri is a faculty member of the Haden Institute\, adjunct faculty with Claremont School of Theology\, and the author of A Process Spirituality: Christian and Transreligious Resources for Transformation as well as a contributor to several other books. She regularly delivers dynamic “Music & Message” presentations to groups\, and offers courses\, concerts\, and spiritual retreats. Sheri may be found online at sherikling.com \n\n\n  \n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTo receive the Zoom info for this gathering\, click the Going button and enter your name and email. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nIf you experience any difficulty with the RSVP\, please send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular announcements and updates about activities and events at the Cobb Institute\, please join our list of Friends. Can’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our recordings archive. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-explorations-2025-04-01/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250403T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250403T190000
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SUMMARY:Course: Whitehead's Process Philosophy 2025
DESCRIPTION:Diving Deeper Into Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhile “process philosophy” is wider than the work of Alfred North Whitehead\, the depth and dynamism of his thought principally inspire its modern expression. This five-part course introduces students and life-long learners to the central themes\, contours\, and ideas of Whitehead’s “philosophy of organism.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/course-whiteheads-process-philosophy-2025/2025-04-03/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250408T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250408T120000
DTSTAMP:20260407T135652
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Thandeka & Jennifer Jennings
DESCRIPTION:Series: Responding to a Fractured World: Re-think\, Re-act\, Re-create \nTopic: The Untrolling Project \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Thandeka & Jennifer Jennings \nUntrolling America is a new multimedia series created by Thandeka and Jennifer Jennings as part of a grassroots initiative to unite Americans across their partisan divides and cultural war battlefields. \nWill they succeed? \nWill their series create new actions everywhere\, the kind that John B. Cobb Jr. called for in his 2024 public lecture on earthism at Peking University? Will it galvanize persons “to love the whole in its complex wholeness in a way that leads us to care about the consequences of our actions everywhere”? Will it change the way we feel\, think and act? \nThandeka and Jennifer will ask us to reflect on\, discuss\, and answer these questions after a screening of the first episode of Untrolling America—which John helped fund— on April 8\, 2025 on Process Explorations. \n\nAbout the Presenter(s)\n\n\n\n\n\nThandeka is a Unitarian Universalist theologian\, minister and congregational consultant\, founder and President of Love Beyond Belief ™ Inc.\, co-creator and co-producer of the Universal Connections small group project and The Untrolling Project\, and a former Emmy award-winning television producer. \nThandeka has spent more than two decades studying the brain science of emotions—Affective Neuroscience (AN). As a result of her work in AN\, she founded Contemporary Affect Theology (CAT)\, which investigates the links between religion and emotions\, differentiating spiritual experiences from religious beliefs. \nJaak Panksepp\, the founder of AN\, commends Thandeka’s “decisive historical-philosophical analysis” as work that can provide “a universal substrate for nondenominational religious experience” (The Archaeology of Mind\, 391). \nHer books and essays have helped secure her place as a “major figure in American liberal theology\,” as Gary Dorrien notes in The Making of American Liberal Theology: Crisis\, Irony\, and Postmodernity\, 1950-2005 (John Knox Press\, 2006). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJennifer Jennings is a CPA with 27 years of financial accounting experience\, including 17 years as the Director of Financial Reporting at a major corporation in Dallas. She is Vice President of Finance & Operations at Love Beyond Belief ™ Inc\, and Co-Director of Universal Connections and The Untrolling Project. \nIn 2007\, her inward journey of self-discovery sparked an intense spiritual pilgrimage seeking new ways to connect all the people of this planet in creating better ways to live together. The journey led to her finding Unitarian Universalism and The First Unitarian Church of Dallas where she has served on the Church Board\, the Board of North Texas Unitarian Universalist Congregations\, its Love Beyond Belief Steering Committee\, its New Life School of Uganda Partnership Committee and as a Circles Small Group Facilitator and facilitator of Adult Religious Education offerings like Coming of Age for Adults and Turning Points in UU History. When she took Thandeka’s Universal Connections small group workshop\, she found what she’d been seeking: a way to affirm the spiritual common ground of humanity for life-enhancing work on planet earth. Jennifer now works with Thandeka full time \n\n\n  \n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTo receive the Zoom info for this gathering\, click the Going button and enter your name and email. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nIf you experience any difficulty with the RSVP\, please send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular announcements and updates about activities and events at the Cobb Institute\, please join our list of Friends. Can’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our recordings archive. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-explorations-2025-04-08/
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250410T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250410T190000
DTSTAMP:20260407T135652
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SUMMARY:Course: Whitehead's Process Philosophy 2025
DESCRIPTION:Diving Deeper Into Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhile “process philosophy” is wider than the work of Alfred North Whitehead\, the depth and dynamism of his thought principally inspire its modern expression. This five-part course introduces students and life-long learners to the central themes\, contours\, and ideas of Whitehead’s “philosophy of organism.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/course-whiteheads-process-philosophy-2025/2025-04-10/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250415T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250415T120000
DTSTAMP:20260407T135652
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Chris Hughes
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nSeries: Responding to a Fractured World: Re-think\, Re-act\, Re-create \nTopic: As We Think\, We Live: Critical Challenges for Educational Systems and Teachers \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Chris Hughes\, Dean of Cobb Institute Certificate Program \nPublic education serves the needs of a country\, but what happens when those needs become too narrowly articulated\, even partisan\, and the deep learning of young people is forgotten? Deep learning shifts thinking towards the big stage of speculative philosophy and open horizons. Narrow learning pushes a selected set of possibilities. \nPROcess is a seven-session course for young people. Why do we need it? The world is on a dangerous trajectory. It is young minds that carry the thoughts for tomorrow’s actions. Students breathe in not only the subjects they are taught but also how these subjects are framed by their teachers. Subject and frame together create transformative learning. Subjects and frames are fragmented in our schools today. At the heart of Whitehead’s thinking is a healing unity. For many people a first encounter with Whitehead’s vision is a romance\, a felt sense in the body\, a shift in the ground under their feet.  Whitehead himself saw romance as the first\, and necessary\, stage of deep learning. I think we can spark such a romance in young people. PROcess is a first attempt in this direction. This session explores both the need and the how of this attempt. \n\nAbout the Presenter(s)\n\n\n\n\n\nChris Hughes is the current Dean of the Certificate in Process Thought and Practice at the Cobb Institute. He came to Canada from the UK in 1975 after earning a BA in Psychology from Durham University. In 1986 he earned a B.Ed with a major in Science from the University of Calgary. Along the way he picked up courses and skills in experimental psychology from the University of McMaster and in philosophy from the University of Calgary. Prior to 1986 when he started a 30+ year High School teaching streak (Maths and Physics)\, he worked with young people who were “at risk” or who had custodial sentences. Towards the end of his teaching career\, he trained as a Mindfulness Instructor with the British Mindfulness in Schools Project and taught Mindfulness to both students and teachers. He lives in Calgary\, Alberta. During his teaching career he received the Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching Excellence and the APEGGA Teaching Award. (The Association of Professional Engineers\, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta). \n\n\n  \n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTo receive the Zoom info for this gathering\, click the Going button and enter your name and email. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nIf you experience any difficulty with the RSVP\, please send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular announcements and updates about activities and events at the Cobb Institute\, please join our list of Friends. Can’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our recordings archive. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-explorations-2025-04-15/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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