Steven Pinker is an evolutionary psychologist, an expert in human behavior and its evolutionary adaptations. He is the acclaimed author of many books, including The Better Angels of Our Nature–Why Violence Has Declined. His latest, Enlightenment Now, is his finest yet. He argues compellingly that the key values, which animated the 18th-century Enlightenment – humanism, reason, and science – are still active (and even dominant) in human culture.
05/22/2018
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Tuesdays, May 22-June 19 (5 weeks)
Morning Workshop
Common Ground Deerfield
815 Rosemary Terrace
Deerfield, IL 60015
Rabbi Rami Shapiro is widely recognized as one of the most creative figures in contemporary American Judaism. In his new book, Holy Rascals: Advice for Spiritual Revolutionaries, Rabbi Rami asks two important questions about religion: are we making all this up, and if so, can we make it up in a more positive and life-affirming way?
05/23/2018
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Wednesdays, May 16-23 (2 weeks)
Morning Workshop
Common Ground Deerfield
815 Rosemary Terrace
Deerfield, IL 60015
Steven Pinker is an evolutionary psychologist, an expert in human behavior and its evolutionary adaptations. He is the acclaimed author of many books, including The Better Angels of Our Nature–Why Violence Has Declined. His latest, Enlightenment Now, is his finest yet. He argues compellingly that the key values, which animated the 18th-century Enlightenment – humanism, reason, and science – are still active (and even dominant) in human culture.
05/29/2018
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Tuesdays, May 22-June 19 (5 weeks)
Morning Workshop
Common Ground Deerfield
815 Rosemary Terrace
Deerfield, IL 60015
Carl Jung has said that we do not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. Part of this process, which is essential to the process of psychological healing that Jung called Individuation, is the necessary acceptance of our full truth, in all of its dimensions.
05/30/2018
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Wednesdays, May 30-June 6 (2 weeks)
Morning Workshop
Common Ground Deerfield
815 Rosemary Terrace
Deerfield, IL 60015
This workshop will assist participants to make sense political and sociological sense of the Sunni-Shi'ite divide and its continuing intellectual, social and political ramifications down to the present-day conflicts in Iraq and Syria.
06/20/2018
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Wednesdays, June 13-20 (2 weeks)
Morning Workshop
Common Ground Deerfield
815 Rosemary Terrace
Deerfield, IL 60015
Donald Trump's limited and distorted understanding of Islam is not unique or limited to him. His view is quite typical of the mindset of Islamophobes in US and Europe. We will start with the historical roots of this caricature and follow up its developments in the modern world.
06/26/2018
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Tuesday, June 26 (1 week)
Morning Workshop
Common Ground Deerfield
815 Rosemary Terrace
Deerfield, IL 60015