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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Bruce Epperly
DESCRIPTION:Topic: The Bible in Process Perspective: Learning from Stories \n\n\n\nPresenters: Bruce Epperly \n\n\n\nJoin our conversation with Dr. Bruce Epperly\, seminary teacher\, pastor\, lectionary commentator\, and prolific author of over sixty process-themed books. On his personal website he says\, “Process theology is an adventure of ideas\,” and “The Bible is an adventure book.” See his current Adventurous Lectionary blogs for Patheos\, or his archive of lectionary commentaries for Process & Faith. What follows is further information Dr. Epperly has shared with us. \n\n\n\nBruce Epperly served over forty years as a university chaplain\, congregational pastor\, seminary administrator\, and university and seminary professor. Prior to concluding his full-time ministry at South Congregational Church\, UCC\, Barnstable\, Massachusetts in 2021\, Bruce served in various administrative and academic roles at Lancaster Theological Seminary\, Wesley Theological Seminary\, Claremont School of Theology\, and Georgetown University. Bruce is the author of over seventy books in theology\, spirituality\, healing and wholeness\, scripture\, and clergy wellbeing\, including The Elephant is Running: Process and Open and Relational Theology and Religious Pluralism; The Jubilee Years: Embracing Clergy Retirement; A Center in a Cyclone: Twenty-first Century Clergy Selfcare;  Francis of Assisi: From Privilege to Activism; Mystics in Action: 12 Saints for Today; Prophetic Healing: Howard Thurman’s Vision of Contemplative Activism; 101 Soul Seeds for Grandparents Working for a Better World; and 101 Soul Seeds for a Joyful Retirement. His latest books are Taking a Walk with Whitehead: Meditations on Process Theology and Process Theology and the Revival We Need. He currently is working on manuscripts related to Teilhard and Whitehead and the importance of progressive/process-relational Christianity in saving the soul of the nation and planet. \n\n\n\n In “retirement\,” Bruce describes his life as spacious\, meaningful\, and busy enough. His days are filled with writing\, preparing for classes and talks\, walking\, watching British mysteries\, and spending time with his wife Kath and his grandchildren who live in the neighborhood. He wakes up eager at 4:30 a.m. for today’s holy adventure\, which always includes an afternoon nap!  On occasion\, he even does part-time ministry for congregations\, focusing on theological reflection\, preaching\, teaching\, and reviving congregation’s spirits. \n\n\n\n  \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.
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: John Becker
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Babbling on About Pluralism \n\n\n\nPresenters: John Becker \n\n\n\nToday’s title is taken from a chapter Dr. Becker wrote in the book he co-edited with Marc A. Pugliese\, Process Thought and Roman Catholicism: Challenges and Promises. Becker\, a Research Fellow of the Institute for Postmodern Development of China\, has accompanied John Cobb to China. He is newsletter editor and board member of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies. He earned a Master’s degree in Historical Preservation at CalPoly Pomona\, and a Ph.D. in philosophy and religious studies from the Claremont School of Theology. He has taught courses at Loyola Marymount College\, University of the West\, and most recently at Lyon College\, where he has been Assistant Professor of Philosophy. (At his LinkedIn page scroll to his posts about the skateboarding course this Southern California native taught in the Arkansas school.) His research interests are broad\, including Buddhist-Christian studies\, eco-theology\, process philosophy\, and religious pluralism. He was honored to receive the 2017 Young Scholar Award of the International Process Network. Becker’s lecture at the 50th Anniversary Conference of the Center for Process Studies in the section “Beyond Dialogue and Deep Religious Pluralism” is available at this YouTube link. \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-2023-06-27/
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Kathleen Wakefield
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Awakening Our Deep Earth Connections by Reading Poetry in Community \n\n\n\nPresenters: Kathleen Wakefield \n\n\n\nKathleen A. Wakefield\, a frequent participant in our Cobb & Friends conversations\, is skilled in creating poetry and in engaging others in the poetry experience.  She describes her time with us as    \n\n\n\n“Awakening Our Deep Earth Connections: how reading poetry in community inspires loving attentiveness to the natural world and each other.”  She invites us into this experience. \n\n\n\nPoetry is a deeply embodied art rising from the rhythms of breath\, the senses\, and the emotional and spiritual memories our bodies hold. Its music and image-making qualities are uniquely suited to expressing how our lives are bound up with the earth’s body\, attuning us to the sacred web of relationships of which we are a part. Poetry voices grief for the wounding of our home\, while also nourishing us as we seek to heal our relationship and move forward. Reading poems in community can be a transformative process as we share perceptions\, “ah-has” of insight\, and life experiences; the self is excavated at the same time surprising connections are made to the seeming “other\,” human and nonhuman. Our world is enlarged\, our compassion stirred.   \n\n\n\nKathleen A. Wakefield is the author of two books of poetry\, Notations on the Visible World (Anhinga Press\, 2000)\, which won the Anhinga Prize for Poetry\, and Grip\, Give and Sway (Silver Birch Press\, 2016). She has taught creative writing at the Eastman School of Music\, worked as a poet-in-the-schools\, and she shares poetry through public libraries. Her work has appeared in numerous journals\, including the Alaska Quarterly Review\, Christian Century\, Georgia Review\, Poetry\, Sewanee Review\, and Visions International. \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-2023-06-20/
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Merlin Sheldrake\, with Matt Segall
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds \n\n\n\nPresenters: Merlin Sheldrake & Matt Segall \n\n\n\nMerlin Sheldrake is a biologist and author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds\, Change Our Minds\, and Shape Our Futures\, a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller\, and winner of the Royal Society Book Prize and the Wainwright Prize. Matt Segall\, the Cobb Institute’s Science Advisor\, says of Sheldrake’s work: “He encourages us to wonder how our scientific image of nature would be transformed by the adoption of mycelial rather than mechanical metaphors.” Segall will continue the dialogue about Whitehead/process thought’s relevance to mycology and biology more generally. See this blog post for a sense of what Matt and Merlin have already explored: https://footnotes2plato.com/2021/09/27/towards-a-mycological-metaphysics/. Merlin’s presentation on this topic at the 50th Anniversary Conference of the Center for Process Studies has been posted to YouTube.  \n\n\n\nMerlin received a Ph.D. in tropical ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama\, where he was a predoctoral research fellow of the Smithsonian Tropical Research institute. Merlin is a research associate of the Vrije University Amsterdam\, and works with the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks and the Fungi Foundation. Learn more at his website. Matt is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy\, Cosmology\, and Consciousness program at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco\, CA (CIIS.edu). He has published articles on a wide-array of topics\, including metaphysics\, Gaia theory\, religious studies\, psychedelics\, and architecture. He also blogs regularly at footnotes2plato.com.   \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-2023-06-13/
