WTR Network Map & Directory

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.

The Work That Reconnects has much to offer in terms of practices and processes for experiencing a deeper connection to ourselves and our world. This work calls us to meet the challenges of our time not just with our intellect but with our hearts, realizing and affirming our interconnectedness.

We are living at a time of unprecedented crisis and unprecedented opportunity. The life support systems of the planet are beginning to unravel, the impacts being felt first and hardest by the same communities who have been marginalized throughout modern history: the poor, people of color, and other oppressed groups. We're losing countless species every day, the climate is changing, and our planet's supply of fresh water is being squandered and polluted at an alarming rate. We need spaces and tools to process the enormity of the loss we're facing, to re-establish connection with each other, and ground ourselves in the abundant support of the Earth. Within this, we also need to de-colonize our minds, our workshop spaces and our cultural norms. We all hold both privilege and trauma, in different proportions, flavors and degrees. Wherever we land on the spectrum, it is our responsibility to actively dismantle the systems that assert the dominance of one group over another: white supremacy, misogyny, classism, homophobia and transphobia. When we do our healing work and come together across difference, the possibilities for transformational change increase exponentially. The Work That Reconnects gives us a blueprint for this critical work.  

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.

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

Ecofeminism. Deep Ecology. Active Hope.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Because it is the most heartening and inspiring work I have experienced. Because it prepares me to participate in the challenges facing us. Because it unites me with fellow humans and brings me hope.

I see the WTR guiding people in strengthening their capacity to FEEL. I believe that this is the most essential task, in order to restore our ability to act on behalf of life; to remember what's important, to be guided by care and love of life. I think the WTR helps orient us in a time that is very dis-orienting. I see the Work bringing people together in communities small and large, and unearthing/identifying all the resources that we DO have. It provides a non-hierarchical structure or format for people to come together and work through things that are specific and relevant to them; and empowers us to act within our communities.

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.

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 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.

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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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

  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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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, a member of the Unity Worldwide Ministry Earth Care Team, and is on the Board of Directors for Georgia Interfaith Power and Light.   Beth 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. She is currently enrolled in ASU's online Biomimicry Master's Program.   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.

Chairperson of rainforest rescue Artist Producer of a Documentary

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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

• 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

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

• Fresque du Climat (2018-now)
  Facilitated by: Myself
• Sociocracy/Holacracy/Gouvernance partagéeSociocracy/Holacracy/Gouvernance partagée (2013-now)
  Facilitated by: Myself

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 Work 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 people working in all fronts of society.

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."

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 retired social worker, having worked with the chronically mentally ill for most of my career here in Kansas City, Mo. I have been involved with the global warming issue for about 25 years, along the way learning some of the horrific realities of our sixth mass extinction of species. I regard the writings of Thomas Berry, especially his books The Dream of the Earth and The Great Work, as seminal in analysis and insight into our collective crises at this time in the history of life on Earth. The Earth Charter outlines many of the principles and values needed for an Ecological Civilization, a vision advocated for by both Thomas Berry and David Korten. Environmental organizations I have belonged to in the past include the Sierra Club, 350.org, Citizens Climate Lobby, and Climate Action KC. Currently, I have developed a PowerPoint presentation on our environmental crises, outlining the necessity for humanity to engage in various transformations leading to an Ecological Civilization to save our Living Earth's biodiversity, as well as ourselves.

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 clinical psychologist, and have been primarily in private practice until the issue of climate crisis became so emergent for me that that topic now defines my Vision work. I am in the process of creating a website (that I aim to launch by the end of this year) that I hope will serve as a hub for blogs, for exchange of information, resources, and organizations devoted to how we can understand the problem(s) that have created this crisis, and how we can address the problem(s) so as to move as far as we are capable of moving toward the "Great Turning" needed, to use the words of Joanna Macy.

I am a retired green interior designer and nature color consultant. I look to the wisdom of 3.8 million years of nature's wisdom (Biomimicry) to help clients make good design and color decisions.

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.

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.

Recently retired from 30 years of teaching Zen Buddhism and leading a zen community.

