WTR Network Map & Directory

Author of Am I Too Old to Save the Planet? A Boomer's Guide to Climate Action (ChangeMakers Books, October 2023. ) Why America's most promising generation is responsible for the climate emergency and what we can do about it now. Experimenting with WTR practices in my book talks. https://medium.com/@ClimateBoomer

Abeja found her way to this work through Permaculture, environmental activism and the nature connection movement. Incorporating music, song and movement into the Work that Reconnects is a passion. She has lived in rural intentional communities for over 20 years, and is still slowly unlearning the disconnective habits our society encourages. She makes her living as a body worker and permaculture consultant, while raising a son, a herd of goats, chickens, and a garden off the grid in Mendocino County, at Emerald Earth Sanctuary.

The Spiral of The Work that Reconnects is an anchor for me in a world that seems ever more turbulent and confusing.   Time and time again, whether I am the facilitator or just a participant in a Work that Reconnects workshop, I leave feeling more at peace with who and where I am, clearer in my purpose, and inspired by the gifts I am called to offer to the world.  Part of that offering is bringing the Work that Reconnects to more and more people.  

Things are moving more and more quickly in these times of great climate, social, and political change.  Our responses need to be strong and decisive, and, more importantly, to come from a grounded place, informed by vision, compassion, clarity and creativity.  The Work that Reconnects shows us clearly the fear, anxiety, confusion, and self-centered impulses that arise and are even encouraged by the dominant culture.  It then opens us to a new way of seeing, that comes from our true values and inspires us to create the world we truly want.  

• Emerald Earth Debacle (2017)
  Facilitated by: Joanna, Mutima, Anne

I'm a facilitator, grief worker, and lover of this wild green Earth. I've been active in movements for social, ecological and climate justice since 1998; some of my past work has included organizing to abolish mountain top removal coal mining in Appalachia, fighting coal plants in western North Carolina and on the south side of Chicago, community organizing to stop water privatization, and campaigning for private prison divestment. I'm a co-founder of Rising Tide North America, and for many years I was active in local, national and international climate justice organizing and direct action. These days, I focus on creating a more just, equitable and life-sustaining food system at my "day job" as Executive Director of a small but mighty nonprofit called Rogue Farm Corps. I'm also an herbalist, medicine maker, and co-founder of a holistic health free clinic serving Portland's houseless community. I'm inspired by the power of grief and gratitude as catalysts for healing and transformation. Now more than ever, we need spaces where we can come together, speak our hearts and be real with each other about the depth of the crises we face. I first experienced the Work That Reconnects in the early 2000s while participating in a social justice sangha in Southern California, and found this approach to the healing of ourselves and our world to be deeply resonant. I have been facilitating the Work That Reconnects since 2018, often combining the spiral with elements of Earth-based ritual. I'm excited to partner with groups, formal or informal, to facilitate workshops and other explorations in the tradition of the Great Turning and the Work that Reconnects.

Adah Parris is a polymath, tech futurist, anti-disciplinary artist, and activist. She is the creator of Cyborg Shamanism™, a philosophy that combines ancient wisdom, living systems and digital technology to inspire innovation and encourage people to consider the kind of ancestors they want to be. Adah is also a sought-after speaker, recognised as a TED Talks Global Emerging Innovator. Her unique perspective on innovation, transformation, and technology has led her to explore the impact of technology on identity, culture, economics, and ecosystems. Adah is particularly interested in how to adopt emerging technologies in a way that aligns with one's values and promotes social justice. As the Chair of Mental Health First Aid England and the Advisory Group for the Centre for Cultural Value, she is a vocal advocate for mental health awareness and cultural diversity. Adah is also a Fellow of The Royal Society of the Arts.

Dr. Anna Dinallo, is a two-spirited individual with Latina/x heritage. They are cross trained and licensed as a psychotherapist and Doctor of Oriental Medicine. Dr. Dinallo began her teaching career in El Salvador in post–civil war outdoor rural settings, and is deeply inspired by eco-psychology. They/them implore a contemplative education as a form of social justice work to inspire action oriented pedagogical approaches to counselor, psychic , and shamanic education. Some classroom frameworks Dr. Dinallo enjoys implementing include family systems, shamanic attachment work, and Daoist Five Element theory applied to counseling relationships. Dinallo is an avid Vedic Astrologer, and her current research includes ketamine assisted psychotherapy, and cross-cultural somatic typologies. Dr. Dinallo’s intention at Naropa is to create a unified field that is student-centered, compassionate, and a playful learning environment for diverse counselors in training. At Naropa she leads spiral work and shamanic healing with future and past ancestors lines.

I’m passionate about human transformation in service of the living Earth in order to uncover the regenerative expression of our deep potentials. Integral ecopsychologist, academic professor, contemplative teacher, author, ritualist-–these are some of the tags that help give voice to my vocation. My work is often considered a Latin American referent when it comes to Deep Ecology, Ecopsychology, and Earth-based spirituality. At the heart of what I offer there’s a confluence of Eastern liberation teachings, Earth-based traditions, and Ecopsychologies, resulting in an elemental framework for self-discovery, healing, and regenerative action. I’ve been engaged in transformative education for the last 17 years, actively offering workshops and talks to academic audiences and the general public. I’ve worked with individuals for the past 9 years through a contemplative, eco-systemic, animistic, and transpersonal lens. I’m the author of a handful of books and translator into Spanish of Joanna’s and Molly's Coming back to life book (the guide for the Work That Reconnects, both its 1996 and 2014 versions). I'm the founder of Work That Reconnects Latin America, initiative that assists Spanish speaking people from the Americas and beyond in reclaiming their true, wild place in the Earthly web of life.

The Work That Reconnects (WTR) has been a faithful inspiration and close ally for many years. I'm called to facilitate the Work due to its transformative potentials and life-affirming influence amidst this critical planetary juncture we find ourselves in.

Amidst the Great Unraveling, the Great Turning represents the possibility of reconnecting with our true humanity, out of which the possibility of a brighter future for all is born. The Work paves a compassionate pathway back home.

I have been facilitating personal and community development workshops for 25 years, and 7 of these making some use of WTR, having trained with Chris Johnstone. see more at www.naturalhappiness.net and www.seedingourfuture.org.uk

Facilitator of sacred circles Intending to be a catalyst for healing and growth within and across communities, and within myself.

Alex Julie (he/him) is an Awake in the Wild meditation teacher, specializing in contemplative nature practice. He received EcoSattva training through One Earth Sangha, as well as EcoDharma training at the Rocky Mountain EcoDharma Retreat Center. He is a RYT-200 yoga instructor and has a background in regenerative economics and investing. He is a director of the Mind Body Ecology Institute. Alex is a PADI Rescue Diver, with over 25 years of experience. He is developing a first-of-its-kind Underwater Meditative Immersion program (UMI), launching to the public Fall 2024. Alex draws his inspiration from wild spaces and believes our stories of separation from the Earth lie at the heart of the twin mental health and climate crises. He is active within the conscious dance community and is a Buddhist practitioner. As a cis, white man, he is committed to lifelong learning in social justice and equity. In his free time, Alex enjoys backpacking with his son and dog, writing poetry and playing music. Alex lives in Denver, Colorado, the unceded territory of the Cheyenne, Ute, and Arapaho peoples.

WTR has changed my life. After experiencing a taste of it on silent retreat studying EcoDharma at RMERC, I have shifted my entire life toward personal and community reconnection to the Earth. My recently piloted underwater meditation program (UMI) centers a WTR arc, utilizing nature-meditation and mindful ocean immersions to move the spiral along in an organic and powerful way. I just finished the pilot, which was a complete a deep spiral of over 25 circles, rituals, meditations, journaling prompts, dharma talks, and art projects over 6 days, and would like to make my facilitation of the work more official.

My meditation retreats in nature center reconnection to the Earth through the lens of interdependence and impermanence, accessed through awakening the senses and attuning to wonder, awe, joy, and beauty. However, as opposed to most retreats I have attended, my programs are action oriented, encouraging participants to move their practice out of their homes and off the cushion and into the world. I consider this my calling toward helping shift perceptions and values, while my underwater program is an attempt to transforming the foundations of how people recreate.

2023

• Underwater Meditative Immersion (2024, 40 hours)
  Facilitated by: None

I have led eco-retreats of as much as 10 days, and a number of shorter programs (daylong / multi-day). I have facilitated groups to go through EcoSattva training, and co-led online courses around belonging, concepts of self, and meditation. I am a yoga teacher. My underwater meditation program (UMI) centers WTR with meditation, embodiment, and ocean immersions as supplements to take the work deeper. This year I will lead 6+ more retreats, including 2-3 more UMI spirals.

• Roots of Resilience for Uncertain Times (2023, 11 hours)
  Facilitated by: Kathleen Rude
• RMERC Inner and Outer Nature for Dharma Leaders (2021, 10 day retreat, ~10 hours WTR spiral + meditation in nature hours)
  Facilitated by: David Loy, Johann Robbins

My training as an awake in the wild meditation teacher helps me access the arcs of the spiral through the gateway of presence in nature. Everything Mark Coleman has trained us in parallels portions of WTR, whether that's coming into gratitude and resourcing through the body and heart, sitting with uncertainty and change, reconnecting to the web of life, or empowering ourselves to take action. I am also EcoSattva trained through One Earth Sangha, which follows a similar arc of making a home in uncertainty, bringing worldviews into awareness, and embracing our life's journey as a means of finding purposeful action in the face of seemingly insurmountable challenges.

• White Awake - Roots Deeper than Whiteness (2023, 10 hours)
  Facilitated by: David Dean

• Awake in the Wild teacher training (2023, 300 hours)
  Facilitated by: Mark Coleman
• EcoSattva Training (One Earth Sangha) (2023, 40 hours)
  Facilitated by: Self

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With a background in the arts, performance, facilitation, community building and activism, I am currently studying for a Masters in Ecological Design Thinking at Schumacher College and am committed to working towards socio-ecological flourishing and regeneration.

Mabuhay (Hello) lovely beings! I am Althea (She/Her) from the Philippines. Ours is a country of 7,000 islands with 3 island groups and I am currently settled in the island of Luzon, in its capital Metro Manila. My paternal ancestors come from the island group of Mindanao with Islamic roots, while my maternal ancestors are from the province of Laguna, also in Luzon. Colonized by Spain, America, and the Japanese, with my maternal relatives directly impacted by the Japanese occupation, I am decolonizing and feel the responsibility to reclaim my roots and serve future generations. I heard about the Work that Reconnects during a friend's activity in 2021. I joined a Facilitators Workshop in early 2022 since beginners are also welcome. I wanted to delve deeper into the work and attended a Deep Ecology course in 2022. I started working for a local non-profit in 2021 and realized soon that the only way to regenerate the planet is through human beings reconnecting to Her Spirit and reclaiming our indigenous roots and ways, which I feel Deep Ecology and the WTR facilitates so well. My spiritual connection to Mother Gaia was awakened in the first years of the pandemic but before that I have felt the grief of the planet since I was 12. I want to serve and use the medicine given by the ancestors to contribute to healing the planet.

