The Great Turning and The Unfixing – Online screening of “The Unfixing” and conversation with filmmaker Nicole Betancourt

Event Overview

Conversation hosted by Spiral Journey’s Rukmini Iyer and Molly Brown on December 13th at 22:00-23:00 UTC.

This is a fundraiser for Spiral Journey’s WTR Facilitator program.

Screening partners: Women Make Movies, Horizontal Films, n.b productions

The Great Turning & The Unfixing –  Film Screening and Conversation with the Director Nicole Betancourt about the power of creative alchemy when everything seems to be falling apart.

The stories we tell ourselves shape our bodies and the landscape. If we hope to end the patterns of destruction created by the dominant cultures in our world, we have to start with our inner maps. How can we unfix ourselves from our current patterns and dream a new world into being? Nicole discovers her own answers to these questions in her poetic personal film The Unfixing —  which she says was heavily influenced by learning from Joanna Macy, her experience with The Work That Reconnects, and as a Donella Meadows Sustainability Leadership Fellow. After completing the film she did the Spiral Journey WTR Facilitation Training which has helped her as she speaks with audiences around the world about her film. She is now on the board of our governing entity, Gaia Passages.

The Unfixing is a poetic exploration of a mother’s journey from illness to healing, framed by the intensifying global climate crisis. The film presents a richly textured visual diary, capturing the intimate moments of Betancourt’s personal struggles with a debilitating illness and the ripple effects on her family, all while engaging with larger ecological questions. As her body begins to break down, so too does the planet – both requiring a radical transformation and renewal. Watch the trailer.