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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Lynn De Jonghe
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Raise Thriving Children in Turbulent Times: Start with Whitehead \n\n\n\nPresenter: Lynn De Jonghe \n\n\n\nDr.  Lynn De Jonghe’s 40-years of experience with progressive education and a long-time fascination with Whitehead and process thought have come together in a book to be published this spring by Rowan and Littlefield\, Starting with Whitehead: Raising Children to Thrive in Turbulent Times. This book offers examples of learning events at each stage of Whitehead’s rhythm of education—from romance to precision to generalization—that point the way for adults to help children thrive in a world of turbulent change. These events are presented in the richness of their unfolding context\, rather than as dry results of manipulating controlled variables. Dr. De Jonghe sets these exemplary events in a vigorous theoretical foundation and proposes specific strategies for success. Her recommendations have relevance not only for parents but also for teachers\, principals\, and educational policy makers.  \n\n\n\nLynn received her BA degree in History from Harvard University and a MS in Library Science from Simmons College before completing her PhD in Education at Cornell University.  She served as the founding Head of East Bay Sierra School\, a predecessor of Prospect Sierra School\, El Cerrito\, one of the preeminent schools in the San Francisco Bay Area.  She also served as Middle School Head of the Athenian School in Danville and Head of Windrush School in El Cerrito\, CA. Prior to her work in independent schools\, Lynn spent fifteen years in public education administering federal funds to innovative programs\, advocating for project learning as an alternative to textbooks\, and pushing for integration in Massachusetts schools.  \n\n\n\nLynn is a frequent participant in John Cobb & Friends discussions. A few members of our educational development team have previewed her presentation and heartily recommend that it be shared with the rest of us! Download a brief intro to Lynn and her presentation 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-2022-01-18/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220111T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220111T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - James Lawson
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Revolutionary Nonviolence: Organizing for Freedom \n\n\n\nPresenter: James Lawson \n\n\n\nRev. Dr. James Lawson will discuss Revolutionary Nonviolence: Organizing for Freedom\, the title of his book whose publication by University of California Press is dated February\, 2022. The book chronicles Lawson’s work as a trainer of students for lunch counter sit-ins and Freedom Rides during Civil Rights struggles of the 1960s\, as well as his work while pastor of Holman United Methodist Church in Los Angeles supporting worker and immigrant rights movements in Los Angeles.   \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-2022-01-11/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220104T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220104T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Cliff Cobb
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Restore Historical Consciousness \n\n\n\nPresenter: Cliff Cobb \n\n\n\nJohn Cobb’s son\, Clifford W. Cobb\, is editor-in-chief of American Journal of Economics and Sociology.  [He is also the son whose questioning in the summer of 1969 set John Cobb on the path summarized in his classic\, Is It Too Late? A Theology of Ecology (Fortress Press\, 2021 edition of editions published in 1972 and 1995)].  At the turn of the secular year\, Cliff will share John’s thoughts on the importance of “historical consciousness.” The concept has been important in many of John Cobb’s writings\, including in Living Options in Protestant Theology (Westminster\, 1962)\, A Christian Natural Theology (Westminster\, 1965; Westminster John Knox\, 2007); Christ in a Pluralistic Age (Westminster\, 1975); and most recently in a chapter bemoaning “The Fading of Historical Consciousness” in Salvation: Jesus’s Mission and Ours (Process Century Press\, 2020).  An article is being developed to explain what John Cobb means by the “Origins and Characteristics” of Historical Consciousness\, in which it is compared and contrasted to Scientific Rationalism.   \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-2022-01-04/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211221T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211221T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Christina Hutchins
