Joni Carley
Dr. Joni Carley consults and advises private and public sector leaders and their teams. Her expertise in values-driven leadership and cultural development draws on a unique depth and breadth of experience—ranging from the jungle to the boardroom, from the C-suite to the podium, the African Bush to Asian Temples, and from universities to the United Nations, where she is currently Vice Chair of the…
Joni Carley | Our Essential Commons
By Joni Carley, DMin
Essential Commons is a field for negotiating what James Quilligan calls “…our mutual commons – the dynamic interrelationship of human subjectivity and material substance,” (Kosmos Journal. Spring/Summer 2013).
As policies and practices are beginning to better account for the commonality of our materiality, it’s critical that we also account for the intangible drivers of…
Kosmos Editorial Circle | Winter Edition
Each season, Kosmos convenes a new Editorial Circle for the upcoming edition of Kosmos Quarterly. This intentional group of culture hackers, healers, activists, and artists come together for 100 days to cross-pollinate ideas and share the fruits of their practice with our subscribers.
The next Kosmos Quarterly arrives December 21, 2018. Subscribe here.
Meet the Editorial Circle | Global…
Conscious Evolution: A Metaphysical Task
By Joni Carley
Kosmos Journal, FALL | WINTER 2016
"The yin/yang lens offers a conceptual framework for exploring the causality and metaphysics of conscious evolution. Just like positive and negative electrical charges in a wall outlet, yin and yang are distinct poles of unseen forces that, when consciously managed, yield power that is as formidable as it is neutral. We understand a lot…
Consciousness | Seeds and Soils of the Commons
by Joni Carley, DMin
In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete. That, in essence, is the higher service to which we are all being called. - Buckminster Fuller
Omega Institute for Sustainable Living
Omega Institute’s 2015 Forum on the Commons focused on literal and philosophical…
We Are All Global Citizens | Seeing Ourselves in the Advancement of All
By Joni Carley and Daniel Perell
Our Keynote authors represent the Coalition for Global Citizenship (CGC2030). The Coalition, based at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, advocates that governments, public and private sectors, and civil society, all work from a basis of values of just and fair treatment, inclusion and cooperation.
The Practice of Global Citizenship
Global unity is our evolutionary destiny.
This is what we believe at Kosmos, and why we continue.
Building the Ark of Consciousness
Dear Reader,
Building the Ark of Consciousness is a phrase I keep considering as both a metaphor and a practical plan for saving what must be saved for future generations. Sharing this phrase with others, there is often an immediate resonance. Each of us has ideas about what is most precious and must go in 'the Ark'. Here are a few:
“Radical forgiveness”
“Forests, birds and pollinators -…
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JONI…
Staff and Advisors
KOSMOS FALL 2022 > STAFF AND ADVISORS
Staff and Advisors
Founder and Editor Emeritus
NANCY B. ROOF
Editor
RHONDA FABIAN
Webmaster | Art Director
KAREN ANDERSEN
Associate Editors
CATALINA LASSEN
ROWAN BABER
Kosmos Associates Board of Directors
RHONDA FABIAN, President
NANCY B. ROOF
TARA STUART
JERRY BABER
ELIZABETH DOYLE
LILIA CLEMENTE
Poetry Editor
CAROLYN MARTIN
UN Reporter at Large
JONI…