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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Ahmed Afzaal
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Teaching at Twilight – The Meaning of Education in the Age of Collapse \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Ahmed Afzaal \n\n\n\nDr. Ahmed Afzaal\, Associate Professor of Religion\, Concordia College in Minnesota\, will be discussing his soon to be published book\, expressing his concern about the values taught in our institutions of higher education. A native of Pakistan\, his approach to a process-relational way of thinking comes through his encounter with the thinking of Iqbal. He comes to us highly recommended by Marcus Ford\, who is engaged in an innovative model of higher education at Flagstaff College in Arizona. See Dr. Afzaal’s curriculum vitae here\, and also his article that caught the attention of Marcus Ford\, “Education in a Time of Collapse.” To see his website and find him through social media\, go here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-2022-08-30/
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Andrew Davis
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Ideas in Process–Ten Whiteheadian Transitions \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Andrew Davis \n\n\n\nDr. Davis\, Program Director of the Center for Process Studies\, is sharing a presentation he made for Tom Oord’s ORTCON conference in July. Andrew M. Davis is a philosopher\, theologian\, and scholar of world religions. He holds B.A. in Philosophy and Theology\, an M.A. in Interreligious Studies\, and a Ph.D. in Religion and Process Philosophy from Claremont School of Theology (CST). He is a poet\, aphorist and author or editor of four books including How I Found God in Everyone and Everywhere: An Anthology of Spiritual Memoirs (2018\, with Philip Clayton); Propositions in the Making: Experiments in a Whiteheadian Laboratory (2019\, with Roland Faber and Michael Halewood); Depths as Yet Unspoken: Whiteheadian Excursions in Mysticism\, Multiplicity\, and Divinity (2020\, with Roland Faber); and Mind\, Value\, and Cosmos: On the Relational Nature of Ultimacy (2020\, Lexington). For more about Andrew’s work and research interests\, visit his website at andrewmdavis.info. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-2022-08-23/
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Ben Bowler
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Networking Toward World Unity \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Ben Bowler \n\n\n\nSCobb and Friends regular Bill McLellan introduced us to Yanni Maniates\, Board Chair of Unity Earth\, who introduced us to Ben Bowler\, its Executive Director. Ben has agreed to join us at 3 a.m. Melbourne time for our 10 a.m. gathering with John Cobb and Friends! In October 2015\, at the Parliament of World Religions\, Ben launched 1GOD.com\, an online platform aimed at countering religious fundamentalism\, relativism and western materialism. Since then he has worked to build UNITY EARTH into a global platform that can support and empower the many grassroots movements working towards unity and peace in the world.  \n\n\n\nSee further information about Unity Earth and Ben Bowler here. Among the gifts brings to the table is his experience with aboriginal peoples in Australia. Ben suggests that you check out this YouTube explanation of 1God.com. Among their many projects are World Unity Week\, 99 Days of Peace\, and Universal Day of Peace. One of our Friends who has been much involved in the launch of the Living Earth Movement is Charles Betterton. (Read about his background at the LEM about page.) He will be able to launch our responses by sharing his experience with the kind of online networking that facilitates a Unity Earth perspective. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-2022-08-16/
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Pauline Doty
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Bringing Hope to Our Future \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Pauline Doty \n\n\n\nSince taking her first classes and practicums in pastoral care and counseling fifty years ago\, Pauline’s ministry has supported individuals and families as they deal with mental illness\, trauma\, loss\, and broken relationships. With the National Alliance on Mental Illness for 12 years\, she has provided leadership\, peer education\, and facilitation of weekly support groups. \n\n\n\nQuestions of faith about God and evil\, God and suffering\, confronted Pauline as a teen. She was raised in the Church of God (Anderson\, IN) and attended church often – Sunday morning\, Sunday evening\, and many Wednesday evenings. Her Dad coached his children in memorizing many chapters in the Bible. Her mother suffered with untreated depression and often wasn’t feeling well. Too often Pauline had very painful and angry encounters with her father. She was seriously seeking to follow Jesus\, and to surrender to God’s will for her life. During high school she had the support and gifts of a woman pastor who loved her\, and a caring church family. However\, at age 20 and a sophomore in college\, she suffered a mental breakdown with serious mental illness crisis. Acute