Take Heart: Practices and conversations for courageous, wholehearted living

Event Overview

Join me for an end-of-year journey through the ‘Spiral’ of The Work that Reconnects, created by deep ecologist and wise elder, Joanna Macy. 🧡

We’ll meet for five Fridays in November, starting Friday November 1st at 7pm-8:30pm UK time, to explore The Work that Reconnects – a nourishing guide for how to live in wholehearted service to life, each other, and ourselves.

‘Take Heart’ is a call to sit in circle together and share both what gladdens our hearts and what weighs heavy.

This year has been one where so many of us have felt rising horror, heartbreak and moral outrage as we can only witness relentless, escalating violence in Gaza and now Lebanon. We are witness, too, to the burning of the Amazon’s rich rainforests as its once mighty rivers dry up. The loss of species, the ecosystems and communities laid waste by our resource-hungry systems…

Yet, too, we can open to so many heartening moments where we ‘see the helpers’ – whether the frontline supporters post-hurricane or the carers and repairers in our families and communities. These dark times call on us to sense the joy and mission of being alive in this juncture for humanity that asks for our steadfast courage, gratitude and solidarity in the midst of it all.

“If everything around seems dark, look again: you may be the light.” Rumi ✨

And so, if you’d like to make yourself a warm drink and join the circle for some Friday conversations on grief-gratitude, deep time, and gain clarity on what’s ours to do in these times, I’d love to have you there! 🥰

Esmé Joy