Seven Stages of Climate Grief | Reaching Hope
January 29, 2019 Kosmos Community News
Dear Reader,
It’s commonly stated that the emotional stages of grief can include: disbelief, denial, bargaining, guilt, anger, depression, and acceptance/hope. And we are told that we usually progress through these, like a journey from city to city, to reach healing.
Maybe this is true for some, but when it comes to grief about the eco-geo-political turmoil of the world, particularly climate change, I experience many of these emotions at once – sometimes all of them in a single day. This mash-up of feelings – sometimes physical, sometimes emotional, and spiritual – can be overwhelming.
Maybe a lot of you feel that way too. You wonder why you feel angered by the news one minute, and fearful the next. Or maybe you feel a surge of inspiration to do something meaningful, but then a sense of hopelessness creeps back in. It’s a conversation we need to have with each other. Because until we can transform our personal pain, real transformation and healing in the world will not be possible.
A Special Collaboration on Climate
(image) Kosmos is partnering as a regional streaming ‘hub’ for Findhorn Foundation‘s Climate Change and Consciousness Conference (CCC19) this April. The Findhorn event, in Scotland, will feature some of the clearest and most passionate voices for the Earth ever gathered together in one place.
Our own Kosmos gathering will take place near Philadelphia. In addition to streaming keynote talks from CCC19, we will also offer workshops, panel discussions, and healing practices. We will confirm the dates and share much more with our subscribers in weeks to come.
Our Spring Quarterly will be devoted to the themes of both conferences.
Findhorn Talk with Daniel Wahl
In this talk on Ecosystem Regeneration, Daniel Wahl, PhD observes that we are standing at the dawn of the planetary era. Individuals and communities around the world are restoring degraded ecosystems – regenerating the health of the Earth and her people. Daniel explores how the proposed UN Decade for Ecosystem Restoration could become the foundation for a Century of Regeneration.
Daniel Christian Wahl is a whole systems design specialist and regenerative development generalist with a background in biology, ecology, and holistic science. Daniel´s work contributes to a rise in regenerative practice in business leadership, education, policy making, community design and bioregional planning.
In the Light |Power of Community Online Summit
The Power of Community Online Summit is an entirely free, online experience organized with the goal of catalyzing community, exploring the leading edge of the regenerative future movement and increasing our collective consciousness in a climate-changing world. It will take place February 1-10, 2019 and will feature three conversations per day shared live and discussed worldwide on multiple platforms. To see the full list of speakers and to see which interviews are live at any given time, visit summit.ecovillage.org.
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The Power of Community Summit is the very first ever organized by the Global Ecovillage Network, in partnership with Pioneers for Change, an organization with proven success on past summits. The theme of the event is also in coordination with the upcoming Climate Change and Consciousness Conference 2019 to be held at Findhorn in April 2019.
The Online Summit is free and accessible to everyone.
Sacred Diplomacy in the Emerging Ecozoic Era | Untangling Global Trauma
By Merle Lefkoff
Kosmos Quarterly | Winter Edition
We students in the West, separated too long from Nature, are still largely taught to think in linear ways: one cause produces one predictable effect. In complex systems like a classroom, a city, a nation, a universe, one cause—even something very small—can have multiple, mostly unpredictable, and sometimes mysteriously large unanticipated effects
Kosmos Classic
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee and Kosmos editor, Rhonda Fabian shared this exchange, on February 19, 2015.
Kosmos: Teacher, what aspect or quality of our essential human nature can best counteract the powerful pull of consumerism and greed that traps so many?
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee: Love is the greatest power in creation, and the most essential quality of our human nature that is needed to help change our present situation, particularly our love and care for the Earth.
