Michael Ratner

Michael Ratner, PhD is an enlightenment activist currently living in Wisconsin with his wife Yanju and two daughters.

He is former national media manager for Anthony Robbins’ live seminar events, and has also promoted Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, Les Brown among many others. Michael completed his doctorate degree in Higher Education at the Western Institute for Social Research in Berkeley, California where he had been researching the power of Community Conversations for over a decade and is now writing a book called LovingConversations.com.

In 2023 he will launch the Podcast Channel along with Mondays.org a weekly motivation website community for coaches and speakers.

Michael Ratner in Kosmos

How to Have a Community Conversation

A growing number of community organizers, hoping to bring neighborhoods together, have successfully used Community Conversations to work through differences and resolve local issues within their neighborhood or larger region.

Published in Volume 22 Issue 2

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The Village Way

Practices for Belonging in a Fragmented World

For thousands of years, we lived according to the principles of village life. Then, around the 14th Century, our lives were reorganized by rulers around growth and accumulation – often at the cost of community, equity, and the living Earth. What would it mean to return to simplicity, and mutual care?

Join us for a 9-month inquiry into this question, exploring how we participate together in a time that calls us back to community, resilience, and shared life,