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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Leslie King & Rolla Lewis
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Process Certificate Program: Prospects for its Future \n\n\n\nPresenters: Leslie King & Rolla Lewis \n\n\n\nEleven people completed the requirements to receive the Cobb Institute’s first “Certificate in Process and Practice\,” a program which included online courses taught by Jay McDaniel\, Andrew M. Davis\, Jeanyne Slettom\, Sheri Kling\, and Marcus Ford. The program\, guided by Terry Goddard\, was designed as “A Transformative and Holistic Educational Experience to Cultivate a More Just\, Sustainable\, and Fulfilling World.”  See the list of graduates and their synthesizing capstone “Springboard” projects. Future leadership for the program has emerged from the first cohort of graduates.  Dr. Rolla Lewis has agreed to be the guiding Dean of the Certificate Program\, and Rev. Dr. Leslie King has agreed to be the overall guiding Chairperson of our educational programs.  Rolla and Leslie will share their experience in and hopes for the Certificate Program.  Other participants have been invited to share their experiences of the Certificate program and their hopes for its future.      \n\n\n\nRolla Lewis\, Professor Emeritus in Educational Psychology at California State University\, East Bay\, has had a long career as School Counseling Coordinator at CSUEB and Portland State University.  He is a Taos Institute Associate\, which promotes social constructivism.  In September\, 2019\, he shared with Cobb & Friends his perspective on “Lifescaping–Creating a World We Want to Live In.”  Now retired in Portland\, OR\, his active gardening became the focus of his Certificate study’s capstone project.   \n\n\n\nLeslie King\, pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Waco\, Texas\, studied process theology with Nancy Howell in the Doctor of Ministry program at St. Paul’s School of Theology. Find her biodata here\, and her blog here.  Her capstone project was “Forever Young:  Concepts of God and Launching Young Adults.”  In her new role of Education Chairperson\, she is a member of the Cobb Institute Board. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-2023-07-25/
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: An Awakening Planet?
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group Contemplating the Vision of Teilhard de Chardin\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitated by Dr. Ernie Tamminga\, this group meets every two weeks to carefully consider how and whether Teilhard de Chardin’s hope-filled perspective on the human evolutionary future can still inspire us in a time full of conflicts and division. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-an-awakening-planet-2/2023-07-25/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230720T170000
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SUMMARY:Process Pop-Up: The Secular as Sacred: Taoism & Confucianism from the Perspective of Process Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:The cultural tradition of China is notorious for its secularism. There is no belief in God\, no special emphasis upon spirituality\, no expectation of eternal salvation. All the teachings of Taoism and Confucianism seem to be nothing more than ethical admonition focusing on secular benefits. Nevertheless\, China’s civilization has persisted for more than 3000 years and seems even more compelling in our time.   \n\n\n\nIn this event\, Dr. Zhenbao Jin wishes to decode the secrets of Taoism and Confucianism from the perspective of his special experience of healing himself from lymphoma cancer and other chronic health problems\, as well as his related research in the past 10 years. He will discuss the cosmology of Taoism and Confucianism from the perspective of process philosophy and meditation as the way to embody such a cosmology. He will show how Taoism and Confucianism are more a developing scholarship than a close system of belief\, due to their non-dualistic cosmology. \n\n\n\nRSVP required to receive ZOOM info. \n\n\n\n\nRSVP at Process & Faith\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the following:
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-pop-up-the-secular-as-sacred-taoism-confucianism-from-the-perspective-of-process-philosophy/
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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-23/2023-07-20/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Bruce Epperly