I am a retired tertiary educator with a practice in spiritual direction and supervision. I live, work and play on the lands of the Ngarrindjeri Peoples of South Australia. I am of Prussian, Scottish and English ancestry. I have taken an interest for more than a decade in the Deep Time Network and more recently in Ecozoic Studies through the Centre for Ecozoic Studies. I am cultivating Ecozoic Wisdom Circles and have drafted a framework for the work of evolving, strengthening and maintaining the noosphere through complexity and communion consciousness. This work depends on the integration of science and spirituality, and the mining of indigenous and mystic wisdom across all ages and cultures.

Loving deep connection with the world around me, I find joy in guiding others to their own healing while I learn from them for my own. I take this relational learn and growth mindset with me in all areas of life from hobby upcycling to planting and cultural immersion experiences. I have lived in the east, west, south, and north parts of the United States and traveled to 16 countries and counting. The unique flavors and customs of each place are a delight to experience. Human and scological dversity adds to the beauty of life. Since I was a child I have enjoyed serving in my community. When I turned seventeen, I joined the US Army to serve nationally. As an adult, I incorporate service in my teaching and personally cooperatign with many organizations throughout my community. Through service I realized that working on a common project brings people together. My affinity for psychology is a natural outpouring of service and my insatiable curiosity to learn. People are unique and similar in infinite number of ways. I am constantly learning and growing with and for the people I work with. Psychology allows me to work in a variety of environments as well. Outside of my private practice clients, I contract work with organizations too. I have created curriculum for school corporations to train staff on trauma informed learning, and students on social emotional awareness and management. Some in the business and government sector have contracted my services for increasing team cohesion through personality and organizational psychology. The variety of human experience has me on a perpetual path of learning and staying abreast of additional skills and modalities to help my clients grow in their own healing journey. In the past areas such as EMDR, mindfulness, and yoga have been avenues of growth, while currently I am exploring archetypal psychology and ecopsychology as mediums for transformation and growth. My goal is to continue gathering experiences and tools to share with others to build solid relational and personal peace and community on a sustainable planetary system.

I am a freelancing Facilitator and Educator based in Marburg (Germany) with a dedication for the great turning. In 2013 I initiated Transition Theater using participatory theatre within the Transition Town movement. Now I facilitate workshops, events, trainings using participatory theatre and the Work that Reconnects across Germany and Europe.

Passionate ritualist, Dominique has been leading various workshops for several years around storytelling, ritual work and sacred psychology. Musician and author, inspired by the approach and work of mentors such as Clarissa Pinkola Estés and Joanny Macy, she offers spaces for connection, sharing and transformation. A committed citizen, animated by a contagious passion for deep ecology, indigenous wisdom and the processes of inner exploration, she has at heart support and access to full creative potential through ritual work and human ties .

Long Central American connection. Teacher of at-risk teens.

Co-Active Coach CPCC, Trainer of interpersonal interaction, personal growth and career development. Active Hope practicioner

I'm grateful and excited to be a member of the facilitator's network. Despair and Empowerment workshops saved me when I was a despairing returned Witness for Peace Volunteer (Nicaragua, 1987) and newly credentialed art therapist in need of empowerment. Today, the Work That Reconnects nourishes me more than ever and I'm committed to sharing it. As an artist, I'm intrigued with images that reflect my spiritual experience; as a therapist, I strive to empower people to make lasting change by focusing on creativity and resilience; and as a WTR facilitator, I'm interested combining my image-making and therapy experience to enhance folks' experience of the spiral of the WTR. IntuitEarth deep ecology workshops, DEAR WORLD, and the Be Heard Now listening installation are vehicles that foster connection, creativity, and empowerment as they invite exploration of the Spiral of the WTR. I work out of the gift economy. I practice Surat Shabd Yoga and I live way out in the Arkansas Ozarks near the Buffalo River.