I am a oncology chaplain in Winston Salem, NC. I enjoy connecting with people and their stories. I feel like life is a patchwork quilt, each experience is a new piece of cloth to be sewed. I consider myself a crafter and avid reader. I live in Kernersville, NC with my husband Jamie and our dogs.

Amy Lister, with fellow Work That Reconnects (WTR) facilitator Simone Hanchet, co-founded Spiral Centre, an online learning institute dedicated to making the WTR practices accessible to people everywhere. Spiral Centre offers individual coaching and group facilitation so more people can experience their full agency, creative power, compassion, joy, courage, and active hope at this time of multiple complex social and ecological crises. Spiral Centre works with leaders in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors, as well as with activists, caregivers, educators, and young people. The diverse identities, contexts, circumstances and lived experiences embodied in Spiral Centre’s learning community offers unique beauty, wisdom and opportunities to unlearn harmful beliefs and patterns and co-create life-sustaining ways of working, living, and being together on Earth. Since 2009, with their background in education and organization development, Amy has run a successful leadership coaching and facilitation business serving clients across the globe. As a coach, she supports people to explore and integrate pivotal transition experiences in life and work so they can courageously live in alignment with their values while expanding their capacity to care for self and for the planet. Amy also recently studied art therapy at the Toronto Art Therapy Institute and now, in their private practice, offers online psychotherapy and art therapy services to caregivers, other individuals, children and families. Amy is filled with gratitude for the opportunity to connect and collaborate with amazing people bringing unique strengths together to collectively navigate and process the challenges that arise in today’s world in supported, constructive ways. She revels in the inspiration that Nature offers to nourish the soul and sustain the ceaseless creative process of sacred living. When they are not working, Amy is singing, dancing, creating, engaging in community building, social outreach and ecologically-focused initiatives and spending time outdoors with their family.

I am called to do this work because it is at the intersection of what the world needs most right now and where my gifts lie, making it the best form of service for my head, hands, heart and soul to engage in for the sake of the planet and all living beings – past, present and future.

I see it serving people as a map and a toolkit with a set of practices, processes and pathways to assist in moving through the grief and pain in our world, tapping into new and ancient perspectives, to move forward with hope and action that supports us all as a planet people in greater harmony with the more-than-human-beings!

Andrew is a dynamic and experienced facilitator. Drawing on his personal experience in the wilds of the classroom, the bush and the human psyche he creatively cultivates wild connections with fur, root and claw. He is dedicated to the ecological awakening of humanity and does so through his work as teacher, through developing the Perth Waldorf School Camp curriculum, working with Cape to Cape Explorer Tours and helping found The Work that Reconnects Western Australia group. He loves to surf and explore the ancient granite boulders of his home in Margaret River and is always up for a playful game! He is heeding the call to fully embrace the challenges of today with insight and heart, calling you to do so too.

This Work is deeply in-bedded in the sinews of my purpose. Immersion in this Work in the early 2010’s catalysed my personal potential to facilitate meaningful cultural change. It calls me to activate the rising soul of the western heart-mind to care for people and place. Many of my long lasting friendships have been forged in the fires of this work. I do enjoy making fire.

"The longest journey you will make is from your head to your heart”. I appreciate that the WTR provides a solid and dependable framework to support people in their social-ecological awakening. Time and time again, the Work has proven to inspire communities to make lasting changes that ripple far and wide.

I am 43 years old, father of a beautiful boy (Neo, 13 years), on my way to become a partner and deep lover of this amazing world and its living creatures, including humans and with the intention to be as authentic as possible on this path. I was born and raised in the former GDR (east Germany) and live right now in southern Portugal. A major shift in my life happened in my early 20s when I was diagnosed with cancer and went through a conventional treatment. I faced deep fears of death and with that came the ultimate will to live. Since then my life is guided and shaped by political, ecological and spiritual awakenings that helped me to look at the world and life in its beauty and at the same time to face the massive, human made destruction of it. It is an ongoing journey. Since about 15 years I am actively looking for a life in community as I was searching for a more intense form of a common collaboration, vision & purpose and power for change on a cultural level. Life guided me at some point to Tamera. Even though it is challenging again and again, I am deeply grateful to engage in a place where issues like landscape regeneration, raising children, gift economy, power and decision making, love & sexuality, facing systems of oppression, our connection to the land etc. are active part of my/ our research in daily live. In Tamera I engage mainly as a manager of the guest and education center and as a facilitator for seminars. Some years ago I found out about Joanna Macy, her dedication and the WTR. Since then I am inspired by reading core literature, practicing the WTR and integrating it into my facilitation practices. I just finished the WRT Spiral Journey Facilitation Training.

The WTR is an incredible contribution to the Great Turning. It gives a framework and brings active practices (the Spiral) to engage into the Great Turning. My activist heart feels very alive doing this work, as the Spiral can be applied in all kinds of situations and serves the reconnection. Another reason why I want to facilitate the WTR is the power of the exercises/ rituals/ practices. They carry wisdom and experience in itself as they where practiced by many others already. I can rely on wisdom as a facilitator. Another reason is the openness of this body of knowledge and those carrying it. The practices leave space for own variations and also there is a lot of engagement to make this work accessible for all (open resource). Also the active work in inclusion and equity feels very aligned with I love and how I facilitate. Last but not least: I want to practice the WTR myself and the best way to do this is to be with people who want the same.

For me the WTR is Activism. I experienced the WTR in different contexts (seminars, as a activist on the street, in simple conversations) and it always gave me a deeper and wider understanding and feeling which situation we are facing as species and what our responsibility is. I believe and experience that the WTR is a big contribution for humans to face our world as it is. To feel and experience the world in all its beauty and suffering at the same time. To work actively with gratitude and pain does give us humans (that are conditioned by the Industrial Growth Society) the opportunity to relate anew with ourselves, with our fellow beings and the earth and life itself.

2022

• Introduction to the Work That Reconnects (2024, 9h hours)
  Facilitated by: Juliette Baigler
• 3 Stories and the Global Village (2023, 4h hours)
  Facilitated by: Juliette Baigler, Joshua Gottdenker
• The Spiral of the WTR (2022, 3h hours)
  Facilitated by: Dara Silverman
• 3 Stories of our time (2022, 3h hours)
  Facilitated by: Joshua Gottdenker, Aya Pinner

SD Arts - A practice for system change, Community Service (work study program in Tamera), Student Programs in Tamera, many different smaller courses and different community processes I co-held

• WTR - Spiral Journey (2023/24, estimated 90h hours)
  Facilitated by: Molly Brown, Constance Washburn, Mutima Imani
• WTR Retreat (2023, 30h hours)
  Facilitated by: Ratnadevi, Kristine and Sukhema
• Council of all Beings (2023, 3h hours)
  Facilitated by: Frieda Nixdorf
• Intro to the WTR (open sentences & Milling) (2021, 2h hours)
  Facilitated by: Emily Coralyn

- Graduated Yoga Teacher Training - More than 10 years experienced in real life community building and facilitating processes in Tamera

• White Fragility (2019, 20h hours)
  Facilitated by: Robin di Angelo
• Weekly Study Group on Racial Justice and Anti-oppression work (We worked with books like: Me & White Supremacy/ My grandmothers hands/ Hospicing Modernity) (2020 - 24, 250 - 300h hours)
  Facilitated by: Carlin Quinn (2020/21) - after that co-held by the study group
• LGBTQ and Gender identity (2020, 16h hours)
  Facilitated by: Uri Ayalon, Dara Silverman

• Convergent Facilitation (2023, 20h hours)
  Facilitated by: Miki Kashtan
• Vision Mobilisation (in practice) (2021, 150h hours)
  Facilitated by: Miki Kashtan & NGL team
• Facilitating Forum (2020/ 21, 80h hours)
  Facilitated by: different experienced community members of TAmera (f.ex. Barbara Kovats, Brigitte Muskalla)

• Somatic Co-Regulation - teachings of trauma & the nervous system (2022, 20h hours)
  Facilitated by: Maanee Chrystal
• My grandmothers hands (study group) (2021/22, 80h hours)
  Facilitated by: co-held by members of the study group

I am a mother, death and initiation midwife, and bodyworker

My name is Anisha and I'm based in Delhi, India and I currently work with a non-profit organisation "Youth Alliance" where I create immersive journeys for young people in the bracket of 18-30 years old engaging them with diverse social reality through the lens of their own inner conditioning and in the process become more self-and socially aware, eventually contributing to the world in a more meaningful way. I spent a few years pursuing a CA degree and realized numbers never excited me as much as stories did. I look after the Alumni Movement and Communications at Youth Alliance. Always guided by the voice of my heart, I am driven by creating spaces of listening for people through my work.

Hi! My name is Anita. I am a writer, artist and mother. Aside from these my great loves are nature and poetry. Nothing makes me happier than experiencing and being with the more-than-human world and I am always looking for ways to be of greater service and tell big stories with whimsy, magic and heart to reconnect.

I am an explorer, environmental activist, writer and conservationist with thirty years of journalism writing for British newspapers and magazines. I now write specifically about conservation and spiritual and mental healing.

Massage Therapist. Environmentalist. Writer. Aspiring to shift the trajectory of our society to a survivable, sustainable future through the arts of writing and body work.

Anna Swisher is a community activist, ecopsychologist, youth mentor, movement teacher and Work That Reconnects facilitator from California. She currently lives on a permaculture eco-farm in western Ireland teaching about regenerative culture.

I spent most of my career working to liberate people experiencing cognitive disabilities from systems that hold them separately from the larger community - working with individuals, families, communities, state systems and non-profit organizations. That work led me to community building through Asset Based Community Development and Theory U. As time has continued I see and feel our disconnection from the natural world, non-human beings, each other and even with our deeper selves as major obstacles to facing the challenges our world currently faces. The Work That Reconnects Network offers a path to healing those divides.

I am a human ecology & permaculture educator & regenerative design consultant for individuals, landscapes and communities. Over 28 years of passionate commitment and action towards community resilience and social justice. Co-creator of Vital Cycles: Creating Personal & Planetary Resilience and HUM: A weekend of Song, Connection & Regeneration which weaves together WTR, Human Ecology, Permaculture and song.

I live north of Boston, on Massachusetts land, in the Mystic River watershed.  My ancestors were early Protestant colonists in New England, whose descendants were farmers, preachers, teachers, craftspeople, and engineers. I have worked in the fields of theater design, arts administration, and professional organizing. Now I divide my time between studying and leading the Work That Reconnects, coaching and training climate activists in the grassroots movement Mothers Out Front, and making music.

My first workshop with Joanna Macy in 2013 was a major turning point in my life. It was a great relief to me to find that I could take action even with my broken heart,  and my own capacities and limitations. As a result, I embraced my pain for the world, found my people, became a climate activist and musician for social change, and eventually, a leader of the Work That Reconnects.  I am inspired to offer this potentially life-changing experience to others by facilitating the Work That Reconnects.

The Work That Reconnects is a tool box , a world view, and a call to action that inspires people to serve the Great Turning.  It is also a deep well of resource and a community that sustains change makers to keep going.