DESCRIPTION:Topic: The Bible in Process Perspective: Learning from Stories \n\n\n\nPresenters: Bruce Epperly \n\n\n\nJoin our conversation with Dr. Bruce Epperly\, seminary teacher\, pastor\, lectionary commentator\, and prolific author of over sixty process-themed books. On his personal website he says\, “Process theology is an adventure of ideas\,” and “The Bible is an adventure book.” See his current Adventurous Lectionary blogs for Patheos\, or his archive of lectionary commentaries for Process & Faith. What follows is further information Dr. Epperly has shared with us. \n\n\n\nBruce Epperly served over forty years as a university chaplain\, congregational pastor\, seminary administrator\, and university and seminary professor. Prior to concluding his full-time ministry at South Congregational Church\, UCC\, Barnstable\, Massachusetts in 2021\, Bruce served in various administrative and academic roles at Lancaster Theological Seminary\, Wesley Theological Seminary\, Claremont School of Theology\, and Georgetown University. Bruce is the author of over seventy books in theology\, spirituality\, healing and wholeness\, scripture\, and clergy wellbeing\, including The Elephant is Running: Process and Open and Relational Theology and Religious Pluralism; The Jubilee Years: Embracing Clergy Retirement; A Center in a Cyclone: Twenty-first Century Clergy Selfcare;  Francis of Assisi: From Privilege to Activism; Mystics in Action: 12 Saints for Today; Prophetic Healing: Howard Thurman’s Vision of Contemplative Activism; 101 Soul Seeds for Grandparents Working for a Better World; and 101 Soul Seeds for a Joyful Retirement. His latest books are Taking a Walk with Whitehead: Meditations on Process Theology and Process Theology and the Revival We Need. He currently is working on manuscripts related to Teilhard and Whitehead and the importance of progressive/process-relational Christianity in saving the soul of the nation and planet. \n\n\n\n In “retirement\,” Bruce describes his life as spacious\, meaningful\, and busy enough. His days are filled with writing\, preparing for classes and talks\, walking\, watching British mysteries\, and spending time with his wife Kath and his grandchildren who live in the neighborhood. He wakes up eager at 4:30 a.m. for today’s holy adventure\, which always includes an afternoon nap!  On occasion\, he even does part-time ministry for congregations\, focusing on theological reflection\, preaching\, teaching\, and reviving congregation’s spirits. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-bruce-epperly/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230713T080000
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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-23/2023-07-13/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230711T083000
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: An Awakening Planet?
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group Contemplating the Vision of Teilhard de Chardin\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitated by Dr. Ernie Tamminga\, this group meets every two weeks to carefully consider how and whether Teilhard de Chardin’s hope-filled perspective on the human evolutionary future can still inspire us in a time full of conflicts and division. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-an-awakening-planet-2/2023-07-11/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230706T080000
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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-23/2023-07-06/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230629T080000
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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-23/2023-06-29/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230627T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: John Becker
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Babbling on About Pluralism \n\n\n\nPresenters: John Becker \n\n\n\nToday’s title is taken from a chapter Dr. Becker wrote in the book he co-edited with Marc A. Pugliese\, Process Thought and Roman Catholicism: Challenges and Promises. Becker\, a Research Fellow of the Institute for Postmodern Development of China\, has accompanied John Cobb to China. He is newsletter editor and board member of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies. He earned a Master’s degree in Historical Preservation at CalPoly Pomona\, and a Ph.D. in philosophy and religious studies from the Claremont School of Theology. He has taught courses at Loyola Marymount College\, University of the West\, and most recently at Lyon College\, where he has been Assistant Professor of Philosophy. (At his LinkedIn page scroll to his posts about the skateboarding course this Southern California native taught in the Arkansas school.) His research interests are broad\, including Buddhist-Christian studies\, eco-theology\, process philosophy\, and religious pluralism. He was honored to receive the 2017 Young Scholar Award of the International Process Network. Becker’s lecture at the 50th Anniversary Conference of the Center for Process Studies in the section “Beyond Dialogue and Deep Religious Pluralism” is available at this YouTube link. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-2023-06-27/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: An Awakening Planet?
