Events
World Goodwill Seminar | Envisioning a New Global Culture: The Search for Unity between East and West
How can Chinese wisdom and Whitehead’s philosophy of organism help build a culture of shared humanity and hope—bridging East and West? Center for Process Studies Board Chair, Dr. Jay McDaniel will explore this topic. Also presenting in this session of the seminar is Dr. Jack Bagby, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Consciousness, and Cosmology at the California Institute of Integral Studies.
Process Pop-Up: Eco-Psychology, Plant Medicine, and the Sacred Earth
Join educator Travis Cox for an exploratory webinar discussing the intersections between non-ordinary states of consciousness, our relationships to the more-than-human world, and the connections between human mental health and the health of the living Earth.
Poetry at Play: Reading, Conversation and Making
Kathleen Wakefield will read a selection of her poems followed by questions and conversation with Jay McDaniel. We will cap our session off with an opportunity to enjoy an interactive poetry writing experience. Participants will be encouraged to reflect on the process of writing their poem and share their work, if desired.
Whitehead for Education, the Humanities, and the Social Sciences: In Pursuit of a Metamorphosis of Pedagogy
In the conference presentations, we encourage contributors to share the results of transdisciplinary research on the foundations of education (and, more broadly, the humanities), utilizing the interpretive framework offered by Whiteheadian process philosophy. We also warmly invite reflections on Whitehead’s educational ideas from the standpoint of your own disciplinary practice, whether it be the natural sciences, humanities or social sciences, or spiritual disciplines.
Middle Eastern Modal Process & Modulation
This SPARKS Exchange will feature a brief exposition of maqām (Middle Eastern modal) music focusing on Tanburi Cemil Bey’s “Hicazkâr Saz Semai” as a template for appreciation of the unique process of modulation that is prevalent in Middle Eastern music. Abdessamad Mason Zantow will present on the lâvta (Istanbul lute), an instrument played by Tanburi Cemil Bey and a cousin of the oud and modern guitar.
Process Pop-Up: The Death of Supernaturalism
In this Process Pop-Up, we’ll explore the core ideas of Chad Bahl’s newest book, The Death of Supernaturalism: The Case for Process Naturalism—a bold theological manifesto that critiques the metaphysical assumptions of supernatural theism. Bahl argues for a process naturalist view of God—one which sees God as relational, persuasive and embedded within the natural world.
Cultivating the Future University: Eco-Art, Healing, and Pedagogy in the Healing Garden
In this SPARKS Exchange, artist and educator Lipeng Jin invites you into the story of the “Healing Garden”—an evolving eco-art and pedagogical experiment at the Sichuan Fine Art Institute, China. More than a campus garden, the Healing Garden is a living laboratory reimagining the university’s role in an era of ecological crisis: How can higher education become a force for planetary healing and community renewal?
Process Pop-Up: Evolution in Divine Love
In this Process Pop-Up, Swami Padmanabha will discuss the ideas in Evolution in Divine Love. Far from portraying divinity as distant or static, Swami Padmanabha encourages us to see Ultimate Reality as both changeless and ever-new, infinite and intimate, perfect and perpetually becoming—animated by the same love that pulses through every corner of creation. Through this lens, he invites us to view reality not as a closed system, but as a living, breathing process of growth, beauty, and co-creative transformation.
John B. Cobb Jr.: An Eco-Sage of Our Time | Online Memorial Gathering
To mark the first anniversary of the passing of John B. Cobb Jr., this online memorial gathering is convened to honor his life, his enduring legacy, and the living influence of his thought. It will offer a quiet and heartfelt space for remembrance, reflection, and gratitude as well.
ORTLINE 2026 | An Online Open and Relational Theology Conference
This three-day online Zoom conference, hosted by Thomas Jay Oord, Jason Tripp, and Jonathan J. Foster features authors recently published in the field of open and relational theology.
Interweavings: Deep Listening: Dynamic Practices and Living Texts
Rabbi Leila Gal Berner and Sheri D. Kling strongly believe that there is still something life-giving in both ancient texts and pre-modern practices, and that both can come alive in dynamic ways while still being grounded in timeless wisdom. In this event, Rabbi Berner and Dr. Kling will share their own experiences with reshaping traditional practices to reawaken modern sensibilities to potentially transforming encounters with texts and with the Divine.
Process Philosophy in Under-Explored Traditions in Philosophical History: An Online Conference
This conference will be the first to birth this long overdue intellectual exchange as it offers an improved metaphysical framework for value and consciousness in all ontological entities to address various concerns that are facing humanity: economy, political, and environmental. Although there are hesitant answers to some of these global challenges facing humanity, the influence of substance-based analysis has yet to offer penetrative answers, in addition to the almost complete lack of interaction among scholars of process to explore their common ground for a common voice in the way that substance thought has done over the centuries.