Anne Heberger Marino is a facilitator, team coach, and collaboration catalyst. She has been involved in facilitating teams of researchers and cross-sector partners since 2006 and has been a meditator for more of her life than not. Anne began studying and training as a facilitator because researchers identified a need for those skills in their teams. Since then, Anne has embraced facilitation in her work and practice drawing upon the Art of Hosting, Theory U, and the Work That Reconnects. She is especially interested in translating WTR and Active Hope into higher education settings and academic research collaborations.

Anne Parker is passionate about serving life and renewing our connection to and deep reverence for the Earth in her teaching and life work. She is a Professor Emerita of Naropa University having taught in the MA Ecopsychology, MA Environmental Leadership, and BA Environmental Studies.  Throughout her work at Naropa she has had the delightful opportunity to study directly with Joanna Macy and has infused WFR practices in her courses and the overall curricula of the programs. During her BA studies in Conservation of Natural Resources at UC Berkeley, she joined in the forefront of the emerging environmental movement. Focusing on National Park management and soil science, she worked with in a self-directed team of students who researched, designed and created Yosemite National Park’s first wilderness permit system to protect this precious land. Subsequently a hunger to see the rest of the world led her to learning directly from traditional cultures, living with and learning from communities in the Himalayan region and Australia following her BA studies. She lived for three years in Australia, spending two of those years living with Aboriginal communities in the Central Desert, studying ethnobotany and learning from her Aboriginal colleagues about their deep knowledge of and reciprocity to the natural world and profound spiritual perspective. Studying extensively with Tibetan Buddhist teachers, notably Lama Thubten Yeshe and the Dalai Lama, she began practice and study in this tradition that inspires her life in 1978. Taking every opportunity to live within and learn from this tradition she spent significant time living in India and Nepal – cumulatively over about 5 years studying in monasteries and carrying out research in traditional agriculture in Bhutan, Nepal and India with Fulbright grants and being mentored by these places and peoples. Her path led her to study Tibetan History and Inner Asian Studies at Indiana University under the Dalai Lama’s older brother Professor Norbu/Takser Rinpoche, carrying out fieldwork in India interviewing refugees about land use and traditional agriculture in Tibet prior to the period of the Chinese invasion. Continuing in her studies to a PhD in Geography at the University of Oregon, she focused on research in eastern Nepal on traditional agriculture in a community comprised of seven ethnic groups and their Hindu, Buddhist, and Shamanic traditions regarding perceptions of the land and life. Following this she became the Program Director of Interface in Boston organizing cutting edge programs in meditation, alternative therapies, and spiritual modalities before coming to teach at Naropa University. Subsequently since arriving at Naropa in 1996 she has devoted herself to innovative and creative curriculum design in environmental studies, environmental leadership and ecopsychology, joining perspectives in sustainability, social/environmental justice and contemplative practice. She has also engaged over the last 15 years in extensive practice and study in her European earth-based spiritual heritage, as well as study, publication, and consultation in sacred geometry design. Anne is trained as a Druid in the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids. She has carried out research on sacred sites in Europe, Israel, and the Himalayan region. She is also a key co-designer of Naropa’s Bhutan study abroad program at the Royal University of Bhutan. She taught in that program from 2015 to 2019 and developed curricula on contemplative intercultural studies. Anne is the author of Stories from the Origin and Multi-ethnic Interface in Eastern Nepal, and co-author of Earth Alchemy, Secrets of Sacred Geometry, and An Exploration of Sacred Geometry of Stupas in Bhutan.

WTR is a very effective approach, and it has been central to me personally in not “burning out” and finding radical joy in the work of the Great Turning.  I have seen the impact on students of all ages - it truly offers and guides them in their own practice of active hope – facing the truth, staying present to the grief, and finding spontaneous and radical joy going forth.

I see WTR as valuable and effective as an on-going personal and collective practice.  It is necessary to work at the emotional levels as well as outer dimensions of the work needed for rebalancing our relationship with the earth. WTR effectively supports people get through the barriers and blockages of grief and denial so they can feel and find their place in the fabric of the living earth and where/what role they can take in the Great Turning.

Annick Nevejan, MSc, MA, is a lead tutor and supervisor for the Mindfulness Association (MA) since 2010 and delivers the MA’s trainings, retreats and teaching skills trajectories in the UK and Europe. She was for 5 years an Honorary Teaching Fellow at the University of Aberdeen on the Master Studies in Mindfulness (MSc). Annick works as an integral coach, trainer, and counsellor from her office in Amsterdam as an independent professional. Her work is based on an integration of Buddhism, Western psychology, neurobiology, and Systems Thinking. She is licensed in Systems-Centered® Training (by SCTRI in the USA), an innovative approach to sustainable change; seeing the whole picture instead of just our part and recognizing ourselves as active members in creating the systems that shape us. Her work as mindfulness, compassion and insight trainer is deeply influenced by her practice and study of Tibetan Buddhism (Mahamudra) for the last 30 years. Annick co-founded Spiritual Ecology Netherlands (www.spiritualecology.nl) through which she offers workshops, trainings and retreats in-person and online. She is also a facilitator of the Work that Reconnects since 2019.

I have been working as coach and facilitator for 20 years, helping people and organizations to produce collective intelligence. For me, Work that Reconnects is an essential key to human resilience. I love acting in an integrative manner, combining WTR with U theory (Otto Scharmer), Sociodrama (JL Moreno), spiral dynamics (Don Beck, Chris Cowan), Playback theater (Jonathan Fox and Jo Salas) and any other inspiring model or method.

In my activities, Actions Methods from Moreno give my a methodological approach to put groups in action. Thus, I trust the process and love stimulating the collective intelligence to enable people finding their solutions. I have been asking myself how I could help create a better world, knowing what is at stake for our planet. When I discovered the WTR, I thought that I had found my contribution! This wonderful spiral was the natural step for me to take. Now I am filled with gratitude, each time I can facilitate Work That Reconnects and watch the effects of the spiral.

I deeply think that the Work That Reconnects is a key to reducing eco-anxiety. It could be deployed as a common healthy practice for everybody. Furthermore, attending a Work That Reconnects workshop provides us with a time for reconnection with ourselves, with other human beings and with the rest of the web of life. It is like coming back to the essentials that we might have forgotten. In addition, Work That Reconnects might help us develop a new collective awareness that will nourish our evolution. I can regularly observe that Work That Reconnects produces joy, solidarity, anchoring and engagement. We definitely need those forces for the Great Turning!

2020

• Se connecter à son coeur et à la toile du Vivant (2020, 14 hours)
  Facilitated by: Annick Wagner, Anny Lelièvre Du Broeuille et Roberto Zanani
• then various workshops from half a day to 3 days

• Travail Qui Relie et Féminin sacré (2019, 70 hours)
  Facilitated by: Charlotte Ogier, Noémie Cheval, Marine Simon
• Toile de spirale - Train the Trainer (2020, 3 hours)
  Facilitated by: Charlotte Ogier
• TQR (2020, 7 hours)
  Facilitated by: Erwan Treguer, Sandrine Laplace, Arnaud Esnault
• Ecopsychologie pratique (2021, 7 hours)
  Facilitated by: Sarah Koller, Patricia Wegmann

Psychodrama, sociodrama, playback theater, Social presenting theater, Theory U, Inner Development Goals.

• Part of the spiral Journey facilitator program (2021, 4 hours)
  Facilitated by: Mutima Imani

• Psychodrama diploma (2005-2008, 880 hours)
  Facilitated by: Marcia Karp and Norbert Apter
• Zoom Conversational café (2023, 2 hours)
  Facilitated by: Georges Lakey

• Zoom Conversational café Trauma-Informed Facilitation (20.11.21, 2 hours)
  Facilitated by: Constance Washburn

I’m a boomer! In the 1960s/70s I read ‘the Population Bomb’, ‘Silent Spring’ and ‘Diet for a Small Planet’ – among readings that influenced my path. In the 1980s my interest for Buddhism grew and I spent 4 years in Northern India with Tibetan Buddhists. In the 2000’s I joined the Transition Town movement when it began in Totnes, a small town in the UK. I met Joanna Macy and co-facilitated a number of WtR workshops. I was in the first cohort of people who were trained by Chris Johnstone (and Jenny Mckewn) to facilitate Active Hope, which I did for a while. More recently I have been living in London and have focused on the science – climate, ecology, social movements, energy, nutrition and more – promoting information and fighting misinformation. I am currently active in my local Extinction Rebellion group, where I have started a subgroup focusing on ‘regenerative culture’. I belong to a number of networks such as the Deep Transformation Network. I want to promote more activities that help increase individual and community wellbeing and resilience.

I completed my first 7-day training in The Work that Reconnects in 2016 and currently use these practices in my yoga classes, retreats and manual therapy sessions. I am planning a by-donation, monthly gathering in the Ottawa area for activists, caregivers and others who are burning out from working so hard and believing they have to hold their fear, grief and anger alone.

Regenerative farmer curious about bringing WTR into my practice and communities.

Aravinda Ananda is a social ecologist living on Massachusetts land. She has been facilitating the Work That Reconnects for over a decade, was one of the founding weavers of the Work That Reconnects Network, is currently the president of board of Interhelp, feels honored to have served as a guest editor of the Deep Times Journal 2017 special edition on "the impact of race and culture on the Work That Reconnects," and has been a convener of the Anti-Oppression Resource Group since 2016. She has worked on numerous documents to aid undoing oppression learning within the Work That Reconnects community, including "De-escalating Patterns of Harm in White Dominant Spaces," has co-facilitated practice sessions on that topic, and has developed a microaggression intervention training. She has been a co-facilitator of five Earth Leadership Cohorts - immersions in the Work That Reconnects for people ages 18-30.

The Work That Reconnects often nourishes me deeply on a soul level, and really enjoy sharing what feels like sacred work with others. I believe in the deep transformational and healing work that can be possible in caring groups, and for me Work That Reconnects serves that. Sharing this work with others is one way I can be of service to supporting healing and transformation in this time.

I see the Work That Reconnects as nourishing and rejuvenating people in action on behalf of creating a better world. I've seen how it can help to replenish people's psyches weary with the weight of the world, and appreciate how it can often leave people feeling empowered and renewed to continue contributing to the healing of our world.

