(Revised version by Molly Brown and Joanna Macy) (or Accepting the Challenges and Gifts of This Lifetime) (60 minutes) Using and growing our moral imagination, this process focuses on our own lives and helps us see how their basic features and conditions prepare us to take part in the healing of the world. Like climbing… Read more
Lessons & Reflections from Radical Dharma
For the Evolution of the Work That Reconnects By Aravinda Ananda “It’s an important entryway into the potential for healing when we start to recognize we are all participating unless we’re interrupting.” –Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams What a time to be alive! So many skeletons are coming out of the systems of oppression closets and… Read more
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2016 Holiday Letter from Joanna
Dear People of the Work That Reconnects, I know many of you hoped to hear from me sooner, and I have been trying to write. I labored over three letters and tossed each of them, because they did not begin to do justice to the situation we’re in. They sounded either hysterical or flat. I’ve… Read more
The GREAT TURNING at Standing Rock
by Lynne Iser Our collective imagination has been captured by the Water Protectors of Standing Rock. The Native people, joined by their non-Native allies, have come from across this country to camp on the banks of the Cannonball River with the intention of stopping the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). It’s not an easy place to… Read more
Growing the Work That Reconnects Network Together
by Constance Washburn In Networks, everyone is a leader, encouraged to connect to others and initiate collaborative action; power is distributed, not concentrated. ~ June Holley – An Introduction to Network Weaving At the August/September Intensive at River’s Bend, everyone was asked to spend some time in nature to receive Gaia’s messages, images, and inspiration… Read more
Athabasca River Pilgrimage
A 2 week Pilgrimage along the River from the Columbia Icefields to the Heart of the Oil Sands Maureen Wild, a long time colleague in the Work That Reconnects, is currently on a pilgrimage with Sister of Mercy, Mary Pendergast (from RI and Director of Mercy Ecology Ministries). They are following the Athabasca River from… Read more
Let’s Institutionalize Virtues
by Molly Young Brown (co-author of Coming Back to Life) Our U.S. medical system is based on the idea of individual responsibility for our health, part of a common perception that sees each person as separate and almost entirely self-determined. This is an illusion, because the larger fields in which we live—social, economic, and… Read more
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