schizophrenic episode was the initial diagnosis. \n\n\n\nWhen Pauline returned to campus after hospitalization and some months away\, she took courses in philosophy and theology. Learning about Whitehead and process philosophy with Delwin Brown\, along with a supportive community and psychotherapy\, enabled growth in her Christian faith perspective\, moving her to affirm a radical message of God’s redeeming love. No more sheep and goats to be separated at judgment day. All are sheep – beloved children of God! Just some are more seriously wounded “children” and needing more caring and healing relationships. \n\n\n\nPauline completed graduate degrees at Chicago Theological Seminary and Columbia Theological Seminary. In 1987 she completed her thesis: Responding to Persons in Despair: A Process Theology of Hope for Pastoral Care and Counseling. In Echoes of Mercy\, Whispers of Love: My Journey and A Theology of Hope (AuthorHouse 2010)\, and From Despair Into Healing: Workbook for Spiritual Change (AuthorHouse 2022)\, Pauline shares her process theology of hope as a framework for counseling despairing persons. Her faith perspective informs her spiritual care with persons on the healing and recovery journey. She believes this faith perspective can crucially enable resiliency when illness\, tragedy\, and loss strike again. Of her first book\, John Cobb has written\, \n\n\n\n“I am impressed by the sensitivity of her presentation of the ideas of Whitehead and others in his ‘process’ tradition. She represents this position with scholarly accuracy but also with literary skill and personal appropriation. Hence her work is of value not only to scholars but also more widely to a lay audience.”\n\n\n\nWith the rising numbers of children\, teens\, and adults experiencing serious depression and mental health issues\, including suicide attempts and suicide\, churches\, faith groups and communities are challenged to find answers and meaningful ways to “keep hope alive.” Pauline will share key themes from her Process Theology of Hope that were very important for her own recovery and healing and have informed and supported all of her pastoral care and counseling ministry. These themes are important for her in support groups\, coaching\, book events\, and workshops. She welcomes dialogue as we share together on August 9. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-2022-08-09/
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Thandeka
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Untrolling America: What Trump Gets Right and Democrats Get Wrong About White America \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Thandeka \n\n\n\nDonald Trump and the next generation of Trump politicians affirm what most white American voters feel: abused\, afraid\, outraged\, and neglected. And Trump politicians promise what these voters want: an end to their suffering. Presently\, most Democrats\, mainstream Republicans\, Black Americans\, liberals\, progressives\, and conservatives can’t parse the white suffering without distorting it and thus are clueless about how to end it. Thandeka calls the requisite new non-partisan work on white suffering  “Untrolling America” and will explain it in process terms\, advancing John Cobb’s interest in “process theology as political theology.” \n\n\n\nThandeka is the president and founder of  Love Beyond Belief™—a 501c3 education foundation designed to help clergy and laity\, activists and educators who use community-building processes to deepen connections that  heal and transform the world. To this end\, Love Beyond Belief™ offers workshops\, courses\, consultations\, educational resources and eventually certification programs that help persons practice the heart of compassion through small group spiritual practices that bolster and sustain their social justice and eco-justice work. Love Beyond Belief: Finding the Access Point to Spiritual Awareness (Polebridge Press\, MN\, 2018) is her constructive theological and neuroscientific framework for healing and transforming the world. In the foreword to this most recent book\, John Cobb wrote\, “Thandeka has written a book of rigorous scholarship\, brilliant original insight\, and great practical importance….Having read it\, I will never be able to think of my theological heritage in the same way again.”  \n\n\n\nThe name Thandeka\, which means “beloved” in Xhosa\, was given to her by Archbishop Desmond Tutu in 1984. Thandeka is the founder of Contemporary Affect Theology\, which investigates the links between religion and emotions using insights from affective neuroscience. Thandeka’s academic positions include a visiting scholar at the Center for Process Studies\, a fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center at Stanford University\, as well as positions at Harvard\, Brandeis\, and Andover Newton Theological School. Before receiving her PhD in philosophy of religion and theology from Claremont Graduate University\, she was an Emmy award-winning  television producer for 16 years. \n\n\n\nRead more about Thandeka at: https://revthandeka.org/. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-2022-07-12/
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Gao He Ran