2010

• Earth Leadership Cohort -1 (2014, 50 hours)
  Facilitated by: Kirstin Edelglass, Joseph Rotella, Markie Babbott
• Earth Leadership Cohort -2 (2015, 50 hours)
  Facilitated by: Kirstin Edelglass, Joseph Rotella, Markie Babbott
• Earth Leadership Cohort - 3 (2016, 50 hours)
  Facilitated by: Kirstin Edelglass, Joseph Rotella, Markie Babbot
• Rising With Roots (2017, 50 hours)
  Facilitated by: Kirstin Edelglass, Joseph Rotella, Markie Babbott

• 7 day workshop at Rowe (Before 2012, 56 hours)
  Facilitated by: Joanna Macy
• 7 day workshop at Rowe (Before 2012, 56 hours)
  Facilitated by: Joanna Macy
• 5 day workshop in Guelph (before 2012, 40 hours)
  Facilitated by: Joanna Macy
• 10 day workshop at Land of Medicine Buddha (2012, 80 hours)
  Facilitated by: Joanna Macy

• Facilitated by: Markie Babbott
• Somatics, Trauma and Resilience (2020, 16 hours)
  Facilitated by: Somatics, Trauma and Resilience

• White Awake (16 hours)
  Facilitated by: Eleanor Hancock
• Racial Equity Institute - Phase 1 Training (16 hours)
  Facilitated by: Bay Love
• Community Change Inc. (8 hours)
  Facilitated by: Paul Marcus and Donna Bivens

• Facilitation Deepening Weekend (12 hours)
  Facilitated by: Sarah Pirtle
• Earth Leadership Cohort
  Facilitated by: Markie Babbott
• Private consulting (2017, 10 hours)
  Facilitated by: Amelia and Kat

I am a seasoned, licensed psychotherapist, ecotherapist and dance/movement therapist, and have been pioneering somatic ecotherapy for the last decade. In 2010, I founded The Earthbody Institute, a professional, educational, and transformational forum dedicated to the cultivation of dynamic mutual relationships with the natural world. The Work that Reconnects is a foundational aspect of all of our national and international workshops and trainings. In all of our programs, we facilitate the creation of a strong earth-honoring community, to support connecting to the sacredness of all beings. My main influences include Hakomi Mindfulness-Centered Somatic Psychotherapy, Somatic Ecotherapy, Dance Movement Therapy, The Work that Reconnects and earth-based trainings from The School of Lost Borders.

Passionate diver, father of 3 boys, Vegan, WTR facilitator since 2019 Sea Shepherd activist and L214 supporter My mission in this life : Inspire, transmit and expand Love for living beings

I received it as a gift in 2019 through a facilitator workshop organized by Terr'eveille, and since then I feel I must give back to the community.

WTR methodology and philosophy helps understanding why and how we can contribute to the Great Turning by uniting, working hand in hand and becoming Shambala warriors.

• WTR facilitator workshop (2019, 30 hours)
  Facilitated by: Terr'eveille
• Discovery workshop (2022, 2 hours)
  Facilitated by: Laboratoire de la Transition Interieure

An eager student of the Work that Reconnects, a musician, teacher, archaeologist, and a dreamer. I live in Fairbanks, Alaska and Gulfport, Mississippi.

I am a designer of soulful rituals, an eARTh artist, a sacred activist and a mentor devoted to restoring humanity back to a deep and honourable relationship with the visible, the invisible and with our living Earth. I am a TreeSister who lives in a little wooden cabin on the edge of the wood in Devon, England, part of my response to my full engagement with Earth Wisdom Tenders, Extinction Rebellion, Deep Adaptation and the Work that Reconnects. In deep love and wild grief with Life

I'm a complete beginner in the Work That Reconnects. Here's how I got here. I worked on a "social documentary" project for years and years. That somehow took me to explore a bit of "Theatre of the Oppressed". I was, and still am, amazed with the possibility to communicate with your sorroundings with basis on a physical and mental practice, as opposed to relying solely on sudden "inspiration", as I had grown used to. As I was taking those steps with my right foot, with my left foot I was exploring tanatology. My exploration had been based solely on learning about other people's experience. Human beings like Frank Ostaseski, Roshi Joan Halifax, Ram Dass and Jack Kornfield. I learned from them all the internet allowed me to. When I encountered Joanna Macy's work, it rang a bell I had been looking for. It showed me a path with possibilities I had wanted to explore: creative energy as communiction practice. Communication within a community as within the self. External communication as a means for internal exploration. Internal communication as a means for external explorations. And now I'm learning to take my first steps again. On this journey, I'm looking to meet a community to practice and learn with. This is why I'm here.

I am an activist, artist, singer, and facilitator. I offer workshops which explore connections between spirituality, creativity and activism. I serve the WTR community through offering trainings and support for the continuation and evolution of these important practices. I am an arts organizer with www.350PDX.org, and have created a program for activist support which combines WTR, community-building, artivism, and anti-oppression/anti-racism training. I have also studied and worked with eco-psychologist Bill Plotkin and the Animas Institute, and studied improvisational singing with Rhiannon.

I've offered workshops and studied with Joanna and others since 2005. I experience the Spiral of the Work as a core spiritual practice, and, as a climate justice activist, use the practices regularly to support my work , as well as others'.

I believe that WTR helps us to see our part in the healing of the world, to claim our gifts, and dedicate them to justice and care of the world. I participate in all three parts of the Great Turning, and find the spiral supports folks in all the parts, affirms the diversity of gifts necessary and good, and allows us to grow the courage to offer our best to the world.

2005

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• none, self study

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I am a graduated dance and movement therapist, trauma therapist (Somatic Experiencing) and health practitioner - primarily specializing in ecopsychology, deep ecology and dance in nature. I have been facilitating the Work that Reconnects in various settings since 2003. I am very interested in ways of healing the alienation from our bodies as well as from the natural world. I offer WTR workshops (online and in person) and integrate WTR into the field of movement and body work (see my article in "Coming back to life", p. 299-306) I live together with my husband and our son in a town near Munich, Germany.

The Work That Reconnects has become the focus of my life in the last 20 years. My interest has always been to support transformation and change as well in individuals as on a global level. WTR is a wonderful and very effective tool.

Since childhood I have been concerned about the "pain for the world". WTR has helped me to deal with my sorrow, fear and anger. The spiral of the work is a precious way to support other people in their transition to the Great Turning.

• Deep Ecology (2003, 12 hours)
  Facilitated by: Joanna Macy
• WTR Conference (2008, 30 hours)
  Facilitated by: Joanna Macy
• Active Hope (2010, 30 hours)
  Facilitated by: Joanna Macy
• WTR for Advanced Ones (2013, 30 hours)
  Facilitated by: Joanna Macy

I’m an artist and collaborator living and working in Dorset UK. I am a creator of festivals, films, plays, women’s circles, community gatherings, rituals and stories. I lead experiences that embolden people to live in ways that nurture our natural world and one another.

  Belinda's experience as an anti-racist direct action campaigner, journalist, and lawyer/mediator undergirds her work work as a facilitator, mediator and visionary of the Work that Reconnects. Belinda specializes in anti-racist work for historically-white-led conservation organizations, as well as in power mapping, and communications for coalitions. She is passionate about building organizational, personal, and community resilience as we push for a just transition in our movements and economies. Belinda lives on Snohomish lands in Western Washington, and has recently been honored to work on Indigenous-led river and salmon campaigns throughout the Pacific Northwest.

I offer the Work that Reconnects as a tool for movement leaders, organizers and communities to find the strength we need, together, to power our work for a life-sustaining future.

The WTR's encouragement and support for turning toward our grief in community, and emerging more connected in community, is an essential magic if we are to emerge into the Great Turning.

Enseignante à la retraite, généalogiste, animatrice d'ateliers divers, à la recherche de connexion.

I studied Western medicine, and work as a freelance teacher and facilitator in the fields of mindfulness and meditation, as well as nature- and soul-based approaches, offering courses, retreats and one-on-one counselling. Early in my twenties I lived and practised in a Buddhist monastery in Southern Germany for two years, so mindfulness and meditation have always played an important role on my own journey. More recently I’ve begun exploring how individual and collective trauma affect our relationships with ourselves, one another and with life at large. Sensing that acknowledging, understanding and healing trauma is crucial to our wellbeing as a species and even to planetary survival, this is becoming an increasingly important part of my work. I live in Jena with my partner and our two wonderful daughters.

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My current practices include: writing research-based nonfiction; teaching and practicing viniyoga, a breath-centered therapeutic practice in the lineage of TKV Desikachar; practicing and imminently facilitating WTR workshops; growing food and restoring soil. I've retired from academic teaching after 30 years as a theater director and historian, where I taught performance, political and feminist theaters. I'm certified in Global Somatics, a Body-Mind Centering-based curriculum developed by the late Suzanne River, and I'm an EYT-500 level certified viniyoga teacher. With my partner, labor historian Peter Rachleff, I co-founded the East Side Freedom Library in St. Paul, whose mission is to inspire solidarity, advocate for justice, and work toward equity for all.

Beth is a facilitator, social researcher and writer who explores the cultural and psychological dimensions of climate change. Trained as a facilitator in the Work that Reconnects and experienced in teaching mindfulness and compassion practices, Beth currently works independently and with the group Psychology for a Safe Climate offering workshops to climate activists, climate researchers, professionals and community members grappling with climate change.

I facilitate workshops that support people to awaken to their own alive presence amidst the difficulty and joy of living in these times. I am motivated to support people to engage with what it means to be human on this earth right now – this can involve deep grief, bewilderment, anger, wonder, awe, mystery, confusion, numbness, laughter, passion, fear, love. My intention is to support courage and resilience in people and communities by creating containers where people’s realness can be embodied, spoken and shared.    

I invite people to participate in the conversation between our personal emotional worlds and the collective, social and cultural worlds we participate in. I see this work as spiritual-political and do not exclude the realities of the world from the spaces I create for rest, nourishment and connection. Confronting the realities of climate change, ecological devastation, and the legacies colonialism, capitalism, sexism, racism are often at the centre of the practices I offer. I believe that deep equanimity and wholeheartedness resides in our ability to engage with what is difficult, both inside ourselves and in the world at large.

Beth Remmes is a Facilitator for The Work That Reconnects and Gaia Education, Coastal Outreach and Climate Resiliency Coordinator for Georgia Interfaith Power and Light, and a member of the Unity Worldwide Ministry Earth Care Team. Beth has a Master of Science in Biomimicry from Arizona State University. She has participated in Pachamama Alliance’s Awakening the Dreamer Facilitator Training Program and Game Changer Intensive, the Sustainable World Coalition’s Emergence to Action course, Environmental Working Group for Environmental Educators, and White Awake Study Group. Beth completed a year long international on-line Work That Reconnects Facilitator Development Program and earned a Certificate in Ecopsychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Drawn to deep ecology, indigenous wisdom, environmental and social justice, nature connection, systems theory, biomimicry, permaculture, sustainability, yoga, meditation, mindfulness, and spirituality, Beth’s workshops burgeon with possibilities. Her natural curiosity, optimism, and years spent as a youth sports coach, combine to make Beth’s facilitation style encouraging and inspirational.

I am called to facilitate the Work That Reconnects because it creates conditions conducive for people to tap into their inner responses to what is happening and help them uncover their unique role to play in the healing of our world. The exercises allow them to feel their connection to each other and the self-healing powers of the web of life. They leave the workshop feeling nourished and enlivened.

I appreciate the wisdom of the spiral and that the work creates the conditions for emergent properties. This work encourages us to act from our highest self - as bodhisattvas. When we show up in the world from a place of connection, we are less likely to replicate the behaviors and stories of separateness.

