Lydia Violet Harutoonian will be your facilitator, informed by her 15 years of dedicated study and co-facilitation with Joanna Macy. For the last five decades, Joanna’s work has offered inspiration and guidance for living courageously in uncertainty. It maps ways into our innate vitality and determination to take part in the self-healing of our world.
Each day we face the news of…
…climate chaos, political warfare, species extinction, and ecological and social suffering, and we are asked to reconcile these collective traumas with all that is breaking in our hearts. It is natural in our time to feel despair, overwhelm, and grief. Come learn and experience tools for transforming our grief, anger, paralysis, and fear into compassionate connection with our world and communities, knowing our place in the web of life, and motivation to act on behalf of life on earth.
Climate anxiety and ecological despair are real. They are on behalf of a world desperate for our collaboration in remembering our dignity and grace. It is here that we grieve the ongoing devastation of our world, and nourish our compass for the times ahead.
Join us at the gorgeous Ecology Retreat Centre for this nourishing and powerful immersion into the Work That Reconnects to gain new tools in navigating the current crisis – on a personal and planetary level.
Over the course of the weekend…
Lydia will cover “The Spiral” of the Work that Reconnects: moving through Gratitude, Honoring our Pain, Perceiving in New & Ancient Ways, and Going Forth. This roadmap provides psychological resourcing in challenging times.
Lydia also integrates community singing in her facilitation. Music can be an excellent way to support participants in integrating their internal and relational experiences. For many millennia, music, and specifically music made together in community, has been a crucial way we bolster ourselves in hard times. Music 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 does the homecoming of singing together.
A special note for those interested in facilitating the Work that Reconnects…
The best way to learn how to facilitate the WTR is to be immersed in the WTR. To learn it from the inside.
This opportunity to participate in a 4-day workshop, moving continuously through the Spiral, is a powerful way to nourish yourself for skillful facilitation.
At this retreat, there will be an optional session for participants who are interested in facilitation, to offer some instruction and help you connect with one another. School for the Great Turning also offers ongoing online facilitator development workshops.
Full info and registration at https://programs.schoolforthegreatturning.com/canada-wtr-immersion
