Moral education is impossible apart from the habitual vision of greatness. -Alfred North Whitehead, The Aims of Education, p. 106
Center for Process Studies
@ctr4process.bsky.social
The Center for Process Studies (CPS) is a nonprofit think-and-action tank that conducts interdisciplinary research and education to cultivate holistic understanding for human and planetary flourishing.
Creeds are at once the outcome of speculation and efforts to curb speculation… Wherever there is a creed, there is a heretic round the corner or in his grave. -Alfred North Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas, p. 66
In this Pop-Up, Patrick Mahaffey will introduce us to his book Individuation and Beyond: World Views, God-Images, and Self-Realization and discuss his proposed form of integrative spirituality, uniting psychological wholeness with spiritual realization. RSVP: processandfaith.org/event/proces...
The Center for Process Studies is excited to be collaborating with the journal Metamodern Theory and Praxis on a Special Issue focused on process social ontologies! Deadline for manuscript submissions: October 1, 2026. Read the full call for papers: ctr4process.org/call-for-pap...
[God] is both physical and spiritual, and the divine body is all surpassing and all-inclusive of the creaturely bodies, which are to God as cells to a supercellular organism -Charles Hartshorne, Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes, p. 44-45
The glorification of power has broken more hearts than it has healed. -Alfred North Whitehead, Religion in the Making, p. 55
This 5 session course, taught by Andrew Davis, aims to reveal the various sides, lights, & colors of Whitehead’s process philosophy from the microscopic to the macroscopic, and in direct relation to your experience as an expression of the universe. Register: portal.ctr4process.org/offerings/wh...
There is a need for a new way of living and new outlook on life, where people take care of one another and the earth, living with respect and care for the entire community of life. An ecological civilization is this new way. -Zhihe Wang, ""Constructive Postmodernism Is a Better Choice"
The function of reason is to promote the art of life. -Alfred North Whitehead, The Function of Reason, p. 2
This 5 session course, taught by Andrew Davis, aims to reveal the various sides, lights, & colors of Whitehead’s process philosophy from the microscopic to the macroscopic, and in direct relation to your experience as an expression of the universe. Register: portal.ctr4process.org/offerings/wh...
Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem. -Gary Snyder, The Real Work: Interviews & Talks, 1964-1979, p. 134
In this Process Pop-Up, Michael Rose introduces his new book, Made by Love, for Love, and invites us to reimagine Christianity—not as a drama of sin and obligatory appeasing sacrifice, but as a cosmic love story still unfolding. Watch the recording: youtu.be/U86WI07NifY
In this presentation, Zaineb Baddouri will engage in an exploratory discussion of the Karkariyya Order and the central message of its living teacher, Shaykh Al-Karkari. Learn more & RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/proces...
In philosophic discussion, the merest hint of dogmatic certainty as to finality of statement is an exhibition of folly. -Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, p. x
In this pop-up, Christie Byers explores what it means to teach science as if the world were alive. Drawing on Whitehead’s process philosophy, she shares an approach to science education that shifts away from viewing nature as inert & toward experiencing it as relational. Watch now: buff.ly/TgIcfze
Registration for the 14th International Whitehead Conference is now open! This global gathering marks a pivotal moment to engage Whitehead’s philosophy in dialogue with the pressing challenges and transformative opportunities of the 21st century. Learn more: ctr4process.org/conference/1...
In this SPARKS Exchange Melissa Cowper-Smith shares how gardening, observation, landscape, & material transformation shape her artistic practice which explores relationships between memory, ecology, cultivated spaces, and the natural world. Watch now: youtu.be/trb4mO6WPVo
In this Process Pop-Up, Mary Jane Miller will introduce us to her book Prayers for Mother Earth and reveal how it is designed as a resource and guide to focus the mind and heart on one another and Mother Earth as she speaks back to us. Learn more & RSVP: processandfaith.org/event/proces...
Knowledge does not keep any better than fish… It must come to the students, as it were, just drawn from the sea and with the freshness of its immediate importance. -Alfred North Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas, p. 21
In this session of Process Explorations, Evaggelos will present the ideas from his latest book, drawing on the agricultural traditions of ancient Greece and China’s ecological civilization debates to trace a through-line from early agriculture to pandemics. RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/proces...
To perceive oneself existing interdependently in the world calls for responsible thought and action toward injustice anywhere in the world. -Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, Process Studies 14:2, p. 82
The inaugural Mind-at-Large Project conference was held online April 15–17, 2026, bringing together scholars, researchers, and practitioners from across the disciplines for a exploration of consciousness and its place in nature. Read the full conference retrospect: ctr4process.org/a-new-dawn-r...
In so far as man partakes of [the] creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality. -Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues of A. N. Whitehead: As Recorded by Lucien Price, p. 297
How does empowerment emerge? Drawing on her experience facilitating youth and community development programs in Kliptown, Soweto, South Africa, Natasha Yen explores how empowerment and transformation unfold in practice. Learn more & RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/proces...
Love does not resolve every conflict; it accepts conflict as the arena in which the work of love is to be done. -Daniel Day Williams, The Spirit and the Forms of Love, p. 138
In this Process Pop-Up, Mary Jane Miller will introduce us to her book Prayers for Mother Earth and reveal how it is designed as a resource and guide to focus the mind and heart on one another and Mother Earth as she speaks back to us. Learn more & RSVP: processandfaith.org/event/proces...
Registration for the 14th International Whitehead Conference is now open! This global gathering marks a pivotal moment to engage Whitehead’s philosophy in dialogue with the pressing challenges and transformative opportunities of the 21st century. Learn more: ctr4process.org/conference/1...
With so much provocation in the public sector, how can we find the “tap root” on subjects that are vital for civility & the greater good? With so much temptation to declare opinion & bias on social media, how can the relationship filter recover its integrity? RSVP: ctr4process.org/event/proces...
