Subject: Upcoming ONLINE and In-Person Creative Inquiry Programs

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In-Person Programs

Renewing the World in Every Moment

With Jack Petranker, Senior Teacher

Thursday, April 16, 2026, 5:00 - 6:30pm PT

Location: 2210 Harold Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

This event is FREE and open to the public!

This series of talks are based on Time, Space, and Knowledge Vision guided by the unifying theme of letting go. Often, we hold too tightly to the grip of linear time, the solidity of fixed boundaries, or the certainty of a self-centered knowledge. These habits and points of views shape how we experience the world and how we limit “our own” freedom. Through guided reflections, silent practice, and explorations with music and sound, each session opens a new way of being. The series culminates in an integration and discussions of these insights, revealing how the act of letting go helps open us into wholeness, creativity, and deeper connection.

TSK Integration

The Freedom of Letting Go: Time, Space and Knowledge Explorations

With Ignacio Ercole

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026, 5:00-6:00pm PT

Location: 2210 Harold Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

This event is FREE and open to the public!

After exploring Time, Space, and Knowledge as distinct yet interwoven dimensions, this final session brings the insights together in lived experience. Through guided reflection, silent practice, and sound-based inquiry, we’ll explore how freedom naturally unfolds when we stop holding ourselves apart from life’s ongoing movement.

No previous sessions required: this class stands on its own and is fully accessible to beginners. Whether this is your first encounter with these ideas or you’ve been exploring them for years, you are warmly welcome.

This session is part of The Freedom of Letting Go, a four-part series on Time, Space, and Knowledge. Through guided reflections, silent practice, and playful explorations, each class opens new ways of being. The series culminates in an integration of these insights, showing how the act of letting go can open us into wholeness, creativity, and deeper connection.

Who is this for?

This series is for those seeking a fresh, secular vision of authentic ways of living, people who are not satisfied with easy, ready-made answers but who long for a deep yet playful approach to complement their journey of transformation. Instead of centering on “the self,” these talks invite a shift toward experience, relation, and presence. Each session offers an exploratory approach, where participants are encouraged to embody meaningful questions that open new ways of seeing the world. It is a welcoming introduction for those curious about the TSK vision, as well as a rich continuation for those already familiar with it and wishing to deepen practice in a more creative, artistic, and experiential way.

Online Program

Out of Your Head and into Your Life

With Jack Petranker

April 25 – May 9, Saturdays from 10:00 – 11:30am PT, Three weeks

Online via Zoom

Cost: $100

We mostly live in a world built up out of the stories we tell and the judgments we make. We dwell on the past and worry about the future, judge ourselves and others, and cope with anxiety and emotionality. We cut ourselves off from being truly alive.

In this program, we will explore ways to challenge those patterns. The point is not to introduce new practices or have special experiences, but to see the world with new eyes. When we do, we can free ourselves from bias, agitation, and disappointment.

Jack Petranker is the founder of the Center for Creative Inquiry and its Senior Teacher. A close student of Tibetan lama Tarthang Tulku for more than four decades, he is the author of One with the World: A Path to Living with Presence and Appreciation (forthcoming, 2026).

Give the gift of creative inquiry

Looking for the perfect gift to inspire your children, cousins or grandkids? Our NowHere guidebook brings together contemplative practice, emotional awareness, connection with nature, and relational presence to support the development of the qualities we most need in ourselves—and in the next generation.

In Visible Mind is a guided reading meditation designed to help you discover your present moment without expectation, with practices based on Full Presence Mindfulness and the Time, Space, Knowledge Vision.

Visit the Creative Inquiry Shop

The Center for Creative Inquiry (CCI) explores alternate forms of knowledge and inquiry and their potential to bring about fundamental change at the individual, cultural, and social level.

CCI headquarters is located in downtown Berkeley, California, USA.