Kosmos Welcomes Two New Board Members
Kosmos Associates is pleased to announce the addition of two new Members to our Board of Directors, Stephanie Shorter and Rhonda Fabian.
Stephanie Shorter, Ph.D., is on a mission to use brain and behavior research to help people thrive and to scale positive change from individual behavior design to culture design for the common good. Originally trained as a behavioral neuroscientist and…
Living Peace Now
Dear Reader,
We don't have to wait for peace. Peace is happening right now. More and more people are restructuring their lives and their communities so that peace is an everyday practice.
When we hear about horrific violence in our communities, in schools, in law enforcement, and in wars that seem distant but are not, we know these are symptoms of a terrible disease of spirit and society.…
New Models and Practices
One cannot merely follow the timetable we have set for our influence on the world, we must also honour and respect the infinitely more complex timetable the world has set for itself. That timetable is the sum of the thousands of independent timetables of an infinite number of natural, historical, and human actions.
~ Vaclav Havel
The new normal is transformation, but what does that really mean?…
Special Preview | Kosmos Journal 2016 Spring/Summer Edition
Dear Readers,
The 2016 Spring | Summer edition of Kosmos Journal has arrived! Print and digital subscribers can access all content online right now, and the beautiful keepsake print journal is in the mail. The new edition celebrates the joy of co-creation as we explore 'models and practices for the emerging planetary civilization'. The way is not always clear! The path is made by walking…
Film | An Enquiry into a New Story for Humanity
Image | Rick Paine, New Story Summit
by Rhonda Fabian
The New Story Summit at Findhorn Community, Scotland in the autumn of 2014 was a momentous, unwieldy, fascinating conference, as anyone who attended can attest. Its purpose: to reflect on paradigmatic shifts, personal to planetary, believed by many to be underway in the world. The particular tribe of 320 attendees from 50 countries won’t…
Is there a ‘New Story’ beyond the Anthropocene?
Dear Readers,
The idea of a New Story for humanity is a tricky business. Whose story? We seem very far removed from any kind of global consensus about what is fair and just for all people and the planet. It's commonplace to say we live in a time of great uncertainty. Yet, have times ever been certain? Only for the elite perhaps, the few.
As Paul Ray points out in Co-creating the New Wisdom…
Choosing Life | Personal to Planetary
Dear Reader,
There is nothing more fundamental to life, or perhaps more precious, than the ability to choose. Science now tells us that even sub-atomic particles 'make choices'. The will to thrive is strong in all living things; the green fern unfolding in the sun; the herd protectively surrounding its weak and its young; humans exercising positive free will - to bond, share, nurture, love.……
Activists for the Evolution of Life
As I look out my window I see a vision of natural beauty that takes my breath away. There’s a special tree I have watched grow from a little twig to a mass of green foliage quivering in the wind with squirrels running up and down the trunk. A little chipmunk scurries into the woodpile outside my door every now and then and sometimes a little bunny, too. My beloved temple dogs, Sophia and Willy,…
On Beauty
Autumn Harvest. photography | Floris van Breugel
When we are filled with aesthetic delight and the thrill and grace of the beautiful, we open ourselves fully to life. Our fears vanish and we stand in the field of springtime, free, fresh, alive and open to tread more lightly on the sacred earth.
~ Nancy Roof, Kosmos Journal, 2006
Engaged Ecology: Seven Practices to Restore Our Harmony with Nature
It has rained steadily through the night, a gentle hushing sound in the thick tree canopy. In the morning light, crickets thrill and every leaf trembles and gleams. Soft mist gently rises as the creek gushes along its deep habitual groove in Rose Valley, a place as beautiful as it sounds: my home.
Amid such grace, one might forget the planet is in chaos. Wars rage… and the trees grow slowly.…