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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/2024-11-26/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Tze-Ki Hon
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Yijing and Process Cosmology \n\n\n\nPresenters: Tze-Ki Hon \n\n\n\nDr. Tze-ki Hon\, a long-time scholar of contemporary interpretations and readings of the Yijing (The Changes in Our Times)\, was one of the lecturers at the recent celebration of the 100th anniversary of Alfred North Whitehead’s arrival at Harvard.  He will discuss with us the topic of that lecture\, “Yijing and Process Cosmology.”  \n\n\n\nDr. Hon currently serves as the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (UIC). After obtaining his bachelor’s degree from the University of Hong Kong\, he pursued further studies in the United States\, earning a master’s degree from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Over the past twenty-plus years\, he has taught at Hanover College in Indiana (1992-1996)\, SUNY Geneseo (1996-2016)\, and City University of Hong Kong (2017-2021). Professor Hon specializes in the study of the Yijing (I Ching)\, Chinese cultural history\, modern intellectual history\, and the transmission of Chinese classics to the West. He has published three books: The Yijing and Chinese Politics (2005)\, Revolution as Restoration (2013)\, The Allure of the Nation (2015); and co-authored Teaching the I Ching (Book of Changes) (2014) with Geoffrey Redmond\, which instructs Westerners on how to read the I Ching. He has also edited six volumes of collected papers\, including Confucianism for the Contemporary World (2017)\, Cold War Cities (2021)\, and The Other Yijing (2022). His papers appear in journals such as the Journal of Chinese Philosophy\, Modern China\, Monumenta Serica\, and the Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies. \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-gathering-2024-11-26/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241121T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241121T090000
DTSTAMP:20260414T214916
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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-2/2024-11-21/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241119T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241119T180000
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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/2024-11-19/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Rolla Lewis and Mary Elizabeth Moore
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Cultivating Beloved Communities in Divided Times \n\n\n\nPresenters: Rolla Lewis and Mary Elizabeth Moore \n\n\n\nThe Cobb & Friends session will invite participants to reflect on their own lives and those of others in small groups and all together. We will especially focus on the presence of cosmic Life and its potential for cultivating beloved communities and the thriving of life in individuals\, local communities\, and the universe\, even in the hardest of times. \n\n\n\nThe two leaders of this session have long experience in leading reflective processes in groups seeking to know themselves and the world in a deeper way\, and to contribute to creative transformation. \n\n\n\nRolla Lewis is the primary leader. He is the 2024 Dean of the Cobb Institute Certificate Program and Professor Emeritus of Educational Psychology at California State University East Bay. He is author of Lifescaping Practices in School Communities and co-author of What Is the Color of Your Heart: A Humanist Approach to Diversity. Rolla identifies himself as an advocate in public education\, a builder of eco-relational understandings\, and a researcher seeking to enhance schools\, student learning\, and wellness. \n\n\n\nMary Elizabeth Moore is co-leader. She is Chair of the Cobb Institute and Dean Emerita and Professor Emerita of the Boston University School of Theology. Among her books are Teaching from the Heart\, Teaching as a Sacramental Act\, and a recent book of poetry\, So Much to Love\, So Much to Lose. Her passion is to work with others toward tikkun olam\, repair of the world.  \n\n\n\n* John B. Cobb\, Jr.\, “Cosmic life\,” in D. Bartosch\, A. Grandpierre\, and B. Peng (Eds.)\, Towards a philosophy of cosmic life: New discussions and interdisciplinary views (Singapore: Springer Nature 2023)\, 9-16. \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-gathering-2024-11-19/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241114T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241114T090000
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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-2/2024-11-14/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241112T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241112T180000
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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/2024-11-12/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Certificate Program 2024 Commencement
