We are not planning any in-person events for most of 2021. The exception will be a Praxis Festival, which will combine zoom presentations and in-person small gatherings. A live outdoor reception will accompany this festival on November 6th. ALL in-person events will require proof of COVID vaccination.
For Zoom Events: Registrations must arrive one half hour prior to event in order to guarantee entrance. If we are unable to connect you, a YouTube video of the program will be sent to you within 24 hours. Tickets are non-refundable, but all programs are recorded and available on video.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 - 1:00 to 4:00 pm - Workshop (with a short break at 2:30)

$70 general - $60 for Praxis members - This program will not be recorded to protect the privacy of participants.
Important: Registration closes at 11:30 am, Sept. 17

Registration and Zoom Link: Click Here

GEORGIA KELLY, Facilitator

Communication and Conflict Transformation

              Topics Covered in the workshop:
                  * Communication Skills for all types of relationships
                  * How to set boundaries that protect your emotional well-being
                  * How to reframe issues in a non-threatening manner so that you are heard
                  * How to develop Ground Rules that establish a communication-friendly environment
                  * Dealing with Assumptions and projections (ours and others)
                  * Overcoming fear and avoidance in dealing with conflicts
                  * Active Listening
                  * Dealing with difficult people and non-communicators
                  * How to identify "let go" situations, as not all conflicts can be resolved. Recognizing the signs saves much emotional stress.

In communication and conflicts there is no one size fits all, which is why this workshop does not teach one or two specific methods but, instead, offers some of the most effective guidelines and ground rules from different systems of communication, conflict management, and negotiation — ones that make communication easier and conflict situations more manageable and transformable.

Georgia Kelly has a certificate in Conflict Resolution from Sonoma State University and continued these studies with cultural anthropologist Angeles Arrien and Norwegian peace negotiator Johan Galtung. She has also studied the methods used by the Basque Department of Co-existence and Human Rights and has been influenced by the work of peace negotiator, Johan Fernandez. She has taught workshops in communication and conflict transformation for other non-profit organizations, churches, Esalen Institute in Big Sur, and for Praxis Peace Institute.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 at 4:00 pm (PDT)

$20 general - $15 for Praxis members

NORMAN SOLOMON

Twin Imperative: Defeat Neo-fascist Republicans While Advancing a Progressive Agenda

Norman is a former associate of the Center for Investigative Reporting and is a long-time associate of the media watch group, FAIR. He is the author of a dozen books and is the founder of the Institute for Public Accuracy, a consortium of policy researchers and analysts. A full length documentary film narrated by Sean Penn, was based on his book, War Made Easy. Other books include The Wizards of Media Oz: Behind the Curtain of Mainstream News and False Hope: The Politics of Illusion in the Clinton Era. He has appeared on many TV shows, including PBS News Hour, CNN, MSNBC, C-Span's Washington Journal, Democracy Now, and many other programs. In 2016, he was elected a delegate and coordinated the network for Bernie Sanders at the Democratic National Convention.

NEW SERIES on ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS to the CHALLENGES WE FACE TODAY

You can Register for the series of the four programs listed below:

$60 for Praxis Members; $80 for non-members. Or, you can Register for individual programs. However, series registrants, will have a fifth free meeting to discuss the ideas & plans presented.

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1 at 1:00 pm PDT. - Notice Earlier Time

$20 general - $15 for Praxis members

RICKEY GARD DIAMOND

Ms. Magazine columnist and author of Screwnomics: How our Economy Works Against Women and Real Ways to Make Lasting Change, began learning about our economic system as a single mother on welfare. While getting am education, she edited a newspaper on poverty issues and became the founding editor of Vermont Woman. She taught writing and literature at Vermont College for more than 20 years and published a novel, Second Sight, short stories, and non-fiction. Rickey spoke at the 2008 Summit for Economic Justice sponsored by the National Organization of Women and presented at the Institute for Women's Policy Research, and the Council of American Negro Woman. She won a National Newspaper Award for her in-depth research and "atypical sources" -- mostly women -- for a series on literature, language, and economics. She is also the founder of An Economy of Our Own, an organization that has the purpose of uniting women across divisions of race, sexuality, gender, religion and nationality and to help disarm an unjust economy waged as war by a tiny minority of privileged men.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15 at 4:00 pm (PDT)

$20 general - $15 for Praxis members

Beneath the Mainstream Radar - Worker Ownership
Cooperative Start-ups and Business Conversions

HILARY ABELL, Co-founder of Project Equity, a non-profit that builds economic resilliency in low income communities by demonstrating and replicating strategies that increase worker ownership. Project Equity works with small business clients in the Bay Area and in other regions around the country. Her focus is on employee ownership transitions and in raising awareness and building the ecosystem of support for this powerful business model nationwide. Formerly, she was executive of WAGES, a worker owned cleaning cooperative in Oakland, CA.