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Varieties of Divine Enfleshment \n\n\n\nPresenter: Christina Hutchins \n\n\n\nDr. Hutchins was with us during Holy Week\, and she’s returning as we approach Christmas to share poetry on an incarnation theme. \n\n\n\nFind more about Christina Hutchins—prize-winning poet\, process philosopher/theologian\, teacher/workshop leader\, speaker/retreat facilitator—at her website. Here is an excerpt: \n\n\n\n“Christina lives in Albany\, California\, where she served as the first poet laureate\, teaches private workshops\, and offers individual craft consultations. She has worked as a biochemist\, a Congregational (UCC) minister\, and has taught process theology\, philosophies of beauty and critique\, and courses on poetry and theological imagination at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley. She holds a B.S. in Biochemistry from University of California at Davis\, an M.Div. from Harvard Divinity School\, and an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. While at Harvard\, she twice won the Billings Preaching Prize\, was named the top graduate as the Thayer Scholar of Divinity\, and was elected by her peers to deliver the graduation address.” \n\n\n\nExplore a treasure trove of her poems here. You might also check out Jay McDaniel’s podcast interview with this insightful poet/pastor/theologian. \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-2021-12-21/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211214T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211214T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Callid Keefe-Perry
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Engaging the Optative: Misplaced Concreteness\, Changing the Future\, and the Power of Imagination \n\n\n\nPresenter: Callid Keefe-Perry \n\n\n\nDr. Callid (rhymes with “salad”) Keefe-Perry is Assistant Professor of Contextual Education and Public Theology at Boston College’s School for Theology and Ministry. His teaching and research orbit around explorations of imagination\, spirituality\, and education as sites of individual and social formation. Before Keefe-Perry’s career in the academy\, he was a public school teacher and worked in leadership for several arts-based non-profits. He was the primary architect of the 2017 merger that became ARC: Arts | Religion | Culture. His first book\, Way to Water: A Theopoetics Primer\, details the academic history of the field of theopoetics\, arguing for its utility in contemporary Christian congregational life. Currently he serves as the assistant director of the Religion and Education Collaborative and is the Senior Editor for the Journal of the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies (ARTS). Confessionally\, Keefe-Perry’s outlook is greatly shaped by The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)\, especially streams of that tradition emphasizing Christocentric mysticism. He is a Member of Fresh Pond Meeting; a host of the worship experiment\, Three Rivers; and an endorsed public Traveling Minister within and beyond his denomination. \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-2021-12-14/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211207T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Celebrating the Gifts of John Gingrich
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Celebrating the Gifts of John Gingrich \n\n\n\nOn December 8\, 2020 we were shocked to learn of the untimely death of Dr. John Gingrich\, who served as Chairman of the Board in the Cobb Institute’s first year. We were blessed to have his leadership in formative stages of the Institute. This former student of John Cobb served the University of La Verne for 37 years—as Campus Minister\, then Department Chair and Division Chair\, Professor of Religion and Philosophy\, and from 1987 through 2004 as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. To access a brief video tribute scroll to the bottom of the webpage about Our Team. An obituary can be found here. With his wife Jacki Gingrich and others who knew him well\, we will celebrate John’s gifts of spirituality\, the arts\, and education\, all informed by process theology. \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-2021-12-07/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Elizabeth McAnally
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Loving Water Across Religions \n\n\n\nPresenter: Elizabeth McAnally \n\n\n\nElizabeth McAnally\, PhD is the author of Loving Water across Religions: Contributions to an Integral Water Ethic (Orbis Press\, Ecology and Justice series\, 2019). She lives in Berkeley\, CA\, and works as the newsletter editor and website manager for the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology. She also manages the websites for Thomas Berry and the Great Work\, Journey of the Universe\, the American Teilhard Association\, and the Institute for Religion and Science. Elizabeth earned her doctorate at the California Institute of Integral Studies\, and has taught classes on philosophy\, religion\, and environmental ethics at Pacifica Graduate Institute\, the University of North Texas\, the University of San Francisco\, and Diablo Valley College. She practices yoga and Chinese internal arts (taiji\, qigong\, bagua\, xingyi\, and yiquan) and teaches Integral Taiji & Qigong classes in Berkeley and online. Elizabeth is also an avid musician and enjoys singing and playing the flute. \n\n\n\nIn addition to the link to her book on this week’s topic\, she suggests you explore the following links:  \n\n\n\n“Loving Water Across Religions.” Spotlights interview with Sam Mickey. January 18\, 2021. “Integral Water Ethic.” Deep Water Initiative Podcast with Charlie Forbes. March 10\, 2019.Integral Taiji & Qigong classes and videos.\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-2021-11-30/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211123T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211123T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Sam Mickey
