8 Ways School Leaders Can Practice Empathy in Listening
By Valerie Brown, JD, MA, ACC, via Getting Smart
“…when we learn how to listen more deeply to others, we can listen more deeply to ourselves.” ~ Parker J. Palmer, A Hidden Wholeness
Research on listening indicates that the we spend about 80% of our waking hours communicating:
Writing 9%
Reading 16%
Speaking 30%
Listening, to people, music, TV, radio, etc. 40-50%
About 75%…
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What’s It Like Being Muslim in America?
By Zehra Naqvi, via The Huffington Post
I’m an attorney, a community organizer and a female Pakistani-American Muslim immigrant. Being Muslim in America means being identified by only one aspect of my identity. It means being told exactly what it means to be Muslim in America and having very little control over the narrative.
Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori, a Muslim prince from West…
Call for Essays | Activism in the New Climate
Call for Essays
Twice a year Kosmos invites our community members to submit an essay up to 830 words. We choose two or three essays to publish in our print edition of Kosmos Journal and several others in Kosmos Online and on our website. We are preparing the next issue of Kosmos Journal right now, and hope you will participate. Our theme this Spring is 'Activism in the New Climate'. What does…
You Want to Be an Active Ally? Here’s How.
By Lara Witt, via NewsWorks.org
Have you seen people wearing those safety pins on their lapels, tops and coats? They’re the latest trend in allyship. For the low cost of $2 for a pack of 10 pins, you can show people that you’re one of the nice ones without having to actually dismantle white supremacy and do any hard work.
Well-intentioned people have been looking for ways to help those who…
A Letter to Our New President
By Ayah Chehade, via Muslim American Society
A letter to our new President:
Dear Donald,
Thank you. And I mean this sincerely. Here’s why:
For a while now, I’ve been praying for clarity – for God to clear the path for me and show me exactly what it is that I should pursue – what is important to me and what, in the end, would be good for both my livelihood and the state of…
Call for Essays, Muslim Voices, and Engaged Action
Dear Reader,
Many federal courts have issued orders against President Trump's targeted travel ban impacting seven Muslim-majority countries. Those cases will take a long time to resolve. Meanwhile, many of us wonder where to focus our attention 'next'. Each day brings a new political tremor, a petition to sign, march to join, or meme to post.
Yet, while we know it is important to be…
Feminine Principles and Social Change | Action Rooted in Spirit
By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, adapted from a new preface to The Return of the Feminine and World Soul
"The Feminine is the matrix of creation, without her full participation nothing new can be born.”
Today we are faced by ongoing ecological devastation, polluted air, rising seas, and the world’s worst refugee crisis since the end of World War II. If we can bear to hear the cry—both of the…
Reader’s Essay | On Intercultural Dialogue
By Kosmos Reader, Monica Islam
“Is our college becoming anti-Islam?” asked a classmate with regards to an exhibition on the Holocaust organized by a youth club in the college. Being a Muslim in Muslim-majority Bangladesh with minimal exposure to Israel and anything even minutely Jewish, I found the exhibition refreshing. I was educated about a dark chapter in history; one that related tales of…
Kosmos Community News | February 2017
Dear Community.
Thank you for the many ways you encouraged us last month! Here's what you need to know about your community for the month of February:
Call for Essays
Twice a year Kosmos invites our community members to submit an essay up to 830 words. We choose two or three essays to publish in our hard copy Kosmos Journal and several others in Kosmos Online and on our website. We are…