ERIC LEENSON, Founder and president of Sol Economic2 (Social Enterprise Solutions), which focuses on responsible enterprise solutions in the U.S. and Latin America. He is co-founder of the La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley and former president of Progressive Asset Management. In the past year, he has been working with colleagues in Puerto Rico in building a social-solidarity economy on the island. He is a social enterprise consultant with a wealth of experience in building public-private partnerships and cooperatives.

TBA - A speaker whose business has converted from a private enterprise to a worker owned business through work with Project Equity.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22 at 4:00 pm (PDT)

$20 general - $15 for Praxis members

The Decarbonization Imperative
Transforming the Global Economy by 2050

Based on their recently published book, The Decarbonization Imperative, and responding to the existential threat of climate change, Lenox and Duff propose a radical reconfiguration of the industries contributing the most to our planetary crisis. Disruptive innovation and obstacles to introducing a paradigm shift lead the authors to an analysis of policy interventions and strategies that could move us toward clean tech and decarbonization by 2050. They will talk about the transformations that need to take place in the next decade, which include 100% renewables for electricity, sustainable farming, and replacing carbon emitting energy sources. If we are going to avoid the worst effects of climate change, we need to decarbonize the global economy by 2050 or earlier!

MICHAEL LENOX, professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business and author. He received a Doctor of Philosophy in Technology Management and Policy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999. He has been a visiting professor at Stanford, Harvard, and Oxford.

REBECCA DUFF, Senior Research Associate at the Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business. She also serves as the managing director for the institute’s Climate Change Initiative.

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 25 at 4:00 pm (PDT)

$20 general - $15 for Praxis members

RICHARD WOLFF
When Capitalism Fails to Save Us From Pandemics or Itself

Richard Wolff is a Marxist economist and professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a visiting professor at the New School, New York. He has also taught at Yale University and the Sorbonne in Paris. Wolff is the author of several books, including Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism and Economics: Marxian vs Neoclassical. He hosts a weekly radio show on WBAI in New York (Pacifica). We will be discussing ideas outlined in his new book, The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us From Pandemics and Itself.
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Other Praxis Member Events:

Praxis Discussion meeting - Free for Praxis Members - Friday, October 8th at 4 pm (PDT)

Praxis Book Club meets - October 17 at 1:00 pm, Pacific Time

PAST EVENTS
All previous programs (listed under Past Events) are available on our private YouTube channel for the same price as the original program. You can order the YouTube link by typing in the name of speaker and by Clicking Here.

Friday, August 20 - MARC FRANK - Live from Havana, Cuba
Inside Cuba Today

August 13 - HELEN CALDICOTT
A Physician's Prognostacation for the Future

Friday, July 18 - MICHAEL NAGLER with Stephanie Van Hook
The Search for a Non-Violent Future

Friday, June 25 - DENNIS KUCINICH, Former U.S. Congressman and Presidential Candidate

Friday, June 18 - JEREMY LENT
The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom

June 11 - DAVID TALBOT and MARGARET TALBOT
The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Second American Revolution

Friday, May 21 - BENJAMIN WATERHOUSE
Selling the American Way: The Political Wing of American Capital

Friday, MAY 7 - LINDA & CHARLIE BLOOM
Love and Relating in the Time of Crisis

April 30 - MARY MCDEVITT, M.D. - Live from Sonoma, CA
How We Can Have Medicare for All in California -- In Record Time!

Friday, April 23 - MARC FRANK - Live from Havana, Cuba
Cuba Today! The Inside View

Thursday, April 15 - DAVID ELLERMAN - Live from Ljubljana, Slovenia
Economic Democracy, Cooperatives, and the Roots of Democratic Liberalism

Friday, April 9 - CAROLINE CASEY - Live from Cabin John, MD
The Mythological Frames that Inform Our Politics, Cultures, and Worldviews

Friday, March 26 -LENNY SIEGEL - Live from Mountain View, CA
Life-long Activism for Peace, Justice, and the Planet: The Struggle Continues

Friday, March 19 - ELISABET SAHTOURIS - Live from Hawaii
A Walk Through Time, an Evolutionary Biologist's Perspective

Friday, March 12 - DAVID KORTEN - Live from Seattle, WA
Eco-nomics for an Ecological Civilization

Friday, Feb. 26 - ELLIE COHEN - Live from Santa Rosa, CA
The Path to Net-Negative Emissions by 2030: The Solutions Exist

Friday, Feb. 19 - ANDREW KIMBRELL - Live from Wash., DC
The Great Transformation II - Toward an Ecological Society