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Certificate Program 2024 Commencement \n\n\n\nPresenters: Certificate Program Leadership\, Faculty\, and Participants \n\n\n\nSince its inception\, the Cobb Institute has provided a number of compelling and fascinating educational offerings. In our Learning Lab\, as we sometimes call it\, we’ve conducted a wide variety of experiments\, all with the aim of transforming education for ecological civilization. Whitehead once said\, “What education has to impart is an intimate sense for the power of ideas\, for the beauty of ideas\, and for the structure of ideas\, together with a particular body of knowledge which has peculiar reference to the life of the being possessing it.” As important as ideas are\, the impact they have on our lives is equally if not more vital. Indeed\, we offer an approach to learning that seeks to bring about transformations in both our students and the worlds they inhabit: from value-free research to personal growth; from isolated learners to learners-in-community; from attachment to dogmatic ideologies to openness to evidence; from gaining knowledge as mere data to knowledge as wisdom nourished by multiple ways of knowing; and from the primacy of analysis to the primacy of creative synthesis and embodied discovery. \n\n\n\nThe Cobb Institute’s most ambitious educational offering is the Certificate Program in Process Thought & Practice. The program provides an occasion for students to learn about the great diversity of process philosophies and the many ways in which those ideas can be expressed in everyday life. It begins with a general introduction to process thought and ends with an opportunity to creatively and concretely express what participants have learned. In between students participate in courses covering Whitehead’s philosophy of organism\, major religious traditions\, the complex landscape of ecological civilization\, and the relevance of Whitehead’s cosmology to the natural sciences. 15 students recently completed the 2024 program\, and for our gathering this week\, we will take a break from our usual format to host their commencement ceremony. During our time together\, we’ll hear from the program dean and the faculty members about their experience\, the graduates will each give a brief presentation on their capstone synthesis and springboard projects\, and we’ll take a brief look at what’s on the horizon for the 2025 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\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-2024-11-12/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241107T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241107T090000
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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-2/2024-11-07/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241105T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241105T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Layman Pascal
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Metamodern Spirituality and Archaic Futurism \n\n\n\nPresenters: Layman Pascal \n\n\n\nLayman Pascal is the facilitator of the Metamodern Spirituality Labs that last week’s guest\, Brendan Graham Dempsey\, hosts at Sky Meadow.  In May\, 2024 Layman curated an experiential\, interactive presentation on the topic of  “Archaic Futurism” for the ICON Conference in Denver. For our Cobb and Friends gathering\, he’d like to expand on this topic and bring it to a process-oriented audience. His presenter information for that conference describes him this way:  “Layman Pascal used to be a Canadian meditation teacher\, yoga instructor & philosopher of Integral Metatheory\, but he’s feeling much better now.”  He does things like: lead the Metamodern Spirituality Retreats\, host the Integral Stage podcast\, and provide unique online courses. Layman specializes in metashamanics\, the metaphysics of adjacency\, nondualist theology\, developmental theory\, sacred naturalism\, psychotechnologies\, and cultivating human religious instincts suited to a post-postmodern civilization facing numerous accelerating and converging crises. He is also the author of Gurdjieff for a Time Between Worlds: Hyperpersonal Essays on the Grandfather of Metamodern Spirituality\, published by Sky Meadow Press.  \n\n\n\nLayman has also conversed with/interviewed a number of important voices in our process community\, including Matt Segall and Andrew Davis.  A portion of our Cobb & Friends conversation will include a brief interview by Jared Morningstar\, Communications Director serving the Cobb Institute and the Center for Process Studies. \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\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-2024-11-5/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241101T180000
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SUMMARY:Living Earth Youth Dialogues: The Living Earth Community and the Human Soul
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop\, Oliver Mesmer will explore what it means to be a part of a living community of sentient beings—a community of many species within the diverse kingdoms of life. His presentation will focus on what he has learned in his research with the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology on topics such as the differentiated sentience of the more-than-human world\, as well as ecological spirituality. Oliver will invite us into a discussion on how we might orient our perception\, our actions\, and even our lives around the paradigm that we each inhabit a particular niche within a global interdependent ecosystem. \n\n\n\n\nLearn More & RSVP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganizer \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWebsite
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/living-earth-youth-dialogues-covid-loneliness-2/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Conversation Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241031T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241031T090000
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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-2/2024-10-31/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241028T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241028T093000