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: David Schwerin
DESCRIPTION:Topic: My 20 year Spiritual Adventure in China \n\n\n\nPresenters: David Schwerin\, with responses by Zhihe Wang and Meijun Fan. \n\n\n\nDavid Schwerin comes highly recommended by Zhihe Wang and Meijun Fan. He has shared with the Institute for Postmodern Development of China his business acumen and wise counsel\, having been credentialed with an MBA in Finance (Bucknell) and a Ph.D. in religion (Temple).  David has over thirty years of business experience\, beginning as a financial analyst and senior investment officer with a large bank. He founded D J Investment Advisors\, Inc. and has served as its President since 1976.  Explore his website\, www.consciousthinking.com\, for “Speaking” and “Writing” primarily focused on his initial work in China on Socially Responsible Business. (Now it’s referred to as Corporate Social Responsibility\, CSR\, or most recently Environmental\, Social and Governance\, ESG.) \n\n\n\nSchwerin is author of Conscious Capitalism: Principles for Prosperity (Butterworth-Heinemann 1998) which has been translated into Portuguese and Chinese and is in its second printing in China.  John Cobb praised Schwerin’s book Conscious Globalism: What’s Wrong with the World and How to Fix It (Digital Junction Press\, 2005):  “David Schwerin is doing great work in reminding the business community of its enormous responsibilities. Economic globalization has given corporations great freedom; hence\, much depends on how they use it. Those who read Conscious Globalism will have their tendencies to conscientiousness and inclusive concern strongly reinforced.”  Conscious Globalism was published in China in October 2005.  \n\n\n\nSchwerin says\, “Because some authorities in China have misgivings about the word ‘Spiritual’ and what it entails\, I have purposely limited the spiritual aspects of my work on my website. That said\, I have spent many years working to introduce a spiritual path to China. It is called Pathwork and is based on Mystery School teachings that are thousands of years old. It consists of 258 lectures that were channeled over a 20-year period and are psycho-spiritual in nature. These profound teachings are drawn from ancient wisdom from both the East and West.”  See his current blogs at https://www.speakingtree.in/david-schwerin/blogs.  See also his most recent book\, co-authored with Diana Muenz Chen\, titled Know Your Soul: Bring Joy to Your Life. It will help you understand the term Soul as he understands it. \n\n\n\n   \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.
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Eugene Shirley & Friends
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Pando: Leveraging Society’s Pillars for Change! \n\n\n\nPresenters: Eugene Shirley & Friends \n\n\n\nEarth’s largest organism\, Pando the Tree\, inspired graphics for the 2015 Claremont Conference\, “Seizing an Alternative.”  Pando the organization is a “non-profit producer of educational programs for civic engagement with the end goal of building a more sustainable California Southland.”  Eugene Shirley\, Founding President of Pando\, has rounded up a talented crew to creatively engage folks in Los Angeles County in aiming for its ambitious sustainability goals.  The CSO Strategic Task Force brings together Chief Sustainability Officers from government\, higher education\, business\, and NGOs to focus on the common good of strengthening community resilience in Los Angeles County.   \n\n\n\n         Heidrun Mumper-Drumm\, head of the CSO Task Force\, will join our conversation\, along with John B. Cobb\, Jr.\, Pando’s Founding Board Chair\, and Vice-Chair Ed Bacon\, former long-time pastor of Pasadena All Saints Episcopal Church.  A brief documentary film by award-winning Lyn Goldfarb will be shared during the presentation. \n\n\n\n          Conversation will focus on the traditional pillars of civil society and how we can utilize them to bring about change.  How do we involve education\, faith institutions\, professional organizations and others in a broad ambition to create the more ecologically balanced and socially just environment that the LA County sustainability plan\, integral ecology\, etc. envision?  Additionally\, what is the role for public agencies?  Pando is building a unique model in Pando Days\, Magenta House\, and the CSO Taskforce that we’ll explore as specific test-cases.   \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-2023-05-30/
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki
DESCRIPTION:Topic: 21 Psalms for the 21st Century \n\n\n\nPresenters: Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki \n\n\n\nNoted process theologian Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki shares wisdom gained from her spiritual practice of reading and re-reading the Psalms during the days of pandemic. In process-relational meditations\, she shares her journey\, and she also includes contemporary psalms by Blair Gilmer Meeks. See the Process Century Press website for a description of her recently published book\, featuring 21 Psalms\, of warning\, yet an on-going source of hope. Dr. Suchocki has had a long-time association with John Cobb\, having been his student at Claremont Graduate School. She was founder of the (Whitehead) Common Good Film Festival\, and Co-director Emerita of the Center for Process Studies. The Cobb Institute Educator’s Toolbox includes a ready to share slideshow summarizing Suchocki’s approach to Christian Process Theology  Access the Center for Process Studies bibliography of her books\, articles\, and videotapes\, and see her detailed biodata and major publications here.   \n\n\n\nBlair Gilmer Meeks\, past editor of Liturgy\, the quarterly journal of The Liturgical Conference\, writes and lectures on worship and preaching for Abingdon Press and The Upper Room. She was acting coach in the chancel drama program at the Center for Arts and Religion\, Wesley Theological Seminary.  \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-2023-05-23/
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Thomas Jay Oord
DESCRIPTION:Topic: The Death of Omnipotence and the Birth of Amipotence \n\n\n\nPresenters: Thomas Jay Oord \n\n\n\nTom Oord has been a frequent guest presenter with Cobb & Friends. A student of David R. Griffin\, Oord earned a Ph.D. at Claremont Graduate University. He will discuss his latest book\, The Death of Omnipotence and Birth of Amipotence. Respondents will bring multiple faith perspectives to bear on the conversation. A Buddhist perspective will be brought by Jay McDaniel\, Professor of World Religions Emeritus\, Hendrix College. He is currently board chair of the Cobb Institute.  An Islamic perspective will be shared by Adis Duderija\, Senior Fellow\, Centre for Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue\, Griffith University\, Brisbane\, Australia. Mary Elizabeth Moore\, Vice-chair of the Cobb Institute board\,Dean Emerita and Professor of Theology and Education\, Boston University School of Theology\, will bring a Christian perspective. \n\n\n\nThomas Jay Oord is a theologian\, philosopher\, and scholar of multi-disciplinary studies. He is an award-winning author or editor of more than thirty books and an award-winning professor. He directs the Northwind Theological Seminary doctoral program in Open and Relational Theology and the Center for Open and Relational Theology. He is known for his contributions to research on love\, open and relational theology\, issues in science and religion\, and freedom for transformation. Oord has been president of several scholarly societies\, and he lectures at institutions\, events\, and churches around the globe. Find a detailed bio here. He blogs frequently at his website: http://thomasjayoord.com \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-2023-05-16/
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: John Cobb
