The New School at Commonweal

Serena Bian, Michael Lerner

Booking Overview

The New School at Commonweal features learning-community programming on health, resilience, justice, ecology, and inner life—often with expert guests who share frameworks and practices. The show is especially strong for thought leaders in healing, consciousness, and social/environmental change, with opportunities for credible, mission-aligned speakers.

Metrics

Episodes: 500

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.5/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

YouTube: 13.2k subscribers

Instagram: 1.6k followers

30s Ad: 22 - 25, 60s Ad: 26 - 29

Contact Information

socialmedia@commonweal.org

Contact Form

Contact form available - Official Form

Host

Serena Bian - Host of The New School at Commonweal; leads hosted segments in partnership with featured speakers for conversations and experiential workshops focused on embodied healing and related streams of inq...

Michael Lerner - Host of The New School at Commonweal, guiding a recurring series of dialogues that explore mystical/religious thought, mind–matter relationships, and related fields through author and scholar conve...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Established authors and university faculty, or experienced clinicians/practitioners with a defensible body of work in healing, psychology/consciousness, spirituality, and/or health/resilience; mission-aligned thought and action leaders.

Required Achievements:

Published books (often multiple titles), Academic appointment or public scholarship, Clinical or practitioner leadership, Recognition through awards/media/major public talks (varies by domain)

Recent Guest Discussions

Cynthia Li, Dr. - Physiological Coherence; Embodied Flow; Healing Practices (golden Triad: Mind Empty, Heart Open, Body Inhabited)

Jeffrey Kripal - The Flip; Mystical And Erotic Themes; Mind–matter Relationships; Parapsychological Phenomena

Recent Topics

Healing, Resilience, Consciousness, Spirituality, Psychology, End Of Life, Ecology, Justice, Embodiment, Science

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

The New School at Commonweal

Robert Mullhall - A Spiritual Biography

May 16, 2026

Join Michael Lerner in a spiritual biography conversation with Robert Mulhall—Commonweal board member, former president of Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, and a consultant whose work sits at the intersection of leadership development, organizational health, and human potential. *** The New School is Commonweal’s learning community and podcast — we offer conversations, workshops, and other events in areas that Commonweal champions: finding meaning, growing health and resilience, advocating...

The Medicine of Flow: Conversation & Experiential Workshop on Effortless Healing Pt 2 - Cynthia Li

May 02, 2026

What is healing, really—below the story or journey, and even beyond any meaning? After Dr. Cynthia Li experienced a radical healing firsthand, she began studying the science of physiological coherence, and deepening in her practice of embodied flow. Since then, she has been supporting others in activating their body's peak healing state: for personal healing, for thriving amid life's inevitable challenges, for collective healing, and to allow healing to happen in a more effortless and playful...

The Medicine of Flow: Conversation & Experiential Workshop on Effortless Healing Pt 1 - Cynthia Li

May 02, 2026

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