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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/
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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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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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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
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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-2025/2025-09-03/
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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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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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250923T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250923T120000
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Grace Grace Grace
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.\n\n\n \n 
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-explorations-2025-09-23/
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: David Menefee-Libey
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-2025-09-30/
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251001T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251001T170000
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SUMMARY:Course: Process Thought & Science
DESCRIPTION:Applying Process Thought Across the Natural Sciences\n \n\n \nThis course introduces students to Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy\, emphasizing its application to modern science and cosmology. It explores the applications of process thought to physics\, biology\, and neuroscience\, as well as its potential for integrating natural science and the humanities. \n \n\n \n\nFind Out More & Sign Up
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/course-process-thought-science/2025-10-01/
CATEGORIES:Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251007T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251007T120000
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CREATED:20250926T234016Z
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Evaggelos Vallianatos
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-2025-10-07/
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251008T170000
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CREATED:20250924T230319Z
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SUMMARY:Course: Process Thought & Science
DESCRIPTION:Applying Process Thought Across the Natural Sciences\n \n\n \nThis course introduces students to Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy\, emphasizing its application to modern science and cosmology. It explores the applications of process thought to physics\, biology\, and neuroscience\, as well as its potential for integrating natural science and the humanities. \n \n\n \n\nFind Out More & Sign Up
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/course-process-thought-science/2025-10-08/
CATEGORIES:Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251014T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251014T120000
DTSTAMP:20260415T004414
CREATED:20250905T222403Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251012T061058Z
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Mary Evelyn Tucker
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-2025-10-14/
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251015T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251015T170000
DTSTAMP:20260415T004414
CREATED:20250924T230319Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250924T230615Z
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SUMMARY:Course: Process Thought & Science
DESCRIPTION:Applying Process Thought Across the Natural Sciences\n \n\n \nThis course introduces students to Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy\, emphasizing its application to modern science and cosmology. It explores the applications of process thought to physics\, biology\, and neuroscience\, as well as its potential for integrating natural science and the humanities. \n \n\n \n\nFind Out More & Sign Up
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/course-process-thought-science/2025-10-15/
CATEGORIES:Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251021T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251021T120000
DTSTAMP:20260415T004414
CREATED:20251015T052000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251015T052000Z
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Jeremy Lent
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-2025-10-21/
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251022T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251022T170000
DTSTAMP:20260415T004415
CREATED:20250924T230319Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250924T230615Z
UID:10001190-1761120000-1761152400@cobb.institute
SUMMARY:Course: Process Thought & Science
DESCRIPTION:Applying Process Thought Across the Natural Sciences\n \n\n \nThis course introduces students to Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy\, emphasizing its application to modern science and cosmology. It explores the applications of process thought to physics\, biology\, and neuroscience\, as well as its potential for integrating natural science and the humanities. \n \n\n \n\nFind Out More & Sign Up
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/course-process-thought-science/2025-10-22/
CATEGORIES:Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251028T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251028T120000
DTSTAMP:20260415T004415
CREATED:20251009T000501Z
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Mary Fridley & Carrie Lobman
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-2025-10-28/
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251029T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251029T170000
DTSTAMP:20260415T004415
CREATED:20250924T230319Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250924T230615Z
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SUMMARY:Course: Process Thought & Science
DESCRIPTION:Applying Process Thought Across the Natural Sciences\n \n\n \nThis course introduces students to Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy\, emphasizing its application to modern science and cosmology. It explores the applications of process thought to physics\, biology\, and neuroscience\, as well as its potential for integrating natural science and the humanities. \n \n\n \n\nFind Out More & Sign Up
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/course-process-thought-science/2025-10-29/
CATEGORIES:Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251104T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251104T120000
DTSTAMP:20260415T004415
CREATED:20251015T054503Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251031T111242Z
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Sheri Kling & Special Guests
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-2025-11-04/
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251105T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251105T170000
DTSTAMP:20260415T004415
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SUMMARY:Course: Process Thought & Science
DESCRIPTION:Applying Process Thought Across the Natural Sciences\n \n\n \nThis course introduces students to Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy\, emphasizing its application to modern science and cosmology. It explores the applications of process thought to physics\, biology\, and neuroscience\, as well as its potential for integrating natural science and the humanities. \n \n\n \n\nFind Out More & Sign Up
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/course-process-thought-science/2025-11-05/
CATEGORIES:Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251111T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251111T120000
DTSTAMP:20260415T004415
CREATED:20251031T203446Z
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SUMMARY:Love Leads the Way: The Continuing Legacy of Amy Carmichael\, the Down-to-Earth Mystic | Jeremiah Rajanesan
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-2025-11-11/
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251118T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251118T120000
DTSTAMP:20260415T004415
CREATED:20251114T210010Z
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SUMMARY:Living and Breathing Gratitude | With Panel of Process Thinkers\, Poets\, Musicians\, and Activists
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-2025-11-18/
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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SUMMARY:Process Buddhism and Ecofeminism in the Age of Planetary Polycrisis | Kazi Adi Shakti
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-2025-11-25/
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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SUMMARY:Personhood Without Boundaries: Steps to a Transreligious Planetary Communion | Gunnar Gabriel
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-2025-12-02/
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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SUMMARY:Alfred North Whitehead and Owen Barfield on the Romantic Imagination as a Window into the Intrinsic Value of Nature | Matt Segall
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-2025-12-09/
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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SUMMARY:Asexuality and Aromanticism: An Exploration of the Personal and Collective Costs of Compulsory Sexuality and Amatonormativity | Cindy Mundahl
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-2025-12-16/
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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SUMMARY:Special Event Featuring the Graduates of the 2025 Certificate Program in Process Thought and Practice
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-2026-01-13/
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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SUMMARY:Process Theology Alive in Church Life | Leslie King
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-2026-01-20/
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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