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Eyes Wide Open to the Injustices, Challenges and the Possibilities – The Passing of Three Greats

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We start 2022 with gratitude for all that is: as root teacher Joanna Macy has said, just being alive on this Earth is enough to celebrate.

We have, however, experienced important losses in just two months: social activist and author bell hooks, human rights activist Desmond Tutu, and master precursor of the concept of engaged spirituality Thich Nhat Hanh.

Each of them left us with eyes wide open to the injustices and challenges as well as the possibilities. And their passing opens the doors for new leaders and actions based on the inspiration they sowed. Read more

Featured Facilitator: Jacqueline Buckingham

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Please join us in welcoming our Facilitator of the month: Jacqueline BuckinghamLocation: UKInvolved with the WTR since: 2007Groups Jacqueline works with: community groups, environmental stewards, charitiesLanguage: English WTR Network: Jacqueline, could you share about your work? How did you become involved in the WTR and what role does it have in your life? Jacqueline: I… Read more

Practice Garden: The Bodhisattva Check-in

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Revisiting an old favorite: The Bodhisattva Check-in Anti-Oppression Resource Group members, aware that a European-colonizer mindset has informed much of the development of the WTR over the years, has been reviewing some classic WTR exercises. Most recently we reviewed and updated the Bodhisattva Check-in. This exercise helps us “See with New Eyes” as we reflect on… Read more

Practice Garden: Emerging and Re-envisioned Practices

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In many Work That Reconnects communities, facilitators offer a ritual Welcome at the opening of a workshop. This practice is intended to help all participants feel included; it can also alert members of dominant or privileged groups that a broad spectrum of the human family may be present. Read more

Embracing Collapsology: Reflections on the International Film Release of “Once You Know”

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Dear WTR Network Family and Friends,  Over the past couple of months I’ve had the great honor and joy of supporting the WTR Network-sponsored international release of the film Once You Know. It has been a profound experience of weaving connections and deepening dialogue within (and even beyond) our global WTR community as we’ve explored… Read more

Giving Tuesday is now LIVE!

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Thank you for being part of this growing community! Your ongoing support helps the WTR Network create opportunities for WTR lovers to connect with each other across distance and difference, to learn and practice together, to discuss and explore the challenges we are facing in our changing world, to find resources and to cultivate resilience.… Read more

Deepening into Gratitude

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As the Work That Reconnects Network continues to apply anti-oppression and decolonization frameworks to the Work That Reconnects, the Weaver’s team reflects on this season of gratitude and the opportunity to deepen our awareness and connection to the local Indigenous communities of the land we live with and Indigenous communities world wide. Read more… Read more

Deep Times Journal: Unraveling Patriarchy and Shifting the Paradigm

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In the next issue of Deep Times, we will examine patriarchy as one of the intersecting sub-systems of the “power-over” paradigm, which has deep and wide roots and branches in the idea of separation from the land and the superiority of humans.

We hope writers, poets, and artists steeped in the Work That Reconnects will be inspired to explore how the Work can help transform the patriarchal paradigm into one of respect and empowerment for all people, all genders, all skin colors, all cultures, all life. Read more

Deep Times Journal: Sacred Wisdom, Sacred Earth

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In the most recent edition of Deep Times, “Sacred Wisdom, Sacred Earth,” we explore what might be called the “spiritual” roots of the Work That Reconnects. Our intention was to honor the wisdom traditions that have sustained so many people throughout history up to the present time as they have faced hardship, oppression, and collective trauma. Read more

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