Robert Cornett

Robert Cornett, MTS is a certified end of life doula and death educator working with hospice patients in the Hudson Valley, New York. He is a member of the International End of Life Doula Association where he was trained and certified and holds a master’s degree from Harvard Divinity School and certification in Spiritual Direction. He recently conceived and acted in a play about near death experiences, “Crossing the Veil and Coming Back to Life.” https://www.robertcornett.com/

Robert Cornett in Kosmos

Holding the Threshold

If a new civilization is being born, it will not appear quickly or triumphantly. More likely, it will begin in the disciplines every death doula learns at the threshold: reverence for what is vulnerable, honesty about what is ending, patience with uncertainty, tenderness toward fear, respect for the body and its limits, and fidelity to presence when no cure is possible.

Published in Volume 26 Issue 5

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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,