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Process Thought 101: Process-Relational Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:Probing Process-Relational Worldviews For Newcomers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWant to learn more about process thought? Join our learning circle\, as we read and discuss together various essays and books on important themes to process thought. Our reflections will be guided by the Twenty Key Ideas of Process Thought. \n\n\n\nLike many of you I do not have a formal background in process thought. My seminary program did not include readings in process theology. However\, through various offerings from the Cobb Institute and Process and Faith and Open Horizons I have received a good and welcome introduction to process thought. My interest has grown with my increased knowledge of process. My hope is that this learning circle with provide a place for those of you\, like me\, who are new to process to read and discuss the books and essays of process theologians and philosophers. \n\n\n\nThe focus in our next round will be C. Robert Mesle’s Process-Relational Philosophy: An Introduction to Alfred North Whitehead. This short book covers a lot of territory and provides an excellent overview of Whitehead’s thinking. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-process-thought-101-process-relational-philosophy/2024-10-28/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241024T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241024T090000
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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-2/2024-10-24/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241022T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241022T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: David Korten
DESCRIPTION:Topic: For the Love of Life: Finding Our Way to an Ecological Civilization \n\n\n\nPresenters: David Korten \n\n\n\nDavid Korten’s website headlines “Humans are Earth’s ultimate choice-making species. Our decisions have defining consequences for the whole of Earth’s community of life.” In this season of elections\, he will join us and encourage us to make Life-loving choices that help us find our way to a future defined as Ecological Civilization. \n\n\n\nDavid C. Korten is an American writer\, lecturer\, engaged citizen\, student of psychology and behavioral systems\, a prominent critic of corporate globalization\, and an advocate of Ecological Civilization. He is founder and president of the Living Economies Forum and a full member of the Club of Rome\, a member of the International Advisory Council of the International Academy for Multicultural Cooperation\, and an Ambassador of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance. \n\n\n\nHe left a teaching position in the Harvard School of Business to work for thirty years with real-world solutions to economic development in Africa\, Asia\, and Latin America. Upon his return to the US he wrote When Corporations Rule the World\, his critique of a global economy that does not work for those most in need. It became an international best-seller.  See his website\, davidkorten.org\, for a list of the many books he has written to press for economic decision-making that serves life. Korten has been greatly influenced by the 1989 book by John B. Cobb and Herman Daly\, “For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community\, the Environment\, and a Sustainable Future.” John Cobb valued Korten’s participation in the 2015 conference in Claremont on Seizing an Alternative\, Ecological Civilization. \n\n\n\nCo-founder and former board chair of YES! Magazine (now YES! Media)\, he is the author of numerous influential books. A recent defining publication is “Ecological Civilization: From Emergency to Emergence.” He holds MBA and PhD degrees from the Stanford Graduate School of Business\, and served on the faculties of the Harvard Business School and Harvard School of Public Health. \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\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-amp-friends-gathering-2024-10-22/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241021T083000
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Process Thought 101: Process-Relational Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:Probing Process-Relational Worldviews For Newcomers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWant to learn more about process thought? Join our learning circle\, as we read and discuss together various essays and books on important themes to process thought. Our reflections will be guided by the Twenty Key Ideas of Process Thought. \n\n\n\nLike many of you I do not have a formal background in process thought. My seminary program did not include readings in process theology. However\, through various offerings from the Cobb Institute and Process and Faith and Open Horizons I have received a good and welcome introduction to process thought. My interest has grown with my increased knowledge of process. My hope is that this learning circle with provide a place for those of you\, like me\, who are new to process to read and discuss the books and essays of process theologians and philosophers. \n\n\n\nThe focus in our next round will be C. Robert Mesle’s Process-Relational Philosophy: An Introduction to Alfred North Whitehead. This short book covers a lot of territory and provides an excellent overview of Whitehead’s thinking. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-process-thought-101-process-relational-philosophy/2024-10-21/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241017T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241017T090000
DTSTAMP:20260414T214916
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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-2/2024-10-17/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241015T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241015T120000
DTSTAMP:20260414T214916
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Sharon Delgado