DESCRIPTION:Topic: CONFESSIONS \n\n\n\nPresenters: John Cobb \n\n\n\nAnother book by John Cobb\, Confessions\, has been published this spring in the “Theological Explorations” series by Process Century Press. Dr. Cobb says in his preface\, “Before I died I wanted to write once to state\, if only for myself\, what I really feel most keenly about\, without worrying about whom I might offend. . . .I have felt called by Jesus’ Abba to do what I could for the healthy survival of the biosphere and for an ecological civilization for humanity.” He asks how\, as a disciple of Jesus\, we resist self-destructive planning toward nuclear holocaust and planetary destruction. \n\n\n\n The first six chapters articulate commitments we need to gain from Jesus–loving enemies\, loving Jesus’ Abba\, serving Abba rather than money\, opening science to wider truth\, loving ‘the least of these’ (including non-humans)\, and finding Jesus’ proclamation of the baseileia tou theou in the quest for ecological civilization. The next chapters aim to overcome the Western Worldview by “thinking historically\,” assisted by Alfred North Whitehead’s “Inclusive Vision.” Specific attention is given to what we can do in the United States\, especially in our Foreign Policy. Americans can “learn the truth” and “challenge the goal” of US global domination. He closes the book with reflection on “The Gender of God and the Role of Women in the Church.”  \n\n\n\nJohn invited the Rev. Bonnie Tarwater to write a final chapter\, “Can Women Save Discipleship to Jesus?” An Appendix provides specific suggestions for “Guidelines for Earth Crisis Support Groups.” Drawing from her experience in Twelve-Step programs\, Pastor Bonnie extends “an invitation to you to begin a group for sharing the truth of our interconnected lives.” \n\n\n\nBonnie Tarwater\, pastor of Church of Our Common Home\,  and Jeanyne Slettom\, publisher of Process Century Press\, will be available to join our conversation with John Cobb about his Confessions.  Read the book\, or at least scan the table of contents and preface\, and come prepared to “Ask Dr. Cobb” and to reflect on your own “confessions.” \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-2023-05-09/
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Meijun Fan
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Cobb & China \n\n\n\nPresenters: Meijun Fan \n\n\n\nDr. Meijun Fan is the Program Director for the Institute for Postmodern Development of China\, and Co-Director of the China Project of the Center for Process Studies. We celebrate with her the completion of a 5-year project to write a book in Chinese about John Cobb and China\, recently announced at the CPS website.  \n\n\n\nShe will be accompanied by a team of Chinese scholars who have assisted her. All of them have been visiting scholars at the Center for Process Studies. \n\n\n\n\nProf. Lu Liu\, one of the co-authors of the book\, from Harbin Normal University\, specializes in process education.\n\n\n\nProf. Jinhua Ke\, one of the book reviewers\, is from Zhejiang Shuren University. His major is in the philosophy of religion and ecological philosophy. One of his books is The Study of Cobb’s Postmodern Ecological Thought (2018).\n\n\n\nDr. Junfeng Wang\, one of the book reviewers\, is from Wenzhou Academy of Social Sciences. His research focuses on Charles Hartshorne’s thoughts.\n\n\n\n\nThe acceptance of process thought in contemporary China is a remarkable tale and has become a captivating cultural phenomenon. According to Jierong Lu and Honglin Liu’s article\, “The Fall of Substance and the Rise of Process—Interpreting Process Philosophy from the Evolution Logic of Western Metaphysics\,” process thought is considered to be “the biggest movement after John Dewey’s pragmatism was introduced into China.” [Theoretical Investigation\,1 (2014):47-52.] \n\n\n\nMeijun Fan is primarily responsible for overseeing Cultural Communication\, the newspaper publication of the project. Additionally\, she manages the Chinese visiting scholar program\, conference program\, and publicity efforts. Previously\, Fan held the position of Vice-Chair and Professor at Beijing Normal University’s Philosophy Department. She completed her doctoral studies in Chinese traditional aesthetics and aesthetic education at the same university. Fan has authored six books and co-authored seven\, including the recent notable work Cobb and China: An Intensive Study of Cobb’s Postmodern Ecological Civilization Thoughts. Her book Contemporary Interpretation of Chinese Traditional Aesthetic received the “Excellence Award in Philosophy and Social Science” in China in 1997. She has also published over 100 academic articles in Chinese and English. \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-2023-05-02/
LOCATION:Online Event
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Mary Elizabeth Moore
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Responding to a Weeping Planet: Practical Theology as a Discipline Called by Crisis \n\n\n\nPresenters: Mary Elizabeth Moore \n\n\n\nMary Elizabeth Moore is Dean Emerita and Professor of Theology and Education\, Boston University School of Theology. Now retired\, she is the vice chair of the Cobb Institute Board\, and is currently guiding our strategic planning process. She currently studies the relationship of spirituality and tikkun olam\, or repair of the world\, focusing on ecological and social justice and the potential of theology to enhance or obstruct the planet’s thriving. She will discuss her 2022 Religions journal article\, “Responding to a Weeping Planet: Practical Theology as a Discipline Called by Crisis.” \n\n\n\nMary Elizabeth is an M.A. and Ph.D. graduate\, outstanding alumna\, and former teacher at Claremont School of Theology. She was active as a co-director of the Center for Process Studies from 1990 to 1999. From 1993-1999 she also served as the Allen J. Moore Multicultural Resource and Research Center’s co-founder and co-chair. An ordained deacon in the United Methodist Church\, she has been active in local\, regional\, and national church leadership. See this detailed biographical essay by her former student\, Claire Bischoff.  \n\n\n\nJohn Cobb affirmed her ground-breaking book\, Teaching from the Heart (Trinity Press International\, 1998)\, which bridges religious education and process theology\, as “a major advance both in relating Whitehead to education and in modeling a truly Whiteheadian way for testing his thought.” At the 2015 Claremont ecological civilization conference on “Seizing an Alternative\,” she presided over a section of conversations about “Reinventing and Reimagining The World’s Wisdom Traditions–World Loyalty.” \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-2023-04-25/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:Starting With Whitehead: Session 5
DESCRIPTION:This five-part conversation series offers an analysis of learning events at each of the three stages of the rhythm of education\, described in Whitehead’s classic The Aims of Education. Each conversation will focus on the recently published book Starting with Whitehead\, by Lynn De Jonghe\, which bridges the gap between the theory and practice of educational reform\, and points the way for adults to help children thrive in a world of change. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“There is only one subject matter for education\, and that is Life in all its manifestations.”—Alfred North Whitehead \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs we search for guidance on how to thrive in changing times\, we are led to the work of Alfred North Whitehead\, who brilliantly perceived that the process of change itself is fundamental to existence. Whitehead grasped the profound role of change in determining how we how we learn\, how we experience ourselves and others and how we interact with the world around us. In his classic work\, The Aims of Education\, he elaborated a three-stage process of learning\, involving romance\, precision and generalization. He called for an education that explored real life experiences and events rather than packing of scraps of information into passive students.  \n\n\n\n\n\nStarting with Whitehead: Raising Children to Thrive in Treacherous Times offers examples of learning events at each stage that point the way for adults to help children thrive in a world of change. These events are presented in the richness of their contexts and unfolding\, rather than as dry results of controlled data gathering procedures. The events recorded here are based on the author’s extensive experience working directly with children as a parent\, teacher\, principal and policy maker. Drawing on the best of psychological and educational research\, 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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConversation Series Outline\n\n\n\nTakes place on Saturdays at 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Pacific\, from March 18th thru April 22nd \n\n\n\n\nSession 1: March 18: Introduction: Using events in context to inform theory; Whitehead’s Aims of Education in relation to his philosophy of process\n\n\n\nSession 2: March 25: The Rhythm of Education: Romance\n\n\n\nSession 3: April 1: The Rhythm of Education: Precision\n\n\n\nSession 4: April 15: The Rhythm of Education: Generalization\n\n\n\nSession 5: April 22: Conclusion: Using Process Philosophy to Help Meet the Challenges of Our Times\n\n\n\n\nEach session will begin with a talk and slide presentation by Dr. De Jonghe\, then follow with two or three respondents for comment\, critique\, and elaboration\, after which we will open for exploratory discussion by all attendees. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Change is constant\, endemic and necessary.”—Drew Gilpin Faust \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Author\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLynn De Jonghe’s career in progressive education has spanned 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. Her work in philosophy centers on the social methodology of scientific research programs and the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. She is a member of the Philosophy of Education Society and serves on the advisory committee of the Cobb Institute. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo reserve your seat and receive the Zoom information\, click the Going button and enter your name and email.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/starting-with-whitehead-session-5/
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Monica Coleman
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Processing Grief: An Afro-futurist Perspective \n\n\n\nPresenters: Monica Coleman \n\n\n\nDr. Monica A. Coleman is John and Patricia Cochran Scholar for Inclusive Excellence and Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Delaware. She spent nearly fifteen years in graduate theological education at Claremont School of Theology\, the Center for Process Studies and Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. Coleman has earned degrees from Harvard University\, Vanderbilt University and Claremont Graduate University. She has received funding from leading foundations in the United States\, including the Ford Foundation\, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, and the Institute for Citizens and Scholars (formerly the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation)\, among others. Answering her call to ministry at 19 years of age\, Coleman is an ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and an initiate in traditional Yoruba religion. \n\n\n\nExplore her website where she introduces herself\, her six books\, and recent podcasts\, including co-hosting\, along with writer Tananarive Due\, the popular webinar series Octavia (Butler) Tried to Tell Us: Parable for Today’s Pandemic\, addressing today’s most pressing issues with insights from Afrofuturist literature\, process theology and community values.  \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-2023-04-18/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:Starting With Whitehead: Session 4
DESCRIPTION:This five-part conversation series offers an analysis of learning events at each of the three stages of the rhythm of education\, described in Whitehead’s classic The Aims of Education. Each conversation will focus on the recently published book Starting with Whitehead\, by Lynn De Jonghe\, which bridges the gap between the theory and practice of educational reform\, and points the way for adults to help children thrive in a world of change. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“There is only one subject matter for education\, and that is Life in all its manifestations.”—Alfred North Whitehead \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs we search for guidance on how to thrive in changing times\, we are led to the work of Alfred North Whitehead\, who brilliantly perceived that the process of change itself is fundamental to existence. Whitehead grasped the profound role of change in determining how we how we learn\, how we experience ourselves and others and how we interact with the world around us. In his classic work\, The Aims of Education\, he elaborated a three-stage process of learning\, involving romance\, precision and generalization. He called for an education that explored real life experiences and events rather than packing of scraps of information into passive students.  \n\n\n\n\n\nStarting with Whitehead: Raising Children to Thrive in Treacherous Times offers examples of learning events at each stage that point the way for adults to help children thrive in a world of change. These events are presented in the richness of their contexts and unfolding\, rather than as dry results of controlled data gathering procedures. The events recorded here are based on the author’s extensive experience working directly with children as a parent\, teacher\, principal and policy maker. Drawing on the best of psychological and educational research\, 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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConversation Series Outline\n\n\n\nTakes place on Saturdays at 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Pacific\, from March 18th thru April 22nd \n\n\n\n\nSession 1: March 18: Introduction: Using events in context to inform theory; Whitehead’s Aims of Education in relation to his philosophy of process\n\n\n\nSession 2: March 25: The Rhythm of Education: Romance\n\n\n\nSession 3: April 1: The Rhythm of Education: Precision\n\n\n\nSession 4: April 15: The Rhythm of Education: Generalization\n\n\n\nSession 5: April 22: Conclusion: Using Process Philosophy to Help Meet the Challenges of Our Times\n\n\n\n\nEach session will begin with a talk and slide presentation by Dr. De Jonghe\, then follow with two or three respondents for comment\, critique\, and elaboration\, after which we will open for exploratory discussion by all attendees. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Change is constant\, endemic and necessary.”—Drew Gilpin Faust \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Author\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLynn De Jonghe’s career in progressive education has spanned 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. Her work in philosophy centers on the social methodology of scientific research programs and the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. She is a member of the Philosophy of Education Society and serves on the advisory committee of the Cobb Institute. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo reserve your seat and receive the Zoom information\, click the Going button and enter your name and email.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/starting-with-whitehead-session-4/
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CATEGORIES:Conversation Series
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Herman Greene
