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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Sheri Kling
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nSeries: Responding to a Fractured World: Re-think\, Re-act\, Re-create \nTopic: Healing our Collective Pain: Whitehead\, Jung\, and Transformation \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Sheri Kling\, Director of Process and Faith \n\n\n\nCan we understand both cosmos and psyche in a way that promotes integration rather than fragmentation? Our present societal landscape\, particularly in the West and the United States\, is marked by fragmentation and division across multiple dimensions. Societally\, there is significant polarization. Interpersonally\, many individuals face growing loneliness and isolation. Intrapersonally\, there is a surge in antidepressant use and a clear link between early adverse experiences and adult challenges. This highlights a deep-rooted crisis in how individuals perceive their existence and connections with others. \nTo heal our fragmentation\, we must seek an understanding of both the cosmos and the psyche that unifies rather than divides. In this talk\, Sheri D. Kling\, Ph.D.\, will offer Whitehead and Jung as integrating resources that reveal a Reality that shows us that we matter\, we belong\, and we can experience positive change. \n\nAbout the Presenter(s)\n\n\n\n\n\nSheri D. Kling\, Ph.D. is the director of Process & Faith with the Center for Process Studies and interim minister of Redeemer Lutheran Church in Bradenton\, FL. Sheri earned her Ph.D. in Religion: Process Studies from Claremont School of Theology and her MATS from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. She is a theologian\, songwriter\, and spiritual teacher who draws from wisdom and mystical traditions\, relational worldviews\, depth psychology\, and the intersection of spirituality and science to help people find meaning\, belonging\, and transformation. Sheri is a faculty member of the Haden Institute\, adjunct faculty with Claremont School of Theology\, and the author of A Process Spirituality: Christian and Transreligious Resources for Transformation as well as a contributor to several other books. She regularly delivers dynamic “Music & Message” presentations to groups\, and offers courses\, concerts\, and spiritual retreats. Sheri may be found online at sherikling.com \n\n\n  \n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTo receive the Zoom info for this gathering\, click the Going button and enter your name and email. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nIf you experience any difficulty with the RSVP\, please send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular announcements and updates about activities and events at the Cobb Institute\, please join our list of Friends. Can’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our recordings archive. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-explorations-2025-04-01/
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SUMMARY:Course: Whitehead's Process Philosophy 2025
DESCRIPTION:Diving Deeper Into Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhile “process philosophy” is wider than the work of Alfred North Whitehead\, the depth and dynamism of his thought principally inspire its modern expression. This five-part course introduces students and life-long learners to the central themes\, contours\, and ideas of Whitehead’s “philosophy of organism.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/course-whiteheads-process-philosophy-2025/2025-04-03/
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Thandeka & Jennifer Jennings
DESCRIPTION:Series: Responding to a Fractured World: Re-think\, Re-act\, Re-create \nTopic: The Untrolling Project \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Thandeka & Jennifer Jennings \nUntrolling America is a new multimedia series created by Thandeka and Jennifer Jennings as part of a grassroots initiative to unite Americans across their partisan divides and cultural war battlefields. \nWill they succeed? \nWill their series create new actions everywhere\, the kind that John B. Cobb Jr. called for in his 2024 public lecture on earthism at Peking University? Will it galvanize persons “to love the whole in its complex wholeness in a way that leads us to care about the consequences of our actions everywhere”? Will it change the way we feel\, think and act? \nThandeka and Jennifer will ask us to reflect on\, discuss\, and answer these questions after a screening of the first episode of Untrolling America—which John helped fund— on April 8\, 2025 on Process Explorations. \n\nAbout the Presenter(s)\n\n\n\n\n\nThandeka is a Unitarian Universalist theologian\, minister and congregational consultant\, founder and President of Love Beyond Belief ™ Inc.\, co-creator and co-producer of the Universal Connections small group project and The Untrolling Project\, and a former Emmy award-winning television producer. \nThandeka has spent more than two decades studying the brain science of emotions—Affective Neuroscience (AN). As a result of her work in AN\, she founded Contemporary Affect Theology (CAT)\, which investigates the links between religion and emotions\, differentiating spiritual experiences from religious beliefs. \nJaak Panksepp\, the founder of AN\, commends Thandeka’s “decisive historical-philosophical analysis” as work that can provide “a universal substrate for nondenominational religious experience” (The Archaeology of Mind\, 391). \nHer books and essays have helped secure her place as a “major figure in American liberal theology\,” as Gary Dorrien notes in The Making of American Liberal Theology: Crisis\, Irony\, and Postmodernity\, 1950-2005 (John Knox Press\, 2006). