2017 Kosmos Seed Grant Recipient | SExSE Refugee Center, “We’re Listening”
Congratulations to Southeast by Southeast, recipient of a 2017 Kosmos Seed Grant. “We’re Listening,” is a project that gives refugee children, age 8-14, a voice using the creative process of short, animated video storytelling. This project is a collaboration between SExSE and Ellen Reynolds, a documentary cinematographer and educator passionate about promoting children’s wellness and supporting…
Kosmic Activism Part 2 | Drawing on Wider Truths in an Age of Post-Truth:
By Kavita Byrd, for Kosmos Online
Part 1 of this article can be found here.
To live in truth in this age of post-truth -- to disentangle the lies and deceptions in which it threatens to envelop us -- we need to draw on deeper, higher truths, and the wisdom, inspiration and power with which they infuse us. We are citizens not only of our own skin, our clan, our neighborhood or our nation,…
Seed Grant Alum | Activist Ashram, One Year On
Kosmos caught up with Alnoor Ladha, co-founder of /The Rules, a 2016 Seed Grant Recipient. Mr. Ladha filled us in on what last year's seed grant helped accomplish at Activist Ashram.
Kosmos | How was your grant applied?
Alnoor Ladha
In February 2016, we launched an annual global fellowship program under the rubric of the Activist Ashram. With the support of the Kosmos Seed Grant,…
Preview | Spiritual Ecology, 10 Practices to Reawaken the Sacred in Everyday Life
By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee and Hilary Hart | © 2017 by The Golden Sufi Center | Advance Copy | publication date: May 1, 2017
Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet. - Thich Nhat Hanh
Walking
I have always loved to walk early in the morning, to sense the Earth at the beginning of a day, to feel Her pulse, Her beauty and magic, before thoughts and demands clutter my day. Waking…
Spring Into Action! | Kosmos Seed Grant Results
Dear Readers,
It truly appears spring has arrived! I have just returned from a nourishing retreat at Plum Village in France where the namesake blossoms fluttered like butterflies in the warm breeze. It is the hermitage of my teacher, Venerable Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh (currently in Thailand), and the visible energy of this humble poet, monk and activist who dedicated a lifetime to…
The (R)Evolutionary Power of Choosing
(Rhonda Fabian is on silent retreat at Plum Village in France. She wrote this March 1, 2017.)
Dear Reader,
I recently read a comprehensive book, Holistic Tarot, about the integrative psychology of modern tarot by Benebell Wen. Like Wen, I do not believe in 'fortune telling', yet the cards are dense with symbolic and personal significance, and in their often synchronous juxtapositions…
How to Start A Meal Sharing Co-op: An Excerpt From Together Resilient
by Ma’ikwe Ludwig, via Fellowship for Intentional Community
This is an excerpt from Together Resilient: Building Community in the Age of Climate Disruption by Ma’ikwe Ludwig, published by The Fellowship for Intentional Community.
Food is one of the true universals: everyone eats. Most of us have familial and cultural associations with food, and we have developed an incredible range of…
What Is So Rare? | Small actions in life’s garden
By Betsey Crawford, for Kosmos Online
What is so rare as a Tiburon mariposa lily?
While looking for an answer to my own question, I discovered, to my surprise, that rarity in the animal and plant world is quite common. Conservation scientist Eric Dinerstein estimates that 75% of the species on earth are rare. The US Forest Service guesses that a third of the native plants in the U.S. can…
Spring Into Action with the Power of Three
Small, informed groups of citizens are a key to positive action at the local level. Knowing this, Kosmos is introducing an experimental initiative to leverage the self-organizing power of people, through groups of three, to come together around a shared concern and simple practical goals in order to take action in their communities.
Power of 3 (Po3) is a new powerful method for igniting local…
The Power of Three | Awakening New Energy in Group Work
A person living today in a modern city or a suburb can be surrounded by others yet feel deeply, dangerously alone. According to neuroscientists, the effects of social isolation are as real as thirst, hunger, or pain. We are, in essence, social animals in need of deep connection.
Throughout time we have survived and thrived as a species by creating groups—the small band, hunting and gathering…