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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Summer Finale in Music
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Bruce Epperly
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URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-explorations-2025-07-22/
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Rabbi Or Rose
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URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-explorations-2025-07-15/
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Walter Fluker
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URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-explorations-2025-07-08/
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Gary Dorrien
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URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-explorations-2025-07-01/
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Monalisa Tuitahi
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URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-explorations-2025-06-24/
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250617T100000
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Christina Hutchins
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URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-explorations-2025-06-17/
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Chris Doran
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URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-explorations-2025-06-10/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250527T100000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250520T100000
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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: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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250506T100000
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: John P. Clark
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nTheme: Responding to a Fractured World: Re-think\, Re-act\, Re-create \nTopic: The Transfigurative Community \nPresenter(s): John P. Clark \n  \nIt is important that we situate ourselves clearly within the present moment of Earth history\, with an acute awareness of all its momentous problems\, and all its inspiring possibilities. We are now leaving the Cenezoic\, an era of new life on Earth\, and entering the Necrocene\, an era of mass extinction and death on Earth. We are seeing the final results of a long history of various forms of Empire and domination\, and of certain dominant forms of egoic identity. We are faced with the choice of either continuing on the path of social and ecological disintegration\, or of initiating a new path of social and ecological regeneration. \nThe thesis of this presentation is that the crucial factor in determining the nature our future and the future of life on Earth is whether a certain kind of community can emerge. We might call it the Awakening Earth Community.Such a project will require large-scale social and ecological regeneration\, but it can only succeed if it is rooted in small-scale communities of liberation and solidarity\, awakening and care. It is such communities that are capable of fostering fundamental personal and group transformation. Such a transformation will need to address all the basic spheres of social determination\, including the social imaginary\, the social ideology\, the social ethos\, the social institutional structure\, and social materiality. Change must take place simultaneously in all of these spheres\, and must take place at all levels of organization\, including the personal level\, the level of primary groups\, the level of larger groups\, and the level of the entire society. Such a project will be rooted in human experience. It can look for inspiration and guidance from the lengthy and rich global history of non-dominating communal organization\, going back to the beginnings of human society. We will look at some key points in that history\, including the achievements of the Zapatista movement in Chiapas\, the Democratic Autonomy Movement in Rojava\, and the Sarvodaya Movement in India. \n  \n \nAbout the Presenter(s)\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn P. Clark is a philosopher\, activist\, writer\, and educator. He is Director of La Terre Institute for Community and Ecology and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Loyola University\, where he taught for 44 years\, was a member and former chair of the Environment Program\, and directed a summer study program in India. His most recent philosophical work is Between Earth and Empire: From the Necrocene to the Beloved Community. As his alter non-ego\, Max Cafard\, he recently published Anarchy in the Big Easy\, a graphic history of radical New Orleans. He does educational and organizational work with La Terre Institute in New Orleans and at Bayou La Terre Woodland Center\, an 88-acre site on Bayou La Terre in the coastal forest of the Gulf of Mexico. He hosts a weekly meditation and study group at the Cypress in the Garden Zendo in New Orleans. He recently finished a year homeschooling his grandson\, Ethan. \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-2025-05-06/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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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: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
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250401T100000