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Process & Law: The New Ecological Social Contract \n\n\n\nPresenters: Herman Greene \n\n\n\nHerman Greene will begin with a discussion of the past work done of process thinkers on legal theory. He will then move to his own work in the emerging field of Earth law and the new ecological social contract. (See his attached Earth Law chapter\, “Ecocentric Governance: The New Ecological Social Contract.”)  Bruno Latour argued in his 2013 Gifford lectures that we humans have entered a new state of nature\, a Hobbesian condition of a war of all against all\, with the protagonists now including tuna\, and sea levels\, and carbon emissions\, as well as the various human factions. This time though it is not a condition before people entered into a social contract\, it is a present condition\, and calls for a new social contract that includes nature—a task that will take “two hundred” years. It is the primary task of humans in the Anthropocene. \n\n\n\nHerman Greene\, JD\, MA\, MDiv\, DMin is founder and president of the Center for Ecozoic Studies in Chapel Hill\, North Carolina\, a research and education center for an ecological-cultural age. He is Thomas Berry Scholar-in-Residence of the Earth Law Center and is co-author and co-editor of Earth Law: Emerging Ecocentric Law—A Guide for Practitioners. He serves on the Board of the International Process Network\, and on the Advisory Boards of the Center for Process Studies and the Institute for the Post-Modern Development of China. He is a retired business lawyer and holds graduate degrees in law (University of North Carolina-JD)\, theology (University of Chicago-MTh & MDiv\, and United Theological Seminary-DMin)\, and political science (Stanford University-MA).  \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-2023-04-11/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Ellyn Polsky\, Sophia Said\, and Jay McDaniel
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Passover\, Ramadan\, and Holy Week: An Interfaith Conversation \n\n\n\nPresenters: Ellyn Polsky\, Sophia Said\, and Jay McDaniel \n\n\n\nThis conversation\, co-sponsored with the Interfaith Center of Arkansas\, will honor holy seasons of Jews\, Muslims\, and Christians.   \n\n\n\nEllyn Polsky will guide our understanding of Passover. She has been teaching in secular and Jewish schools and camps for over 50 years\, most recently as Director of Lifelong Learning at Reform Jewish congregations in St. Louis and then in Little Rock. You can see her in the following 10-minute video about a program for elementary school children. She worked tirelessly to help Sophia Said establish\, teach and have fun in—Interfaith Friendship Camp of Arkansas. An educator at The Interfaith Center\, she has been curriculum director of the camp for the last 6 years.   \n\n\n\nSophia Said\, Executive Director of The Interfaith Center of Arkansas\, will discuss Ramadan. She has received multiple awards recognizing her contributions to civil society. Perhaps you remember her previous conversation with John Cobb & Friends “On Being Muslim in America.” A native of Pakistan who came to America when her husband came to study\, she responded to the 9-11 tragedy by founding the Interfaith Center. Explore Open Horizons website for her story\, her affirmation of “The America I believe in\,” and Jay McDaniel’s “process appreciation” of her vision. Also\, Sophia and Jay reflect on interfaith relations in light of the results of the 2016 US Presidential election. Explore her personal story\, plus course materials she developed with Jay McDaniel for a class they taught at Hendrix College on “Leadership in a Multi-Faith World.”  \n\n\n\nJay McDaniel will discuss Holy Week. He is Professor Emeritus of World Religions at Hendrix College\, board chair for Cobb Institute\, active supporter of the Institute for Postmodern Development of China and of the Becomings Collective for Emerging Artists (becomingscollective.org). He is curator of OpenHorizons.org. He has collaborated often with Sophia Said\, contributing to the programs of the Interfaith Center of Arkansas. See the page with his biodata on the website of Spirituality & Practice.   \n\n\n\nFor basic information about Jewish\, Muslim\, and Christian holy seasons\, you may explore these resources available from the Harvard Pluralism Project: \n\n\n\n\nPassover\n\n\n\nRamadan\n\n\n\nAsh Wednesday to Easter Sunday\n\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-2023-04-04/
LOCATION:Online Event
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SUMMARY:Starting With Whitehead: Session 3
DESCRIPTION:This five-part conversation series offers an analysis of learning events at each of the three stages of the rhythm of education\, described in Whitehead’s classic The Aims of Education. Each conversation will focus on the recently published book Starting with Whitehead\, by Lynn De Jonghe\, which bridges the gap between the theory and practice of educational reform\, and points the way for adults to help children thrive in a world of change. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“There is only one subject matter for education\, and that is Life in all its manifestations.”—Alfred North Whitehead \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs we search for guidance on how to thrive in changing times\, we are led to the work of Alfred North Whitehead\, who brilliantly perceived that the process of change itself is fundamental to existence. Whitehead grasped the profound role of change in determining how we how we learn\, how we experience ourselves and others and how we interact with the world around us. In his classic work\, The Aims of Education\, he elaborated a three-stage process of learning\, involving romance\, precision and generalization. He called for an education that explored real life experiences and events rather than packing of scraps of information into passive students.  \n\n\n\n\n\nStarting with Whitehead: Raising Children to Thrive in Treacherous Times offers examples of learning events at each stage that point the way for adults to help children thrive in a world of change. These events are presented in the richness of their contexts and unfolding\, rather than as dry results of controlled data gathering procedures. The events recorded here are based on the author’s extensive experience working directly with children as a parent\, teacher\, principal and policy maker. Drawing on the best of psychological and educational research\, 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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConversation Series Outline\n\n\n\nTakes place on Saturdays at 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Pacific\, from March 18th thru April 22nd \n\n\n\n\nSession 1: March 18: Introduction: Using events in context to inform theory; Whitehead’s Aims of Education in relation to his philosophy of process\n\n\n\nSession 2: March 25: The Rhythm of Education: Romance\n\n\n\nSession 3: April 1: The Rhythm of Education: Precision\n\n\n\nSession 4: April 15: The Rhythm of Education: Generalization\n\n\n\nSession 5: April 22: Conclusion: Using Process Philosophy to Help Meet the Challenges of Our Times\n\n\n\n\nEach session will begin with a talk and slide presentation by Dr. De Jonghe\, then follow with two or three respondents for comment\, critique\, and elaboration\, after which we will open for exploratory discussion by all attendees. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Change is constant\, endemic and necessary.”—Drew Gilpin Faust \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Author\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLynn De Jonghe’s career in progressive education has spanned 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. Her work in philosophy centers on the social methodology of scientific research programs and the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. She is a member of the Philosophy of Education Society and serves on the advisory committee of the Cobb Institute. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo reserve your seat and receive the Zoom information\, click the Going button and enter your name and email.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/starting-with-whitehead-session-3/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Conversation Series
