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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Sandra Lubarsky and Marcus Ford
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nTheme: Responding to a Fractured World: Re-think\, Re-act\, Re-create \nTopic: Wider Education: Embracing Generalization \nPresenter(s): Sandra Lubarsky and Marcus Ford \n  \nWhitehead understood education as a process from romance to precision to generalization. Most higher education today emphasizes precision and more precision\, to the neglect of romance and generalization. Marcus will speak about the importance of rethinking General Education programs within higher education institutions and how they can be the platform for addressing the wider issues of our day. Sandra will speak about a public model of wider education and the need for “communiversities\,” highlighting the work of Flagstaff Communiversity. \n  \n \nAbout the Presenter(s)\n\n\n\n\n\nMarcus Ford was one of the first professors in the country to teach courses in sustainability and develop an Environmental Humanities program. Since early in his teaching career\, Marcus has held that the most important thing we can learn is how to live sustainably and justly within the bounds of the natural world. He has taught sustainability studies at the undergraduate and graduate level and is an advocate for education that prepares people to actively participate in shaping their communities. He is the author of the groundbreaking book\, Beyond the Modern University and many articles on higher education. Marcus is the co-founder of Flagstaff College/Communiversity. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSandra Lubarsky is co-founder and president of Flagstaff College/Communiversity\, offering education-for-community in Flagstaff\, Arizona. She is retired from academic positions in sustainability at Appalachian State University in North Carolina and Northern Arizona University . She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy of religion from Claremont Graduate University and is author of Tolerance and Transformation: Jewish Approaches to Religious Pluralism; Jewish Theology and Process Thought (co-edited); and numerous articles on religious pluralism\, Jewish theology\, and the intersection of aesthetics and sustainability. \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-2025-05-13/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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SUMMARY:Course: Processing Religion & Wisdom Traditions
DESCRIPTION:Diving Deeper Into Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe live in a world marked by great diversity\, and if humans are to live peaceably together\, we must seek to understand each other. In this course\, participants will explore various world religions\, as well as indigenous/traditional ways of thinking and living\, through a lens of process and relational thought. Over the course of seven sessions\, we will discuss Indigenous/Traditional Ways\, Hinduism\, Judaism\, Buddhism\, Islam\, and Christianity. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More & Sign Up
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/course-processing-religion-wisdom-traditions/2025-05-13/
CATEGORIES:Class
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Catherine Keller
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nTheme: Responding to a Fractured World: Re-think\, Re-act\, Re-create \nTopic: Trees Touching: Whitehead\, Teilhard and the Matter of EcoCiv \nPresenter(s): Catherine Keller \n  \nTrees are just one beautiful example of the liveliness of the nonhuman universe. Recent research shows that they communicate with one another in startlingly specific and supportive ways. And of course the service forests provide our species—the perpetrators of global warming—with their drawing down and storing of excess CO2 from the atmosphere lends current US policy an apocalyptic edge. But the point of this Process Exploration will not be to doom us to eco political gloom but to meditate on the matter—the materiality—of hope. Teilhard and Whitehead both offer persuasive\, spiritually radical visions of human participation in planetary evolution. But the former is more optimistic\, envisioning our movements towards an Omega point; the latter is more pluralist and open ended. Can our work toward EcoCiv root and branch in both visions? What kind of hope can feel honest enough to motivate the materialization of a livable and well forested future? \n  \n \nAbout the Presenter(s)\n\n\n\n\n\nCatherine Keller is Professor of Constructive Theology at The Theological School of Drew University. She teaches and writes in the intersections of process\, ecological\, feminist\, political\, and pluralist theologies. She has authored many books\, the most recent being No Matter What: Crisis and the Spirit of Planetary Possibility; and Facing Apocalypse: Climate\, Democracy and Other Last Chances. Also she has led\, and co-edited several volumes of\, the Drew Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquium\, most recently Assembling Futures: Economy\, Ecology\, Democracy and Religion. \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 \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n 
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-explorations-2025-05-20/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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SUMMARY:Course: Processing Religion & Wisdom Traditions
DESCRIPTION:Diving Deeper Into Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe live in a world marked by great diversity\, and if humans are to live peaceably together\, we must seek to understand each other. In this course\, participants will explore various world religions\, as well as indigenous/traditional ways of thinking and living\, through a lens of process and relational thought. Over the course of seven sessions\, we will discuss Indigenous/Traditional Ways\, Hinduism\, Judaism\, Buddhism\, Islam\, and Christianity. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More & Sign Up
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/course-processing-religion-wisdom-traditions/2025-05-20/
CATEGORIES:Class
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Thomas A. Moore