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group Contemplating the Vision of Teilhard de Chardin\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitated by Dr. Ernie Tamminga\, this group meets every two weeks to carefully consider how and whether Teilhard de Chardin’s hope-filled perspective on the human evolutionary future can still inspire us in a time full of conflicts and division. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-an-awakening-planet-2/2023-06-27/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230622T080000
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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-23/2023-06-22/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230621T083000
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Readings on Faiths Around the World
DESCRIPTION:Readings on Faiths Around the World is a book group that reads and discusses books covering the vast diversity of world faiths. Beginning June 7th and ending June 21st\, we will read and discuss Marcus Borg’s Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time together. The group will meet weekly on Mondays online via Zoom at 8:30 AM Pacific / 10:30 AM Central. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE & JOIN\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis learning circle is made possible by a collaboration among friends:
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-readings-on-faiths-around-the-world-5/2023-06-21/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230620T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Kathleen Wakefield
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Awakening Our Deep Earth Connections by Reading Poetry in Community \n\n\n\nPresenters: Kathleen Wakefield \n\n\n\nKathleen A. Wakefield\, a frequent participant in our Cobb & Friends conversations\, is skilled in creating poetry and in engaging others in the poetry experience.  She describes her time with us as    \n\n\n\n“Awakening Our Deep Earth Connections: how reading poetry in community inspires loving attentiveness to the natural world and each other.”  She invites us into this experience. \n\n\n\nPoetry is a deeply embodied art rising from the rhythms of breath\, the senses\, and the emotional and spiritual memories our bodies hold. Its music and image-making qualities are uniquely suited to expressing how our lives are bound up with the earth’s body\, attuning us to the sacred web of relationships of which we are a part. Poetry voices grief for the wounding of our home\, while also nourishing us as we seek to heal our relationship and move forward. Reading poems in community can be a transformative process as we share perceptions\, “ah-has” of insight\, and life experiences; the self is excavated at the same time surprising connections are made to the seeming “other\,” human and nonhuman. Our world is enlarged\, our compassion stirred.   \n\n\n\nKathleen A. Wakefield is the author of two books of poetry\, Notations on the Visible World (Anhinga Press\, 2000)\, which won the Anhinga Prize for Poetry\, and Grip\, Give and Sway (Silver Birch Press\, 2016). She has taught creative writing at the Eastman School of Music\, worked as a poet-in-the-schools\, and she 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-2023-06-20/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230615T080000
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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-23/2023-06-15/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230614T083000
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Readings on Faiths Around the World
DESCRIPTION:Readings on Faiths Around the World is a book group that reads and discusses books covering the vast diversity of world faiths. Beginning June 7th and ending June 21st\, we will read and discuss Marcus Borg’s Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time together. The group will meet weekly on Mondays online via Zoom at 8:30 AM Pacific / 10:30 AM Central. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE & JOIN\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis learning circle is made possible by a collaboration among friends:
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-readings-on-faiths-around-the-world-5/2023-06-14/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230613T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Merlin Sheldrake\, with Matt Segall
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds \n\n\n\nPresenters: Merlin Sheldrake & Matt Segall \n\n\n\nMerlin Sheldrake is a biologist and author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds\, Change Our Minds\, and Shape Our Futures\, a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller\, and winner of the Royal Society Book Prize and the Wainwright Prize. Matt Segall\, the Cobb Institute’s Science Advisor\, says of Sheldrake’s work: “He encourages us to wonder how our scientific image of nature would be transformed by the adoption of mycelial rather than mechanical metaphors.” Segall will continue the dialogue about Whitehead/process thought’s relevance to mycology and biology more generally. See this blog post for a sense of what Matt and Merlin have already explored: https://footnotes2plato.com/2021/09/27/towards-a-mycological-metaphysics/. Merlin’s presentation on this topic at the 50th Anniversary Conference of the Center for Process Studies has been posted to YouTube.  \n\n\n\nMerlin received a Ph.D. in tropical ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama\, where he was a predoctoral research fellow of the Smithsonian Tropical Research institute. Merlin is a research associate of the Vrije University Amsterdam\, and works with the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks and the Fungi Foundation. Learn more at his website. Matt is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy\, Cosmology\, and Consciousness program at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco\, CA (CIIS.edu). He has published articles on a wide-array of topics\, including metaphysics\, Gaia theory\, religious studies\, psychedelics\, and architecture. He also blogs regularly at footnotes2plato.com.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-2023-06-13/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230613T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230613T093000
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: An Awakening Planet?
