Christian Process Explorations
2026-11-23 17:00 - 18:00, 2026-12-28 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
A Discussion Group About the Exploring, Sharing, and Practice of Christian Process-Relational Theology

This learning circle focuses on the exploring, sharing, and practice of Christian process-relational theology, as relevant to all age groups: children, teenagers, adults, senior citizens. We meet monthly to discuss process-relational ideas and practices in local settings like churches, religious education, hospitals, and recovery groups. Together we explore how to share those ideas, as well as how to embody their wisdom in daily life situations. This is co-sponsored by the P&F Christian Path Group.

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Christian Leadership & Process Thought
2026-12-16 09:00 - 10:00, 2027-01-20 09:00 - 10:00, 2027-02-17 09:00 - 10:00, 2027-03-17 09:00 - 10:00, 2027-04-21 09:00 - 10:00, 2027-05-19 09:00 - 10:00, 2027-06-16 09:00 - 10:00, 2027-07-21 09:00 - 10:00 and 19 more dates
A Discussion Group About Christian Leadership & Process-Relational Thought

Christian leadership is at work in worship, outreach, religious education, pastoral care, self care, and administration. This learning circle seeks to explore process theology and offer a process perspective on the real challenges related to church leadership.

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Buddhist Process Explorations
2026-12-16 17:00 - 18:00
A Discussion Group About the Exploring, Sharing, and Practice of Buddhist Process-Relational Thought

At face value, the Buddha’s Dharma and Whitehead’s Process Philosophy seem to characterize reality in very different ways, and for different reasons. The Buddha taught that reality as we typically experience it is an impermanent, selfless and dissatisfying process of cyclic becoming continuously powered by compulsive attachment and aversion grounded in delusion. The Buddha prescribed various methods we could deploy in order to go beyond this painful and immiserated condition, methods which involve thorough analysis and deconstruction of our habituated and self-limiting assumptions about ourselves and the world as well as means of cultivating more purified states of awareness and embodiment so that we can awaken to the way things really are and unleash our core potential.
Whitehead elaborated a systematic philosophical scheme, replete with foundational metaphysical categories, that reconstructs reality as a cumulative process of concrescence whereby many diverse feelings creatively synthesize into a novel experience, aiming towards satisfaction and lured to completion through divine persuasion. For Whitehead, many of the issues in philosophy and society at large could be traced to various fallacious conceptions concerning nature, language, and experience which he sought to rectify with his panexperiential, process-relational Philosophy of Organism.

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