Recorded: 27 Mar 2026 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Hosted by our primary community weaver, Ellen Cool, we will be continuing the monthly tradition of online community meet-ups on fourth Fridays at 12pm MST.
All who are part of our community are welcome to participate! We’ll also share more about supporting membership and the latest Cosmos news at the meeting.
Discussion topic TBD/emergent. We will update this page if a specific topic is announced.
Summary of event
What does being a member of Cosmos Co-op mean to you?
That was the question at the heart of this month’s community meet-up — and the conversation that followed was one of the better ones we’ve had.
A small circle gathered: Colin Karewa Forbes, Ellen Cool, Karen Voorhees, Michael Stumpf, and Tamar Ben-Ur. Marco was there too, silently, his audio frozen — which the group took as a synchronicity and ran with.
Michael, a member since 2017, spoke about learning to listen — to others and, through years of Cosmos Cafés, to himself. Colin reflected on discovering a community structured not as guru and students but as dialogue among equals, and the renewed hope that came with it. Karen brought her background in integral theory and her sense of belonging here effortlessly. Ellen offered breathwork to open the space and her own concept of “boundless boundaries” — the safe-enough container where genuine opening becomes possible.
From there the conversation moved through storytelling and collapse, the paradox of freedom and safety, what it means to stand at the edge of openness. It closed with Karen sharing a phrase from the Ohlone people of the California coast — those who lived where the mountains fall straight into the Pacific — who called it: *dancing on the edge of the world.*Ahead of us, she said, is the ocean of all being.
Next community meet-up: Friday, April 24, 12 pm MDT. All members welcome.
