Spring | Summer 2016

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New Models and Practices

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Our Mission calls us to develop new skills and capacities—to make practices such as mindfulness central to mastery over our emotions and thoughts, not only for peace of mind, but as a responsibility to others who are affected by our moods and thoughts, as neuroscience research now affirms.

Published in Spring | Summer 2016 By Nancy B. Roof

Mirror Flourishing: The New Business North Star

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“We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted […]

Published in Spring | Summer 2016 By David Cooperrider

A Model for Building Safe Communities: The River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding Leads the Way

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We share our model as an inspiration and affirmation that work is being done that builds safe community. We know […]

Published in Spring | Summer 2016 By Dot Maver, Heart Phoenix

Seeing Wetiko: On Capitalism, Mind Viruses, and Antidotes for a World in Transition

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By Alnoor Ladha What if we told you that humanity is being driven to the brink of extinction by an illness? That all the poverty, the climate devastation, the perpetual war, and consumption fetishism we see all around us have roots in a mass psychological infection?

Published in Spring | Summer 2016 By Alnoor Ladha, Martin Kirk

gallery one: Syrian Refugee Children’s Photographs

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Artist Statement How do people put together the shattered pieces of a dream when all is broken? How do they […]

Published in Spring | Summer 2016 By Brendan Bannon

Building a Progressive Spiritual Movement

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Let’s Unite Our Efforts and Build a Truly Progressive Spiritual Movement Thousands of activist groups work to save the environment, […]

Published in Spring | Summer 2016 By Cat Zavis

Transformative Media: From the Hero’s Journey to Our Collective Journey

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The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in […]

Published in Spring | Summer 2016 By Maya Zuckerman

Transformative Technology: A New Pulse

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Winslow Strong couldn’t resist the pull. He felt driven to use his knowledge of technology to help people improve their […]

Published in Spring | Summer 2016 By Nichol Bradford, Stephanie Shorter

A Glimpse into the More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible: The Art of Hosting Conversations that Matter

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The quality of our conversations makes our world what it is. How we talk to each other determines whether we […]

Published in Spring | Summer 2016 By Helen Titchen Beeth

Collective Presencing: Four Years Later

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Four years have passed since the first article on Collective Presencing was published in Kosmos Journal, with three more following […]

Published in Spring | Summer 2016 By Ria Baeck

Harmony with Nature

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Mr. President, Excellencies, Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am grateful to be able to join today’s fifth dialogue of […]

Published in Spring | Summer 2016 By Robin Wall Kimmerer, PhD

gallery two: Falling in Love with Nature

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Artist Statement I am not a macro or nature photographer so when I photograph a flower, it’s because I find […]

Published in Spring | Summer 2016 By Geoff Livingston

Book Review | Designing Regenerative Cultures

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Designing Regenerative Cultures by Daniel Christian Wahl Triarchy Press, 2016 Foreword by Graham Leicester This is a book about life […]

Published in Spring | Summer 2016 By Daniel Christian Wahl

The Enlivenment Manifesto: Politics and Poetics in the Anthropocene

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Key Concepts The current ideology of dead matter, mechanical causality, and the exclusion of experience from descriptions of reality in […]

Published in Spring | Summer 2016 By Andreas Weber, Hildegard Kurt

Unleashing the Learner: Massive Open Online Courses and the Decolonization of Education

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There is a sea change under way in higher education, and it’s not in the ways that traditional universities think […]

Published in Spring | Summer 2016 By Rhonda Fabian

Renewal From the Ground of Our Being

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The spectacularly successful freedom struggle Gandhi conducted in India had three phases: 1) personal empowerment (shedding fear, for starters), 2) […]

Published in Spring | Summer 2016 By Michael Nagler