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Learning to Befriend Nature in a Beijing Eco-Village \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Gao He Ran \n\n\n\nAn effective presenter at the recent Claremont Eco-Forum for a large audience in China and the US\, Gao He Ran will share her experience with the community of artists and educators who are part of the Beijing Eco-Village that is emerging around a school founded in the spirit of the Waldorf Schools movement. She is Founder and Coordinator of Earth Village Nature School\, in Xin Village\, Beijing. Among her many certifications\, she is certified by a German organization in “Forest and Nature Pedagogy.’ She will share her experience of nature education there and also some poetry. She has co-organized a global forum on Natural Capital and Green Investment\, and helped establish the DeTao Institute of Green Investment. In addition to her native Chinese\, Gao He Ran can also work with English\, Finnish\, and elemental German. You may explore her attached biodata. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-2022-07-05/
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Franklin Obeng-Odoom
DESCRIPTION:Topic: The Commons in an Age of Uncertainty: Decolonizing Nature\, Economy\, and Society \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Franklin Obeng-Odoom \n\n\n\nDr. Obeng-Odoom\, a native of Ghana\, is Associate Professor of Global Development Studies at the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science\, University of Helsinki in Finland. His topic is a book published in 2021 in which he applies the thought of Henry George to the economic concept of “the commons.” He will also share comments on his newest book\, Global Migration Beyond Limits: Ecology\, Economics\, and Political Economy (Oxford U Press\, 2022) and its relation to the book by John Cobb & Herman Daly\, For the Common Good (Beacon Press\, 1989\, 1994). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-2022-06-28/
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Kate Common
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Creating Community: Reimagining Sacred Origins and Utopic Destinations \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Kate Common \n\n\n\nDr. Kate Common is Visiting Assistant Professor of Practical Theology at the Methodist Theological School of Ohio\, serving as a Louisville Institute Postdoctoral Scholar. She comes to us highly recommended by Mary Elizabeth Moore\, former Dean of Boston University School of Theology\, who is fascinated by Dr. Cannon’s rethinking the nature of utopias\, based on archaeological discoveries related to Hebrew Bible stories in the time of the Judges. Dr. Common will be discussing her pending publication of Undoing Conquest: Hebrew Highland Settlements and the Theological Imagination. Her scholarly work is summarized in this curriculum vitae. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-2022-06-21/
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Michael Fricke and Lília Dias Marianno
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Jorge Pixley’s Liberating Process Theology – A Tribute \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Michael Fricke and Lília Dias Marianno \n\n\n\nDr. George Pixley is a Baptist missionary who taught biblical studies in seminaries in Nicaragua and Mexico City. (A brief biodata in Spanish can be found here.) He first encountered process theology through contact with Bernard Loomer at the University of Chicago. His retirement in Claremont\, California brought him close to the work of the Center for Process Studies\, which featured Pixley’s integration of biblical studies\, liberation theology\, and process theology for its Latin American Project. Pixley’s 2003 essay summarizes his thought. \n\n\n\nParticipating in the tribute to Dr. Pixley’s work will be Prof. Dr. Michael Fricke\, who holds the chair for Protestant theology with a focus on religious education and didactics of religious education at the University of Regensburg. Fricke wrote his dissertation on Pixley’s Bible interpretation in Nicaragua. Another participant will be Dr. Lília Dias Marianno\, Director of Eagle Gestão do Conhecim\, and educator at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. The event is organized by Ignacio Castuera\, long associated with John Cobb and the Claremont School of Theology. Dr. Pixley’s son Kevin will also participate. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-2022-06-14/
LOCATION:Online Event
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Dongwoo Lee
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Organic Panentheism: A Northeast Asian Lens on the Christian God \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Dongwoo Lee \n\n\n\nFresh from his successful Ph.D. dissertation defense at Claremont School of Theology\, Dr. Lee will prompt a conversation based on his integration of panentheist perspectives from Buddhism\, Confucianism\, and shamanism from Northeast Asia and beyond. He is the Korea Project Director for the Center for Process Studies and the Institute for Ecological Civilization. He is also currently serving as pastor of Pasadena Presbyterian Church (PCUSA). He got his Master of Divinity degree at San Francisco Theological Seminary. Follow Dr. Lee’s bilingual blog here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-2022-06-07/