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Integrating Ecology and Justice in a Changing Climate \n\n\n\nPresenter: Sam Mickey \n\n\n\nDr. Mickey is adjunct professor of Religion and Philosophy at the University of San Francisco. He’s been studying ecological wisdom at the intersection of religion\, ecology\, and philosophy. He also has taught at Dominican University of California\, Pacifica Graduate Institute\, and the California Institute of Integral Studies. As a Research Associate for the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology\, he has worked with the Journey of the Universe project\, and he has done much editorial work. In 2020 he co-edited with Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing (Cambridge\, UK: Open Book Publishers; Download a PDF version here) He also edited Integrating Ecology and Justice in a Changing Climate (San Francisco: University of San Francisco Press\, 2020). You can listen to a recording of an October launch event for this book here. His book\, On the Verge of a Planetary Civilization: A Philosophy of Integral Ecology (Rowman & Littlefield International\, 2014)\, engages the process thinking of Whitehead\, Gilles Deleuze\, Catherine Keller\, and others. \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-2021-11-23/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Thomas Jay Oord
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Should Christians Be Compassionate if Their God Is Not? \n\n\n\nPresenter: Thomas Jay Oord \n\n\n\nThis is the topic of Dr. Oord’s presentation at last month’s virtual Parliament of World Religions. Although major Christian theologians say God has no emotions\, some admit that an emotionless God cannot be compassionate. But if Christians are to follow the biblical command to imitate God in love\, should they not be compassionate? Explore Christian views of divine compassion in light of the Christian tradition and open and relational theology. How can the Christian God be rightly thought of as compassionate? Can Christians imitate God by fighting climate change and acting with compassion for victims?   \n\n\n\nOord explores this in light of open and relational theology\, a subject of his recent book. Learn more at his website for the Center for Open and Relational Theology. For access to his latest essays\, blogs\, and multiple short podcasts\, see thomasjayoord.com. Oord 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-2021-11-16/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211109T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Damian Geddry
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Google My Soul: Reaching A New Generation of Spiritual Seekers \n\n\n\nPresenter: Damian Geddry \n\n\n\nDamian Geddry is a marketing professional who “stumbled into Claremont School of Theology and became fascinated by the disconnect between mainstream protestant churches and their communities.” He created a series of classes\, workshops and seminars that address the church disconnect by using research and marketing techniques. \n\n\n\nDamian Geddry cut his marketing teeth at Gray Advertising in New York\, one of the largest ad agencies in the world. He currently works in a Toyota digital ecosystem the intersection of advertising\, social media\, website\, CRM\, and search engine optimization. He explains why “nonprofit organizations—from mainline protestant churches to environmental groups—have a visibility challenge. They are often invisible to Google…and social media.” How can we listen before we speak? Research before we reach out? So\, can you Google your soul? Let’s talk about it! \n\n\n\nIn our conversation Paul Capetz\, pastor of Christ Church by the Sea\, a United Methodist church in Newport Beach\, will also share how he’s been applying what he’s learning from Damian.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access the gathering are made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to be added to our email list to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the Institute\, please click here.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2021-11-09/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Richard Rose & Jan Chase
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Parliament of World Religions \n\n\n\nPresenters: Richard Rose & Jan Chase \n\n\n\nRichard Rose and Jan Chase will share the way the Parliament of World Religions is enabling Healthy\, Compassionate Communities—Interfaithfully. They have both participated in several gatherings of the Parliament\, and they created presentations for the 8th Parliament\, held virtually October 16-18. Learn more about “The World’s Premier Interfaith Convening Organization” at the Parliament website.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access the gathering are made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to be added to our email list to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the Institute\, please click here.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2021-11-02/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211027T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211027T160000
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SUMMARY:Process Pop-Up: Can a Christian be a Buddhist\, too?
