Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel R. Primack

Rita Alfred and Ina Bendich are co-founders of the Restorative Justice Training Institute in the San Francisco Bay Area. They provide trainings and consult with schools interested in implementing restorative justice practices to build positive school climates. They are also dedicated to eliminating the school-to-prison pipeline though preventing and/or mitigating the harmful effects of punishment and zero tolerance in schools.

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A Shared Cosmology Could Transform the World

By Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel R. Primack | January 1, 2011

Long before science, every tribe shared a “cosmology,” that is, a big picture. If we construct a shared cosmology today, based on our best scientific understanding combined with a deep appreciation that in human brains the sense of reality is created by metaphor, it could transform our minds and thus our world.