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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/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250325T100000
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Eric Shafer\, Sid Mohn\, and Karla Leitzman
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nSeries: Responding to a Fractured World: Re-think\, Re-act\, Re-create \nTopic: The US and its Global Leadership for Refugees \n\n\n\nPresenters: Eric Shafer\, Sid Mohn\, and Karla Leitzman \n\n\n\nIn the aftermath of World War 2\, the United States emerged as a leader in the resettlement of persons displaced by war.  With the birth of the United Nations\, the global community articulated a commitment to the protection of refugees to which the US was party\, and which was ultimately codified into U.S. law in 1980.  The Trump Administration in its first term significantly reduced refugee admissions and within the initial weeks of Trump’s second Administration\, all refugee admissions were suspended. The Rev. Dr. Sid Mohn\, The Rev. Eric Shafer\, and Karla Leitzman will join us for a discussion of the history of refugee resettlement and its current realities. \n\nAbout the Presenter(s)\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Rev. Eric C. Shafer\, a pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)\, is Global Refuge’s “Pastor-in-Residence.”  (Global Refuge is the new name for Lutheran Immigration and Refuge Service).  He recently retired after more thaneight years asSenior Pastor at Mt. Olive Lutheran Church in Santa Monica\, CA. There he helped open the Students4Students Shelter at Mt. Olive\, the first shelter for homeless college students in the USA.  For this work he has received awards from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints\, the Santa Monica Rotary Club\, and the Westside Coalition for Housing\, Hunger\, and Health.” His previous positions include Senior Vice President for Odyssey Networks in New York City and Director of Communication for the ELCA in Chicago. Shafer has taught in South Africa and Madagascar and made multiple trips to Jerusalem and the West Bank.  He is the host of the YouTube program Hope Matters and a regular contributor to the Church Anew website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSid Mohn is Director of Interfaith Action of SW Michigan\, a peace and justice collaborative of more than thirty faith-based communities. As a non-profit leader\, he has focused on human rights advocacy\, especially migrant rights and child rights. He was President and CEO of Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights for thirty-five years (1980–2015)\, launching such initiatives as Neon Street Center for Homeless Youth\, International Children’s Centers for Unaccompanied Minors\, Kovler Center for the Treatment of Survivors of Torture\, and Mexico-US Advocates Network. He also worked closely with the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement. For twenty-five years\, Sid oversaw Heartland Alliance’s unaccompanied child migrant programs\, working with governmental\, legal\, and social service organizations. Further\, he coordinated the second sanctuary church in the U.S. (Wellington Ave United Church of Christ\, Chicago)\, providing safe haven to refugees from El Salvador. His awards include: Executive Director of the Year (United Way of Chicago)\, Wright Award for Human Rights Leadership (Chicago Commission on Human Relations)\, LGBT Hall of Fame of Chicago\, Founder’s Award (Illinois Coalition on Immigrant & Refugee Rights)\, and Human Rights Leader’s Award (Centro Romero). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKarla Leitzman has served as a Philanthropic Advisor with Global Refuge/ LIRS for two and a half years. A native Minnesotan who lives in St. Paul\, Karla is responsible for connecting with donors in the Midwest and Southern California to solicit and steward support for the missions and ministries of Global Refuge. In addition to her work\, Karla is also an endorsed candidate for Word and Sacrament in the St. Paul Area Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and is a senior Master of Divinity Student at Luther Seminary. She is currently serving as a part time vicar/ pastoral intern at Faith Lilac Way Lutheran Church in Robbinsdale\, MN\, a northern suburb of Minneapolis. Karla is passionate about the church’s role in justice- and peace- making around the world\, and she is grateful for the multiple hats she is fortunate to wear during such a tumultuous time.  \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-2025-03-25/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Jared Morningstar
DESCRIPTION:Topic: The Practice\, Spirituality\, and History of Ramadan \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Jared Morningstar \n\n\n\nIn this session of Process Explorations\, Jared Morningstar will introduce the Islamic holiday of Ramadan. Jared will share his own experiences of the spiritual and physical practices central to this holiday\, dwelling on the ways that this month of fasting offers opportunities for connecting more deeply with Muslim community\, the natural world\, and the Divine. He will also share the origins and the history of Ramadan\, drawing connections with other religious communities and practices. \n\n\n\nRather than just introducing the basic features of this central Islamic practice\, Jared will draw connections between aspects of Ramadan and central values and themes present in process thought. Through presenting Ramadan from both personal and academic perspectives\, Jared hopes to share insights and make connections that may be taken up by Muslims and non-Muslims alike and carried forward long after Ramadan 2025 has concluded. \n\n\n\nAbout the Presenter(s) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJared is an independent scholar living in Madison\, Wisconsin with academic interests in philosophy of religion\, Islamic studies\, comparative religion\, metamodern spirituality\, and interfaith dialogue. His work in these areas seeks to offer robust responses to issues of inter-religious conflict\, contemporary nihilism\, and the “meaning crisis\,” among other things. Jared graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in 2018 with degrees in religion and Scandinavian studies and currently works for the Center for Process Studies\, the Cobb Institute\, and the Psychedelic Medicine Association. \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.