LOCATION:Online Event
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Laura Burgis
DESCRIPTION:Topic: The Compassionate Cities Movement: A Next Step in Human Evolution \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Laura Burgis \n\n\n\nCurrently\, Dr. Burgis serves on the Charter for Compassion International Board of Trustees as its vice-chair. She can share how the Compassionate Cities Movement helps cities thrive through intentional compassion programs. Laura has a passion for cultivating human(e) approaches to leadership development and community evolution. Her current research interests focus on how exponential technologies like AI\, robotics and remote learning platforms can be applied to interpersonal landscape development and consciousness raising. She is also actively involved in the public banking movement and other socio-economic-ecological system wide collective impact initiatives\, working with cross-sector leadership in cities/universities. She is encouraging the city of Claremont (CA) to become a Compassionate City (following the precedent of its neighbors in Pomona and Upland). \n\n\n\nDr. Laura Burgis is president & CEO of the Human Values Center and works with Baltazar & Rose Corporation\, an LA based social enterprise supporting refugees and former gang affiliates with job training and love. She brings to us her 25-year career as an Associate Dean and professor at Arizona State University’s W. P. Carey School of Business\, where her expertise in Ethics in Education and Public Policy received special recognition. She came to Claremont in 2012 to serve as the founding Executive Vice President of Claremont Lincoln University\, a graduate institution focused on ethical leadership and social impact. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-2022-05-31/
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Isobel Zhang
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Process Philosophy and Me \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Isobel Zhang \n\n\n\nIsobel Zhang\, a Chinese educator and author\, is China director of ACTAsia\, an organization promoting nature education for children since 2006. She will share her personal journey\, including how the poetry of her teacher Bai Ya introduced her to process philosophy. A book she’s been working on since 2020\, Caring For Life: Education Based on Mental Model Improvement\, will be published in October. In it Zhang explains what she thinks about the support from process philosophy. She’s been involved in creating the first module for training teachers to encourage children to Care for Life with compassion and respect. Children’s books they have published in English and Chinese stress empathy and responsibility along with critical thinking. Series titles include Be Caring\, Be Kind\, Be Respectful\, Be Together. Browse the references to Isobel Zhang on the ACTAsia website\, which includes some of her earlier work on animal welfare concerns. She comes to us highly recommended by Dr. Zhihe Wang\, Director of the Institute for Postmodern China. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-2022-05-24/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Relating Psychedelics to Process Philosophy \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes \n\n\n\nWe host conversation with the author of his new book exploring the relation of psychedelics to metaphysics\, panpsychism\, and process thought more generally. He may also tell us about how that relates to the Exeter University Psychedelic Research Group. Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes is an Anglo-Scandinavian philosopher of mind who specializes in the thought of Whitehead\, Nietzsche\, and Spinoza\, and in fields pertaining to panpsychism and altered states of mind. Following his degree in Continental Philosophy at the University of Warwick\, he became a Philosophy lecturer in London for six years after which he pursued his PhD at The University of Exeter – where he is now a research fellow and associate lecturer. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-2022-05-17/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220510T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220510T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Celebrating Recent Developments at the Cobb Institute
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Celebrating Recent Developments at the Cobb Institute \n\n\n\nJoin us for a discussion about the latest developments and share some exciting announcements about what’s happening at the Institute. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-2022-05-10/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220503T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220503T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Jefferey Long