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nTheme: Responding to a Fractured World: Re-think\, Re-act\, Re-create \nTopic: The Exuberant Universe: Re-thinking Creation in a Scientific Age \nPresenter(s): Thomas A. Moore \n  \nThe first chapter of Genesis provides a theological understanding of creation consistent with the accepted cosmology of its place and time. What might a modern concept of creation look like? This talk will explore the modern cosmological riddle misleadingly called the Anthropic Principle (the observation that the laws of physics seem fine-tuned to enable a complex universe) and examine what it means\, what it does not mean\, and how it might connect to process thought and spirituality. We will come to see how some seemingly scientific discussions of cosmology actually are religious arguments in disguise. \n  \n \nAbout the Presenter(s)\n\n\n\n\n\nThomas A. Moore is the Reuben C. and Eleanor Winslow professor of mathematics and natural science at Pomona College. He received his undergraduate education at Carleton College (where he took courses offered by Ian Barbour and Joseph Sittler) and his Ph. D in theoretical physics in 1981 from Yale University (where he also studied Biblical Hebrew with Bonnie Kittel and Brevard Childs). His father was a professor of philosophy and religion in the University of Wisconsin system\, and his mother and spouse are ordained pastors in the United Church of Christ. He has long been interested in questions on the boundary between philosophy and physics\, and\, in addition to teaching upper-level courses in general relativity and particle physics\, he commonly offers an interdisciplinary course in “Science and Religion.” \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-2025-05-27/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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SUMMARY:Course: Processing Religion & Wisdom Traditions
DESCRIPTION:Diving Deeper Into Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe live in a world marked by great diversity\, and if humans are to live peaceably together\, we must seek to understand each other. In this course\, participants will explore various world religions\, as well as indigenous/traditional ways of thinking and living\, through a lens of process and relational thought. Over the course of seven sessions\, we will discuss Indigenous/Traditional Ways\, Hinduism\, Judaism\, Buddhism\, Islam\, and Christianity. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More & Sign Up
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/course-processing-religion-wisdom-traditions/2025-05-27/
CATEGORIES:Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250603T100000
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Bonnie Tarwater
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nTheme: Responding to a Fractured World: Re-think\, Re-act\, Re-create \nTopic: Church for Our Common Home and the John Cobb Eco Farm and Retreat Center \nPresenter(s): Bonnie Tarwater \n  \nThis presentation will share about the ministry of Church for Our Common Home and the John Cobb Eco Farm and Retreat Center and offer photos in a PowerPoint. In 2015 Dr. John B. Cobb Jr. invited me to head the Anima Track at the Seizing an Alternative Conference. This contributed to my own consciousness raising experince about the severity of our earth crisis and the founding of Church for Our Common Home dedicated to Mother Earth\, the divine feminine\, loving community\, and the arts. I did not grow up with any religion and moved eighteen times in my first eighteen years in five different countries. Perhaps this contributes to my planetary perspective that celebrates the wonder of our interfaith\, interspecies and interconnected web of life. As a disciple of Jesus and Unitarian Universalist\, Church for Our Common Home is untraditional and esoteric. \nMy husband Dr. Walt Rutherford is a transpersonal psychologist and together we offer traditional as well as pastoral counseling\, spiritual direction\, dream work\, etc. (more info at Our Common Home Counseling Center) Our transdisciplinary ministry offers a wide array of offerings to serve beyond the walls of the traditional church. We literally moved out of our “House Church” into the barn to be with the animals\, 4 pm Sundays\, on Zoom and celebrating the goats\, chickens\, ducks\, cats\, and our huge\, beautiful rabbit Gracie\, the breeze\, trees\, grass………….and we give thanks! \nDr. Cobb attended Church for Our Common Home worship on Zoom almost every Sunday the last few years of his life. My background in the visual and performing arts inspires our “Arts Ministry” and the Our Lady of Guadalupe Barn Mural. We have created an Interfaith Secret Prayer Garden\, and The Mary Magdalene Café and rose garden hosts our weekly Earth Crisis Support Group and Potluck Party (ECSG) after church. We invited other organizations to join us and for the last year we have offered the Interfaith Prayer and Song Vigil for Peace in Corvallis Oregon every Saturday in front of the Court House to support the Corvallis in Solidarity with Palestine Free Gaza Protest. Church for Our Common Home is at the Capital of Salem for Moral Monday’s and the Poor People’s Campaign. \nThe John Cobb Eco Farm and Retreat Center is a five-acre farm in Oregon where we grow beets as big as your head and sunflowers over 12 feet tall. We are doing biodynamic farming a kind of spiritual farming and we call our vegetable garden\, “The Hilda Garden” named after the 12th century mystic Hildegard. The prayer station for 14th century Julian of Norwich and first women to publish a book in English about her visions and near-death experiences invites us into the Labyrinth. Our theology is simply written on the colorfully painted barn mural\, “God Is Love.” May we love God with all our heart\, soul\, strength and mind and the natural world\, who is also our neighbor—often left out—all as our neighbors who are an extension of ourselves. Our vision is to be a sanctuary church for “the least of these” both humans and nonhumans. Praying for peace on earth we give thanks for the Good News of the Gospel that love is stronger than any suffering and even death. \n  \n \nAbout the Presenter(s)\n\n\n\n\n\nRev. Bonnie Tarwater is a Christian Unitarian Universalist minister and founder of Church for Our Common Home in Oregon and offering worship and programs globally on Zoom. Rev. Bonnie is an artist\, musician\, social justice activist\, dream worker and writer. She served as a traditional parish minister for many years and hospice chaplain. Currently\, she serves on several nonprofit boards and works with her husband doing counseling at the Our Common Home Counseling Center. Together they have four grown children and four grandchildren. BA\, Art UCSD; MFA Theater\, American Conservatory Theater; MDiv Claremont School of Theology \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-2025-06-03/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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SUMMARY:Course: Processing Religion & Wisdom Traditions
DESCRIPTION:Diving Deeper Into Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe live in a world marked by great diversity\, and if humans are to live peaceably together\, we must seek to understand each other. In this course\, participants will explore various world religions\, as well as indigenous/traditional ways of thinking and living\, through a lens of process and relational thought. Over the course of seven sessions\, we will discuss Indigenous/Traditional Ways\, Hinduism\, Judaism\, Buddhism\, Islam\, and Christianity. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More & Sign Up