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-explorations-2025-03-18/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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SUMMARY:Process Explorations: Kathleen Wakefield
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Songs “Planted in Clay” \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Kathleen Wakefield \n\n\n\nIn this session of Process Explorations\, Kathleen Wakefield shares her creative\, trans-disciplinary thinking in a program that promises to be evocative for poets and artists\, activists and philosophers alike. She will present “Songs ‘Planted in Clay\,’” a plea for the liberating and healing power of Whiteheadian metaphysics and poetry. This theme was her Springboard Project for the 2024 Certificate Program in Process Studies.Kathleen explores how the process of writing exemplifies Whitehead’s theory of prehensions and how poetry as an art form evoking the thickness of experience “embodies a protest against the ‘bifurcation’ of nature.” (PR 289) Poetry is gradually recognized as a form of earth speech\, aligning with Whitehead’s notion of a work of art as “a fragment of nature.” In the light of Process Thinking\, a family trauma is excavated through family letters which provide new lures for healing\, transformation\, and poetic expression. \n\n\n\nKathleen A. Wakefield is the author of two books of poetry\, Notations on the Visible World (Anhinga Press\, 2000)\, winner of the Anhinga Prize for Poetry\, and Grip\, Give and Sway  (Silver Birch Press\, 2016). She holds degrees from Mount Holyoke College (Chemistry) and the University of Michigan (History of Art). She  taught creative writing at the Eastman School of Music and the University of Rochester\, worked as a poet-in-the-schools\, and shares poetry through public libraries. Her work has appeared in numerous journals\, including the Alaska Quarterly Review\, Christian Century\, Georgia Review\, Poetry\, Sewanee Review\, and Visions International\, with work forthcoming in Half-Mystic and Amethyst Review. She serves on the leadership committee of the Cobb Institute Certificate Program. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo receive the Zoom info for this gathering\, click the Going button and enter your name and email. \n\n\n\n\n\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.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-explorations-2025-03-11/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Process Explorations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250215T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250215T163000
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SUMMARY:Memorial Service | John B. Cobb\, Jr.
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Process Studies is planning a public memorial for Dr. Cobb on Saturday\, February 15th\, 2025 at the Claremont United Church of Christ. The Service will run between 3:00pm – 4:30pm PST. We will also be livestreaming the memorial on YouTube. A reception will be held immediately after the service\, offering a time for fellowship and sharing memories of John. \n\n\n\n\nLearn More & RSVP
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/memorial-service-john-b-cobb-jr/
CATEGORIES:Memorial
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241217T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Sheri Kling
DESCRIPTION:Topic: A Season of Darkness and Light \n\n\n\nPresenters: Sheri D. Kling \n\n\n\nCosmologically\, this period of late fall marks the increase in hours of darkness until the winter solstice when the hours of light begin to make a return. Many religions have major holidays during this period. For some\, the period of darkness is not feared but is celebrated as a time of rest and renewal or of waiting in a kind of pregnant pause. Most celebrate the increase in light and see this turning of the season as the welcome return of the energies of rebirth and growth. \n\n\n\nIn this Cobb & Friends gathering\, Dr. Sheri Kling\, director of Process & Faith\, will introduce some of the major holidays in late fall and early winter\, noting their significance in each tradition. We’ll look at Diwali\, Advent\, Hanukkah\, St. Lucia Day\, Winter Solstice\, Christmas\, Epiphany\, Kwanzaa\, New Year’s Eve\, and Lunar New Year. \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. She is a theologian\, songwriter\, and spiritual mentor\, as well as 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. She regularly delivers dynamic “Music & Message” presentations to groups\, and offers courses\, concerts\, and spiritual retreats. She may be found online at sherikling.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo receive the Zoom info for this gathering\, click the Going button and enter your name and email. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you experience any difficulty with the RSVP\, please send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular announcements and updates about activities and events at the Cobb Institute\, please join our list of Friends. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our archive of Cobb & Friends recordings.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2024-12-17/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241210T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Jo Paz Dominguez