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Cosmic Pluralism: Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Swami Vivekananda’s Religion of the Future \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Jefferey Long \n\n\n\nJeffery D. Long is Professor of Religion and Asian Studies at Elizabethtown College\, in Elizabethtown\, Pennsylvania\, where he has taught since receiving his PhD from the University of Chicago Divinity School in 2000. He is the editor\, most recently\, of the volume Perspectives on Reincarnation: Hindu\, Christian\, and Scientific\, as well as the co-editor of the Buddhism and Jainism volumes of the Encyclopedia of Indian Religions. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-2022-05-03/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220426T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220426T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Maria Guadalupe Llanes\, Heeyoung Jung\, and Farhan Shah
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Contrasts and Commonalities across Cultures \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Maria Guadalupe Llanes\, Heeyoung Jung\, and Farhan Shah \n\n\n\nProcess thought has become important for Dr. Maria Guadalupe Llanes\, a Christian philosopher in Caracas\, Venezuela\, for Dr. Farhan Shah\, a Pakistani Muslim process philosopher teaching in Oslo\, Norway\, and for Heeyoung Jung\, a Korean Methodist working with EcoCiv Korea. As they share stories of their engagement with process-relational ways of thinking and being in their worlds\, let’s see what we will learn by the contrasts and commonalities across cultures. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-2022-04-26/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220425T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220425T160000
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SUMMARY:Educational Development Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Jay McDaniel\, Chair of the Cobb Institute Board\, will join us to discuss an exciting new project of the Institute’s education team. Join us to learn more about this new educational offering.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/educational-development-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Educational Development
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220419T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220419T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Ilia Delio
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Teilhard de Chardin as Process Thinker: Why We Can’t Stay Still and Neither Can God \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Ilia Delio \n\n\n\nTeilhard de Chardin was an insightful process thinker who developed insights on science and religion that are valuable for our age. His ideas on a metaphysics of union\, hyperphysics\, the physics of love and mindful materiality all play a role in the Godworld relationship. I will discuss Teilhard’s unique contribution to process thought in his notion of the Christic and the elusive Omega Point. \n\n\n\nIlia Delio\, OSF\, is a Franciscan Sister of Washington DC and holds the Josephine C. Connelly Chair in Christian Theology at Villanova Universe. She is the author of over twenty-three books including Making All Things New: Catholicity\, Cosmology and Consciousness\, a finalist for the 2019 Michael Ramsey Prize and The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God\, Evolution and the Power of Love\, for which she won the 2014 Silver Nautilus Book Award and a 2014 Catholic Press Association Book Award in Faith and Science. She is founder of the Center for Christogenesis\, an online educational resource for promoting the vision of Teilhard de Chardin and\, more broadly\, the integration of science and religion in the 21st century. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-2022-04-19/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220412T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - David Bartosch
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Culture as a Core Process of Human Cosmic Life \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): David Bartosch \n\n\n\nDr. Bartosch is a German philosopher serving as a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences at Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai\, where he focuses on transcultural comparative philosophy\, the traditions of world philosophy\, and intercultural studies. He has been recently engaged with John Cobb in lengthy discussion about an upcoming publication. Bartosch says\, “In this talk\, I will refer to a concept of culture (especially also ecology-related) which stands in relation to the philosophies of Whitehead and to Dr. Cobb’s comprehensive works. I will try to interweave this topic with the thoughts on cosmic life discussed with Dr. Cobb during our January online meeting. In relation to ideas about culture and (eco-)morality\, I might also refer to John Coltrane and Friedrich Schiller as case examples for artists’ thoughts on the subject matter.” \n\n\n\nHere is a link to a detailed list of Bartosch’s writings and television interviews. He discusses why a German scholar finds inspiration in ancient Chinese philosophy in brief excerpts from this television interview. A more extensive interview with the Chinese press\, about Wang Yangming as a reformer of Confucian tradition\, is available about 19 minutes into this YouTube video. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-2022-04-12/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220405T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220405T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Thomas Jay Oord