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I took the Active Hope online course in 2013 with Chris Johnstone and Barbara Ford. I started blogging about it here. https://www.kenzanweb.com/2013/10/15/going-forth/ I have a slow developing variant of ALS so I’m restricted to online activity, which has included all the Findhorn New Story and Great Turning courses, the Capra Course, and Jeremy Lent’s Principles and Practice of Deep Transformation and the Deep Transformation Network. You can find out more about me at the website under Contact info to the right.

By profession I am an educator and former school leader who worked in independent boarding/day schools as well as high school and college level study abroad. I have a particular interest in proactive cultural and individual transformation as a response to life systems collapse, and to finding a safe way to support people as they feel, face, process and convert their deep concern and worry for the world into convocation, action and purpose.

I am an artist, teacher, facilitator and activist, based in Malmö, Sweden. I am training in different ways to become a facilitator for the Work that Reconnects.

Eileen O'Shaughnessy teaches courses in environmental justice, nuclear guardianship, racial justice, and feminism in the Sustainability Studies Program at the University of New Mexico. She weaves the Work That Reconnects (WTR) into the college courses she teaches. Eileen is also a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist in her social justice indie folk band “Eileen & the In-Betweens.” Eileen is actively facilitating the WTR in both the U.S. and Canada, bringing together elements of earth spirituality, music, and social justice activism.

I’ve been in love with nature since I can remember. I’ve been a meditator since I can call myself an adult. The work integrates harmoniously, the care for the lives of all beings on earth together with the raise in consciousness that we need to transform ourselves and society. This work makes my life meaningful, it is energizing, creative and full of compassion. Since it fuels my will to act for the sake of life on earth, I enjoy knowing that I can play my part while inviting many others to join and play their part too.

I appreciate the depth of the work, the fact that it is a transformative process that helps unblock the energy trapped in our most difficult emotions, to use it to act on the world. It is real and it is organic. It is not wishful thinking. Each time in the process you gain the feeling of a more expanded self, once realized you can no longer ignore the felt ecological self.

I have been recently introduced to Joanna Macy's work by way of Robin Wall Kimmerer. As I find myself waking up, I am encouraged by the countless souls--human and other-- already aware and caring.

Ellen Bermann, born in 1965, has always been living on the cusp of different cultures and languages, particularly the German and Italian one. She sees herself as a change agent, trying to contribute to these changing times and to a positive paradigm shift. She's a permaculturist and transition town activist based in italy. Passionate about Joanna's work, Ellen is disseminating the work that reconnects since 2012, but had already offered deep time work within transition trainings previously. She's a trainer for John Croft's dragon dreaming as well and loves to integrate different skills and approaches when delivering workshops.

I am a retired American-Israeli, who grew up in a diverse Bronx community and then rural area of New York, and later joined a large North African-Moroccan “tribe” through marriage, and raised my daughter, in Jerusalem, Israel, I am living in the northern Mediterranean area of Israel. I spent 45 years as a public service lawyer, leading human service organizations, and teaching teachers and people of all ages with special needs students. I’m a meditation practitioner for many decades, and part of several international sanghas. Since retirement, all my “work” is volunteer, including the Charter for Compassion Education Institute, leading book groups and courses to learn about the Work That Reconnects, and working with the Network’s Anti-Oppression and De-escalating Harmful Patterns of White Supremacy groups. Many of my efforts are focused on coordinating volunteers to protect sea turtles our marine reserves, and other local environmental efforts. I am a meditation practitioner for several decades, and lead several groups. My main role now is a Nana:-)