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Mark Anielski
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Economic Strategies We Can Learn from First Nations Peoples \n\n\n\nPresenters: Mark Anielski \n\n\n\nAfter a presentation on Native peoples by Professor Tink Tinker\, the Cobb Institute reached out to Mark Anielski to help us further explore what we can learn from First Nations. He was the guest of John Cobb & Friends on September 29\, 2020. John Cobb calls Mark his “favorite economist” because “he thinks the economy should serve the wellbeing of the people.” Economist Anielski asks about feelings and experiences. He’ll report hopeful things happening among Canada’s First Nations peoples and wherever there are opportunities to develop local economies of resilience and trust in local systems of trade and production.   \n\n\n\nMark Anielski\, a resident of Alberta\, has worked to apply Herman Daly’s economic theories in practical ways.  His work of measuring  well-being extends from First Nations in Canada\, Nunavut (Canada)\, Alberta\, Singapore\, China\, South Korea\, The Netherlands\, Austria\, and French Polynesia (Tahiti).  New Zealand\, Iceland\, Ireland\, and Scotland are advancing well-being budgeting and governance\, common-sense-economics for building a better and happier world.  He’s also consulted with folks in Santa Monica and Pomona. Anielski has authored two books: An Economy of Well-being: Common Sense Tools for Building Genuine Wealth and Happiness (2018) and the award-winning book The Economics of Happiness (2007).  See him on a wide-ranging Green Interview about an “Economy of Love.” \n\n\n\nMark suggests that you explore his Economics of Well-being Podcast conversations with several First Nations people including Chief Christian Sinclair of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation in Manitoba whose Nation he worked with in 2020/21 in conducting a well-being assessment in the process of establishing a working economy of well-being. Here is another with former Chief Larry Sault from Ontario. This one with Lewis Cardinal is about the story of Canada from a First Nations 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-2023-03-28/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:Starting With Whitehead: Session 2
DESCRIPTION:This five-part conversation series offers an analysis of learning events at each of the three stages of the rhythm of education\, described in Whitehead’s classic The Aims of Education. Each conversation will focus on the recently published book Starting with Whitehead\, by Lynn De Jonghe\, which bridges the gap between the theory and practice of educational reform\, and points the way for adults to help children thrive in a world of change. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“There is only one subject matter for education\, and that is Life in all its manifestations.”—Alfred North Whitehead \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs we search for guidance on how to thrive in changing times\, we are led to the work of Alfred North Whitehead\, who brilliantly perceived that the process of change itself is fundamental to existence. Whitehead grasped the profound role of change in determining how we how we learn\, how we experience ourselves and others and how we interact with the world around us. In his classic work\, The Aims of Education\, he elaborated a three-stage process of learning\, involving romance\, precision and generalization. He called for an education that explored real life experiences and events rather than packing of scraps of information into passive students.  \n\n\n\n\n\nStarting with Whitehead: Raising Children to Thrive in Treacherous Times offers examples of learning events at each stage that point the way for adults to help children thrive in a world of change. These events are presented in the richness of their contexts and unfolding\, rather than as dry results of controlled data gathering procedures. The events recorded here are based on the author’s extensive experience working directly with children as a parent\, teacher\, principal and policy maker. Drawing on the best of psychological and educational research\, 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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConversation Series Outline\n\n\n\nTakes place on Saturdays at 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Pacific\, from March 18th thru April 22nd \n\n\n\n\nSession 1: March 18: Introduction: Using events in context to inform theory; Whitehead’s Aims of Education in relation to his philosophy of process\n\n\n\nSession 2: March 25: The Rhythm of Education: Romance\n\n\n\nSession 3: April 1: The Rhythm of Education: Precision\n\n\n\nSession 4: April 15: The Rhythm of Education: Generalization\n\n\n\nSession 5: April 22: Conclusion: Using Process Philosophy to Help Meet the Challenges of Our Times\n\n\n\n\nEach session will begin with a talk and slide presentation by Dr. De Jonghe\, then follow with two or three respondents for comment\, critique\, and elaboration\, after which we will open for exploratory discussion by all attendees. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Change is constant\, endemic and necessary.”—Drew Gilpin Faust \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Author\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLynn De Jonghe’s career in progressive education has spanned 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. Her work in philosophy centers on the social methodology of scientific research programs and the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. She is a member of the Philosophy of Education Society and serves on the advisory committee of the Cobb Institute. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo reserve your seat and receive the Zoom information\, click the Going button and enter your name and email.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/starting-with-whitehead-session-2/
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Ron Nahser
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Medieval Monastic and University Spirituality: Management Practices for Ecological Civilization? \n\n\n\nPresenters: Ron Nahser \n\n\n\nIn a world sharply divided by differing views of economic\, environmental\, and political realities\, Dr. Ron Nahser has been living out his own “calling\,” influenced by early encounter with Whitehead’s pragmatic philosophy\, and continued influence from Benedict’s monastic spirituality\, and Boethius’s liberal arts as practiced in Medieval Universities. He frequently finds time to join John Cobb & friends as we aim to live into our calling toward an ecological civilization. \n\n\n\nRon Nahser is the founding Provost – now Emeritus – of Presidio Graduate School\, the first to offer an accredited MBA in sustainable management. He’s living out his “calling” in various vocations—as advertising executive\, teacher and educational executive\, and scholar/practitioner of American Pragmatism He has a China connection as Professor of Ecological Economics and Pragmatic Inquiry at the Center for Confucian Entrepreneurship and East Asian Culture\, Zhejiang University\, Hangzhou\, China. \n\n\n\nA recent issue of Amplify (vol. 35\, no. 4\, 2022) carries an article he co-authored\, “Reclaiming Values and Vision in Management Education to Create Systems Change.” The issue’s summary of Nahser’s career documents the range of his professional activities. He is Executive Director for Corporantes\, an outgrowth of The Nahser Agency/Advertising. He is Senior Fellow/Director of Urban Sustainable Management Programs\, Institute for Nature and Culture at DePaul University’s Department of Environmental Science and Studies. He lectures and consults with business and academic audiences in the US and internationally on business values\, vision\, marketing strategy\, branding\, social responsibility\, and integrative sustainable management. \n\n\n\nDr. Nahser is the author of Learning to Read the Signs: Reclaiming Pragmatism in Business (available here at a very reasonable price – also includes the 32 page PathFinder Field Notebook) and Journeys to Oxford: Nine Pragmatic Inquiries into the Practice of Values in Business and Education. He has developed a values and vision-driven strategy method known as PathFinder Pragmatic Inquiry®. Dr. Nahser is also a Fellow of the World Business Academy\, Curator of the Willis Harman Archive\, founding Partner of the Oxford Leadership Academy in the US\, and Strategic Advisor to the UN Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) Secretariat. \n\n\n\nHe earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame\, an MBA from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management\, a master’s degree in religious studies from Loyola/Mundelein College\, and a PhD in American business philosophy from DePaul University. \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-2023-03-21/