2017

• Sacred Activism (2017, 3 hours)
  Facilitated by: none
• Active Hope (2018, 3 hours)
• Deep Resilience (2019, 30 hours)
  Facilitated by: Val Silidker
• Active Hope (2024, 3 hours)

I have facilitated over 80 workshops (most of them average 3hrs long). Here is the full list https://earthspiritaction.com/calendar-of-events/

• The Work That Reconnects (2015, 14 hours)
  Facilitated by: Jodi Lassiter
• World As Lover, World As Self (2016, 20 hours)
  Facilitated by: Joanna Macy

• White Awake (2018, 16 hours)
  Facilitated by: Aravinda Ananda and Eleanor Hancock

• Spiral Journey (2018, 100 hours)
  Facilitated by: Molly Brown, Mutima Imani, Constance Washburn

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Chairperson of rainforest rescue Artist Producer of a Documentary

Passionate about helping to foster eco-consciousness. Born in Laramie, Wyoming and lived in Ogden, Utah, Southern Illinois, Northern Virginia, Scotland, Germany, and the Philippines. BA & MDiv Duke University. Staff with the Institute of Cultural Affairs for 15 years using and teaching group facilitation methods. Studied educational methods and leadership. Partnered with Jan Sanders.

Psychotherapist, Counselor, Chaplain, Chemical Engineer.

My name is Bruna and I'm based in Piracicaba, in the countryside of São Paulo, Brazil. I'm a biologist and educator and I support the Work that Reconnects Brazilian Community where I co-facilitate workshops, immersions and organize online meetings since 2021. My first contact with the WTR was a 10-day immersion guided by Adrián Villasenor in 2019, in São Paulo, Brazil. I am driven by creating space of listening to people about the ecological crisis of our time and healing process.

Because WTR unites in a tender and effective methodology several of the topics that are important to me such as contemplative and somatic practices, ecological issues, undoing oppression and building community. As a biologist and Buddhist practitioner, finding WTR has been a gem in my life and I have reaffirmed my commitment to testing the spiral method since I met it in 2019 and offering it to others who want to do the same.

I see that the WTR workshops offer a very rare space for people to look each other in the eye and talk about how they feel, which is essential for building resilient communities in these times of ecological crisis that we are experiencing.

2021

• Imersão do TQR (Immersion in the WTR - in person)) (2022, 5 days (+30 hours) hours)
  Facilitated by: Lia Beltrão

I've been co-facilitating with Lia Beltrão an on-line learning community on the WTR methodology since 2021. We have studied the books Active Hope, World As Lover,World As Self and Coming Back to Life with more than 180 people. We have offered two on-line workshops to experience the Spiral this year (on April and November), for 30 participants altogether.

• Sixth Latin American Intensive Training in The Work That Reconnects (2019, 10 days (+60 hours) hours)
  Facilitated by: Adrián Villaseñor Galarza

I have a degree in biology with an especialization in education. A doctorate in microbiology and a passion for Lynn Margulis' theory of endosymbiosis. I used to facilitate conversation circles in a Buddhist sangha and I'm also a yoga instructor. I worked as a volunteer in an environmental education project during my doctorate.

• Spiral Journey (2022/2023, 6 months hours)
  Facilitated by: Mutima, Molly and Constance

• Spiral Journey (2022/2023, 6 months hours)
  Facilitated by: Mutima, Molly and Constance

• none (none, none hours)
  Facilitated by: none

I am an educator and therapist. I blend working with dreams, deep ecology and ecopsychology as a path towards thriving consciousness both inside human beings and the world at large, with all her living beings. I am a group facilitator. I love the work that reconnects as a bridge and a container to contribute to healthier communities. At the moment, I am training to become a facilitator.

Candace Walworth is an educator with thirty-six years of teaching experience in a wide range of interdisciplinary learning communities. She has taught at an alternative high school, toured with a professional theater company, and offered a multitude of writing and literature courses in community colleges, prisons and universities. She holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies with a concentration in Peace Studies. Her teaching and research interests include socially engaged spirituality, the socially engaged imagination and the practice of dialogue in conflict transformation. She received Naropa University's President's Award for Outstanding faculty in 1993 and 1999 and the Student Union of Naropa (SUN) Faculty of the Year award in 2005, 2008, and 2017. Candace works with diverse community partners in the Front Range to provide students with first-hand experience working locally on issues related to peace, human rights, and environmental sustainability. She designs and facilitates learning communities that encourage and support personal discovery, dialogue and deliberation, creativity, service, and engaged scholarship. Her interest in interfaith citizen-to-citizen peacebuilding initiatives and intercultural learning has taken her to southern India, to the Middle East with the Abraham Path and the Fellowship of Reconciliation and to Bolivia and Peru. She has facilitated The Work that Reconnects at Naropa University in courses such as "Socially Engaged Spirituality" and "Community-based Learning and Action" for the past 10 years. Other locations and dates are as follows: "Active Hope for English Educators" at the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning (AEPL) annual conference at the YMCA of the Rockies, 2018; "Contemplative Education Through The Work that Reconnects" with Where There Be Dragons, a gap-year program in Cochabamba, Bolivia (2013); "Peace Education and The Work that Reconnects" at the National Peace Academy's Peacebuilding/Peacelearning conference, Boulder, CO. (2011). "Peace Education and The Work that Reconnects" at the annual Peace and Justice Studies Association Conference in Memphis, (2008 ); Workshop on WTR at Resurrection City University at the Democratic National Convention, Denver, CO. (2008).

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I am a trained facilitator of the Work That Reconnects. My noble goal is to nurture emotional well-being so that others flourish in service of a fairer society and a healthier planet. I work as an emotional intelligence coach and believe that compassion towards ourselves and all living beings is key to achieving a more Life Sustaining Society.

The Work That Reconnects provides a powerful and engaging framework to address societal and planetary injustice. It's informed by diverse but interlinked philosophies that tap into the wisdom of systems theory, deep ecology, indigenous people and spiritual tradition esp. Buddhist concepts. It gets right down to the roots of our disconnection and our unequal society through anti-oppression and decolonisation work. WTR speaks to me in a way that no other framework has yet managed to achieve. It allows me to play my role in the Great Turning.

We need a positive vision of how the world can be, of how WE can be in the world, and that is what the Great Turning offers us. Those on the front lines of the climate and biodiversity and systemic social crises need support. They need allies. The WTR community has an important role to play here. WTR workshops enable participants to be more courageous, creative, and compassionate. When we realise that we are all in this together, that we are all influencing one another in ways we cannot comprehend, then we are more likely to take action for the wellbeing of all.

2022

• From Entanglement to Interdependence AND Wisdom in the Cracks of our Humanity (2023, 4 hours)
  Facilitated by: Zeinab Benchakroun
• After COP27, time to check in? AND At the core of the crisis…lie seeds of hope (2022, 4 hours)
  Facilitated by: Zeinab Benchakroun
• ime for a Deeper Cultural Awakening - An introduction to the Work That Reconnects (2022, 3 hours)
  Facilitated by: Priyanka Sharma
• Work that Reconnects – Supporting your coaching practice (2022, 2 hours)
  Facilitated by: Gwyneth Jones

I regularly facilitate workshops related to the theme of emotional intelligence. I also hold forest bathing events in Berlin based on nature connection and experiencing the world through our senses.

• Work That Reconnects (2021, 12 hours)
  Facilitated by: Eveline Tijs
• Active Hope (2021, 6 hours)
  Facilitated by: Margo Van Greta
• Truth Mandala (2022, 2 hours)
  Facilitated by: Mutima Imani, Constance Washburn, Molly Brown
• What Now? Realignment, Resilience & Radical Love in the age of Climate Collapse (2022, 16 hours)
  Facilitated by: Gwyneth Jones

• NONE (NONE, NONE hours)
  Facilitated by: NONE

• Emotional Intelligence Facilitator (2022, 6 hours)
  Facilitated by: Six Seconds
• EQ Network Leader (2022-23, 6 hours)
  Facilitated by: Six Seconds

• NONE (NONE, NONE hours)
  Facilitated by: NONE

Hi! I’m the author of Beneath the Surface, an eco-mythology ocean adventure story. My professional experience includes nearly 20 years of work in the fields of education, event management, non-profit organization, and media. Over the years, I have developed various methods and talents as a teacher, community organizer, event host, public speaker and writer. As you can probably tell, I have a passion for mentoring and supporting young people and early learning programs. In 2023 I completed Chris Johnstone's "Active Hope" Facilitator Training. I'm very excited to continue implementing what I learn from this network in my creative/personal life with the aim of sharing and enriching the lives of others.

Carlos has worked as project coordinator, educator and facilitator for the last years with extensive experience with The Work that Reconnects. He has been an active member of Extinction Rebellion for the last 3 years and just completed a walk across the UK for the COP26. He mantains a blog at Ecotopias.net where he writes about the emotional dimension of the climate crisis and about new ecosocial narratives.

Mother, grandmother, smallholder

Because I believe that I need it, and the world needs it

Its a very confusing and difficult time. It would be easy to despair. WTR offers a set of tools to navigate this time with hope, joy and acceptance. It empowers people to vision change in the world, and take steps to bring it into being.

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Presently serving as a Weaver and on the Deep Times Journal editing team. First connected with WTR in the Seattle area in 2016. Facilitated spirals in person and online. Worked with the Anti-Oppression Resource Group. Spanish speaker, immigrant from Latin America.

Mindfulness teacher and facilitator since 2009 (certified MBSR teacher and teacher trainer). Yoga and meditation teacher in Spain, US and India.

I experienced for myself first how working with the spiral of The Work that Reconnects helped me to deal with my own confusion, frustration and fear about the world and the climate change emergency. I also incorporated the spiral as a way of inner inquiry and personal transformation when dealing with difficulties in daily life. I wanted to share its benefits with others. I thought it would be a very good help for participants that are coming to the mindfulness courses I offer, specifically as they want to go deeper on how to apply mindfulness and meditation when dealing with the eco-social crisis and the uncertainty and anxiety about the future.

I appreciate very much that TWR opens a space for being humans sharing human feelings in a way that is difficult to find in our daily lives, a safe and nurturing space for recognizing our emotions, going thru them, and seeing how from this immersion comes the strength to move forward and live in the chaos with more resilience and clarity of purpose. Also my years of experience as a mindfulness teacher and teacher trainer has showed me, again and again, how powerful and how supporting groups are when trying to make sense of this "being human" and the despair of our times. I have seen many times how each of us can tap into our own wisdom and resources when holding together a space of deep listening, openness and respect. Mindfulness can be easily applied in combination with the Spiral to serve the Great Turning by helping us to build trust, resilience and the conviction that we can do this; we can live within the chaos and the unraveling, as we build together new structures, new ways of seeing the world and being with ourselves coming from compassion and wisdom.

Carol Koziol, Ph.D., is the Founder of the Canadian Ecopsychology Network, is a Professional Coach, Community Ecopsychologist, and a former Environmental Studies Lecturer at Laurentian University. Originally from London, Ontario, Carol currently lives in Gabarus, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, hosting free ecopsychology webinars, facilitating WTR workshops, and mentoring graduate students. She enjoys gardening, kayaking on the Atlantic Ocean, and hiking old trails listening to the voice of the earth.

When I realized that the human and more-than-human worlds were in trouble, The Work That Reconnects saved me from despair. And with my increasing hope, I felt called to share this powerful program by weaving the WTR spiral process into presentations, lectures, and workshops.

One of the significant changes we need to navigate in the Great Turning is remembering the power of community. Joanna Macy is often heard saying, “Whatever it is that you’re drawn to do in the Great Turning, don’t even think of doing it alone.” Bill McKibben states, “The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.” The Work That Reconnects is one avenue to assist in the necessary shift.

