Generational Leadership in the Polycrisis

Oren Slozberg is the Executive Director of Commonweal. In conversation with Matthew Monahan.

• Commonweal: https://www.commonweal.org/

TOPICS

• 00:00 Intro

• 02:43 About Commonweal

• 13:09 Commonweal’s origins

• 20:31 Oren’s background

• 22:12 Intergenerational leadership model

• 33:32 The polycrisis

• 54:38 Retreat centers and land projects

• 01:02:15 Religion and purpose

• 01:20:08 A more ‘just’ world

• 01:26:45 Money and philanthropy

• 01:54:00 Oren’s closing comments

RESOURCES

• Cancer Choices: https://cancerchoices.org/

• Visual Thinking Strategies: https://vtshome.org/

• The New School with Michael Lerner: https://tns.commonweal.org/

• Joanna Macy: https://www.joannamacy.net/

• Commanding Hope book: https://www.amazon.com/Commanding-Hope-Power-Renew-World/dp/0307363163

• Nuns and Nones: https://www.nunsandnones.org/

• Retreat Center Collaboration: https://www.retreatcentercollaboration.org/

• Fetzer Institute: https://fetzer.org/

• Paul Hawken’s Blessed Unrest: https://www.amazon.com/Blessed-Unrest-Largest-Movement-Restoring/dp/0143113658

• Agrarian Trust: https://agrariantrust.org/

• FaithLands: https://www.agrariantrust.org/initiatives/faithlands/

• Center for Ethical Land Transition: https://centerelt.org/

• Integrative Law Institute at Commonweal: https://www.commonweal.org/program/ili/

• Peer Spirit with Christina Baldwin: https://peerspirit.com/

• Orland Bishop: https://www.globalonenessproject.org/people/orland-bishop

• Charles Eisenstein and Orland Bishop: https://charleseisenstein.org/courses/orland-bishop-course-one/

• Flow Funding by Marian Weber: https://www.flowfunding.org/

• Trust-Based Philanthropy: https://www.trustbasedphilanthropy.org/principles-1

• Post-Capitalist Philanthropy: https://www.postcapitalistphilanthropy.org/

• Transition Resource Circle: https://www.transitionresourcecircle.org/

• Resource Generation: https://resourcegeneration.org/

• Participatory philanthropy and grantmaking: https://www.participatorygrantmaking.org/

• Omega Resilience Awards (ORA): https://omega.ngo/our-work/ora/

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