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SUMMARY:Starting With Whitehead: Session 1
DESCRIPTION:This five-part conversation series offers an analysis of learning events at each of the three stages of the rhythm of education\, described in Whitehead’s classic The Aims of Education. Each conversation will focus on the recently published book Starting with Whitehead\, by Lynn De Jonghe\, which bridges the gap between the theory and practice of educational reform\, and points the way for adults to help children thrive in a world of change. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“There is only one subject matter for education\, and that is Life in all its manifestations.”—Alfred North Whitehead \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs we search for guidance on how to thrive in changing times\, we are led to the work of Alfred North Whitehead\, who brilliantly perceived that the process of change itself is fundamental to existence. Whitehead grasped the profound role of change in determining how we how we learn\, how we experience ourselves and others and how we interact with the world around us. In his classic work\, The Aims of Education\, he elaborated a three-stage process of learning\, involving romance\, precision and generalization. He called for an education that explored real life experiences and events rather than packing of scraps of information into passive students.  \n\n\n\n\n\nStarting with Whitehead: Raising Children to Thrive in Treacherous Times offers examples of learning events at each stage that point the way for adults to help children thrive in a world of change. These events are presented in the richness of their contexts and unfolding\, rather than as dry results of controlled data gathering procedures. The events recorded here are based on the author’s extensive experience working directly with children as a parent\, teacher\, principal and policy maker. Drawing on the best of psychological and educational research\, 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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConversation Series Outline\n\n\n\nTakes place on Saturdays at 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Pacific\, from March 18th thru April 22nd \n\n\n\n\nSession 1: March 18: Introduction: Using events in context to inform theory; Whitehead’s Aims of Education in relation to his philosophy of process\n\n\n\nSession 2: March 25: The Rhythm of Education: Romance\n\n\n\nSession 3: April 1: The Rhythm of Education: Precision\n\n\n\nSession 4: April 15: The Rhythm of Education: Generalization\n\n\n\nSession 5: April 22: Conclusion: Using Process Philosophy to Help Meet the Challenges of Our Times\n\n\n\n\nEach session will begin with a talk and slide presentation by Dr. De Jonghe\, then follow with two or three respondents for comment\, critique\, and elaboration\, after which we will open for exploratory discussion by all attendees. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Change is constant\, endemic and necessary.”—Drew Gilpin Faust \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Author\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLynn De Jonghe’s career in progressive education has spanned 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. Her work in philosophy centers on the social methodology of scientific research programs and the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. She is a member of the Philosophy of Education Society and serves on the advisory committee of the Cobb Institute. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo reserve your seat and receive the Zoom information\, click the Going button and enter your name and email.
URL:https://cobb.institute/event/starting-with-whitehead-session-1/
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Tim Burnette
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Politics and Beauty: A Process Mysticism \n\n\n\nPresenters: Tim Burnette \n\n\n\nRev. Dr. Tim Burnette is a Minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)\, and is the Core Curator of Way Collective in Santa Barbara\, California—a contemplative community for love and liberation. (You can find reflections on process theology and the Way Collective at Open Horizons.) He earned his D.Min. in Spiritual Renewal\, Contemplative Practice\, & Strategic Leadership from Claremont School of Theology\, and is passionate about bringing sustaining spiritual practices to the work of justice. Tim has served as host for a Theopoetics Podcast for ARC (Arts\, Religion\, Culture)\, and has been a guest presenter for John Cobb & Friends. He was a presenter at the 50th Anniversary CPS Conference on the topic\, “Nonduality as Resistance: Mystical Internals\, Political Externals\, and Process Spirituality in Contemplative Community.” You can find out more about him at his website and follow him on Twitter.  \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-2023-03-14/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Bethany Sollereder
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Creating Your Own Theology in Light of Suffering \n\n\n\nPresenters: Bethany Sollereder \n\n\n\nBethany Sollereder is a lecturer in science and religion at the University of Edinburgh.  She specializes in theology concerning evolution and the problem of suffering and is currently working on the theological aspects of restoration ecology.  Bethany received her PhD in Theology from the University of Exeter and an MCS in interdisciplinary studies from Regent College\, Vancouver\, B.C.  She is author of God\, Evolution\, and Animal Suffering: Theodicy without a Fall and Why Is There Suffering? Pick Your Own Theological Expedition. This latter book\, published by Zondervan (2021)\, is the first “pick your own ending” theology book! Dr. Sollereder was a presenter at the 50th Anniversary CPS Conference on the topic\, “Pentecostal Meets Process: A Pluralist Model of Divine Action.” She was also a panelist at this year’s ORTline23 Open and Relational Theology online conference.  \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-2023-03-07/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Timothy Murphy
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Sharing Process Values in the Real World: A Minister/Activist’s Journey \n\n\n\nPresenters: Timothy Murphy \n\n\n\nRev. Dr. Timothy Murphy has been Pastor and Teacher of Plymouth Church (UCC) in Fort Wayne\, Indiana since 2018. Before that he had served as Transitional Pastor of All Peoples Christian Church in Los Angeles\, CA. He earned his Ph.D. at Claremont Graduate University. He has served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion and Politics at Claremont School of Theology\, where he taught courses in Religion\, Ethics\, and Politics. For three years he was Executive Director of Progressive Christians Uniting\, a faith and social justice organization based in southern California\, focusing on mass incarceration and climate change. From 2007-2010\, he was the Minister for Youth and Social Justice at Pilgrim UCC in Carlsbad\, CA. Holding standing in both the United Church of Christ and Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)\, Timothy has served in various congregational and ministry settings in Kentucky\, Missouri\, Texas\, and California. He is author of Counter-Imperial Churching for a Planetary Gospel: Radical Discipleship for Today and Sustaining Hope in an Unjust World: How to Keep Going When You Want to Give Up\, and a children’s story book\, Jesus Learns to Glow.  \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-2023-02-28/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Bonnie Rambob