I was first called to deepen my connection with the Work That Reconnects as a result of several incidents that occurred when we moved to our new home by the sea, in northern Israel. With a move like this--after spending over 30 years in Jerusalem, waiting several years for our community to be created and completion of our building and apartment, the perfection of this area reached gigantic fantasy proportions. After we moved I began to see, as Bayo Akomalafe has taught us, the “cracks”--plastic and other garbage on the beach, illegal fishing in an area that is dedicated as a marine reserve, the destruction of the nature reserve that surrounds our house without consideration to transitioning and transformation and preservation. Prior to COVID I had investigated participating in WTR workshops in person, but we were thwarted in my attempts to travel due to my husband’s health. So for the most part I was an armchair WTR enthusiast (reading and studying books) as well as an armchair environmental activist. I recall vividly the day I encountered a dead sea turtle, a gorgeous creature, so large, it boggled my mind, something I had only seen in documentaries. With a quick investigation, I reported the death to the appropriate authority, and we learned that the turtle swallowed plastic bags, mistaking them for jellyfish, one of their favorite foods, since the movement of a plastic bag in water looks much like the jelly. I recall being stunned, shocked, blocked to explore my feelings and what to do about them, despite my many decades of meditation practice. And it happened again! As COVID hit, WTR turned to online in a moment when I really needed help. Through the Spiral, I learned how to transform those feelings of pain and suffering over these sentient beings, see the reality of how humans are mistreating our planet, and do something about it. Again, as Mr. Akomalafe says, the crack becomes an opportunity….indeed! But I always come from a place of gratitude for this beautiful world, for my being alive and well enough to enjoy it and do something about it. I was attracted to this aspect because I am basically an optimist, and have learned over many decades of public service work that if there is a problem, there must be a solution, and I am one who has learned to guide others to finding it. I also am a trainer and guide by nature, training many different professional and volunteers communities from the legal field--lawyers, judges, legislators and their aids; medical and social work and criminal justice professionals in the criminal and juvenile justice fields, as well as child abuse and neglect; and eventually in the educational communities here in Israel, working with students of all ages with special educational needs, as well as training their teachers to work with them, also in the use of adaptive technology. So having adopted WTR Spiral practices into my daily life, I knew that I wanted to learn how to share these with others. This work led me to converting from a closet/armchair environmental activist into a very active physical one--first becoming a volunteer with the Nature Authority to rise at dawn to find turtle nests for transfer to the farm, then protecting them at night, and eventually recruiting and coordinating two communities of volunteers to look for nests, as well as assisting the management of those that protected the farm at night, and visiting the nests during the day, and helping the rangers open nests for the public. And I found an answer to the heartbreak of people throwing garbage on our beautiful lagoons and beaches--I started our community’s beach and sea protection group, connected with the regional and national groups, and we began cleaning the beaches every week, first with a very small group, which eventually grew. We became the emergency core for cleaning tar for several months that hit our beaches as a result of a terrible oil spill, and sponsored a big cleanup where hundreds of families in our neighborhood and from around the country went on tours of our lagoons to learn about sea life, and to clean our beaches. From there, our group has become a springboard for environmental action, speaking up against the building of a marina, illegal fishing, and recruiting volunteers to do citizen research about the climate crisis as well as become part of Nature Authority turtle protection efforts.

What I appreciate most about the Work That Reconnects is the way that it can become a practice for each of us, in our daily lives, not a set of theories and concepts to be consulted occasionally, and then placed on a shelf. In this respect, it is like my meditation practice, something that becomes part of our lives, informs our daily living and especially, helps us to move forward with concern and care through the crisis in which we are living.An excellent adjunct to my Bodhisattva vow. I suspect that the Great Unraveling appeals to my sense of truth--I have always believed that we can’t move forward in our lives and the world, unless we understand where we are (the mess we are in!) and especially how we got there. Thus it is no surprise that one of my minors in college was history, with specializing in pre-Holocaust Germany and world events that led to it. I also suspect that as someone who has never bought into working with corporate America (as many of my law school classmates and colleagues did), and preserved my inclinations to serve underrepresented and helpless communities, the Great Unraveling provides a different perspective on what appears to be a massive takeover by profit interests of our world, its resources, and a form of enslavement to all our people that work for them, or buy from them. I don’t think I explored this side of nature to the extent that was necessary until I began to connect Joanna Macy’s writings to the practical exploration of her theories within a workshop setting, and eventually in our communities. So in my 60s, I settled down to question more and more of what I experienced in my life, and what I learned about the times before I was born, to answer some of the pressing questions I have had about how we ended up in this deplorable mess in our world! And obviously, the Great Turning is the path of hope, of creativity. It allows any of us who are of a nature to solve a problem that we encounter in our lives or the lives of others with a solution. This is a huge problem we are facing! It will not “unravel” easily. And it will take the concerted actions of thousands, if not millions of people. The Great Turning is a way to connect the actions of each person and group and community that are moving toward loving and protecting and repairing our earth--connect them to one another, into a movement, one that will begin to reverse the trend of destruction. Or at least, hold it at bay, or minimize its effects.