Friday, Feb. 12 - DAVID TALBOT - Live from San Francisco, CA
The David Talbot Show

Friday, Jan. 29 - PETER BARNES - Live from Point Reyes, CA
Our: The Case for Universal Property

Jan. 22 - ANU PARTANEN - Live from Helsinki, Finland
Learning From the Nordic Countries

Friday, Jan. 8 -ELLEN BROWN - Live from Los Angeles, CA
A Financial Reset for the People

Friday, Dec. 11 - MARJORIE COHN - Live from San Diego, CA
Could Trump Still Steal the Election? The Attempted Coup

Friday, Nov. 27 - HAZEL HENDERSON - Live from St. Augustine, FL
Fixing the Money Meme

Friday, Novenber 13 - Public Banking Panel
Sushil Jacob, Chris Petlock, and Shelly Browning
How we can finance the Green New Deal, Affordable Housing, Infrastructure Repairs, and more.

Friday, October 23 - MARY MCDEVITT, M.D. - FREE
Presentation on COVID and the Vaccines in Development

Friday, Oct. 16 - Uncivil Liberties: The Pitfalls of Libertarianism
Ben Boyce, Gus diZerega, Barry Spector - Moderator: Georgia Kelly

Friday, Oct. 9 - NINA SIMONS - Live from Santa Fe, NM
Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of Nature

Friday, Oct. 2 - DAVID TALBOT - Live from San Francisco, CA
The 2020 Presidential Race, the Back Story and Related Themes from his Books

Thursday, Sept. 24 - THOM HARTMANN
The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream

Thursday, Sept. 17 - ERIC UTNE
Feeling Hopeless? Embrace it. And, then Take Action

Thursday, Sept. 3 - NORMAN SOLOMON
Report on the Democratic National Convention and Plans for the 2020 Election

Friday, August 21 - GEORGIA KELLY
The Mondragón Cooperatives and Social Transformation

Friday, August 7 - RICHARD TARNAS
Is Humanity Going Through an Initiatory Crisis?

Friday, July 31 - SUSAN NEIMAN - Live from Berlin, Germany
Learning From the Germans

Friday, July 24 - SWAMI BEYONDANANDA, aka Steve Bhaerman

Friday, July 17 - RIANE EISLER - Live from Carmel, CA
Nurturing Our Humanity, author of "The Chalice and the Blade

Friday, June 26 - GAYLE MCLAUGHLIN, Former Mayor of Richmond, CA
How a Progressive Alliance Can Change Culture

Friday, June 19 - Economic Cooperation: Worker Ownership in NY, CA, and SPAIN
With Omar Freilla, Ana Aguirre, and Tim Huet

Friday, June 12 - Live from Sonoma, CA
SAM KEEN - Sometimes "Nothing" is a Real Cool Hand, A Philosopher's Perspective

Friday, May 29, 2020
DAVID COBB - Cooperation Humboldt: A solidarity Economy

May 15, 2020
NORMAN SOLOMON - Progressive Politics and Obstacles in the Democratic Party

Friday, May 7, 2020
JODIE EVANS (Code Pink) & LEONARDO FLORES - Time for a New Good Neighbor Policy, Hands off Latin America

Friday, May 1, 2020
DAVID & FRAN KORTEN - From Emergency to Emergence: Defining the Opportunities

Friday, April 24 - Special Earth Day program on Zoom
RICHARD HEINBERG - Earth Day 50 Under Lockdown: Ecology During and After the Pandemic

Friday, April 17, 2020 - On Praxis Zoom series - Live from Guernica, Spain
FRED FREUNDLICH, on the Mondragón Cooperatives in Spain

Friday, April 10 - On Praxis Zoom series
TOM GRECO - Beyond Money

Friday, March 27 - On Praxis Zoom series
JEREMY LENT, Cultural Historian

Thursday, March 5, 2020
FRANCES MOORE LAPPÉ

Sunday, February 9, 2020
DAVID TALBOT

Sunday, November 10, 2019
GEORGE LAKOFF, Cognitive Scientist, author

June 16 - 22, 2019 - Mondragón, SPAIN
Mondragón Seminar & Tour

Saturday, April 13, 2019
PETER GABEL, author and founder of New College of CA

Tuesday, April 23, 2019
MICHAEL BRUNE, Executive Director of the Sierra Club

Sunday, January 27, 2019
GAYLE MCLAUGHLIN, Former Mayor of Richmond, CA and founder of the California Progressive Alliance

Sunday, December 2, 2018
H. BRUCE FRANKLIN, Cultural Historian and Author

Monday, October 22, 2018
GAR ALPEROVITZ, Historian and Political Economist

October 22, 2018
ELLEN BROWN, Attorney, Co-Founder of the Public Banking Institute, Author

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