Honest Hope: Conversation about Fostering Community and Personal Resilience

Kyra Epstein
Kyra Epstein • November 5, 2024

Stanley Wu and Host Michael Lerner
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What will our personal, community, and national landscape look like tomorrow, or next week, or next year?  Join The New School at Commonweal live at Commonweal in Hummingbird Meadow, or online, in a post-election conversation about resilience and hope.

~Part of the Fostering Community Resilience Conversation Series, co-presented with Commonweal’s Resilience Project and West Marin Initiative~

What does a localized response to the polycrisis look like in broad and practical terms? Join Host Michael Lerner in a post-election conversation with The Resilience Project Director Stanley Wu about our growing resilience initiatives at Commonweal. The conversation will span from an exploration of this moment and the context we live in, to what practical measures we can take to develop our personal resilience.

Register HERE

Wednesday, November 6
1:00 pm PST - 2:30 pm PST

In person OR Zoom
$20 donation suggested; no one turned away
In person or via Zoom

Stanley Wu

Stanley brings a background in renewable energy systems, community living, and water management. He is a subject-matter expert in solar thermal and hydronic systems and is an ex-wildland firefighter, tango dancer, and father. In 2017, he received his doctorate in Traditional Chinese Medicine and is the director of The Resilience Project at Commonweal.

Host Michael Lerner

Michael is the president and co-founder of Commonweal. His principal work at Commonweal is with the Cancer Help ProgramCancerChoices.org, the Omega Resilience Projects, the Collaborative on Health and the Environment, and The New School at Commonweal. He was the recipient of a MacArthur Prize Fellowship for contributions to public health in 1983 and is author of Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Therapies (MIT Press).

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