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Divestment from Fossil Fuels as Climate Change Strategy \n\n\n\nPresenters: Sharon Delgado \n\n\n\nThe Reverend Sharon Delgado is a retired United Methodist pastor\, author\, and longtime activist and nonviolence practitioner\, whose introduction to John Cobb and process theology in the 1980s helped shape her theology and ministry. Sharon is Convener of Fossil Free UMC\, which advocates for the United Methodist Church to divest from fossil fuels. She is a member of the Coordinating Committee of the United Methodist Creation Justice Movement\, which works across annual conferences to coordinate actions related to creation justice. Sharon names the invisible powers that influence human behavior and that are embodied in today’s domination system\, and points in the direction of both personal and social transformation. Find out more and follow her blog\, Progressive Christian Social Action\, at sharondelgado.org.   \n\n\n\nSharon is author of Shaking the Gates of Hell (2007\, 2020)\, Love in a Time of Climate Change (2017) and The Cross in the Midst of Creation (2022). An updated Second Edition of Love in a Time of Climate Change will be released in the spring of 2025. The book is a Wesleyan approach to climate change\, which uses scripture\, tradition\, reason\, and experience to explore the issue. The inside cover of the first edition includes an endorsement by John Cobb\, who wrote: \n\n\n\n\n“Sharon Delgado makes it clear that we\, especially we who stand in the Wesleyan tradition\, cannot choose between being scriptural in the fullest sense and activity to save as much as possible from destruction through climate change. There is no tension between biblical preaching and preaching on the overwhelming\, life-determining issues surrounding climate change. Let’s stop hemming and hawing and work with God to save God’s creation.”  \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\nIf 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-2024-10-15/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241014T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241014T093000
DTSTAMP:20260414T214916
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SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Process Thought 101: Process-Relational Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:Probing Process-Relational Worldviews For Newcomers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWant to learn more about process thought? Join our learning circle\, as we read and discuss together various essays and books on important themes to process thought. Our reflections will be guided by the Twenty Key Ideas of Process Thought. \n\n\n\nLike many of you I do not have a formal background in process thought. My seminary program did not include readings in process theology. However\, through various offerings from the Cobb Institute and Process and Faith and Open Horizons I have received a good and welcome introduction to process thought. My interest has grown with my increased knowledge of process. My hope is that this learning circle with provide a place for those of you\, like me\, who are new to process to read and discuss the books and essays of process theologians and philosophers. \n\n\n\nThe focus in our next round will be C. Robert Mesle’s Process-Relational Philosophy: An Introduction to Alfred North Whitehead. This short book covers a lot of territory and provides an excellent overview of Whitehead’s thinking. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-process-thought-101-process-relational-philosophy/2024-10-14/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241010T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241010T090000
DTSTAMP:20260414T214916
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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-2/2024-10-10/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241008T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241008T120000
DTSTAMP:20260414T214916
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Jeremy Schumacher
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Recovering from Religious Trauma \n\n\n\nPresenters: Jeremy Schumacher \n\n\n\nSee Jeremy Schumacher’s self-introduction and description of his counseling practice.   Explore his webpage on “Religious Trauma\,” a resource he offers out of his own experience. \n\n\n\n\n“Maybe at some point church became unsafe for you. . . . \n\n\n\nNow the group that once felt close doesn’t feel so welcoming. Maybe you’re dealing with more than doubt\, maybe you’re dealing with fear of abandonment by friends or family. Maybe you’re dealing with the fear that the way you were taught to look at the world doesn’t seem accurate at all anymore\, and now you aren’t sure how to make sense of your life.  \n\n\n\n“This process can be scary\, but you don’t need to do it alone. Finding a safe space to ask questions\, to deconstruct old ill-fitting beliefs\, and to rebuild healthier\, more congruent beliefs is what I offer in therapy.  \n\n\n\n“I don’t claim to have all the answers\, but going through the deconversion process myself\, I know what it can feel like. I know the fear of being cast out\, being judged\, and losing friends and family. But like many of my clients\, I also know about the joy of having a belief system that wasn’t just handed down to you\, but that you cultivated and nurtured to fit who you really are.  \n\n\n\n“If you are having doubts about the faith you were raised with\, or if those doubts have led to turning away from your church\, I can help. I work with people who are actively deconstructing their old\, harmful\, dogmatic belief systems\, and help those who are recovering from religious abuse and other adverse religious experiences.” \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\nIf 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-2024-10-8/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241003T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241003T090000
DTSTAMP:20260414T214916