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/course-processing-religion-wisdom-traditions/2025-06-03/
CATEGORIES:Class
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Chris Doran
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Christina Hutchins
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URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-explorations-2025-06-17/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Monalisa Tuitahi
DESCRIPTION:Program:\n		Process Explorations\n\n		Series Theme:\n		Responding to a Fractured World: Re-think\, Re-act\, Re-create\n\n		Session Topic:\n		What Language Shall We Borrow?: Proposing Width of Feeling for the Life of the World\n\n		Presenter(s):\n		Christina Hutchins\, Poet and Process Philosopher and Theologian\n\n  \nWe abide amid language. As we use it\, it both reveals and shapes how the world is perceived. Linguistic studies suggest as the digital age progresses\, language is changing rapidly: smaller usable vocabularies\, less reading\, simplified syntax. Communication tends to be transactional and reflect the representative\, categorical mode of perception Whitehead calls “presentational immediacy.” The contrasting mode of perception for Whitehead is “causal efficacy\,” and perceiving in that mode\, we feel actuality\, vaguely\, bodily\, motions of multivalent value through which we have our being. \nLiterature\, especially poetry\, can involve the materiality of language: sound\, choices of words\, syntax\, rhythm\, mouthfeel\, etymologies. Like other works of art\, a poem can be a proposition\, “a lure for further feeling.” When a poem uses language as a *medium*\, it taps into the mode of “causal efficacy.” How might poetry aid in restoring or extending that facet of perception for the purpose of widening the sea of feeling? Is consciously crafted poetry not just an ornament of language\, as often assumed\, but a mode of communication we need to face the problems confronting us—climate crisis\, international and domestic conflicts\, and human need in general—with fuller capacities for perceiving life using widened\, felt perceptions of value? \nThis presentation will include close reading of a few original poems\, focused on climate value/agency\, and a couple from other poets. No need to be used to poetry! \n\n  \nAbout the Presenter(s)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristina Hutchins is a poet and process philosopher/theologian. She taught process thought\, queer/feminist thought\, and poetry at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley for 18 years as Lecturer in Theology and Literary Arts. She has also worked as a biochemist and Congregational Minister. She presently teaches privately\, leads retreats\, preaches\, and is poet laureate of the Cobb Institute. She holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies from Graduate Theological Union\, an MDiv from Harvard\, and a BS from UC Davis in Biochemistry and Piano Performance. Her second poetry collection\, Tender the Maker (Utah State UP) won the Swenson Award\, and The Stranger Dissolves (16 Rivers) was a Lambda Award Finalist. Poems appear widely\, including in The Antioch Review\, The New Republic\, Ploughshares\, Prairie Schooner\, and The Southern Review. Essays on process thought\, queer theory\, poetics\, and creative process appear in volumes by Ashgate\, Columbia UP\, and SUNY. She won The Missouri Review Prize\, National Poetry Review Prize\, a literary fellowship to St. Petersburg\, Russia\, and was Dartmouth Poet in Residence living in Frost’s home in Franconia\, NH. She was the first poet laureate of Albany\, CA.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-explorations-2025-06-24/
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250625T170000
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SUMMARY:Course: Ecological Civilization: Crises & Possibilities 2025
DESCRIPTION:Exploring Crises and Possibilities for Ecological Justice and Wellbeing\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis course explores visions of ecological civilization\, drawing upon process-relational understandings of the cosmos\, ecological movements\, and central ideas and practices in diverse human communities and fields of thought. The purpose is to gather and build upon practical wisdom\, seeking to dive deeply into crises and possibilities. Practical wisdom has power to transform the downward spiral of ecological destruction and to foster movements for protecting\, healing\, and regenerating our broken planet. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More & Sign Up
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/course-ecological-civilization-crises-possibilities-2025/2025-06-25/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250701T100000
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Gary Dorrien
DESCRIPTION:Program:\n		Process Explorations\n\n		Series Theme:\n		Responding to a Fractured World: Re-think\, Re-act\, Re-create\n\n		Session Topic:\n		What Language Shall We Borrow?: Proposing Width of Feeling for the Life of the World\n\n		Presenter(s):\n		Christina Hutchins\, Poet and Process Philosopher and Theologian\n\n  \nWe abide amid language. As we use it\, it both reveals and shapes how the world is perceived. Linguistic studies suggest as the digital age progresses\, language is changing rapidly: smaller usable vocabularies\, less reading\, simplified syntax. Communication tends to be transactional and reflect the representative\, categorical mode of perception Whitehead calls “presentational immediacy.” The contrasting mode of perception for Whitehead is “causal efficacy\,” and perceiving in that mode\, we feel actuality\, vaguely\, bodily\, motions of multivalent value through which we have our being. \nLiterature\, especially poetry\, can involve the materiality of language: sound\, choices of words\, syntax\, rhythm\, mouthfeel\, etymologies. Like other works of art\, a poem can be a proposition\, “a lure for further feeling.” When a poem uses language as a *medium*\, it taps into the mode of “causal efficacy.” How might poetry aid in restoring or extending that facet of perception for the purpose of widening the sea of feeling? Is consciously crafted poetry not just an ornament of language\, as often assumed\, but a mode of communication we need to face the problems confronting us—climate crisis\, international and domestic conflicts\, and human need in general—with fuller capacities for perceiving life using widened\, felt perceptions of value? \nThis presentation will include close reading of a