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJennifer Jennings is a CPA with 27 years of financial accounting experience\, including 17 years as the Director of Financial Reporting at a major corporation in Dallas. She is Vice President of Finance & Operations at Love Beyond Belief ™ Inc\, and Co-Director of Universal Connections and The Untrolling Project. \nIn 2007\, her inward journey of self-discovery sparked an intense spiritual pilgrimage seeking new ways to connect all the people of this planet in creating better ways to live together. The journey led to her finding Unitarian Universalism and The First Unitarian Church of Dallas where she has served on the Church Board\, the Board of North Texas Unitarian Universalist Congregations\, its Love Beyond Belief Steering Committee\, its New Life School of Uganda Partnership Committee and as a Circles Small Group Facilitator and facilitator of Adult Religious Education offerings like Coming of Age for Adults and Turning Points in UU History. When she took Thandeka’s Universal Connections small group workshop\, she found what she’d been seeking: a way to affirm the spiritual common ground of humanity for life-enhancing work on planet earth. Jennifer now works with Thandeka full time \n\n\n  \n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTo receive the Zoom info for this gathering\, click the Going button and enter your name and email. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nIf you experience any difficulty with the RSVP\, please send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular announcements and updates about activities and events at the Cobb Institute\, please join our list of Friends. Can’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our recordings archive. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-explorations-2025-04-08/
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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SUMMARY:Course: Whitehead's Process Philosophy 2025
DESCRIPTION:Diving Deeper Into Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhile “process philosophy” is wider than the work of Alfred North Whitehead\, the depth and dynamism of his thought principally inspire its modern expression. This five-part course introduces students and life-long learners to the central themes\, contours\, and ideas of Whitehead’s “philosophy of organism.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind Out More
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/course-whiteheads-process-philosophy-2025/2025-04-10/
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Chris Hughes
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nSeries: Responding to a Fractured World: Re-think\, Re-act\, Re-create \nTopic: As We Think\, We Live: Critical Challenges for Educational Systems and Teachers \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Chris Hughes\, Dean of Cobb Institute Certificate Program \nPublic education serves the needs of a country\, but what happens when those needs become too narrowly articulated\, even partisan\, and the deep learning of young people is forgotten? Deep learning shifts thinking towards the big stage of speculative philosophy and open horizons. Narrow learning pushes a selected set of possibilities. \nPROcess is a seven-session course for young people. Why do we need it? The world is on a dangerous trajectory. It is young minds that carry the thoughts for tomorrow’s actions. Students breathe in not only the subjects they are taught but also how these subjects are framed by their teachers. Subject and frame together create transformative learning. Subjects and frames are fragmented in our schools today. At the heart of Whitehead’s thinking is a healing unity. For many people a first encounter with Whitehead’s vision is a romance\, a felt sense in the body\, a shift in the ground under their feet.  Whitehead himself saw romance as the first\, and necessary\, stage of deep learning. I think we can spark such a romance in young people. PROcess is a first attempt in this direction. This session explores both the need and the how of this attempt. \n\nAbout the Presenter(s)\n\n\n\n\n\nChris Hughes is the current Dean of the Certificate in Process Thought and Practice at the Cobb Institute. He came to Canada from the UK in 1975 after earning a BA in Psychology from Durham University. In 1986 he earned a B.Ed with a major in Science from the University of Calgary. Along the way he picked up courses and skills in experimental psychology from the University of McMaster and in philosophy from the University of Calgary. Prior to 1986 when he started a 30+ year High School teaching streak (Maths and Physics)\, he worked with young people who were “at risk” or who had custodial sentences. Towards the end of his teaching career\, he trained as a Mindfulness Instructor with the British Mindfulness in Schools Project and taught Mindfulness to both students and teachers. He lives in Calgary\, Alberta. During his teaching career he received the Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching Excellence and the APEGGA Teaching Award. (The Association of Professional Engineers\, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta). \n\n\n  \n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTo receive the Zoom info for this gathering\, click the Going button and enter your name and email. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nIf you experience any difficulty with the RSVP\, please send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular announcements and updates about activities and events at the Cobb Institute\, please join our list of Friends. Can’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our recordings archive. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-explorations-2025-04-15/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Robert McDonald