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group Contemplating the Vision of Teilhard de Chardin\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitated by Dr. Ernie Tamminga\, this group meets every two weeks to carefully consider how and whether Teilhard de Chardin’s hope-filled perspective on the human evolutionary future can still inspire us in a time full of conflicts and division. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-an-awakening-planet-2/2023-06-13/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230612T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230612T180000
DTSTAMP:20260419T021931
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SUMMARY:Process Pop-Up: The Diabolical Trinity
DESCRIPTION:In this Pop-Up\, Dr. Mark Karris will guide us through research on why individuals are distancing from or leaving the church and discuss the differences between spiritual abuse\, religious trauma\, religious disorientation growth syndrome\, and adverse religious experiences. We’ll also delve into the religious trauma caused by Hell indoctrination: the unholy trinity of traumatizing beliefs in a tormenting Hell\, a wrathful God\, and human depravity. Lastly\, we’ll explore the impact of these beliefs and coping strategies\, and describe healing interventions for those with religious trauma. \n\n\n\nRSVP required to receive ZOOM info. \n\n\n\n\nRSVP at Process & Faith\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the following:
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-pop-up-the-diabolical-trinity/
CATEGORIES:Pop-Up,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230609T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230609T190000
DTSTAMP:20260419T021931
CREATED:20230607T225405Z
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SUMMARY:The 15th John Cobb Common Good Award Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:The John Cobb Common Good Award is the world’s most prestigious prize for ecological civilization. The award is named after John B. Cobb\, Jr.\, one of today’s most important ecological thinkers and is given to those who promote this hope in effective and remarkable ways. \n\n\n\nThe 15th John Cobb Common Good Award will be presented to Dr. Yan Shi\, co-president of International CSA Network\, Young Global Leaders in 2016\, in recognition of her more than 10 years’ remarkable dedication to the organic community-supported agriculture (CSA) movement in China. Through her actions\, she has endowed academic achievement with practical significance and revitalized the meaning of labor. Together with her colleagues\, she is transforming the work of farmers into a source of pride\, the field of agriculture into a respected vocation\, and rural areas into centers of aspiration and innovation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLearn More & RSVP
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/the-15th-john-cobb-common-good-award-ceremony/
CATEGORIES:Celebration
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230608T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230608T090000
DTSTAMP:20260419T021932
CREATED:20230109T083150Z
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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-23/2023-06-08/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230607T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230607T093000
DTSTAMP:20260419T021932
CREATED:20230517T164803Z
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Readings on Faiths Around the World
DESCRIPTION:Readings on Faiths Around the World is a book group that reads and discusses books covering the vast diversity of world faiths. Beginning June 7th and ending June 21st\, we will read and discuss Marcus Borg’s Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time together. The group will meet weekly on Mondays online via Zoom at 8:30 AM Pacific / 10:30 AM Central. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE & JOIN\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis learning circle is made possible by a collaboration among friends:
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-readings-on-faiths-around-the-world-5/2023-06-07/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230606T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230606T120000
DTSTAMP:20260419T021932
CREATED:20230524T002638Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230528T195804Z
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: David Schwerin
DESCRIPTION:Topic: My 20 year Spiritual Adventure in China \n\n\n\nPresenters: David Schwerin\, with responses by Zhihe Wang and Meijun Fan. \n\n\n\nDavid Schwerin comes highly recommended by Zhihe Wang and Meijun Fan. He has shared with the Institute for Postmodern Development of China his business acumen and wise counsel\, having been credentialed with an MBA in Finance (Bucknell) and a Ph.D. in religion (Temple).  David has over thirty years of business experience\, beginning as a financial analyst and senior investment officer with a large bank. He founded D J Investment Advisors\, Inc. and has served as its President since 1976.  Explore his website\, www.consciousthinking.com\, for “Speaking” and “Writing” primarily focused on his initial work in China on Socially Responsible Business. (Now it’s referred to as Corporate Social Responsibility\, CSR\, or most recently Environmental\, Social and Governance\, ESG.) \n\n\n\nSchwerin is author of Conscious Capitalism: Principles for Prosperity (Butterworth-Heinemann 1998) which has been translated into Portuguese and Chinese and is in its second printing in China.  John Cobb praised Schwerin’s book Conscious Globalism: What’s Wrong with the World and How to Fix It (Digital Junction Press\, 2005):  “David Schwerin is doing great work in reminding the business community of its enormous responsibilities. Economic globalization has given corporations great freedom; hence\, much depends on how they use it. Those who read Conscious Globalism will have their tendencies to conscientiousness and inclusive concern strongly reinforced.”  Conscious Globalism was published in China in October 2005.  \n\n\n\nSchwerin says\, “Because some authorities in China have misgivings about the word ‘Spiritual’ and what it entails\, I have purposely limited the spiritual aspects of my work on my website. That said\, I have spent many years working to introduce a spiritual path to China. It is called Pathwork and is based on Mystery School teachings that are thousands of years old. It consists of 258 lectures that were channeled over a 20-year period and are psycho-spiritual in nature. These profound teachings are drawn from ancient wisdom from both the East and West.”  See his current blogs at https://www.speakingtree.in/david-schwerin/blogs.  See also his most recent book\, co-authored with Diana Muenz Chen\, titled Know Your Soul: Bring Joy to Your Life. It will help you understand the term Soul as he understands it. \n\n\n\n   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-david-schwerin/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230601T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230601T090000