few original poems\, focused on climate value/agency\, and a couple from other poets. No need to be used to poetry! \n\n  \nAbout the Presenter(s)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristina Hutchins is a poet and process philosopher/theologian. She taught process thought\, queer/feminist thought\, and poetry at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley for 18 years as Lecturer in Theology and Literary Arts. She has also worked as a biochemist and Congregational Minister. She presently teaches privately\, leads retreats\, preaches\, and is poet laureate of the Cobb Institute. She holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies from Graduate Theological Union\, an MDiv from Harvard\, and a BS from UC Davis in Biochemistry and Piano Performance. Her second poetry collection\, Tender the Maker (Utah State UP) won the Swenson Award\, and The Stranger Dissolves (16 Rivers) was a Lambda Award Finalist. Poems appear widely\, including in The Antioch Review\, The New Republic\, Ploughshares\, Prairie Schooner\, and The Southern Review. Essays on process thought\, queer theory\, poetics\, and creative process appear in volumes by Ashgate\, Columbia UP\, and SUNY. She won The Missouri Review Prize\, National Poetry Review Prize\, a literary fellowship to St. Petersburg\, Russia\, and was Dartmouth Poet in Residence living in Frost’s home in Franconia\, NH. She was the first poet laureate of Albany\, CA.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-explorations-2025-07-01/
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250702T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250702T190000
DTSTAMP:20260505T223632
CREATED:20250604T020511Z
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SUMMARY:Course: Ecological Civilization: Crises & Possibilities 2025
DESCRIPTION:Exploring Crises and Possibilities for Ecological Justice and Wellbeing\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis course explores visions of ecological civilization\, drawing upon process-relational understandings of the cosmos\, ecological movements\, and central ideas and practices in diverse human communities and fields of thought. The purpose is to gather and build upon practical wisdom\, seeking to dive deeply into crises and possibilities. Practical wisdom has power to transform the downward spiral of ecological destruction and to foster movements for protecting\, healing\, and regenerating our broken planet. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More & Sign Up
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/course-ecological-civilization-crises-possibilities-2025/2025-07-02/
CATEGORIES:Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250708T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250708T120000
DTSTAMP:20260505T223632
CREATED:20250611T223532Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250620T201714Z
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Walter Fluker
DESCRIPTION:Program:\n		Process Explorations\n\n		Series Theme:\n		Responding to a Fractured World: Re-think\, Re-act\, Re-create\n\n		Session Topic:\n		What Language Shall We Borrow?: Proposing Width of Feeling for the Life of the World\n\n		Presenter(s):\n		Christina Hutchins\, Poet and Process Philosopher and Theologian\n\n  \nWe abide amid language. As we use it\, it both reveals and shapes how the world is perceived. Linguistic studies suggest as the digital age progresses\, language is changing rapidly: smaller usable vocabularies\, less reading\, simplified syntax. Communication tends to be transactional and reflect the representative\, categorical mode of perception Whitehead calls “presentational immediacy.” The contrasting mode of perception for Whitehead is “causal efficacy\,” and perceiving in that mode\, we feel actuality\, vaguely\, bodily\, motions of multivalent value through which we have our being. \nLiterature\, especially poetry\, can involve the materiality of language: sound\, choices of words\, syntax\, rhythm\, mouthfeel\, etymologies. Like other works of art\, a poem can be a proposition\, “a lure for further feeling.” When a poem uses language as a *medium*\, it taps into the mode of “causal efficacy.” How might poetry aid in restoring or extending that facet of perception for the purpose of widening the sea of feeling? Is consciously crafted poetry not just an ornament of language\, as often assumed\, but a mode of communication we need to face the problems confronting us—climate crisis\, international and domestic conflicts\, and human need in general—with fuller capacities for perceiving life using widened\, felt perceptions of value? \nThis presentation will include close reading of a few original poems\, focused on climate value/agency\, and a couple from other poets. No need to be used to poetry! \n\n  \nAbout the Presenter(s)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristina Hutchins is a poet and process philosopher/theologian. She taught process thought\, queer/feminist thought\, and poetry at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley for 18 years as Lecturer in Theology and Literary Arts. She has also worked as a biochemist and Congregational Minister. She presently teaches privately\, leads retreats\, preaches\, and is poet laureate of the Cobb Institute. She holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies from Graduate Theological Union\, an MDiv from Harvard\, and a BS from UC Davis in Biochemistry and Piano Performance. Her second poetry collection\, Tender the Maker (Utah State UP) won the Swenson Award\, and The Stranger Dissolves (16 Rivers) was a Lambda Award Finalist. Poems appear widely\, including in The Antioch Review\, The New Republic\, Ploughshares\, Prairie Schooner\, and The Southern Review. Essays on process thought\, queer theory\, poetics\, and creative process appear in volumes by Ashgate\, Columbia UP\, and SUNY. She won The Missouri Review Prize\, National Poetry Review Prize\, a literary fellowship to St. Petersburg\, Russia\, and was Dartmouth Poet in Residence living in Frost’s home in Franconia\, NH. She was the first poet laureate of Albany\, CA.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-explorations-2025-07-08/
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250709T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250709T190000
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CREATED:20250604T020511Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T220913Z
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SUMMARY:Course: Ecological Civilization: Crises & Possibilities 2025