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Make Turtle Island Indigenous Again: Regenerating Land\, Identity\, and Community \n\n\n\nPresenters: Jo Paz Dominguez \n\n\n\nJo Paz (he/they) is an Indigenous community advocate\, organizer\, and trauma informed facilitator whose work is rooted in the belief that healing—both personal and collective—is a journey of interconnectedness. Guided by decolonial and regenerative principles\, Jo emphasizes relational well-being\, racial equity\, and hyperlocal\, place-based strategies that honor the wisdom of the land and community self-determination. \n\n\n\nJo summarizes the conversation they’ll have with Cobb and Friends this way:  \n\n\n\n\nWhat if the way forward is not forward at all\, but a turning back to the land\, to the stories it whispers\, and to the cracks in the systems that hold us captive? In this workshop\, we will lean into the wisdom of the Peoplehood Matrix and decolonial placekeeping\, unraveling how the entanglements of land\, language\, history\, and ceremony shape who we are and who we might yet become. This is not about fixing a broken world\, but about befriending its brokenness with compassion\, nurturing the soil of community\, and listening deeply to ancestral wisdom. Together\, we will name and weave our collective care\, dreaming strategies for liberation that honor the land\, disrupt the systems we inhabit\, and welcome the impossible. What does it mean to truly belong\, to truly thrive? Let’s ask the land—and each other. \n\n\n\n\nHere are a few links showcasing Jo’s engagement in community building in the Los Angeles area.  \n\n\n\n\nMeet the Outreach Workers Working to End Homelessness\n\n\n\nProtesters call on Garcetti to find shelter for 1\,000 homeless women\n\n\n\nEveryone In – Meet Elyse and Joseph\n\n\n\nL.A.’s homeless agency faces calls to dissolve ties with police\n\n\n\nOur Land\, Our Voice\n\n\n\nFirst Residential Community Land Trust Project in East Los Angeles\n\n\n\nCrenshaw Mall Redevelopment Plan Health Impact Assessment\n\n\n\nGreen Pets Program – Caring for Mother Earth\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. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our archive of Cobb & Friends recordings.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-2024-12-10/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241203T090000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: David Rosen\, Osman Örs\, and Sheri Kling
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Relational Abrahamic Faiths \n\n\n\nPresenters: David Rosen\, Osman Örs\, and Sheri D. Kling\, PhD \n\n\n\nSeveral locations around the world have taken concrete steps toward interreligious understanding and relationship by creating communities of faith that house all three Abrahamic traditions: Judaism\, Christianity\, and Islam. The House of One in Berlin\, Germany and the Abrahamic Family House on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi are two such communities. Each has its own unique way of approaching its mission. \n\n\n\nSeeking to learn more\, Sheri Kling\, director of Process & Faith\, reached out to invite a representative from each community to join her in this presentation to the Cobb & Friends gathering. Rabbi David Rosen and Imam Osman Örs readily agreed. They’ll share highlights and images from their communities and discuss the joys and challenges they’ve experienced. Dr. Kling will facilitate the conversation. \n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nDavid Rosen serves as Special Interfaith Advisor to the Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi. Rosen has been advancing understanding and good relations between religious communities for more than forty years – from the time he served as rabbi of the largest Orthodox Jewish congregation in South Africa\, during his tenure as Chief Rabbi of Ireland; and throughout the last more than thirty years based in Jerusalem. In addition to interreligious representation and education\, his work involves mediation and peace building and he is heavily involved in multi-religious engagement on ecological issues. Among the various awards and recognition he has received\, Rabbi Rosen was granted a papal Knighthood in 2005 for his contribution to Jewish-Catholic reconciliation and in 2010 he was made a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) by H.M. Queen Elizabeth II for his work promoting interfaith understanding and cooperation. \n\n\n\nOsman Örs holds a Masters Degree (M.A.) in Islamic Sciences\, Education\, and Anglistics from George-August University in Göttingen\, Germany. Since 2015\, he has worked as a theological advisor and imam at the House of One Foundation in Berlin. He also collaborates with Demokratie Leben in combating antisemitism and racism\, conducts educational workshops\, and addresses theological and liturgical aspects of interreligious unity at the House of One. In addition to his work at the House of One\, Osman Örs is involved in various community roles. He has been a member of the coordinating committee of the Berlin Forum of Religions since 2016 and is a charter member of the Council of Imams of Berlin since 2021. Osman Örs is committed to fostering interfaith dialogue and combating discrimination in Berlin’s religious communities. \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. She is a theologian\, songwriter\, and spiritual mentor\, as well as 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. She regularly delivers dynamic “Music & Message” presentations to groups\, and offers courses\, concerts\, and spiritual retreats. She may be found online at sherikling.com.