My offerings help individuals to get more connected with themselves, with their path, with the planet, and the purpose that calls them. In these chaotic and distressing times, we are called to live more fully. Living more fully looks like feeling what you feel all the way, doing what you say and saying what you do, and knowing in your bones of your inter-being and belonging to our planetary eco-system and beyond. Many people have experienced 'ecological awakenings' through plant medicines or experiences of nature, that leaves them wondering, What is mine to do? Working with me is an opportunity to figure that out. Through one-on-one eco-somatic guidance we explore resilience, wholeness, and vision... With integration support after psychedelic journeys to remember your interconnectedness and follow what calls to you... ​Let's weave your human purpose and contribution into the healing for the whole with wonder, synchronicity and surrender... let's go forth, together.

I found the Work That Reconnects after spending my early 20’s organizing to ban fracking in New York and California. I left the organization that “raised” me as an activist feeling burned out and hopeless even with a successful campaign! During my first 10-day intensive with Joanna, I realized that I can contribute to healing the world in a variety of ways, that organizing with a non-profit wasn't the only way to make a difference. I discovered that shifting my consciousness, and guiding others to new perspectives was one way… Or finding community and building relationships with people, humans and others beings, and the land I lived on was another. The lesson that MY relationship to the web of life became so essential that I am constantly moved to support others to tend to their connection to the land, other beings, and their purpose. I found that the Work That Reconnects was, in itself, one way to contribute to the Great Turning and began to practice facilitation. I continue to be called to facilitate WTR because every time I do, it happens by itself, as if the world is acting through me when I hold this space for others. Every time I facilitate, I feel I am offering nourishing water from a healthy well that fills them with a sense of connection and responsibility to care for that which supports all life, and in turn, facilitating makes me feel alive and on purpose.

I appreciate that the Work That Reconnects helps people feel more in touch with the earth. After a workshop I did in London, one participant shared that she felt the ocean in her, and herself in the ocean, after embodying a sea otter in the Council of All Beings, and that she felt more connected to the earth than she had in years throughout the weekend. In these times when humans are easily disconnected and out of touch with the planet, the Work That Reconnects is a way to be in contact with a planet that desperately needs us to feel her.

2017

• Work That Reconnects - Sacred Activism (2017, 6 hours)
  Facilitated by: Emily Coralyne & Cindy Squillace
• Introduction to the Work That Reconnects for the Tamera Community (2018, 6 hours)
  Facilitated by: Emily Coralyne
• Climate Grief & Sacred Activism (London, England) (2019, 3 Days hours)
  Facilitated by: Emily Coralyne & Phoebe Tickell
• Coming Back to Life in Dark Times (London, England) (2018, 3 Days hours)
  Facilitated by: Emily Coralyne & Phoebe Tickell

(2020) Introduction to the Work That Reconnects for the Tamera Community - Half Day Currently I serve as a Full Time Retreat Coordinator for Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California. I am also hosting Work That Reconnects workshops at the Aloka Earth Room in San Rafael, CA.

