Events
Process Explorations Summer Finale: Wisdom for Building Alternative Futures
This session marks the finale of a six-month series in Process Explorations – “Building Alternative Futures.” The theme echoes the 2015 conference sponsored by John B. Cobb, Jr., "Seizing an Alternative: Toward an Ecological Civilization." It also underscores the urgency of the present moment in global history, seeking to analyze the present, imagine the potential futures before us, and build toward those futures. As we conclude the series, we celebrate the finale with wisdom from our process mentors and friends, poetry, music, art, and conversation.
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Process Pop-Up: Individuation and Beyond: World Views, God-Images, and Self-Realization
In this Process Pop-Up, Patrick Mahaffey will introduce us to his book Individuation and Beyond: World Views, God-Images, and Self-Realization and discuss his proposed form of integrative spirituality, uniting psychological wholeness with spiritual realization.
Readings on Faiths: Bright Circle
Readings on Faiths Around the World is a book group that reads and discusses books covering the vast diversity of world faiths. Of course, the standard seven world religions will be included but we will also explore less well-known religious/spiritual groups. The only prerequisite needed for this group is a desire to learn more about the world’s religious traditions.
Readings on Faiths: Bright Circle
Readings on Faiths Around the World is a book group that reads and discusses books covering the vast diversity of world faiths. Of course, the standard seven world religions will be included but we will also explore less well-known religious/spiritual groups. The only prerequisite needed for this group is a desire to learn more about the world’s religious traditions.
Frontiers of Knowledge 2026
Join us Sunday, August 23rd at the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen for Frontiers of Knowledge, a mind-expanding day of conversation with world-renowned scientists, philosophers, and authors. This Year's Speakers: SCARLETT Max, Dr. Chantal Noa Forbes, David M. Peña-Guzmán, Matthew David Segall, Garth Stevenson, Dr. Lindsay Branham, Andreas Weber, Carl Safina, and Tenzin Seldon.
Readings on Faiths: Bright Circle
Readings on Faiths Around the World is a book group that reads and discusses books covering the vast diversity of world faiths. Of course, the standard seven world religions will be included but we will also explore less well-known religious/spiritual groups. The only prerequisite needed for this group is a desire to learn more about the world’s religious traditions.
Readings on Faiths: Bright Circle
Readings on Faiths Around the World is a book group that reads and discusses books covering the vast diversity of world faiths. Of course, the standard seven world religions will be included but we will also explore less well-known religious/spiritual groups. The only prerequisite needed for this group is a desire to learn more about the world’s religious traditions.
SEER: Exploring Love through Nature Photography and Film
In this SPARKS Exchange, we will be exploring how a colorblind photographer feels with his eyes, and how we can apply this to how we navigate our own creative process. Thomas Jay Oord will share clips from his documentary SEER as a window into his creative process. The session will also feature a visual meditation inviting participants to feel with their eyes and shine light upon their own creative process.
Free
Foundations of Ecological Civilization
What is ecological civilization, and what transformations in worldview, values, and social systems are needed to bring it about? This course explores the philosophical foundations, historical roots, and practical possibilities of ecological civilization, drawing on process-relational thought to imagine—and help build—a more just, regenerative, and flourishing world.
Readings on Faiths: Bright Circle
Readings on Faiths Around the World is a book group that reads and discusses books covering the vast diversity of world faiths. Of course, the standard seven world religions will be included but we will also explore less well-known religious/spiritual groups. The only prerequisite needed for this group is a desire to learn more about the world’s religious traditions.
Ecological Civilization and Global Citizenship: Reflections on a Year in China with Wm. Andrew Schwartz
The path toward ecological civilization asks us to confront a basic contradiction of our time: our greatest challenges are planetary, while our dominant forms of identity and political action remain divided along national, cultural, religious, and ideological lines. Building a more just and sustainable world will require unprecedented cooperation across these boundaries, and new ways of understanding what it means to belong to a global community. Drawing on a year of living, teaching, and working in China, Andrew Schwartz reflects on global citizenship, cross-cultural encounter, and ecological civilization through the lens of process-relational thought, asking how we might cultivate forms of identity, responsibility, and cooperation adequate to our shared planetary future.
Free