DESCRIPTION:Exploring Crises and Possibilities for Ecological Justice and Wellbeing\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis course explores visions of ecological civilization\, drawing upon process-relational understandings of the cosmos\, ecological movements\, and central ideas and practices in diverse human communities and fields of thought. The purpose is to gather and build upon practical wisdom\, seeking to dive deeply into crises and possibilities. Practical wisdom has power to transform the downward spiral of ecological destruction and to foster movements for protecting\, healing\, and regenerating our broken planet. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More & Sign Up
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/course-ecological-civilization-crises-possibilities-2025/2025-07-09/
CATEGORIES:Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250715T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250715T120000
DTSTAMP:20260505T223632
CREATED:20250626T212703Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250630T174205Z
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Rabbi Or Rose
DESCRIPTION:Program:\n		Process Explorations\n\n		Series Theme:\n		Responding to a Fractured World: Re-think\, Re-act\, Re-create\n\n		Session Topic:\n		What Language Shall We Borrow?: Proposing Width of Feeling for the Life of the World\n\n		Presenter(s):\n		Christina Hutchins\, Poet and Process Philosopher and Theologian\n\n  \nWe abide amid language. As we use it\, it both reveals and shapes how the world is perceived. Linguistic studies suggest as the digital age progresses\, language is changing rapidly: smaller usable vocabularies\, less reading\, simplified syntax. Communication tends to be transactional and reflect the representative\, categorical mode of perception Whitehead calls “presentational immediacy.” The contrasting mode of perception for Whitehead is “causal efficacy\,” and perceiving in that mode\, we feel actuality\, vaguely\, bodily\, motions of multivalent value through which we have our being. \nLiterature\, especially poetry\, can involve the materiality of language: sound\, choices of words\, syntax\, rhythm\, mouthfeel\, etymologies. Like other works of art\, a poem can be a proposition\, “a lure for further feeling.” When a poem uses language as a *medium*\, it taps into the mode of “causal efficacy.” How might poetry aid in restoring or extending that facet of perception for the purpose of widening the sea of feeling? Is consciously crafted poetry not just an ornament of language\, as often assumed\, but a mode of communication we need to face the problems confronting us—climate crisis\, international and domestic conflicts\, and human need in general—with fuller capacities for perceiving life using widened\, felt perceptions of value? \nThis presentation will include close reading of a few original poems\, focused on climate value/agency\, and a couple from other poets. No need to be used to poetry! \n\n  \nAbout the Presenter(s)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristina Hutchins is a poet and process philosopher/theologian. She taught process thought\, queer/feminist thought\, and poetry at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley for 18 years as Lecturer in Theology and Literary Arts. She has also worked as a biochemist and Congregational Minister. She presently teaches privately\, leads retreats\, preaches\, and is poet laureate of the Cobb Institute. She holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies from Graduate Theological Union\, an MDiv from Harvard\, and a BS from UC Davis in Biochemistry and Piano Performance. Her second poetry collection\, Tender the Maker (Utah State UP) won the Swenson Award\, and The Stranger Dissolves (16 Rivers) was a Lambda Award Finalist. Poems appear widely\, including in The Antioch Review\, The New Republic\, Ploughshares\, Prairie Schooner\, and The Southern Review. Essays on process thought\, queer theory\, poetics\, and creative process appear in volumes by Ashgate\, Columbia UP\, and SUNY. She won The Missouri Review Prize\, National Poetry Review Prize\, a literary fellowship to St. Petersburg\, Russia\, and was Dartmouth Poet in Residence living in Frost’s home in Franconia\, NH. She was the first poet laureate of Albany\, CA.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-explorations-2025-07-15/
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250716T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250716T190000
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SUMMARY:Course: Ecological Civilization: Crises & Possibilities 2025
DESCRIPTION:Exploring Crises and Possibilities for Ecological Justice and Wellbeing\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis course explores visions of ecological civilization\, drawing upon process-relational understandings of the cosmos\, ecological movements\, and central ideas and practices in diverse human communities and fields of thought. The purpose is to gather and build upon practical wisdom\, seeking to dive deeply into crises and possibilities. Practical wisdom has power to transform the downward spiral of ecological destruction and to foster movements for protecting\, healing\, and regenerating our broken planet. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More & Sign Up
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/course-ecological-civilization-crises-possibilities-2025/2025-07-16/
CATEGORIES:Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250722T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250722T120000
DTSTAMP:20260505T223632
CREATED:20250711T205315Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250715T220329Z
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Bruce Epperly
DESCRIPTION:Program:\n		Process Explorations\n\n		Series Theme:\n		Responding to a Fractured World: Re-think\, Re-act\, Re-create\n\n		Session Topic:\n		What Language Shall We Borrow?: Proposing Width of Feeling for the Life of the World\n\n		Presenter(s):\n		Christina Hutchins\, Poet and Process Philosopher and Theologian\n\n  \nWe abide amid language. As we use it\, it both reveals and shapes how the world is perceived. Linguistic studies suggest as the digital age progresses\, language is changing rapidly: smaller usable vocabularies\, less reading\, simplified syntax. Communication tends to be transactional and reflect the representative\, categorical mode of perception Whitehead calls “presentational immediacy.” The contrasting mode of perception for Whitehead is “causal efficacy\,” and perceiving in that mode\, we feel actuality\, vaguely\, bodily\, motions of multivalent value through which we have our being. \nLiterature\, especially poetry\, can involve the materiality of language: sound\, choices of words\, syntax\, rhythm\, mouthfeel\, etymologies. Like other works of art\, a poem can be a proposition\, “a lure for further feeling.” When a poem uses language as a *medium*\, it taps into the mode of “causal efficacy.” How might poetry aid in restoring or extending that facet of perception for the purpose of