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Carol Russell lives in Arizona where the pine forests meet the high desert.  She is an artist, facilitator, architect, and advocate for the un-sheltered. She is a facilitator for the Work That Reconnects and also teaches skills for communicating across the political divide. Along with co-facilitator Grace Burford, Carol offers Spiral Journey workshops in the Southwestern US.

Since I first encountered the Work That Reconnects, I have treasured the open-hearted perspectives and profound solace it offers in the face of overwhelming world-wide challenges and loss. The brilliance of the Spiral Journey to hold us as we honor our pain, to reveal again and again that we are not alone, and to call us refreshed to the urgent work to be done, never ceases to inspire me.

One of the potent understandings of the Work is that the Great Turning is happening simultaneously with the Great Unraveling.  Letting in this view broadens our perspective and creates an openness to seeing movements happening all around us toward a life-sustaining society, even as we also witness the turmoil and destruction. People across the Earth are quietly going about contributing to this profound transformation. The Spiral Journey helps us see we are interconnected and that our efforts, whether large or small, matter.

• Roots of Resilience (2020, 10 hours)
  Facilitated by: Molly Brown and Jolie Elan
• Spiral Journey (2021, 12 hours)
  Facilitated by: Anna Swisher

I realize my creative, intellectual, and spiritual aspirations through a variety of modes and media, including restorative practices, nonviolence, and the arts. I have been weaving the WTR into my work, and personal and community life, since 2013. I received my M.A. and Ph.D. in theology, with an emphasis in the arts, from the Graduate Theological Union, in Berkeley. For over two decades, I have held positions in nonprofit leadership and as an instructor and director of programs in educational settings. Foremost, I am committed to formal and informal communities of makers and seekers as creative agents for transformation, liberation, and flourishing.

Since attending a life-changing weekend workshop with Joanna Macy, Anne Symens Bucher, and the Canticle Farm team, in Oakland, CA, in 2013 (in addition to studying Joanna's books, viewing her videos, and attending some of her Dharma talks and other workshops), I have felt called to lead several workshops in various settings on or based in the WTR. I am also a practitioner, facilitator, and lifelong learner of nonviolence and restorative practices. In brief, I feel called to facilitate the WTR because it really does reconnect us, with our truest selves and with the entire cosmos.  

That the WTR is grounded in gratitude, hope, attentiveness, vision, and life-giving and life-sustaining practices inspires me to share it with others. More than a format, it provides a way of being, of being in relationship, that emboldens personal and social transformation. As we experience the pain of the impacts of the Great Unraveling - the massive social and ecological crises - this work helps us to move us from apathy and despair into collaborative action.

I am training as a children's counsellor, passionate about the creative arts and I worked in palliative care. I have been developing my own organisation called HOPE - Help, Observe and Protect the Environment which seeks to address marine conservation issues using art. I am passionate about environmental art and have a deep love for water and this being the very essence of life. I live on the West coast of Scotland, UK.

I am trying to integrate concepts of the Work That Reconnects and the spiral, with those of Non Violent Communication, in general and still developing a solid basis in both. My topic interests lie in environmental issues and complex systems. My main goal is to bring fearless heart work to scientific communities that are ready to look at and apply it. I am also developing ways of making the Great Turning a part of our lives, integrating spiritual aspects to it and including the divine energy of love to provide impulses for effective action.

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I am accompanying people who seek to regain their inner balance. My approaches ? Sophrology and Focus of Internal Relation, associated with different psycho-corporal, energy and emotional approaches: massage, plantar reflexology, art-therapy. This allows those who consult me to move towards a deep reconciliation between their minds, their emotions and their bodies. The Work That Reconnects is the path I take to support anyone who is aware of current issues and who seeks to work for a change of course to create a world respectful of our Earth.

I began exploring Despair and Empowerment work in 1981, and have participated in, and occasionally led, workshops over the years, in the Seattle area and in Massachusetts. I recently served for several years as a Network Weaver, and help out now on the Communications Committee. I also participate with the Anti-Oppression Resource Group. My passions include writing and editing, Soul Collage, gardening, and women's circles with my partner Carol Harley. I'm currently caring for my dear 100-year-old dad.

The Earth is a living being through which we and all that we love has emerged and into which we return. From my early teens to the present, I have had a close conscious relationship with the Earth and all the ways of its beauty as well as its and our suffering and have sought to be a source of healing in different ways. My early career was as an economist and professor of political economy, Latin American Economics, and “Feminist Economics;” I was also an activist through teaching, organizing events, and participation in different campaigns for change. For the last 18 years I have been a natural health provider (homeopathy, chiropractic, naturopathy, mental/emotional/spiritual energy medicine; during this time I have engaged more in what might be called “sacred activism” – looking at the root causes of the multiple kinds of suffering on our planet and how love, consciousness, kindness, and mindfulness can change everything. With this approach I help organize solidarity work in my local community and in Honduras. My spiritual focus has been a Buddhist path of studying and sharing the dharma of the insight and non-dual traditions as well as Non-Violent Communication and the Work That Reconnects, which I have studied and facilitated since 2005. Within the WTR framework, I facilitate journeying through the spiral so that we can honor our despair for ourselves and our world, develop a deep, embodied connection with ourselves, each other, and the earth and its diversity, and open to the emergence of what wants to come through us to help facilitate the Great Turning that helps move us all towards healing and wholeness.

I have had a deep love of Nature all my life and feel very close to the Earth, trees, animals, all the elements. I also have loved and used Joanna Macy’s Coming Back to Life in workshops I’ve done at the UU Church since way before I did the Facilitator training in 2017-2018, I am also a meditation teacher in the Buddhist Vipassana tradition and at our local sangha I helped facilitate a WTR weekend retreat. I found that participants had such a beautiful, meaningful experience, that I want to continue to help provide these experiences for the community. I also feel this work is fundamental to achieving any real climate change mitigation and restoration programs because it helps foster the deep commitment necessary to ensure that these programs are successful.

I appreciate the work of introspection as well as bonding that takes place with participants. I love the way the spiral honors where we are with our grief but then helps us move towards healing, seeing with a new lens, and then guides us in leaning into actions that will foster change.

I work in the environmental sector and I believe that a consciousness shift is necessary. I feel the political, economic, technological questions are important but deep change will only happen if the way we understand ourselves and the world also evolve. I feel Joanna Macy's work is of great potential, though I am quite new to the WTR in terms of engagement. I have done the Active Hope online training and with friends we are about to start a group to practice. I have been a practicing buddhist for a number of years, and spiritual life is important to me. I have also experienced hope at how the mind can change while not minimising how difficult and long that can be. I am interested in how we, in our contemporary societies can reconnect with our sense of belonging to the community of life and Earth. I also appreciate the work of Bill Plotkin and the Animas Valley Institute, and I have participated in some of their programmes.

Founder of dowhatmatters.co.uk working together to focus on what really matters ! I’m a coach, facilitator and change-maker. I’ve worked as a change-maker for 30 years now, in many different ways, and one question has been and remains my constant guide: What work truly matters now? Do What Matters creates spaces and experiences for you or your team to reconnect to the heart of what matters and move forward with greater alignment between your reality, purpose and impact in the world. My clients are leaders and everyday people who are working towards a better future including entrepreneurs, businesses, students, parents, schools, universities, civil society groups, charities & public service organisations. I offer one-to-one coaching, retreats, workshops, courses and events, in person or online. I am based in Brighton UK, and work in French or English.

Now wiping the sleep from my eyes having sleep walked for 50 years

Chris is a professor, therapist, and Buddhist eco-chaplain with the Dharma of Trees on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.

After experiencing Despair and Empowerment workshops in the mid and later 1980s, I trained with Joanna Macy in 1989 and have worked closely with her ever since. We co-wrote Active Hope, which is now published in fourteen languages and also recently revised as a second edition. I live in the north of Scotland, and have run Work That Reconnects workshops in the UK, as well as facilitator trainings, over the last three decades or so. More recently I’ve worked with others to produce a free video-based online course in Active Hope, available at https://activehope.training with resources also at https://www.activehope.info. By background, I trained as a medical doctor and group therapist, then worked for nearly twenty years in the addictions recovery field. I’m deeply interested in the psychology of change, resilience and wellbeing, and teach online courses in these at https://collegeofwellbeing.com I’m also a musician and forest gardener.

Joanna Macy once wrote that of all the problems we face, perhaps the greatest is the deadening of our response. I see the Work That Reconnects as one of the few approaches that specifically aims to enliven our responses, opening us to resources, practices, communities and perspectives that nourish our capacity to show up and play our part. I have experienced this myself and witnessed its impact on others, in powerful ways on many occasions. I see this as 'the work that needs to be done', and feel called to play my part in this.

I see two broad types of change - one is making a difference, and the other is growing/supporting our capacity (both personal and collective) to make a difference. I see such a need for more attention to the capacity building side, as it supports all other efforts to make a difference. The Work That Reconnects offers a wonderfully rich and well-developed contribution to this.

Facilitator focusing on Regenerative Leadership, Passions, Purpose and Values that connect. www.boostyourbrilliance.com It's all about fostering deep connections with all of life

Once upon a time, Cindy was global head of department for a £13 billion company. She invented products, won awards and wrote best-selling business books. Over some years, she was drawn towards the importance of relationships. Her focus now is on facilitating people to deepen their relationship with themselves, with others, and with the natural world. She does this in her role as a psychotherapist and facilitator, where she supports highly sensitive people (HSPs). She is a member of the Climate Psychology Alliance and provides therapeutic support around the trauma of the nature and climate crisis. She has studied engineering and physics to psychotherapy, shamanic practice and as an end-of-life doula. She holds a number of degrees including an MBA. Cindy co-founded her local Transition Town, set up a social enterprise providing solar power, is a trustee of Heal Rewilding, and founded a local wildlife charity.  

Disconnection from nature is disconnection from ourselves and this is the biggest threat to our planet. I'm drawn to this work because it is The Work of our time.

Connecting with ourselves, others and the natural world helps us become more compassionate. It builds our empathy and perspective taking for the 'other' and helps us become more tolerant and inclusive. It also reduces conflict as we begin to understand all perspectives. Ultimately it builds love and respect for all beings.

fait la rencontre de la ‘Deep Ecology’ en 1989, en Irlande, dans le Connemara. Passionnée par le travail de Joanna, elle participe à ses formations. Claire anime des ateliers d’Ecologie profonde depuis 1994. En 2007, Claire participe à la création de l’association Roseaux Dansants pour promouvoir le Travail qui Relie en pays francophones. Formée en sciences de l’environnement (DEUST à Marseille), elle est animatrice de chantiers de l’environnement en Provence à l’APARE, (Association Pour l’Action et la Participation Régionale). Parallèlement Claire exerce un métier artistique (danse, mime, marionnettes, techniques somatiques). Elle mène des recherches sur l’empathie kinesthésique, avec une Maîtrise d’arts du spectacle vivant, elle est chargée de cours de mouvement et de Conscience du corps à l’université Paris VIII. Elle donne des ateliers de travail corporel à différents publics, en particulier à des personnes atteintes de céci-surdité. Claire allie la pratique du Travail qui Relie à l’exploration corporelle et sensorielle, pour donner à ressentir le lien fondamental psychisme-corps-terre.