DESCRIPTION:Topic: A Pastor/Teacher Reflects on Children’s Spirituality and “Screen” Culture \n\n\n\nPresenters: Bonnie Rambob \n\n\n\nRev. Bonnie Rambob shifted her paid job during the pandemic from parish ministry to teaching kindergarten at her local public school. Bonnie enjoys working in\, writing about\, podcasting on\, and exploring areas such as: multi-faith leadership\, the spirituality of children and parenting\, process theology\, political activism\, and progressive Christianity. She co-hosts the podcasts\, Haystacks\, a podcast for former and fringe Seventh-day Adventists\, and Irenicast\, a progressive Christian podcast. She is also co-editor of the book Partnering with God. Bonnie loves climbing trees\, knitting\, and hiking with her partner and two young adult sons. She is a presenter on Day 3 of the 50th Anniversary Conference of the Center for Process Studies on the topic “Proximity and Relational Learning Communities: A Process Perspective on Social Presence.”  \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-2023-02-21/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: What is My Vocation? A Conversation with John Cobb & Friends
DESCRIPTION:Topic: What is My Vocation? A Conversation with John Cobb & Friends \n\n\n\nPresenters: See Below \n\n\n\nFrom John Cobb’s Pilgrim Place campus in Claremont we’ll be ZOOM’ing a live conversation with some “process” friends. Cobb Institute chairperson Jay McDaniel will be guiding our “Conversation in Process.” As preparation he recommends that we read John Cobb’s reflections\, “What Is My Vocation?”  \n\n\n\nConversation partners will include John Cobb\, Ignacio Castuera\, Meijun Fan\, Al Gephart\, John Fahey\, Marcus Ford\, Jacki Gingrich\, Ron Hines\, Catherine Keller\, Janice Lau\, Richard Lau\, Sandra Lubarsky\, Bob Mesle\, Mary Elizabeth Moore\, and Zhihe Wang. Via our usual ZOOM link all of our Friends will be welcome to contribute to the conversation!  \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-2023-02-14/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Thomas Jay Oord
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Open & Relational Theology: A State of the Movement Address \n\n\n\nPresenters: Thomas Jay Oord \n\n\n\nThomas Jay Oord is a theologian\, philosopher\, and scholar of multi-disciplinary studies. He is an award-winning author who has written or edited more than twenty-five books. Find out more about him at his website at thomasjayoord.com.  Oord also directs a doctoral program at Northwind Theological Seminary and the Center for Open & Relational Theology. He won the Outstanding Faculty Award twelve times as a full-time professor and now speaks at institutions across the globe. Oord is known for his contributions to research on love\, open and relational theology\, science and religion\, and freedom and relationships for transformation.  \n\n\n\nOn February 10-11 the Center for Open and Relational Theology will host the International Online Open and Relational Theology Conference (ORTLine23)\, and on July 10-14 it will host the Open and Relational Theology Conference (ORTCON23). For an article on the growing influence of “open and relational” theologians\, see https://ctr4process.org/open-and-relational-theologians-among-most-influential-in-recent-decades/. \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-2022-02-07/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Andrew Davis & Andrew Schwartz
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Center for Process Studies Celebrates 50 Years \n\n\n\nPresenters: Andrew Davis & Andrew Schwartz \n\n\n\nAndrew Schwartz is the executive director of the Center for Process Studies\, and Andrew Davis is the Center’s program director. Check out the CPS website for details of a week that celebrates the 98th birthday of John Cobb\, and pays tribute to David Ray Griffin\, co-founders of the Center\, a faculty program of the Claremont School of Theology. You may register for this in person event in Claremont to get in touch with current and emerging leaders who are extending the process legacy. \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-2023-01-31/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Jeremy Fackenthal and Jim Fahey
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Common Good Film Festival Preview \n\n\n\nPresenters: Jeremy Fackenthal and Jim Fahey \n\n\n\nJeremy Fackenthal and Jim Fahey will preview the 22nd annual festival with us. The films celebrate the wisdom of Alfred North Whitehead\, and will be held February 17-20\, 2022 at the Laemmle Theater in Claremont\, California. See details at the festival website.  \n\n\n\nJeremy Fackenthal is the director of the Common Good Film Festival (CGFF)\, the managing director of the Institute for Ecological Civilization\, and is an independent documentary filmmaker and videographer. Jeremy completed a PhD in Philosophy of Religion and Theology at Claremont Graduate University\, and began using his philosophical background beyond the academy to raise questions and craft narratives. In recent years\, Jeremy’s work has included video content produced for clients and shorter independent projects. In 2017 Jeremy shot and edited Spitting Fire\, a short documentary on spoken word poetry as a means of personal formation for adolescents. His current ongoing project is a fea­ture-length documentary on the life and work of Walter Benjamin and the possibility of art as a site for radical political action. \n\n\n\nJim Fahey is an emerging film critic and curator who works as CGFF’s assistant director. He has spent the past year building his resumé at the University of Edinburgh\, where he completed a Master’s program in Film\, Exhibition & Curation. During that time he served as a film critic for The Student\, the longest-running student newspaper in the UK\, and also began Airplane Mode\, a film-review blog currently available on Substack. \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-2023-01-24/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221220T100000
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SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering: Mary Elizabeth Moore\, Jay McDaniel\, and You
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Incarnational Adventures \n\n\n\nPresenters: Mary Elizabeth Moore\, Jay McDaniel\, and You \n\n\n\nThis will be an interactive experience appropriate to the Christmas season when Christian communities celebrate the Incarnation\, or “God with us.” Retired from her former responsibility as dean of Boston University School of Theology\, Mary Elizabeth Moore is now able to serve on the board of the Cobb Institute\, and she’s finding more time to pursue her love of writing poetry. Currently chair of the Cobb Institute board\, Jay McDaniel\, Emeritus Professor of world religions at Hendrix College\, continues to find ways to extend his teaching vocation\, often by singing–with his dog. Search for “Incarnation” reflections on his Open Horizons website.  \n\n\n\nJay and Mary Elizabeth are both long-time students and colleagues of John Cobb. Imagine your own experiences of Incarnation and come prepared to share the adventure.  \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-2022-12-20/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends
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