DESCRIPTION:What is a Process Pop-Up?\n\n\n\nProcess pop-ups are hour-long\, informal gatherings that “pop up” occasionally\, and are available to interested and curious minds.  They are exploratory and open-ended\, like process philosophy itself. Their subjects range from poetry to science\, theology to ecology\, music to biology. They are facilitated by Jay McDaniel and sponsored by the Cobb Institute. \n\n\n\nWhat is this Pop-Up about?\n\n\n\nOur question is: Can a Christian be a Buddhist\, Too? Process thought offers a unique way of understanding and appreciating Buddhist insights concerning impermanence\, the primacy of the moment\, inter-becoming\, no-self\, the listening side of love\, and the importance of mindfulness\, while also understanding and appreciating Christian understandings of God in Christ as a bodhisattva-like Great Compassion who loves each and all with a tender care that nothing be lost\, and the life of discipleship as one of practicing the presence of God in daily life. In this hour we will explore the possibility that\, with help from process theology\, a Christian can indeed be a Buddhist\, too. Our springboard for discussion and frame of reference will be Can a Christian be a Buddhist\, Too? on Open Horizons. \n\n\n\nWhen is this Pop-Up\n\n\n\nOctober 27th at 3:00 PM Pacific / 5:00 PM Central \n\n\n\nResources to Consider\n\n\n\nCan a Christian be a Buddhist\, Too?\, article on Open Horizons\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuddhism can help Christians become better Christians by helping them become better listeners\, more sensitive to the mutual becoming of all things\, more open to fresh possibilities (initial aims) for wisdom\, compassion\, and creativity in daily life. Yes\, Christians can be Buddhists\, too. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP to receive Zoom meeting information.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-pop-up-2021-10-27/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Pop-Up
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211026T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211026T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Ernie Tamminga
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Teilhard & Whitehead—A Dialogue \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Ernie Tamminga \n\n\n\nEarnie Tamminga has been a fan of Teilhard de Chardin for decades\, and he also participates regularly in living room dialogues with Whitehead scholar\, David Ray Griffin. Get a head start on the learning circle that Dr. Tamminga will be facilitating for the Cobb Institute next month on Teilhard’s classic work The Human Phenomenon. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access the gathering are made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to be added to our email list to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the Institute\, please click here.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2021-10-26/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211025T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211025T160000
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SUMMARY:Educational Development Meeting – Lynn De Jonghe
DESCRIPTION:We’re very excited that Lynn De Jonghe has agreed to join us this month to give a presentation on her forthcoming book\, Starting with Whitehead: Raising Children to Thrive in Treacherous Times\, to be published with Hamilton Books\, a subsidiary of Rowman & Littlefield.Dr. Lynn Sargent De Jonghe has had a career in progressive education that spans more than forty years. She served as the founding Head of East Bay Sierra School\, which later merged with another school to form Prospect Sierra School\, to become one of the preeminent schools in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to her work in independent schools\, Lynn spent fifteen years in public education administering federal funds to innovative programs\, advocating for project learning as an alternative to textbooks\, and pushing for integration in Massachusetts schools. She received her BA degree in History from Harvard University and a MS in Library Science from Simmons College before completing her PhD in Education at Cornell University. Her doctoral work on children’s problem solving led her to push for challenging educational programs that encourage all students to pursue learning in depth and to use problem solving skills\, collaborative learning\, and exploration of values in an integrated curriculum. More broadly she is committed to social justice\, to moving society from divisiveness to compassion\, and to saving the sentient and becoming-sentient life on our planet.We hope you can join us for what is sure to be a stimulating presentation by one of the process movement’s foremost experts on education. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access our events is made available via email. To find out about this event\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to be added to our email list to receive regular updates about the Institute’s activities\, please click here.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/event-educational-development-meeting-2021-10-25/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211019T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211019T120000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Mirian Vilela
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Earth Charter’s Gifts for the Planet \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Mirian Vilela \n\n\n\nSince 1996 Brazilian Mirian Vilelas has been working with the Earth Charter movement to promote the United Nations’ sustainability goals. She is now the Executive Director of the Earth Charter International Secretariat and the Center for Education for Sustainable Development at UPEACE. Earth Charter has produced many educational webinars in cooperation with EcoCiv and others. Learn more of Earth Charter’s work\, including the roll out of a new Human Development Index and preparations for the UN Climate Summit in Glasgow in November. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access the gathering are made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to be added to our email list to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the Institute\, please click here.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2021-10-19/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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