In these exceptional times, I deeply feel we are being called to take part, however we can, to change the course our unrealistic growth societies are taking. As I have been blessed, in my own life, to get to know the Work early on, with my circumstances making it possible for me to get fully involved, I know no better contribution I could make than to share the Work, in whichever context presents itself, to the best of my abilities. I love being witness to the positive impact the Work has on participants. I feel that I am in my place offering the Work, as I love doing it, I get great joy in giving the workshops and doing all the related work, involving meeting others, thinking, writing, creating… I love ‘conspiring together’ as Joanna says…

Seeing the effervescence of growing initiatives around the world, which so beautifully incarnate the 3 dimensions of the Great Turning, I find them so inspiring. However, what I appreciate about the Work That Reconnects, is the way it goes directly to the Root : awakening people in heart and mind, aligning us to be at the service for actions to flow through us. I appreciate the Work that Reconnects as fertile soil, from which people can find their own inspiration and resources to contribute their colours to The Great Turning, whilst finding the spiritual strength to respond to the Great Unraveling… The process is truly transformative: there’s no going back on the changes the Work operates in us, touching our very souls. I appreciate the deep intelligence of the Work, its open heartedness welcoming each being’s perspective, its organic life-trusting pedagogy, its wilderness, its creativity, the way in which this work made me feel for the first time what it is to be human…

Friend, baker, walker, camper. Lover of the earth and sky, the out of doors, the inner life, furry friends, and most anything related to food.

Im a retired therapist, Buddhist-infused Wiccan, poet, and book artist. I am very inspired by WTR, seeing it as a powerful way to bring my skills and passions into the global enterprise of building a viable world for all of Gaia's beings.

Constance Washburn M.A., activist, educator, director and facilitator, has been a student of the Work That Reconnects since 1994. She attended many intensives with Joanna Macy. She and Molly Young Brown, co Author of " Coming Back to Life - Guide to the Work That Reconnects" and Mutima Imani are currently co-facilitating the Spiral Journey - a Facilitator Development Program in the Work That Reconnects. Molly, Mutima and Constance have been co - leading WTR retreats and workshops since 2013. She is a founding member of the Elders Action Network and leads an Empowered Elder Webinar using the Work That Reconnects for elders around the world. She is a trained yoga teacher and Community Dharma Leader in the Tibetan Buddhist lineage. Constance worked in food and farm education for almost 20 years in Marin and led the Marin Agriculture and Education Alliance. She brings her deep Earth connection, her theater background and love of ceremony into her work as a facilitator of the Work That Reconnects.

In this time on Earth the Work That Reconnects is a vital part of the Great Turning. The Spiral of the Work is a strong transformational structure that can hold people as they grapple with a planet in crisis.

We are in this transition of the Great Turning and the Great Unraveling together; humans, more than humans, and Gaia herself. The Work That Reconnects helps us do just that, reconnect, so that we can move forward together.

1995

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I am a trained meditation, mindfulness and a community dharma leader. I bring over 50 years of dharma Practice to my facilitation of the Work That Reconnects. My first career was in theatre and I still practice theatre improvisation and vocal improvisation as well as visual arts so bring those tools to my facilitation.  I am also a trained yoga teacher in both Ashtanga and Yin yoga styles. I have for the past several years done a deep dive into trauma work so bring somatic experiencing as well as yoga for trauma and the Community Resiliency Model of the Trauma Resource Institute. I also am a shamanic practitioner and bring that set of tools to WTR facilitation

• White Awake (2015, 12 hours)
  Facilitated by: White Awake

• I began studying with Joanna Macy in 1994 and attended many retreats and workshops (I began studying with Joanna Macy in 1994 and attended many retreats and workshops, 1,000 hours)
  Facilitated by: I began studying with Joanna Macy in 1994 and attended many retreats and workshops

• Community Resilience Model of the Trauma Resource Institute (2018, 50 hours)
  Facilitated by: Community Resilience Model of the Trauma Resource Institute
• Yoga for Trauma
  Facilitated by: Lisa Danylchuk

Corinna is the creator of Dragonfly Healing. For over 15 years she has been guiding people through personal transformation in wilderness settings. A gifted ecopsychologist and rites of passage guide, Corinna brings much heart and humour to her work. Her well-founded belief in the restorative powers of nature and the unlimited potential of humans are themes that characterize all of her endeavors. As a member of the Métis Nation, Corinna weaves cultural teachings into her workshops, inspiring personal growth and a love and respect for the natural world. Through her personal journey with multiple myeloma, a plasma cell cancer, Corinna is also called to guide cancer initiates and people in relationship with grief and loss through their unique healing journeys. Corinna holds a Bachelors in education from McGill University and a Masters of Arts in transpersonal psychology/ecopsychology from Naropa University.

I am 56 years old, mother of 2 young adults. I live in a village in the beautiful countryside of the South of Belgium. I co-founded Terreveille association, in 2011, together with Helan ter Ellen and Gauthier Chapelle. Since 2017, I coordinate Terr’Eveille  which offers The work that reconnects in french speaking Belgium, and also in France and Switserland. Our team counts with 13 facilitators, offering 4 to 6 days workshops, and very interested in developing WTR with new publics, making links with ecofeminism, systemic dominations, etc.  

Because I am convinced that this powerfull tool helps people in this moment of collpapse and Great Turning. In every workshop I facilitate, I can see people moving forward, reconnecting with the more than humans, with them selves and thier dreams, finding a community. Offering WTR is the place where I can most offer my talents to the world

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I am an active, passionate environmental educator and regenerative landscape designer. My work focuses on designing landscapes and human habitat where the story of the land and the people is woven together. The Work That Reconnects is an essential component of my teaching, group facilitating, event organizing and designing experiences and landscapes that lead to humans reconnecting to their sense of place. I live in Earthaven Ecovillage, an intentional community in the Southeast US, where we are actively living out The Work through village life and developing a communal story of deep ecological identity. I have facilitated The Work That Reconnects at various festivals, earth-based courses and private events. I have been inspired by the facilitated work of John Seed, Robina McCurdy, Inna Alex, and Finn Mackesy.

Craig is currently in the Spiral Journey facilitator training and enjoys facilitating small groups and retreats. He serves as spiritual leader of a congregation in Winston-Salem. He often gardens, walks in the woods, and bikes.

EN below Cofondateur de l'association Écologie Profonde, je facilite des espaces de relation : en travail d'intelligence collective, en modes de gouvernance novateurs, ou en groupes de parole et d'expérience autour de l'écologie profonde, en particulier du Travail Qui Relie. Également coach et militant, je conjugue mes passions et expériences au service de projets pour un monde qui soutient la vie. Très curieux, j'aime découvrir d'autres regards sur le monde, d'autres cultures à travers les personnes. FR above Co-founder of the association Ecologie Profonde, I facilitate spaces for relationships: in collective intelligence work, innovative modes of governance, or in groups of speech and experience around deep ecology, in particular Work That Reconnects. As a coach and an activist, I combine my passions and experiences in support of projects for a world that sustains life. Very curious, I like to discover other views on the world, other cultures through people.

Co-founder of the association Ecologie Profonde, I have been practicing for several years the facilitation of spaces for relationships, whether in collective intelligence work, innovative modes of governance, or in groups of speech and experience around deep ecology, in particular Work That Reconnects. As a coach, ex-science teacher, and an activist (through the Climate Fresk NGO, the French Unconditionnal Basic Income NGO, and Deep Time Walk Project), I combine my passions and experiences in support of projects for a world that sustains life. Very curious, I like to discover other views on the world, other cultures through people.

WTR is a melting pot that gathers people who may have different worldviews, few spontaneous shared interests, and enables for them to live the same experiences and open their eyes. The process embraces emotions, when even in NGOs most are repressed, giving space to their expression and their belonging to our experience of the world and to our connection to the whole web of life, starting from oneself. In times of Great Unraveling and Turning, rollercoasters of emotions are inevitable for many people, WTR offers the opportunity to make sense of these, to strenghten our resolves, and to go forth.

2017

• Labo TQR (2017, 60 hours)
  Facilitated by: Florence Métin, Amélie Lambert-Serrant
• Stage de Travail Qui Relie (2019, 20 hours)
  Facilitated by: Julien Maury
• Découverte du Travail Qui Relie (2020, 48 hours)
  Facilitated by: Julien Maury, Nora Manon Müller

Climate-Fresk (as a facilitator's trainer and as a facilitator), workshops on adaptation to climate change, classes on climate change

• Gaïa au coeur (2017, 70 hours)
  Facilitated by: Pablo Servigne, Helena ter Ellen, Aline Wauters
• Approfondir la spirale du TQR (2019, 50 hours)
  Facilitated by: Terr'éveille

5 Rhythms and free movement practice, collective intelligence techniques, Sociocracy/Holacracy/Gouvernance partagée

• Ateliers Intim'idées (2022, 7 hours)
  Facilitated by: Collectif Intim'idées

• Formateur coach (2021, 42 hours)
  Facilitated by: L'Atelier des Coachs
• Coach d'équipe (2018, 56 hours)
  Facilitated by: L'Atelier des Coachs
• Fresque du Climat (2018-now)
  Facilitated by: Myself

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In three holon training sessions with Gunter and Gabi, I learned about the healing effect of reconnecting work on my own. Since I feel connected to all living things on earth, I have been better able to deal with resistance in my work as an activist (Corporate Responsibility Initiative; Glacier Initiative). I have been working as an activist and adult educator for the past 30 years. Joanna's wonderful exercises help me.

The work that reconnects helps us train ourselves in our mindfulness. The first two steps in the spiral are very important: anchoring ourselves in gratitude and honoring our pain. The first two steps help us connect with the reality, the vulnerability and the beauty of life. This results in a contact and a rootedness in life helps us to gain a new perspective together with others. This new look shows us new resources, paths and possibilities for the great change. Work that reconnects strengthens us in our activism for social justice, peace and against climate change.

2020

• Introduction Work that reconnects (2020, 6 hours)
  Facilitated by: Peter Rhiem, Euskirchen
• Seeing with new eyes (2021, 24 hours)
  Facilitated by: Peter Rhiem, Euskirchen
• Introduction Work that reconnects (2023, 8 hours)
• Active hope and leadership (2023, 8 hours)
  Facilitated by: Annick Wagner, Lausanne

During my work for FASTENOPFER I was trained as a facilitator and I facilitated more than 10 carbon conversations. I trained about 20 workshops in the topics Food security, human rights, climate change.

• Holontraining (2019, 48 hours hours)
  Facilitated by: Gunter Hamburger, Gabi Bott
• Holontraining II online (2022, 48 hours hours)
  Facilitated by: Gunter Hamburger, Gabi Bott
• Holontraining III - follow up (2023, 48 hours hours)
  Facilitated by: Gunter Hamburger, Gabi Bott

I have worked as an adult educator and activist for 20 years. I have a master's degree in spirituality and have a lot of experience as a participant in men's seminars (Richard Rohr) and in outdoor training.