widening the sea of feeling? Is consciously crafted poetry not just an ornament of language\, as often assumed\, but a mode of communication we need to face the problems confronting us—climate crisis\, international and domestic conflicts\, and human need in general—with fuller capacities for perceiving life using widened\, felt perceptions of value? \nThis presentation will include close reading of a few original poems\, focused on climate value/agency\, and a couple from other poets. No need to be used to poetry! \n\n  \nAbout the Presenter(s)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristina Hutchins is a poet and process philosopher/theologian. She taught process thought\, queer/feminist thought\, and poetry at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley for 18 years as Lecturer in Theology and Literary Arts. She has also worked as a biochemist and Congregational Minister. She presently teaches privately\, leads retreats\, preaches\, and is poet laureate of the Cobb Institute. She holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies from Graduate Theological Union\, an MDiv from Harvard\, and a BS from UC Davis in Biochemistry and Piano Performance. Her second poetry collection\, Tender the Maker (Utah State UP) won the Swenson Award\, and The Stranger Dissolves (16 Rivers) was a Lambda Award Finalist. Poems appear widely\, including in The Antioch Review\, The New Republic\, Ploughshares\, Prairie Schooner\, and The Southern Review. Essays on process thought\, queer theory\, poetics\, and creative process appear in volumes by Ashgate\, Columbia UP\, and SUNY. She won The Missouri Review Prize\, National Poetry Review Prize\, a literary fellowship to St. Petersburg\, Russia\, and was Dartmouth Poet in Residence living in Frost’s home in Franconia\, NH. She was the first poet laureate of Albany\, CA.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-explorations-2025-07-22/
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250723T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250723T190000
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SUMMARY:Course: Ecological Civilization: Crises & Possibilities 2025
DESCRIPTION:Exploring Crises and Possibilities for Ecological Justice and Wellbeing\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis course explores visions of ecological civilization\, drawing upon process-relational understandings of the cosmos\, ecological movements\, and central ideas and practices in diverse human communities and fields of thought. The purpose is to gather and build upon practical wisdom\, seeking to dive deeply into crises and possibilities. Practical wisdom has power to transform the downward spiral of ecological destruction and to foster movements for protecting\, healing\, and regenerating our broken planet. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More & Sign Up
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/course-ecological-civilization-crises-possibilities-2025/2025-07-23/
CATEGORIES:Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250729T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250729T120000
DTSTAMP:20260505T223632
CREATED:20250724T200601Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250726T003333Z
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Summer Finale in Music
DESCRIPTION:Program:\n		Process Explorations\n\n		Series Theme:\n		Responding to a Fractured World: Re-think\, Re-act\, Re-create\n\n		Session Topic:\n		What Language Shall We Borrow?: Proposing Width of Feeling for the Life of the World\n\n		Presenter(s):\n		Christina Hutchins\, Poet and Process Philosopher and Theologian\n\n  \nWe abide amid language. As we use it\, it both reveals and shapes how the world is perceived. Linguistic studies suggest as the digital age progresses\, language is changing rapidly: smaller usable vocabularies\, less reading\, simplified syntax. Communication tends to be transactional and reflect the representative\, categorical mode of perception Whitehead calls “presentational immediacy.” The contrasting mode of perception for Whitehead is “causal efficacy\,” and perceiving in that mode\, we feel actuality\, vaguely\, bodily\, motions of multivalent value through which we have our being. \nLiterature\, especially poetry\, can involve the materiality of language: sound\, choices of words\, syntax\, rhythm\, mouthfeel\, etymologies. Like other works of art\, a poem can be a proposition\, “a lure for further feeling.” When a poem uses language as a *medium*\, it taps into the mode of “causal efficacy.” How might poetry aid in restoring or extending that facet of perception for the purpose of widening the sea of feeling? Is consciously crafted poetry not just an ornament of language\, as often assumed\, but a mode of communication we need to face the problems confronting us—climate crisis\, international and domestic conflicts\, and human need in general—with fuller capacities for perceiving life using widened\, felt perceptions of value? \nThis presentation will include close reading of a few original poems\, focused on climate value/agency\, and a couple from other poets. No need to be used to poetry! \n\n  \nAbout the Presenter(s)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristina Hutchins is a poet and process philosopher/theologian. She taught process thought\, queer/feminist thought\, and poetry at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley for 18 years as Lecturer in Theology and Literary Arts. She has also worked as a biochemist and Congregational Minister. She presently teaches privately\, leads retreats\, preaches\, and is poet laureate of the Cobb Institute. She holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies from Graduate Theological Union\, an MDiv from Harvard\, and a BS from UC Davis in Biochemistry and Piano Performance. Her second poetry collection\, Tender the Maker (Utah State UP) won the Swenson Award\, and The Stranger Dissolves (16 Rivers) was a Lambda Award Finalist. Poems appear widely\, including in The Antioch Review\, The New Republic\, Ploughshares\, Prairie Schooner\, and The Southern Review. Essays on process thought\, queer theory\, poetics\, and creative process appear in volumes by Ashgate\, Columbia UP\, and SUNY. She won The Missouri Review Prize\, National Poetry Review Prize\, a literary fellowship to St. Petersburg\, Russia\, and was Dartmouth Poet in Residence living in Frost’s home in Franconia\, NH. She was the first poet laureate of Albany\, CA.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-explorations-2025-07-29/
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250730T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250730T190000
DTSTAMP:20260505T223632
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SUMMARY:Course: Ecological Civilization: Crises & Possibilities 2025