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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-2/2024-10-03/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241001T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241001T180000
DTSTAMP:20260414T214916
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SUMMARY:Process Pop-Up: Faith & Feeling
DESCRIPTION:In theological circles\, German philosopher Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834) may be best known for his text\, On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers\, his effort to defend religion from Enlightenment skeptics. He’s also been a subject of interest to process thinkers like Philip Clayton\, Thandeka\, and\, more recently\, Chad Bahl. In his doctoral research\, Chad has been putting Schleirmacher’s thoughts on faith and feeling into conversation with the work of Alfred North Whitehead. \n\n\n\nHe has found that “In both process thought and Schleiermacher’s philosophy\, the essence of existence is not lifeless matter or dogmatic precepts. Rather\, it is lived experience. In this lived experience\, we are interconnected both as human beings and in fellowship with the Divine.” \n\n\n\nSchleiermacher is known for talking about faith as a feeling of “absolute dependence.” Resonant with Whitehead’s thinking about God’s aims for every actual event\, Chad describes this as a “natural result of being in tune with our deepest intuitions. It arises from our recognition of the presence and purpose of God in our lives.” As we cultivate our awareness of God – through spiritual practices like contemplation – this feeling naturally arises as a kind of “God-consciousness” that is “developed as we experience community with others\, fellowship with the Divine\, interaction with nature\, the Gospel story\, and much more.” \n\n\n\nWhile each of us may experience the Divine differently\, it is this “personal perception\, (not reason\, dogma\, or scientific proof)\, which serves as the centering principle for faith.” According to Chad\, attuning to this interior faith and feeling is crucial to human life. “We become fully actualized human beings when we realize fellowship with the Divine in our experiences of both Creator and creation.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP at Process & Faith
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-pop-up-faith-feeling/
CATEGORIES:Pop-Up
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241001T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241001T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Rebecca Shoot
DESCRIPTION:Topic: How International Law Supports Citizens Seeking Global Solutions \n\n\n\nPresenters: Rebecca Shoot \n\n\n\nIn a world where so many conflicts are contested on the battlefield\, how can international law offer a better way? Rebecca A. Shoot is the Executive Director of Citizens for Global Solutions Education Fund\, which is Working for a Peaceful\, Free\, Just\, and Sustainable World Community. She will review some of the initiatives that Citizens for Global Solutions has taken to enhance awareness and compliance with international law particularly regarding use and control of nuclear weapons and preserving the world’s climate. \n\n\n\nRebecca Shoot is an international lawyer and democracy and governance practitioner with more than 15 years of experience in the non-governmental\, inter-governmental\, and private sectors supporting human rights on five continents.  She is recently involved with the “Summit of the Future” process\, which is being hailed as a once-in-a-generation opportunity for global governance reform. Citizens for Global Solutions specific advocacy has been to try to ensure that international justice\, human rights\, and the rule of law are a respective and central element of this process and its outcome document\, the “Pact for the Future.” In doing so\, Rebecca Shoot was a penholder on the Peace and Security chapter of the companion “People’s Pact\,” which contains recommendations to enhance the international judicial architecture. They will host a side event at the Civil Society “Action Days” around the Summit in late September on the future of global governance.  \n\n\n\nFor a more detailed biodata\, see this link. \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\nIf 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-2024-10-1/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240926T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240926T090000
DTSTAMP:20260414T214916
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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-2/2024-09-26/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240924T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240924T120000
DTSTAMP:20260414T214916
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Thomas Jay Oord
DESCRIPTION:Topic: What I Learned When Defrocked and Excommunicated for Being Queer Affirming \n\n\n\nPresenters: Thomas Jay Oord \n\n\n\nThomas Jay Oord recently endured an official church trial for his full queer affirmation. The trial verdict: his license and membership were taken. In this Cobb and Friends session\, Oord talks about his journey from becoming queer affirming 30 years ago to eventually being defrocked and excommunicated. That journey included times of guilt and triumph\, emotional turmoil and social pressures. Oord also talks about principles in open and relational theology that guided him on this journey\, and he shares lessons learned in the process. To prepare\, participants might read Oord’s short essay that recently appeared in Newsweek: “I Was Expelled from My Church. I was Found Guilty\, But I Do Not Feel Sorry.” https://www.newsweek.com/defrocked-church-found-guilty-do-not-feel-sorry-1947556. \n\n\n\nThomas Jay Oord is a theologian\, philosopher\, and scholar of multi-disciplinary studies. Oord is a best-selling and award-winning author\, having written or edited more than thirty books. Academic Influence ranks him among the most influential theologians in the 21st century. Oord directs doctoral programs at Northwind Theological Seminary and directs the Center for Open and Relational Theology. He is known for his research and writing on love\, open and relational theology\, science and religion\, evil and power\, and the implications of freedom and relationships for transformation.  Explore his website at https://thomasjayoord.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\nIf 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-2024-09-24/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240919T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240919T090000