• human rights campaigns (2016, 24 hours)
  Facilitated by: HEKS/Fastenaktion
• Recht auf Nahrung Kampagne (2017, 24 hours)
  Facilitated by: HEKS/Fastenaktion
• climate justice (2018, 24 hours)
  Facilitated by: HEKS/Fastenaktion

• Managementtraining (2003, 288 hours)
  Facilitated by: Institute of applied psychology
• Carbon Conversations (2019, 20 hours)
  Facilitated by: Pascal Schnyder

• Individual care (2008, 22 hours)
  Facilitated by: Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz
• Primary and secondary prevention (2008, 22 hours)
  Facilitated by: Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz
• Psychological emergency help (2008, 22 hours)
  Facilitated by: Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz

I'm a spiritual and ecology facilitator, musician and traveler. I co-create and hold space for bringing together ancient wisdom with contemporary science with the purpose of experiencing inner harmony, community bonding and service to Gaia. I focus on working with interspecies connection, specially between humans and cetaceans (whales and dolphins) in a conscious evolution for midwifing the New Earth.

Daniela is a facilitator for inner & outer transformation and a leadership for sustainability consultant.   She designs and facilitates group processes and 1:1 sessions bringing different tools for self-development, leadership development, systems change towards life-sustaining society and building personal and collective resilience in the face of challenges. In these spaces, she combines Mindfulness & Compassion Meditation, TWR, Flow Game, Appreciative Inquiry, Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development (FSSD) and Leading from Love framework.   Her gift is hosting people and making them feel safe & brave to explore blind spots, create vision and find clarity.   Daniela has a passion for immersing herself in different cultures and working with diverse world-views. What has taken her to live a nomadic life for 10 years.   She's co-founded https://leadingfromlove.net/ and the soon-to-be-launched online learning platform: https://thenewearthschool.org/    

The WTR speaks to my purpose: unlearn everything that prevents me from being the genuine expression of human nature: Love, and encourage those around me to do the same. The WTR is one of the most deep and healing tools for inner and outer transformation I have experienced. WTR workshops widen our perspective of self and shift the way we relate to the world around us, making it more respectful and compassionate. I have seen (within myself and others) an increase of courage and strength to be more active in the healing oneself and the world.

The Work supports people to go into deeper inquiry about who we are and what our role is in the societal shift we need for a life-sustaining society. It brings a much needed spiritual quality to activism and to any attempt to challenge the Industrial Growth Society. The WTR has an immense power for transforming inner worlds and systems as a whole. The 3 dimensions bring a wholistic approach to effect change and to remind us that the Great Turning is in the hands of everyone

2021

• a Journey into the Spiral (2021, 10 hours)
  Facilitated by: Daniela Tablado & Cecilia Netto
• a Journey into the Spiral (2022, 10 hours)
  Facilitated by: Daniela Tablado & Cecilia Netto
• a Journey into the Spiral (2023, 10 hours)
  Facilitated by: Daniela Tablado & Cecilia Netto
• Resourcing Ourselves in the midst of Global Turmoil (2023, 10 hours)
  Facilitated by: Daniela Tablado & Molly Brown

Mindfulness & Compassion Women Circles Mindfulness classes Leadership Competencies for Systems Change

• Roots of Resilience (2020, 10 hours)
  Facilitated by: Molly Brown and Jolie Elan

• Spiral Journey Facilitator Development Program (2020, 10 hours)
  Facilitated by: with Molly Brown, Mutima Imani and Constance Washburn

• Spiral Journey Facilitator Development Program (2020, 21 hours)
  Facilitated by: with Molly Brown, Mutima Imani and Constance Washburn
• Master in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability (2019)
  Facilitated by: BTH, Sweden

• Trauma-informed work (2021, 3 hours)
  Facilitated by: can't remember

I'm professionally trained in conflict mediation and I'm hoping to use my skills in helping people through difficult times

Dave Shaw, a whole systems designer, naturalist, facilitator, educator, and musician, founded Santa Cruz Permaculture, and the UCSC Right Livelihood College, a partnership with the “Alternative Nobel Prize.” He supports communities locally and globally to transform their shared future through dialogue and collective action.

I'm called to facilitate the Work That Reconnects so that myself and those I work with can have ever greater access to our full range of emotions and our full humanity. This is vital for the regeneration of earth and ourselves.

I've witnessed WTR serve the Great Turning both by offering participants an embodied experience of healing and solidarity about the issues that matter to them while also giving people language and a conceptual framework for "making sense of the mess we're in without going crazy."

Retired President /CEO of several arts and cultural organizations. Senior positions from the National Enfiwment fir the Arts and Kennedy Center through state and regional and small nonprofits. University and college faculty. Three life themes weave together a long engagement with the principles of relationship and the Great Turning, they are: education/curiosity with arts/creatively with community/in the streets.

I am a long term Green Party of Canada member since its inception and a former candidate, a facilitator of the Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream symposium, active in Drawdown Toronto and various programs of the Presencing Institute. I have been coordinating a course on Indigenous Issues in Health and Healing for the past 28 years. I also enjoy making functional pottery and am a recently retired dentist.

I am a Registered Psychiatric Nurse who lives, works, and plays on the beautiful, unceded Territories of the Coast Salish peoples of Vancouver Island, BC Canada. I have extended my professional training to include powerful somatic and ground-up approaches to becoming a credentialed Trauma Specialist. I am currently developing a trauma healing program that I hope to inject into existing healthcare structures and move into consulting with Health Authorities, the First Nations, not-for-profits, and privately owned healing facilities. I have worked extensively with the local First Nations groups on the island in various capacities of my energy healing work. I came across the Work that Reconnects on the internet, and it resonated with me deeply. I am hoping to network with like-minded individuals while I learn more about the work of Joanna Macy.

I am a holistic psychotherapist in private practice. I am involved with local climate activism as a member of Harwich Climate Action Network, the Sierra Club and as a Buddhist practitioner. My partner and I grown and preserve much of our food in the community garden. I have daily practices including yoga, meditation, breathing and eye vision exercises. I'm involved with Insight Dialogue relational mindfulness practice and hope to bring that work into my involvement with WTR.

Deborah Eden Tull is a meditation and mindfulness teacher and sustainability consultant who teaches the integration of compassionate awareness into every aspect of our lives. She has been traveling to, living in, or teaching about sustainable communities internationally for the last 22 years,including seven years as a monk at the Zen Monastery Peace Center. Her approach to consciousness and sustainable living emphasizes the interconnection between personal and planetary well-being. Deborah Eden Tull has been teaching Zen meditation and facilitating spiritual workshops for the past 13 years. She has been a meditator for 20 years and a student of Zen for 17. Her current passion is to practice and teach the integration of mindful living into every aspect of life. Her teaching style is grounded in compassionate awareness, experiential learning, humor, and an unwavering commitment to personal transformation.

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I started dancing classes at 2, singing in choirs at 9, and began an engaged spiritual practice at 8. These practices are what I have been doing ever since. i have always felt connected to trees and non-human animal life. I am a Soto Zen priest, a yoga teacher, and training as a Health and Wellness Coach.

Della Z Duncan is a WTR Facilitator and Renegade Economist who supports individuals to align their values with their work as a Right Livelihood Coach, helps organizations transition beyond capitalism as a consultant, and hosts the Upstream Podcast, challenging mainstream economic thinking through documentaries and conversations including - The Green Transition: The Problem with Green Capitalism and Our Struggles are Your Struggles: Stories of Indigenous Resistance & Regeneration. Della is also a Senior Fellow of Social and Economic Equity at the International Inequalities Institute at LSE, the Course Development Manager of Fritjof Capra’s Capra Course on the Systems View of Life, a founding member of the California Doughnut Economics Coalition, and a Senior Lecturer at the California Institute of Integral Studies and Gaia Education. Della has facilitated dozens of WTR retreats in over 10 countries over the past decade and enjoys weaving invitations for regenerative economices into her WTR offerings.

Our disconnection from ourselves, each other, and the web of life is the root cause of the economic, social, and ecological challenges of our time. The Work that Reconnects helps us re-member who we are and the nature of our relationships with one another and the more than human world so that we may feel empowered, connected, resilient and motivated to participate in the Great Turning.

The Work that Reconnects offers us the shape of the Spiral to aid us in reflecting, learning, and gaining the courage to contribute to the Great Turning. It offers us practices that deepen our sense of resilience, see with new and ancient eyes, and get clearer on where our work is needed during this time. And the experience as a whole reminds us that we are not alone and that when we act in community, our activism is more joyful and easeful.

2014

• The Work That Reconnects: Courage for the Healing of Our World (2020, 20 hours)
• The Work That Reconnects: Courage for the Healing of Our World (2021, 20 hours)
• The Work That Reconnects: Courage for the Healing of Our World (2021, 20 hours)
• The Work That Reconnects: Courage for the Healing of Our World (2022, 20 hours)

• Women's Retreat at Spirit Rock (2014, 80 hours)
  Facilitated by: Joanna Macy
• WTR Retreat at Canticle Farm (2014, 24 hours)
  Facilitated by: Joanna Macy
• WTR Facilitator Training (2015, 80 hours)
  Facilitated by: Joanna Macy

• Trauma Senstive Mindfulness (2021, 5 hours)
  Facilitated by: James Baraz

• Atlantic Fellowship for Social and Economic Equity (2019, 200 hours)
  Facilitated by: International Inequalities Institute

• Right Livelihood Course (Theory U) (2014, 200 hours)
  Facilitated by: Dr. Ha Vinh Tho, Dr. Julia Kim, Dr. Julie Richardson

I am Dharlyn Gomez living part-time between Canada and Philippines. I am an apprentice on Diploma Applied Permaculture, UK under the wings of learning guild Group Diploma Adventure, a mentorship program by Looby Macnamara and Delvin Solkinson. The theory turn into practice, and start walking the talk, with this compelling vision to design a permaculture farm as a start-up social enterprise. I’ve been growing ropes with Gaia Education finishing with graduate certificate on GEDS full program, and Completed Cultural Emergence Series Courses with Looby Macnamara in collaboration with Jon Young for 8 Shield. My intention is to grow ropes and networks around the globe to deepen my understanding and broaden my horizon for the embodiment as a change agent and be participative on the Great Turning.

All of my adult life I have been a life-long learner, environmental activist and a student of wisdom traditions.    Introduced to the WTR  in 1988 (called  Deep Ecology then),  I actively facilitated this Work for over 20 years.  It has remained a constant support in guiding my life, interwoven in all that I do. Workshops with John Seed and Joanna Macy had a profound effect in shaping my life.  Between 1988 and 2010  I undertook training with both Joanna and John, and began offering  weekend WTR workshops as well as other activities that included voluntary simplicity, non-violent communication and environmental justice. My early academic and career training (pre-1988) and degrees in community and organizational development and urban social justice (MA) and adult experiential education (PhD) provided skills in facilitation, planning and project management and problem solving.

I actively facilitated this Work for nearly 20years.  It has remained a constant support in guiding my life and is interwoven in all that I do.  I am now at a place in my life wherein I can return to this important work and help others learn and share and build on its foundation

WTR changed my worldview 40 years ago and I am a softer, more accepting person for it.  In an increasingly fractured world, this is one of the few modalities that holds hope for our future planet and its inhabitants.