DTSTAMP:20260419T021932
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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-23/2023-06-01/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230530T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230530T120000
DTSTAMP:20260419T021932
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Eugene Shirley & Friends
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Pando: Leveraging Society’s Pillars for Change! \n\n\n\nPresenters: Eugene Shirley & Friends \n\n\n\nEarth’s largest organism\, Pando the Tree\, inspired graphics for the 2015 Claremont Conference\, “Seizing an Alternative.”  Pando the organization is a “non-profit producer of educational programs for civic engagement with the end goal of building a more sustainable California Southland.”  Eugene Shirley\, Founding President of Pando\, has rounded up a talented crew to creatively engage folks in Los Angeles County in aiming for its ambitious sustainability goals.  The CSO Strategic Task Force brings together Chief Sustainability Officers from government\, higher education\, business\, and NGOs to focus on the common good of strengthening community resilience in Los Angeles County.   \n\n\n\n         Heidrun Mumper-Drumm\, head of the CSO Task Force\, will join our conversation\, along with John B. Cobb\, Jr.\, Pando’s Founding Board Chair\, and Vice-Chair Ed Bacon\, former long-time pastor of Pasadena All Saints Episcopal Church.  A brief documentary film by award-winning Lyn Goldfarb will be shared during the presentation. \n\n\n\n          Conversation will focus on the traditional pillars of civil society and how we can utilize them to bring about change.  How do we involve education\, faith institutions\, professional organizations and others in a broad ambition to create the more ecologically balanced and socially just environment that the LA County sustainability plan\, integral ecology\, etc. envision?  Additionally\, what is the role for public agencies?  Pando is building a unique model in Pando Days\, Magenta House\, and the CSO Taskforce that we’ll explore as specific test-cases.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-2023-05-30/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230530T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230530T093000
DTSTAMP:20260419T021932
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: An Awakening Planet?
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group Contemplating the Vision of Teilhard de Chardin\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitated by Dr. Ernie Tamminga\, this group meets every two weeks to carefully consider how and whether Teilhard de Chardin’s hope-filled perspective on the human evolutionary future can still inspire us in a time full of conflicts and division. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-an-awakening-planet-2/2023-05-30/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230525T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230527T170000
DTSTAMP:20260419T021932
CREATED:20230524T234825Z
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SUMMARY:Claremont Eco Forum: Deep Transformation for Ecological Civilization
DESCRIPTION:Join us online May 25-27th at the 16th International Forum on Ecological Civilization! This year will explore strategies for transforming self\, systems and societies that can be employed to create an ecological civilization. \n\n\n\nThis event aims to deepen and widen our understanding of what an ecological civilization looks like in practice\, on the ground\, and in diverse local contexts. Each day will begin with panel discussions featuring leading thinkers and end with breakout groups focusing on the topic of the day. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE & REGISTER
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/claremont-eco-forum-deep-transformation-for-ecological-civilization/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230525T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230525T090000
DTSTAMP:20260419T021932
CREATED:20230109T083150Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231212T233404Z
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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-23/2023-05-25/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230523T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230523T120000
DTSTAMP:20260419T021932
CREATED:20230512T040220Z
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki
DESCRIPTION:Topic: 21 Psalms for the 21st Century \n\n\n\nPresenters: Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki \n\n\n\nNoted process theologian Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki shares wisdom gained from her spiritual practice of reading and re-reading the Psalms during the days of pandemic. In process-relational meditations\, she shares her journey\, and she also includes contemporary psalms by Blair Gilmer Meeks. See the Process Century Press website for a description of her recently published book\, featuring 21 Psalms\, of warning\, yet an on-going source of hope. Dr. Suchocki has had a long-time association with John Cobb\, having been his student at Claremont Graduate School. She was founder of the (Whitehead) Common Good Film Festival\, and Co-director Emerita of the Center for Process Studies. The Cobb Institute Educator’s Toolbox includes a ready to share slideshow summarizing Suchocki’s approach to Christian Process Theology  Access the Center for Process Studies bibliography of her books\, articles\, and videotapes\, and see her detailed biodata and major publications here.   \n\n\n\nBlair Gilmer Meeks\, past editor of Liturgy\, the quarterly journal of The Liturgical Conference\, writes and lectures on worship and preaching for Abingdon Press and The Upper Room. She was acting coach in the chancel drama program at the Center for Arts and Religion\, Wesley Theological Seminary.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-2023-05-23/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230518T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230518T090000
DTSTAMP:20260419T021932
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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-23/2023-05-18/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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