Values, when affirmed by an organization and its members, provide the glue that holds everything together. Furthermore, they are both aspirational and current practice. In Cosmos Coop:
We seek to promote diversity in its many facets, including bodies, perspectives and systems of thought, recognizing that this requires attention as much to culture as to identity.
We look to do so within a principled engagement towards equality, whereby all members are afforded a voice and appropriate influence, while emphasizing in practice the importance of equity, the adjustment of resources as a consequence of different needs.
We embody a commitment to cooperation throughout our organization and to the recognition of the mutual benefit that arises from this.
As a community of artists, authentic expression and excellence are always our goal, although we may demonstrate these in sometimes unconventional ways.
We seek to bring together disparate ways of understanding though a commitment to the integral, the whole.
Our ways favor openness, itself a source of freedom and wisdom that allow us to engage with the world in ways that recognize the diverse gifts of our community.
And finally, we engage in conscious evolution and self-development, both individually and collectively. We are here to continue deepening, improving, and refining not only our craft but our ways of relating, our quality of being, and our beneficial impacts in the world.