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Pluriform Love—A Theology of Well-Being \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Thomas Jay Oord \n\n\n\nFriend of Cobb Institute\, Tom Oord will discuss with us his latest book\, further exploring his “open and relational” theology of love. He defines love this way: “To love is to act intentionally\, in relational response to God and others\, to promote overall well-being.” An award-winning author\, he has written or edited more than twenty-five books. A gifted speaker\, Oord lectures at universities\, conferences\, churches and institutions. He is known for his contributions to research on love\, science and religion\, open and relational theology\, the problem of suffering\, and the implications of freedom for transformational relationships. Learn more at his website for the Center for Open and Relational Theology\, which he directs. He also is Director of an “open and relational” doctoral program at Northwind Theological Seminary. For access to his latest essays\, blogs\, and multiple short podcasts\, see thomasjayoord.com. \n\n\n\nOord completed his Ph.D. in religion at Claremont Graduate School under supervision of David Ray Griffin. He is an ordained elder in the Church of the Nazarene. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-thomas-jay-oord/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220329T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220329T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Sabeeha Rehman and Walter Ruby
DESCRIPTION:Topic: We Refuse to Be Enemies! \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Sabeeha Rehman and Walter Ruby \n\n\n\nWe Refuse to Be Enemies: How Muslims and Jews Can Make Peace\, One Friendship at a Time (Arcade\, 2020) is a manifesto by two American citizens\, a Muslim woman and Jewish man\, concerned with the rise of intolerance and bigotry in our country along with resurgent white nationalism. Together\, Rehman and Ruby have spent decades doing interfaith work and nurturing cooperation among communities. They have learned that\, through face-to-face encounters\, people of all backgrounds can come to know the Other as a fellow human being and turn her or him into a trusted friend. In this book they share their experience and guidance.  \n\n\n\nGrowing up in Pakistan before she immigrated to the United States\, Sabeeha never met a Jew\, and her view was colored by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In his youth\, Walter never met a Muslim\, and his opinion was shaped by Leon Uris’s Exodus. Yet together they have formed a friendship and collaboration. Tapping their own life stories and entering into dialogue within the book\, they explain how they have found commonalities between their respective faiths and discuss shared principles and lessons\, how their perceptions of the Other have evolved\, and the pushback they faced. They wrestle with the two elephants in the room: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and polarizing material in their holy texts and history. And they share their vision for reconciliation\, offering concrete principles for building an alliance in support of religious freedom and human rights. \n\n\n\nTo explore further the experience out of which Sabeeha and Walter write\, check out their author profile and a YouTube discussion for the Central Arkansas Library System; an event announcement for the Beacon Hebrew Alliance\, and this article in the Jewish Standard. You can follow Sabeeha Rehman’s blog here\, and Walter Ruby’s “Keeping Hope Alive” blog here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-2022-03-29/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Ronan Hallowell
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Story of Wholeness: Community\, Communion and Narrative Medicine \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Ronan Hallowell \n\n\n\nMany of today’s catastrophes emerge from a profound problem of fragmentation that has infected modern thought and culture(s) – at least since the dawn of the Newtonian-Cartesian cosmology. The deep alienation characteristic of the modern world is rooted in a pathological story that yields a distorted view of the human relationship to the natural world. As Thomas Berry has argued\, we need to retire these distorted\, pathological stories and embrace the Great Story of the Universe. The Great Story is a multivalent story of wholeness and relationality.  \n\n\n\nThis talk will discuss how stories of wholeness are emerging in contemporary allopathic medicine through the acknowledgement of the need for community and health justice\, the healing potential of ‘communion’ experiences occasioned by psychedelic medicines and attention to the power of story that is emphasized in narrative medicine\, a new field of study in medicine and the medical humanities. \n\n\n\nRonan Hallowell\, EdD\, MA\, is assistant professor of medical education at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California where he serves as Director of the Health Justice and Systems of Care longitudinal MD course\, Associate Director of the USC Center for Mindfulness Science\, and faculty in the M.S. program in Narrative Medicine. He has been a student of integral philosophies\, the world’s wisdom traditions and Lakota medicine ways for over 25 years. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-2022-03-22/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Richard Falk
