Written by Amy Spark Recognizing this year has been a difficult and extremely changeable year for Alberta (including both provincial and federal elections, climate emergencies, and massive budget cuts from our provincial government), we wanted to connect as a community and recharge. We had two main objectives: a) To foster and deepen connections to each […]
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Madison Wisconsin, US Gathering Report
Written by Sunshine Jones and Penny Andrews We planned our day long gathering in hopes of building community, offering nourishment to and seeking feedback from Work that Reconnects facilitators, emerging facilitators and those familiar with WTR but new to it. In doing so, we decided that the three and half-hour morning session would offer […]
Fires, Power and the Breakdown of Business as Usual
Frieda Nixdorf is the WTR Network community coordinator. She is the creative and talented woman who usually curates the Work That Reconnects Newsletter. However, this month, she’s had much more immediate concerns and very little access to electricity and internet service as her northern California community deals with power outages and fire danger. A couple […]
Letter from Joanna, May 2018
Dear Family in the Work That Reconnects, You are all very much in my thoughts these days for this is a critical moment for all life on our planet. It is both heart-shattering and, in its ferocity, promising of what we can become as planet people. I feel our connections in the Work resonating in […]
Widening Circles – Joanna’s Interview at Emergence Magazine
“There’s nothing that can happen that will ever separate me from the living body of earth.” ~Joanna Macy Back in a hot day October afternoon, Emergence Magazine interviewed Joanna Macy. In this interview, Buddhist eco-philosopher and author Joanna Macy discusses her life and work. From her anti-nuclear activism in the late 60’s to her work […]
Choosing the Story We Want for Our World
By Molly Brown and Joanna Macy This is an expanded version of the “3 Stories” described in Coming Back to Life (2014 edition), p. 5 We thank the following people for their help with this revision: Patricia St Onge, Sarah Thompson, Kurt Kuhwald, and Aryeh Shell. It is deep in the human psyche and the vast […]
Announcing Hope Sings – a collection of over 55 songs of inspiration
Check out Hope Sings – a collection of over 55 songs of inspiration, freshly launched just before the winter Solstice 2017 and freely offered by Sarah Pirtle, for you to listen to, download and use: sarahpirtle.com/hope-sings/ About hope, Sarah writes that she “wants to offer song medicine to document everyday bravery and help cheer on […]
Letter to the Network
Dear Friends and Colleagues in the Work, In this time of Trump and other far-right leaders ‘round the world, I am more grateful than ever for the work that connects us. The simple, strongly grounded practices help us stay honest with ourselves and each other. The Spiral brings us home ever again, through grief and […]
New Course: Healing Our Relationships with the Ancestors
Healing Our Relationships with the Ancestors opens a powerful channel in support of “Coming back to Life” for European Americans. This course addresses people’s desires to forge vibrant ties with their Ancestors along both personal and cultural lines. An underlying theme is the exploration of ways we can spiritually reclaim the understandings our indigenous forebears […]
Leonard Higgins – ‘Valve Turner’ on Climate Trial
11/20/17 Update: Leonard Higgins, the “valve turner” who shut down a tar sands pipeline in Montana last year, was found guilty of a felony charge on Wednesday. The judge refused the necessity defense and he was barred from mentioning climate change during his trial. His sentencing is scheduled for January 2, 2018. Below are his comments after […]
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