Rhonda Fabian

Rhonda Fabian is Editor of Kosmos, the journal for transformation in harmony with all Life. A member of the Order of Interbeing founded by her teacher, Thích Nhất Hạnh, she was recognized in 2026 as a dharma teacher in the Plum Village tradition. (Chân Giác Hà / True Awakening River). Her work explores the intersection of contemplative practice, systems transformation, regenerative culture, and community resilience.

Rhonda is a writer, Emmy-nominated video producer, and educational media pioneer whose work has supported millions of learners of all ages worldwide through Fabian Baber, Inc. (dba Immediacy Learning), the educational media company she co-founded with her partner more than 35 years ago. She began her career as a freelance video journalist for CNN and Public Broadcasting, earning Press Club recognition for her work chronicling the desegregation of Louisiana. She later documented musical and cultural traditions of New Orleans while active in the Public Access movement. She studied cultural anthropology, film, and communication in New Orleans, Innsbruck, Austria, and at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

Rhonda serves as an NGO Representative to the United Nations for Kosmos Associates and is active in Transition Town Greater Media. She facilitates a thriving mindfulness sangha and participates in multiple circles devoted to harmony, understanding, and trust. She was inducted into the Evolutionary Leaders Circle in 2026.

Rhonda lives in Rose Valley, Pennsylvania, adjoining a wildlife sanctuary, with her husband Jerry and retriever, Rika. She is a grandmother.

Rhonda Fabian in Kosmos

Nate Hagens and the Work of Resilient Futures

Nate Hagens outlines a practical and moral framework for navigating ecological and civilizational contraction. Blending systems thinking, grief literacy, resilience, and regeneration, he argues that humanity’s future depends upon relocalization, relationality, and learning to live within limits.

Published in Special Feature

In Loving Memory of Nancy Roof

Nancy B. Roof, Ph.D., Founder and Editor Emeritus of Kosmos Journal, passed away peacefully at the age of 96 on September 29th, 2025. Nancy’s presence continues through the ongoing work of Kosmos Journal, the communities she helped inspire, and the countless hearts she awakened.

Published in Volume 25 Issue 5

The Deschooling Dialogues | Ayahuasca and Other Pathways of Perception

Daniel | Since I started this whole journey...it's felt to me that there is the potential that we, in this lifetime, can somehow make a kind of quantum, mutational leap into another dimensional realization.

Published in Volume 18 Issue 2

On Elevating the Human Narrative

Judy Rodgers | ...I think decisions about things like governance or institutions source from our awareness. We can’t build something if it’s outside the scope of our awareness. We can’t design a true commons if we’re in a very limited consciousness.

Published in Volume 18 Issue 3

Resonance and Relationship

Published in Volume 19 Issue 2

A Story Still Unfolding

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ― Søren Kierkegaard

Published in Volume 19 Issue 4

Century of Awakening

We resacralize something by treating it with respect and reverence. Even the simple act of drinking tea can be a profound act.

Published in Volume 21 Issue 1

Our Struggle Is with Illusion

Einstein called the misinterpreted self “an optical illusion of consciousness”, the incessant stream of chatter in our heads we call “me, mine, I.”

Published in Volume 20 Issue 4

Our Collective Journey

Our quest to find purpose requires conscious alignment with our evolving, living Earth. When we allow Earth’s purpose to guide us, we know how to act in harmony with Life, and hope can blossom anew.

Published in Volume 20 Issue 3

The Deschooling Dialogues: Grief, Collapse, and Mysticism

Alnoor: ...There is no doubt that we are in the midst of unprecedented moment where there is no return to old certainties. Part of this pain that we are facing in the world is a pathway toward transformation. Or will we perish in the horror of the onslaught that we are facing?

Published in Volume 18 Issue 1

An Interview with Sister Miriam Therese MacGillis at Genesis Farm

The only way we can really be effective is to come home and understand our own ecosystems. This sequential process is the most fundamental learning we should be given. Only then we can ask: is our behavior enhancing what the natural world is doing, or is it the cause of the disease and the sickness? That is why our energies at Genesis Farm have been so focused on bioregionalism.

Published in Spring | Summer 2017, Volume 17 Issue 1

Engaged Ecology: Seven Practices to Restore Our Harmony with Nature

Published in Fall | Winter 2015, Volume 15 Issue 2

Coming Soon

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,