Paula Guarnaccia

Paula Guarnaccia, M.Ed., has had a long career in higher education and healthcare administration. After retiring from the University of Vermont in May of 2010 as Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, she worked with the National Peace Academy as their Director of Administration and Finance, as a BePeace Teacher, and an educator with the Institute of HeartMath.

Paula Guarnaccia in Kosmos

The Art of Belonging | Emergent Universe Oratorio

The Emergent Universe Oratorio (EUO) is a musical and poetic composition for chorus, orchestra, and orator, of the Great Story of our vast evolving Universe, the new scientific cosmology of our cosmic birth, to galaxies, stars, Earth, life, of human emergence and transformation. It is a response to the greatest crisis in the history of humanity, and if we can respond as one thread in the tapestry of living Earth, it is also its greatest opportunity.

Published in Volume 25 Issue 1

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The Village Way

Practices for Belonging in a Fragmented World

For thousands of years, we lived according to the principles of village life. Then, around the 14th Century, our lives were reorganized by rulers around growth and accumulation – often at the cost of community, equity, and the living Earth. What would it mean to return to simplicity, and mutual care?

Join us for a 9-month inquiry into this question, exploring how we participate together in a time that calls us back to community, resilience, and shared life,