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Making Ecocide a Crime \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Richard Falk \n\n\n\nIn 1973 Professor Falk drafted an Ecocide Convention\, explicitly recognizing at the outset “that man has consciously and unconsciously inflicted irreparable damage to the environment in times of war and peace.” In 2021 he served as a judge for the International Rights of Nature Tribunal\, seeking accountability for damage to aquatic ecosystems in Europe. (Check out this June\, 2021\, legal definition of “ecocide.”) \n\n\n\nRichard Falk is a professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University where he was a member of the faculty for 40 years. He currently is a Professor of Global Law\, Queen Mary University London. Falk has been nominated annually for the Nobel Peace Prize since 2009. He is the Senior Vice President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and between 2008-2014 served as UN Special Rapporteur for Occupied Palestine. \n\n\n\nOf the 20 books he has authored and another 20 he has edited\, friends of John Cobb may remember Falk’s editing with David Ray Griffin of Postmodern Politics for a Planet in Crisis: Policy\, Process\, and Presidential Vision (SUNY\, series in Constructive Postmodern Thought\, 1993)\, and his more recent co-authorship with Griffin\, John B. Cobb\, and Catherine Keller of The American Empire and the Commonwealth of God: A Political\, Economic\, Religious Statement (Westminster/John Knox Press\, 2006). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-2022-03-15/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Dhawn Martin
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Process\, Interfaith Dialogue\, and Fostering Compassionate Cities \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Dhawn Martin \n\n\n\nDhawn B. Martin\, Ph.D.\, is Executive Director of the Source of Light Center\, an interfaith education center at University Presbyterian Church\, San Antonio\, TX. A graduate of Wellesley College (B.A.)\, Durham University\, UK (M.A.)\, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary (M.Div.)\, and Drew University (Ph.D.)\, her areas of academic interest include\, public theology and civic engagement\, process and political theologies\, and multireligious dialogue. Courses taught include: “Power\, Peace\, and Love: Alternative Political Paradigms\,” “Utopian Worlds\,” Contemplation and Social Action\,” and “Religion in a Global Context.” She is an ordained Teaching Elder in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and a co-editor of the volume Ecological Solidarities: Mobilizing Faith and Justice for an Entangled World. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-2022-03-08/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220301T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220301T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - John Perkins
DESCRIPTION:Topic: What the Economic Hit Man Has Learned from Indigenous People \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): John Perkins \n\n\n\nJohn Perkins\, New York Times bestselling author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman\, and co-founder of the Pachamama Alliance\, will share what he’s learned in his world travels about the impact of our global economic dominance on indigenous peoples\, and what we can learn from them about “a world that works for everyone.” You can subscribe to his newsletter at johnperkins.org. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-2022-03-01/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220222T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220222T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Carol Frances Johnston
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Regenerative Agriculture: Far Superior to Industrial Ag \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Carol Frances Johnston \n\n\n\nCarol Frances Johnston\, Associate Professor Emerita of Theology and Culture\, taught environmental theology and ethics at Christian Theological Seminary\, Indianapolis\, for 29 years. She has worked for eco-justice for over thirty years\, including serving on the original Eco-justice Task Force of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and locally on the board of Growing Places Indy. She is also a Research Fellow of the Institute for Postmodern Development of China. Most recently she served as an advisor for the documentary\, “Courage\, Brains\, and Muscle: Indiana’s Environmental Champions.” \n\n\n\nJohnston will be augmenting a presentation she made in September\, 2020 at the World Rural Revitalization Conference in Shanxi\, China. She is the author of the booklet\, “And the Leaves of the Tree are for the Healing of the Nations: Biblical and Theological Foundations for Ecojustice” (available here)\, and of The Wealth or Health of Nations: Transforming Capitalism From Within\, which was recently published in Chinese. She has taught adult-education courses in a wide variety of churches and lectured as far afield as Singapore on issues of economics and environment\, including Whitehead and economics\, justice\, the Bible and nature\, and the public roles of churches. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-2022-02-22/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Matt Segall
