Luminary: Michael Lerner
Dr. Michael Lerner is president and co-founder of Commonweal, a health and environmental research institute in Bolinas, California, and of Smith Farm Center for Healing and the Arts in Washington, D.C.
He is co-founder of the Commonweal and Smith Farm Cancer Help Programs, which provide week-long retreats for people with cancer. He is also co-founder of the Collaborative on Health and the Environment, www.healthandenvironment.org, an international partnership for people interested in or working at the interface between the environment and human health.
Michael's central interest is the interface between personal and planetary healing. He asks what we can learn from healing ourselves that applies to healing our communities, our countries, and the earth.
He also asks what we can learn from the grave crisis in the health of the earth that may help us in our own healing.
Michael's most recent project is The New School at Commonweal, www.commonweal.org, which explores the interface between ecology, culture and the inner life. Recent guests include Ram Dass, Rachel Naomi Remen, Parker Palmer, Dean Radin, and other pioneers of personal and environmental health. These conversations are available for free download at the Commonweal/New School website.
Michael is the author of "Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer" [MIT Press] and numerous articles and essays.
Dr. Michael Lerner teleseminar on "Personal and Planetary Healing"