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo receive the Zoom info for this gathering\, click the Going button and enter your name and email. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you experience any difficulty with the RSVP\, please send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular announcements and updates about activities and events at the Cobb Institute\, please join our list of Friends. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our archive of Cobb & Friends recordings.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-2024-12-03/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241126T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Tze-Ki Hon
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Yijing and Process Cosmology \n\n\n\nPresenters: Tze-Ki Hon \n\n\n\nDr. Tze-ki Hon\, a long-time scholar of contemporary interpretations and readings of the Yijing (The Changes in Our Times)\, was one of the lecturers at the recent celebration of the 100th anniversary of Alfred North Whitehead’s arrival at Harvard.  He will discuss with us the topic of that lecture\, “Yijing and Process Cosmology.”  \n\n\n\nDr. Hon currently serves as the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (UIC). After obtaining his bachelor’s degree from the University of Hong Kong\, he pursued further studies in the United States\, earning a master’s degree from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Over the past twenty-plus years\, he has taught at Hanover College in Indiana (1992-1996)\, SUNY Geneseo (1996-2016)\, and City University of Hong Kong (2017-2021). Professor Hon specializes in the study of the Yijing (I Ching)\, Chinese cultural history\, modern intellectual history\, and the transmission of Chinese classics to the West. He has published three books: The Yijing and Chinese Politics (2005)\, Revolution as Restoration (2013)\, The Allure of the Nation (2015); and co-authored Teaching the I Ching (Book of Changes) (2014) with Geoffrey Redmond\, which instructs Westerners on how to read the I Ching. He has also edited six volumes of collected papers\, including Confucianism for the Contemporary World (2017)\, Cold War Cities (2021)\, and The Other Yijing (2022). His papers appear in journals such as the Journal of Chinese Philosophy\, Modern China\, Monumenta Serica\, and the Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo receive the Zoom info for this gathering\, click the Going button and enter your name and email. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you experience any difficulty with the RSVP\, please send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular announcements and updates about activities and events at the Cobb Institute\, please join our list of Friends. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our archive of Cobb & Friends recordings.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2024-11-26/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241119T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Rolla Lewis and Mary Elizabeth Moore
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Cultivating Beloved Communities in Divided Times \n\n\n\nPresenters: Rolla Lewis and Mary Elizabeth Moore \n\n\n\nThe Cobb & Friends session will invite participants to reflect on their own lives and those of others in small groups and all together. We will especially focus on the presence of cosmic Life and its potential for cultivating beloved communities and the thriving of life in individuals\, local communities\, and the universe\, even in the hardest of times. \n\n\n\nThe two leaders of this session have long experience in leading reflective processes in groups seeking to know themselves and the world in a deeper way\, and to contribute to creative transformation. \n\n\n\nRolla Lewis is the primary leader. He is the 2024 Dean of the Cobb Institute Certificate Program and Professor Emeritus of Educational Psychology at California State University East Bay. He is author of Lifescaping Practices in School Communities and co-author of What Is the Color of Your Heart: A Humanist Approach to Diversity. Rolla identifies himself as an advocate in public education\, a builder of eco-relational understandings\, and a researcher seeking to enhance schools\, student learning\, and wellness. \n\n\n\nMary Elizabeth Moore is co-leader. She is Chair of the Cobb Institute and Dean Emerita and Professor Emerita of the Boston University School of Theology. Among her books are Teaching from the Heart\, Teaching as a Sacramental Act\, and a recent book of poetry\, So Much to Love\, So Much to Lose. Her passion is to work with others toward tikkun olam\, repair of the world.  \n\n\n\n* John B. Cobb\, Jr.\, “Cosmic life\,” in D. Bartosch\, A. Grandpierre\, and B. Peng (Eds.)\, Towards a philosophy of cosmic life: New discussions and interdisciplinary views (Singapore: Springer Nature 2023)\, 9-16. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo receive the Zoom info for this gathering\, click the Going button and enter your name and email. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you experience any difficulty with the RSVP\, please send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular announcements and updates about activities and events at the Cobb Institute\, please join our list of Friends. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our archive of Cobb & Friends recordings.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2024-11-19/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241112T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241112T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Certificate Program 2024 Commencement