DESCRIPTION:Exploring Crises and Possibilities for Ecological Justice and Wellbeing\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis course explores visions of ecological civilization\, drawing upon process-relational understandings of the cosmos\, ecological movements\, and central ideas and practices in diverse human communities and fields of thought. The purpose is to gather and build upon practical wisdom\, seeking to dive deeply into crises and possibilities. Practical wisdom has power to transform the downward spiral of ecological destruction and to foster movements for protecting\, healing\, and regenerating our broken planet. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More & Sign Up
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/course-ecological-civilization-crises-possibilities-2025/2025-07-30/
CATEGORIES:Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250813T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250813T183000
DTSTAMP:20260505T223632
CREATED:20250717T220626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T220856Z
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SUMMARY:Creative Becoming: Process Philosophy & the Arts 2025
DESCRIPTION:Exploring Process Philosophy and Theology Through the Arts\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis course explores the dynamic intersection of Whitehead’s process philosophy and the arts. Each session focuses on a particular art form and its resonances with key Whiteheadian themes—creativity\, relationality\, feeling\, and becoming. Through guided reflection\, discussion\, and creative engagement\, participants will explore how the arts can serve as both expression and embodiment of process thought. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More & Sign Up
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/creative-becoming-process-philosophy-the-arts-2025/2025-08-13/
CATEGORIES:Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250820T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250820T183000
DTSTAMP:20260505T223632
CREATED:20250717T220626Z
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SUMMARY:Creative Becoming: Process Philosophy & the Arts 2025
DESCRIPTION:Exploring Process Philosophy and Theology Through the Arts\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis course explores the dynamic intersection of Whitehead’s process philosophy and the arts. Each session focuses on a particular art form and its resonances with key Whiteheadian themes—creativity\, relationality\, feeling\, and becoming. Through guided reflection\, discussion\, and creative engagement\, participants will explore how the arts can serve as both expression and embodiment of process thought. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More & Sign Up
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/creative-becoming-process-philosophy-the-arts-2025/2025-08-20/
CATEGORIES:Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250827T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250827T183000
DTSTAMP:20260505T223632
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T220856Z
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SUMMARY:Creative Becoming: Process Philosophy & the Arts 2025
DESCRIPTION:Exploring Process Philosophy and Theology Through the Arts\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis course explores the dynamic intersection of Whitehead’s process philosophy and the arts. Each session focuses on a particular art form and its resonances with key Whiteheadian themes—creativity\, relationality\, feeling\, and becoming. Through guided reflection\, discussion\, and creative engagement\, participants will explore how the arts can serve as both expression and embodiment of process thought. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More & Sign Up
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/creative-becoming-process-philosophy-the-arts-2025/2025-08-27/
CATEGORIES:Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250903T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250903T183000
DTSTAMP:20260505T223632
CREATED:20250717T220626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T220856Z
UID:10001177-1756918800-1756924200@cobb.institute
SUMMARY:Creative Becoming: Process Philosophy & the Arts 2025
DESCRIPTION:Exploring Process Philosophy and Theology Through the Arts\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis course explores the dynamic intersection of Whitehead’s process philosophy and the arts. Each session focuses on a particular art form and its resonances with key Whiteheadian themes—creativity\, relationality\, feeling\, and becoming. Through guided reflection\, discussion\, and creative engagement\, participants will explore how the arts can serve as both expression and embodiment of process thought. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More & Sign Up
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/creative-becoming-process-philosophy-the-arts-2025/2025-09-03/
CATEGORIES:Class
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Susan Strauss
DESCRIPTION:Program:\n		Process Explorations\n\n		Series Theme:\n		Responding to a Fractured World: Re-think\, Re-act\, Re-create\n\n		Session Topic:\n		What Language Shall We Borrow?: Proposing Width of Feeling for the Life of the World\n\n		Presenter(s):\n		Christina Hutchins\, Poet and Process Philosopher and Theologian\n\n  \nWe abide amid language. As we use it\, it both reveals and shapes how the world is perceived. Linguistic studies suggest as the digital age progresses\, language is changing rapidly: smaller usable vocabularies\, less reading\, simplified syntax. Communication tends to be transactional and reflect the representative\, categorical mode of perception Whitehead calls “presentational immediacy.” The contrasting mode of perception for Whitehead is “causal efficacy\,” and perceiving in that mode\, we feel actuality\, vaguely\, bodily\, motions of multivalent value through which we have our being. \nLiterature\, especially poetry\, can involve the materiality of language: sound\, choices of words\, syntax\, rhythm\, mouthfeel\, etymologies. Like other works of art\, a poem can be a proposition\, “a lure for further feeling.” When a poem uses language as a *medium*\, it taps into the mode of “causal efficacy.” How might poetry aid in restoring or extending that facet of perception for the purpose of widening the sea of feeling? Is consciously crafted poetry not just an ornament of language\, as often assumed\, but a mode of communication we need to face the problems confronting us—climate crisis\, international and domestic conflicts\, and human need in general—with fuller capacities for perceiving life using widened\, felt perceptions of value? \nThis presentation will include close reading of a few original poems\, focused on climate