Ramona Rolle-Berg
Renee Rolle-Whatley, Ph.D. and Ramona Rolle-Berg, Ph.D. are health care researchers and Integrative Medicine practitioners with board certifications in Healing Touch, a biofield-based whole-body healing modality. Their healing approaches focus on partnering with clients to co-create trusting alliances that motivate self-care via mind body techniques that reduce chronic pain, chemo side-effects,…
Renée Rolle-Whatley and Ramona Rolle-Berg
Renee Rolle-Whatley, Ph.D. and Ramona Rolle-Berg, Ph.D. are health care researchers and Integrative Medicine practitioners with board certifications in Healing Touch, a biofield-based whole-body healing modality. Their healing approaches focus on partnering with clients to co-create trusting alliances that motivate self-care via mind body techniques that reduce chronic pain, chemo side-effects,…
Joshua Spodek
Joshua Spodek PhD MBA is a three-time TEDx speaker, #1 bestselling author of Initiative and Leadership Step by Step, host of the award-winning Leadership and the Environment podcast, and professor and coach of entrepreneurship and leadership at NYU and Columbia Business School.
He speaks on leadership, entrepreneurship, and environmental leadership at institutions such as Boston Consulting…
Erica Etelson
Erica Etelson is a resistance activist, mutual aid organizer and the author of Beyond Contempt: How Liberals Can Communicate Across the Great Divide (New Society Publishers, 2020). A former human rights attorney, she has represented indigenous land sovereignty leaders, welfare recipients, and enivronmental activists.
In the Light of ‘Truth’
"We are bombarded by signals of distress...Not surprisingly we are feeling despair...what is surprising is the extent to which we hide this despair from ourselves and each other." - Joanna Macy
Dear Reader,
Many can no longer hide their despair as we confront hard truths about our society and our planet. Kosmos stands in unity with all who suffer – from disaster, disease, racial injustice,…
Loren Swift
Loren’s background includes a deep appreciation for the scientific, the psychological, as well as the mystical. She has a BA in Psychology from the University of Oregon and an MA in Counseling from Oregon State University, was a Licensed Psychotherapist working in the field of addictions-recovery and dissociative disorders in Santa Fe, NM. She is a Certified Nonviolent Communication trainer since…
Paul Levy
A pioneer in the field of spiritual emergence, Paul Levy is a wounded healer in private practice, assisting others who are also awakening to the dreamlike nature of reality. He is the founder of the “Awakening in the Dream Community” in Portland, Oregon. Among his books are The Quantum Revelation: A Radical Synthesis of Science and Spirituality (SelectBooks, May 2018), Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking…
Teresa Coady
Teresa Coady is an award-winning architect and Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. In addition to her work as president and CEO of BuntingCoady B+H and COO of Kasian, two of Canada';s largest design firms, Coady is also a director of the International Initiative for Sustainable Built Environments (iiSBE) and a member of the United Nations Environment Programme Global Alliance…
COVID-19 Part 3 | and May’s Featured Poet
Dear Reader,
As many continue to shelter in place, it is increasingly apparent that COVID-19 is an experience shaping our global future - how we gather and work; what we consider 'essential'; where our food is produced; even what 'home' means to us. This is a transformational time and Kosmos continues to explore the virus through that lens. The process of transformation can't be rushed. It will…
Marjorie Mir
Marjorie Mir is a retired children’s librarian whose work has appeared most often in Atlanta Review and the online journal, Eclectica. She received two awards from Atlanta Review: first prize in their annual contest and later, a Merit Award. She served as poetry editor for the newsletter, Monhegan Commons, and edited an anthology of poems from that site. She lives in Bronxville, New York, with…