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Certificate Program 2024 Commencement \n\n\n\nPresenters: Certificate Program Leadership\, Faculty\, and Participants \n\n\n\nSince its inception\, the Cobb Institute has provided a number of compelling and fascinating educational offerings. In our Learning Lab\, as we sometimes call it\, we’ve conducted a wide variety of experiments\, all with the aim of transforming education for ecological civilization. Whitehead once said\, “What education has to impart is an intimate sense for the power of ideas\, for the beauty of ideas\, and for the structure of ideas\, together with a particular body of knowledge which has peculiar reference to the life of the being possessing it.” As important as ideas are\, the impact they have on our lives is equally if not more vital. Indeed\, we offer an approach to learning that seeks to bring about transformations in both our students and the worlds they inhabit: from value-free research to personal growth; from isolated learners to learners-in-community; from attachment to dogmatic ideologies to openness to evidence; from gaining knowledge as mere data to knowledge as wisdom nourished by multiple ways of knowing; and from the primacy of analysis to the primacy of creative synthesis and embodied discovery. \n\n\n\nThe Cobb Institute’s most ambitious educational offering is the Certificate Program in Process Thought & Practice. The program provides an occasion for students to learn about the great diversity of process philosophies and the many ways in which those ideas can be expressed in everyday life. It begins with a general introduction to process thought and ends with an opportunity to creatively and concretely express what participants have learned. In between students participate in courses covering Whitehead’s philosophy of organism\, major religious traditions\, the complex landscape of ecological civilization\, and the relevance of Whitehead’s cosmology to the natural sciences. 15 students recently completed the 2024 program\, and for our gathering this week\, we will take a break from our usual format to host their commencement ceremony. During our time together\, we’ll hear from the program dean and the faculty members about their experience\, the graduates will each give a brief presentation on their capstone synthesis and springboard projects\, and we’ll take a brief look at what’s on the horizon for the 2025 program. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo receive the Zoom info for this gathering\, click the Going button and enter your name and email. \n\n\n\n\n\nIf you experience any difficulty with the RSVP\, please send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular announcements and updates about activities and events at the Cobb Institute\, please join our list of Friends. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our archive of Cobb & Friends recordings.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2024-11-12/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241105T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Layman Pascal
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Metamodern Spirituality and Archaic Futurism \n\n\n\nPresenters: Layman Pascal \n\n\n\nLayman Pascal is the facilitator of the Metamodern Spirituality Labs that last week’s guest\, Brendan Graham Dempsey\, hosts at Sky Meadow.  In May\, 2024 Layman curated an experiential\, interactive presentation on the topic of  “Archaic Futurism” for the ICON Conference in Denver. For our Cobb and Friends gathering\, he’d like to expand on this topic and bring it to a process-oriented audience. His presenter information for that conference describes him this way:  “Layman Pascal used to be a Canadian meditation teacher\, yoga instructor & philosopher of Integral Metatheory\, but he’s feeling much better now.”  He does things like: lead the Metamodern Spirituality Retreats\, host the Integral Stage podcast\, and provide unique online courses. Layman specializes in metashamanics\, the metaphysics of adjacency\, nondualist theology\, developmental theory\, sacred naturalism\, psychotechnologies\, and cultivating human religious instincts suited to a post-postmodern civilization facing numerous accelerating and converging crises. He is also the author of Gurdjieff for a Time Between Worlds: Hyperpersonal Essays on the Grandfather of Metamodern Spirituality\, published by Sky Meadow Press.  \n\n\n\nLayman has also conversed with/interviewed a number of important voices in our process community\, including Matt Segall and Andrew Davis.  A portion of our Cobb & Friends conversation will include a brief interview by Jared Morningstar\, Communications Director serving the Cobb Institute and the Center for Process Studies. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo receive the Zoom info for this gathering\, click the Going button and enter your name and email. \n\n\n\n\n\nIf you experience any difficulty with the RSVP\, please send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular announcements and updates about activities and events at the Cobb Institute\, please join our list of Friends. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our archive of Cobb & Friends recordings.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2024-11-5/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241022T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: David Korten