value/agency\, and a couple from other poets. No need to be used to poetry! \n\n  \nAbout the Presenter(s)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristina Hutchins is a poet and process philosopher/theologian. She taught process thought\, queer/feminist thought\, and poetry at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley for 18 years as Lecturer in Theology and Literary Arts. She has also worked as a biochemist and Congregational Minister. She presently teaches privately\, leads retreats\, preaches\, and is poet laureate of the Cobb Institute. She holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies from Graduate Theological Union\, an MDiv from Harvard\, and a BS from UC Davis in Biochemistry and Piano Performance. Her second poetry collection\, Tender the Maker (Utah State UP) won the Swenson Award\, and The Stranger Dissolves (16 Rivers) was a Lambda Award Finalist. Poems appear widely\, including in The Antioch Review\, The New Republic\, Ploughshares\, Prairie Schooner\, and The Southern Review. Essays on process thought\, queer theory\, poetics\, and creative process appear in volumes by Ashgate\, Columbia UP\, and SUNY. She won The Missouri Review Prize\, National Poetry Review Prize\, a literary fellowship to St. Petersburg\, Russia\, and was Dartmouth Poet in Residence living in Frost’s home in Franconia\, NH. She was the first poet laureate of Albany\, CA.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-explorations-2025-09-09/
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250910T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250910T183000
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SUMMARY:Creative Becoming: Process Philosophy & the Arts 2025
DESCRIPTION:Exploring Process Philosophy and Theology Through the Arts\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis course explores the dynamic intersection of Whitehead’s process philosophy and the arts. Each session focuses on a particular art form and its resonances with key Whiteheadian themes—creativity\, relationality\, feeling\, and becoming. Through guided reflection\, discussion\, and creative engagement\, participants will explore how the arts can serve as both expression and embodiment of process thought. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More & Sign Up
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/creative-becoming-process-philosophy-the-arts-2025/2025-09-10/
CATEGORIES:Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250916T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250916T120000
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Mary Elizabeth Moore
DESCRIPTION:Program:\n		Process Explorations\n\n		Series Theme:\n		Responding to a Fractured World: Re-think\, Re-act\, Re-create\n\n		Session Topic:\n		What Language Shall We Borrow?: Proposing Width of Feeling for the Life of the World\n\n		Presenter(s):\n		Christina Hutchins\, Poet and Process Philosopher and Theologian\n\n  \nWe abide amid language. As we use it\, it both reveals and shapes how the world is perceived. Linguistic studies suggest as the digital age progresses\, language is changing rapidly: smaller usable vocabularies\, less reading\, simplified syntax. Communication tends to be transactional and reflect the representative\, categorical mode of perception Whitehead calls “presentational immediacy.” The contrasting mode of perception for Whitehead is “causal efficacy\,” and perceiving in that mode\, we feel actuality\, vaguely\, bodily\, motions of multivalent value through which we have our being.\n\nLiterature\, especially poetry\, can involve the materiality of language: sound\, choices of words\, syntax\, rhythm\, mouthfeel\, etymologies. Like other works of art\, a poem can be a proposition\, “a lure for further feeling.” When a poem uses language as a *medium*\, it taps into the mode of “causal efficacy.” How might poetry aid in restoring or extending that facet of perception for the purpose of widening the sea of feeling? Is consciously crafted poetry not just an ornament of language\, as often assumed\, but a mode of communication we need to face the problems confronting us—climate crisis\, international and domestic conflicts\, and human need in general—with fuller capacities for perceiving life using widened\, felt perceptions of value?\n\nThis presentation will include close reading of a few original poems\, focused on climate value/agency\, and a couple from other poets. No need to be used to poetry!\n  \nAbout the Presenter(s)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristina Hutchins is a poet and process philosopher/theologian. She taught process thought\, queer/feminist thought\, and poetry at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley for 18 years as Lecturer in Theology and Literary Arts. She has also worked as a biochemist and Congregational Minister. She presently teaches privately\, leads retreats\, preaches\, and is poet laureate of the Cobb Institute. She holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies from Graduate Theological Union\, an MDiv from Harvard\, and a BS from UC Davis in Biochemistry and Piano Performance. Her second poetry collection\, Tender the Maker (Utah State UP) won the Swenson Award\, and The Stranger Dissolves (16 Rivers) was a Lambda Award Finalist. Poems appear widely\, including in The Antioch Review\, The New Republic\, Ploughshares\, Prairie Schooner\, and The Southern Review. Essays on process thought\, queer theory\, poetics\, and creative process appear in volumes by Ashgate\, Columbia UP\, and SUNY. She won The Missouri Review Prize\, National Poetry Review Prize\, a literary fellowship to St. Petersburg\, Russia\, and was Dartmouth Poet in Residence living in Frost’s home in Franconia\, NH. She was the first poet laureate of Albany\, CA.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-explorations-2025-09-16/
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250917T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250917T183000
DTSTAMP:20260505T223632
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SUMMARY:Creative Becoming: Process Philosophy & the Arts 2025
DESCRIPTION:Exploring Process Philosophy and Theology Through the Arts\n \n\n \nThis course explores the dynamic intersection of Whitehead’s process philosophy and the arts. Each session focuses on a particular art form and its resonances with key Whiteheadian themes—creativity\, relationality\, feeling\, and becoming. Through guided reflection\, discussion\, and creative engagement\, participants will explore how the arts can serve as both expression and embodiment of process thought. \n \n\n \n\nFind Out More & Sign Up
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/creative-becoming-process-philosophy-the-arts-2025/2025-09-17/
CATEGORIES:Class
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