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nTheme: Responding to a Fractured World: Re-think\, Re-act\, Re-create \nTopic: Is There a Process Theology of Food? Considering our Fractured World and How to Respond \n\n\n \nPresenter(s): Robert McDonald \n  \nDespite claims to the contrary\, we find ourselves in the midst of an ecological crisis involving and/or caused by many aspects of modern Western civilization. One such area is the industrial agricultural complex\, also called “agri-business\,” where the pursuit of profit supersedes—and denigrates—the pursuit of the common good. From a religious perspective\, this is a problematic turn of events. This raises an apropos question: our various traditions of belief or unbelief\, specifically process thought\, have anything to say on the matter of the (a-)theology of food? \nWhile the “theology of food” may seem to be a relatively new area of theological concern\, this is not the case\, though it may be anachronistic to call it such prior to the early 2000’s. Since there is a history of theological consideration regarding food within at least the broad Christian tradition\, and because much can be gleaned from dialogue with other traditions\, it is important to consider what process thought may have to offer concerning several related issues: health\, finances\, sustainability\, Creation\, the eschaton\, the Eucharist\, and many more. To wit\, the thought of early process thinkers like Whitehead and Teilhard\, as well as those who have followed them\, has much to teach us regarding a possible process theology of food. \n  \n \nAbout the Presenter(s)\n\n\n\n\n\nRobert McDonald is a current PhD candidate in Religion with the Claremont School of Theology where he began his doctoral work in Process Studies in 2017. He is currently working to complete his dissertation under the direction and mentorship of Philip Clayton\, PhD\, the theme of which is a comparative religious approach toward industrialized animal agriculture; specifically\, his work seeks to address the issues\, for both human and more-than-human communities\, presented by what are referred to as “CAFOs.” His own religious perspective within this work is Roman Catholicism\, about which he argues that the Church should move toward a minimally plant-based diet. \nNo longer in course work\, Robert lives in Richmond\, VA with his wife of nearly three years\, Meg\, and their two cats\, Toshi and Clementine. When not spending time with his family or engaging in research and writing\, Robert either plays or runs TTRPGs (“tabletop role playing games”) as an additional creative outlet. He is also an avid fan of various genres of fiction by the likes of Asimov\, Tolkien\, and Vonnegut\, to name a few. He will also watch TV on occasion\, especially enjoying the BBC show “Father Brown.”. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTo receive the Zoom info for this gathering\, click the Going button and enter your name and email. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n \nIf you experience any difficulty with the RSVP\, please send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular announcements and updates about activities and events at the Cobb Institute\, please join our list of Friends. Can’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our recordings archive. \n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n \n 
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-explorations-2025-04-22/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
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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/2025-04-22/
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Mark Davies
DESCRIPTION:   \n\nTheme: Responding to a Fractured World: Re-think\, Re-act\, Re-create \nTopic: Re-thinking and Re-creating Higher Education in a Time of American Fascism \nPresenter(s): Mark Davies \n  \nOur colleges and universities must not lose their souls by appeasing American fascism. \nIt is an evil and intolerable situation for international students at our colleges and universities to be abducted\, detained\, and deported for using their right to think freely\, speak freely\, and act freely in ways that are doing no harm to others; but this is the situation we currently face as American fascism attempts to assert its control over our colleges and universities\, the students who attend them\, and the faculty who teach and do research at them.  \nIt is also intolerable that American fascism is attempting to force colleges and universities to accept federal government oversight and control or risk losing federal funding for research or even their non-profit status. How can institutions of higher education work together in solidarity to resist the current efforts to destroy academic freedom\, freedom of speech\, religious freedom\, and freedom of assembly on our campuses? How can we re-think and re-create higher education to effectively resist efforts of American fascism to co-opt it?  \n  \n \nAbout the Presenter(s)\n\n\n\n\n\nRev. Dr. Mark Y. A. Davies is the Wimberly Professor of Social and Ecological Ethics\, Director of the World House Institute for Social and Ecological Responsibility\, and Executive Director of the Leadership. Education\, and Development (LEaD) Hub North United States for the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry (GBHEM) at Oklahoma City University where he has worked in both teaching and administration for 28 years. He is an ordained elder in the Oklahoma Conference of the United Methodist Church where he has served as Chair of the Board of Church and Society from 2015 to 2018 and 2023 to the present. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTo receive the Zoom info for this gathering\, click the Going button and enter your name and email. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n \nIf you experience any difficulty with the RSVP\, please send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular announcements and updates about activities and events at the Cobb Institute\, please join our list of Friends. Can’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our recordings archive. \n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n \n 
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-explorations-2025-04-29/
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
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