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Active Hope: A weekend of the WTR
August 29, 2025 @ 5:30 pm - August 31, 2025 @ 5:30 pm PDT
Event Overview
with Lydia Violet and Anna Swisher
Crann Og Eco Farm, Co. Galway, Ireland
Join for some, or all, of the weekend!
Friday Eve – Song Circle
Saturday – Work That Reconnects Open Workshop (10 am – 5 pm)
Sunday – Work That Reconnects Facilitator Training (10 am – 5 pm)
Join us for a unique opportunity to experience, learn, and study the Work That Reconnects, with experienced facilitators who have spent many years studying closely with root teacher, Joanna Macy.
FRIDAY EVE:
We’ve got the treat of Lydia Violet Music As Medicine Community Sing, an evening of song & sanctuary.
For many millennia, music, and specifically music made together in community, has been a crucial way we bolster ourselves in hard times. Music can mend our bones and pour in the grace. It can transform our exhaustion and help us feel more held as a part of the choir. Just as it feels good to act in the companionship of others on behalf of life, so too is the homecoming of singing together. Lydia leads the songs around the spiral of Joanna Macy’s work.
All are welcome! No music experience necessary.
Doors at 6:30,
Sing from 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Saturday Aug 30: Work That Reconnects Open Workshop
**Workshop will be capped at 25 participants!
In this one-day workshop, seasoned WTR facilitator Lydia Violet Harutoonian, informed by her 16 years of dedicated study and co-facilitation with Joanna Macy, and WTR facilitator and mentor Anna Swisher will lead an immersion in Joanna Macy’s “Work that Reconnects” (WTR). WTR is an experiential group work methodology that has helped thousands find clarity of vision and emotional sanctuary while living through this precious and precarious moment on our planet.
Sunday Aug 31: Work That Reconnects Facilitator Training
Must have attended day-long on Sat, Aug 30th.
Bring bagged lunch.
**Workshop will be capped at 25 participants!
Lydia Violet Harutoonian and Anna Swisher will lead an in-depth introductory facilitation training in the “Work that Reconnects (WTR),” Joanna Macy’s experiential group work that has helped thousands find clarity of vision and emotional sanctuary while living through this precious and precarious moment on our planet.
This program will go into the fundamental pillars that Macy synthesized in her formation of the WTR. These include:
Foundations of the Work
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Community Organizing
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Living Systems Theory
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Deep Ecology
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Tibetan Buddhism
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Despair Work
GET YOUR TICKETS HERE: https://programs.schoolforthegreatturning.com/active-hope#join-wtr