DTSTAMP:20260414T214916
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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-2/2024-09-19/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240917T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240917T120000
DTSTAMP:20260414T214916
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Audrey E Kitagawa\, JD
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Moral and Ethical Imperative: Abolishing Nuclear Weapons \n\n\n\nPresenters: Audrey E Kitagawa\, JD \n\n\n\nWatch for further details about Audrey Kitagawa’s international interfaith media ministry.  She is the one who produced the inaugural ZOOMcast of the launch of the Living Earth Movement on John Cobb’s 97th birthday.  She has served as chair of the Board of Trustees of the Parliament of World Religions. \n\n\n\n       Audrey E. Kitagawa\, J.D.\, is President/Founder of the International Academy for Multicultural Cooperation\, President of the Light of Awareness International Spiritual Family\, Chair of the Anti-Racism Initiative & Co-Chair of the Gender Equality Working Group of the G20 Interfaith Forum\, and former Advisor to the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict at the United Nations.  She is an Ambassador of Religions for Peace International\, a United Religions Initiative UN Representative – as a member of URI CC “Voices for a Nuclear Weapons Free World\,” a co-facilitator of the URI UN CC\, and Chair Emerita of the NGO Committee on Spirituality\, Values and Global Concerns. She has been enstooled into the royal family of Ajiyamanti\, Ghana as the Nekoso Hemaa (Queen Mother of Development) where the Nana Ode Anyankobea Junior Secondary School which she helped to build is named after her. She is the recipient of the Spirit of the UN Award given to outstanding individuals who have demonstrated the vision and spirit of the UN as expressed through the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. She was conferred an Honorary Interfaith Minister degree by the New Seminary. \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\nIf 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-2024-09-17/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240912T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240912T090000
DTSTAMP:20260414T214916
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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-2/2024-09-12/
CATEGORIES:Learning Circle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240910T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240910T120000
DTSTAMP:20260414T214916
CREATED:20240827T030355Z
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Paul Kittlaus
DESCRIPTION:Topic: The Tyrant Fears the Poet \n\n\n\nPresenters: Paul Kittlaus \n\n\n\nHere’s how Paul Kittlaus\, John Cobb’s neighbor at Pilgrim Place\, introduces himself. “The gifts of ministry given to me have included organizing people within the progressive church for social change. The civil rights movement\, Selma\, women’s liberation\, Chicano Moratorium\, opposition to the war in Vietnam\, aiding young men to turn in their draft cards\, the environmental issues\, these and other social issues have presented themselves to my generation.  \n\n\n\n“In 2014\, the year of my 80th birthday\, I was drawn into a weeklong workshop on Abstract Acrylic Painting.  Surprising doors in my spirit were opened. And I found myself in another resistance movement.” \n\n\n\nMy paintings are now in the permanent collection of the Claremont-Lewis Art Museum\, Claremont Heritage\, the Claremont United Church of Christ.  I have had solo shows in the Prison Library Project\, the Claremont Chamber of Commerce\, at the HoltxPalm Gallery in Ontario\, and in exhibition at the Community Arts Workshop Gallery in Santa Barbara\, and the Riverside Art Museum.” \n\n\n\nCheck out his art at https://paulkittlaus.art\, where you’ll find this brief bio:  “Reverend Paul Kittlaus was ordained in the United Church of Christ (UCC)\, San Diego\, CA and during his career served UCC church pastorates throughout Southern California and Madison\, WI. He also held ecumenical positions to advance theological training and social justice\, and served as the director of the UCC Washington Office for The Office for Church in Society. He is a published author and contributor to multiple journals and magazines. Retired in 1999 at Pilgrim Place in Claremont\, CA\, Rev. Kittlaus is an active steward of the community and a board member of Progressive Christians Uniting\, Southern California Ecumenical Council\, and Pilgrim Pines Camp. He earned a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Missouri\, a masters of divinity from the University of Chicago/Chicago Theological Seminary in 1959\, and masters in political science from George Washington University in 1981.” \n\n\n\nSee the video in which he is honored by Chicago Theological Seminary as their 2024 distinguished Alumni of the Year. \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\nIf 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-2024-09-10/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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