DESCRIPTION:Topic: The Cosmological Context of the Origin of Life \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Matt Segall & Bruce Damer \n\n\n\nWhat is life? How did it originate? Scientific study of the origins of life bumps up against the need for new paradigms of relating what we can learn from typical scientific method\, to what we can learn from philosophical reflection in search of new paradigms. Process philosopher Matt Segall (chair of the Cobb Institute Science Advisory Team) and origin of life scientist Bruce Damer have co-written a paper that will be presented later this spring at a conference sponsored by the Center for Process Studies. Matt and Bruce will lead our exploration of their paper titled\, “The Cosmological Context of the Origin of Life: Process Philosophy and the Hot Spring Hypothesis.” Did life emerge in a hot spring? Segall and Damer dynamically integrate the metaphysical and the empirical aspects of this research exploration. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-matt-segall/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220208T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Birthday Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Celebration of John Cobb’s 97th Birthday \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Rebecca Parker\, Mary Elizabeth Moore\, Andrew Schwartz\, and Rita Nakashima Brock \n\n\n\nRebecca Parker will guide us in a celebration of John Cobb’s 97th birthday\, and he has given to us and the world. Mary Elizabeth Moore\, Andrew Schwartz\, and Rita Nakashima Brock and some folks from China will share tributes.  Rebecca Parker will interview John\, “What Have You Learned by Getting Old?”  Open mike time will give John’s Friends a chance to make one or two minute appreciations.  (If you’d like to reserve a space in the queue\, send a note to John.Fahey@Cobb.Institute with “Cobb Tribute” in the Subject Line.)  There will also be time for spontaneous contributions during the morning.  There will be music\, and Christina Hutchins is preparing a poem for the occasion. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-birthday-celebration/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220201T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Process and China
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Process and China: How Lives Are Being Changed \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Jay McDaniel\, Meijun Fan\, Zhihe Wang\, and others \n\n\n\nJay McDaniel\, Professor Emeritus of World Religions\, Hendrix College\, will facilitate the sharing of stories from Zhihe Wang\, CEO of the Institute for Postmodern Development of China\, and Meijun Fan\, Program Director for IPDC. They will explore the personal side of their work in China. They will relate their personal experiences as Chinese and Americans for whom their work through the Institute for Postmodern Development of China has been making a difference. Among the Americans who have also agreed to share stories from their interactions in China are Paul Bube\, Kevin Clark\, Angela Donnelly\, and Pat Delaney. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-process-and-china/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220125T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - David Korten
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Ecological Civilization: How John Cobb Shaped My Life’s Work for Three Decades \n\n\n\nPresenter: David Korten \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. His life work builds on lessons learned from the 21 years he and his wife\, Fran\, lived and worked in Africa\, Asia\, and Latin America on a quest to end global poverty. This informed the next phase of his life\, writing and organizing to call attention to the way our current economic paradigms are devastating the planetary life systems on which our lives depend. He urges us to read his “white paper” that summarizes what he’s learned. \n\n\n\nHere are some links to prepare for our conversations: \n\n\n\n“Ecological Civilization: From Emergency to Emergence”—David Korten’s “white paper\,” a Club of Rome publication. (A detailed list of his writings is on p. 21.)Check out a video affirmation of Korten’s white paper by physicist Fritjof Capra\, author of The Systems View of Life“What an Ecological Civilization Looks Like”—Yes! magazine editor Zenobia Jeffries Warfield interviews David Korten for the 25th Anniversary edition (Spring\, 2021)\, focused on “Ecological Civilization.”Find David on Facebook\, Twitter\, and his website\, davidkorten.org.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the 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-2022-01-25/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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