DESCRIPTION:Topic: For the Love of Life: Finding Our Way to an Ecological Civilization \n\n\n\nPresenters: David Korten \n\n\n\nDavid Korten’s website headlines “Humans are Earth’s ultimate choice-making species. Our decisions have defining consequences for the whole of Earth’s community of life.” In this season of elections\, he will join us and encourage us to make Life-loving choices that help us find our way to a future defined as Ecological Civilization. \n\n\n\nDavid C. Korten is an American writer\, lecturer\, engaged citizen\, student of psychology and behavioral systems\, a prominent critic of corporate globalization\, and an advocate of Ecological Civilization. He is founder and president of the Living Economies Forum and a full member of the Club of Rome\, a member of the International Advisory Council of the International Academy for Multicultural Cooperation\, and an Ambassador of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance. \n\n\n\nHe left a teaching position in the Harvard School of Business to work for thirty years with real-world solutions to economic development in Africa\, Asia\, and Latin America. Upon his return to the US he wrote When Corporations Rule the World\, his critique of a global economy that does not work for those most in need. It became an international best-seller.  See his website\, davidkorten.org\, for a list of the many books he has written to press for economic decision-making that serves life. Korten has been greatly influenced by the 1989 book by John B. Cobb and Herman Daly\, “For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community\, the Environment\, and a Sustainable Future.” John Cobb valued Korten’s participation in the 2015 conference in Claremont on Seizing an Alternative\, Ecological Civilization. \n\n\n\nCo-founder and former board chair of YES! Magazine (now YES! Media)\, he is the author of numerous influential books. A recent defining publication is “Ecological Civilization: From Emergency to Emergence.” He holds MBA and PhD degrees from the Stanford Graduate School of Business\, and served on the faculties of the Harvard Business School and Harvard School of Public Health. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo receive the Zoom info for this gathering\, click the Going button and enter your name and email. \n\n\n\n\n\nIf you experience any difficulty with the RSVP\, please send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular announcements and updates about activities and events at the Cobb Institute\, please join our list of Friends. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our archive of Cobb & Friends recordings.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-amp-friends-gathering-2024-10-22/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241015T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Sharon Delgado
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Divestment from Fossil Fuels as Climate Change Strategy \n\n\n\nPresenters: Sharon Delgado \n\n\n\nThe Reverend Sharon Delgado is a retired United Methodist pastor\, author\, and longtime activist and nonviolence practitioner\, whose introduction to John Cobb and process theology in the 1980s helped shape her theology and ministry. Sharon is Convener of Fossil Free UMC\, which advocates for the United Methodist Church to divest from fossil fuels. She is a member of the Coordinating Committee of the United Methodist Creation Justice Movement\, which works across annual conferences to coordinate actions related to creation justice. Sharon names the invisible powers that influence human behavior and that are embodied in today’s domination system\, and points in the direction of both personal and social transformation. Find out more and follow her blog\, Progressive Christian Social Action\, at sharondelgado.org.   \n\n\n\nSharon is author of Shaking the Gates of Hell (2007\, 2020)\, Love in a Time of Climate Change (2017) and The Cross in the Midst of Creation (2022). An updated Second Edition of Love in a Time of Climate Change will be released in the spring of 2025. The book is a Wesleyan approach to climate change\, which uses scripture\, tradition\, reason\, and experience to explore the issue. The inside cover of the first edition includes an endorsement by John Cobb\, who wrote: \n\n\n\n\n“Sharon Delgado makes it clear that we\, especially we who stand in the Wesleyan tradition\, cannot choose between being scriptural in the fullest sense and activity to save as much as possible from destruction through climate change. There is no tension between biblical preaching and preaching on the overwhelming\, life-determining issues surrounding climate change. Let’s stop hemming and hawing and work with God to save God’s creation.”  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo receive the Zoom info for this gathering\, click the Going button and enter your name and email.  \n\n\n\n\n\nIf you would like to receive regular announcements and updates about activities and events at the Cobb Institute\, please join our list of Friends. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our archive of Cobb & Friends recordings.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2024-10-15/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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