• 10-Day Intensive with Joanna (2016, 10 Days hours)
  Facilitated by: Joanna Macy, Anne S-B, Patricia St. Onge, Mutima Imani & Others
• What is Mine to Do? + Deepening Retreat (January 2017, 8 Days hours)
  Facilitated by: Anne Symens-Bucher, Terry Bucher, Joanna Macy

During my undergraduate years, I was quickly politicized and awakened to the ecological crises that is underway. I began organizing and advocating for a ban on fracking on my campus mall, and traveling to Ecuador to understand the globalized impacts of the US's unrelentless oil exploitation. When I graduated with a degree in Sociology & Latin American Studies with a focus on Community Development and Social Change, I returned to Upstate New York, the land of the Onondagas/Haudenosaunee peoples, where I took on full time work as a regional coordinator to continue the fight to ban fracking in New York State. During this time, I was introduced to Re-Evaluation Co-Counseling by my mentors and completed both the fundamentals and teachers & leaders courses. Since 2014, I have clocked many hours as a co-counselor supporting and being supported in grieving the oppression in our world in order to liberate our minds towards wise action. In 2015, I moved to California and became interested in intentional communities. Beloved Canticle Farm served as a landing/portal/healing place for me in between my travels and homes, and whenever I was there, found myself actively engaging with the Spiral of the Work That Reconnects through my days and interactions there. I founded a co-housing project in San Francisco where we organized daily morning practices and relational work and I began my coaching business - Going Forth Coaching. During this time I took several Coach Training & business development courses as well as workshops with organizations such as Academy for Coaching Excellence and Animas Valley Institute. In 2016, I became familiar with Tamera, an eco-village in Portugal and participated in several courses. In 2018 I returned for a 3 year program called the Healing Biotopes Student Program that included living in the community for three months every year and deepening in with a cohort of 30 activist and community builders from around the world on topics such as trust, transparency, peace culture, conflict resolution, power of prayer and collective song, trauma sensitivity, water tending, spiritual ecology, healing sexuality & relationships, family constellation work, and grief work.

• Roots Deeper Than Whiteness (2016, 20 hours)
  Facilitated by: White Awake
• Somatic Abolitionism for White Bodies (2018-2021, 40 hours)
  Facilitated by: Carlin Quinn / Education for Racial Equity
• Seeing the Racial Waters (2019, 3 Days hours)
  Facilitated by: Robin DiAngelo

• Yearlong Facilitator Practice Cohort Bay Area (Canticle Farm) (2016-2017, 40 hours)
  Facilitated by: Shared Facilitation

• Somatic Abolitionism for White Bodies (2018-2021, 40+ hours)
  Facilitated by: Carlin Quinn/Education for Racial Equity

I am a graduate student, ANFT Guide-in- Training and lover of the more-than-human world. I live with chronic mental disabilities and find solace within liminality and intentional, heart-full interconnection with like-minded souls.

I'm in love with learning - I believe learning has a life-force, and when nurtured can unlock the potential in each of us to heal and regenerate each other and the world around us. I have been inspired by the work that reconnects practice as I believe it brings the depth and life required in learning experiences. I have been facilitating these experiences casually over a few years, and am part of an organisation creating a land-based learning hub on regenerating land in Whanganui, Aotearoa New Zealand, where I intend to integrate WTR into more and more of the learning experiences held on this land.

Emma is an educator, organizer, and community builder. As an educator, she works with young adolescents to help them deepen their relationships with themselves, learn joyfully, and grow beloved communities of warmth and accountability. As a facilitator and community builder, she works to activate white communities as part of a multiracial movement for racial justice and ecological wholeness. She believes in the power of music, laughter, and shared nourishment.

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I am a Somatic Naturalist & Embodiment Mentor. I am a teacher of The Feldenkrais Method & The Embodied Life. I am a Facilitator of The Work That Reconnects & a Community Grief & Praise Tender. I'm also a mother, partner, permaculture gardener, bee-centric beekeeper, home herbalist, writer, long time meditator, and lover of wandering in wilderness. I am dedicated to bio-cultural restoration, to radical kindness, to embodied presence, to bodhichitta (the awakened heart-mind), and to being the change we wish to see.   Along with my beloved, I am the host of the Embodiment Matters podcast https://embodimentmatters.com/podcast/   Creator of Weaving Glimpses http://embodimentmatters.com/weaving-glimpses/   and the Embodiment Lab https://embodimentmatters.com/the-embodiment-lab/   Check out my free introductory course weaving embodiment, somatics, and The Work that Reconnects. https://app.ruzuku.com/courses/42847/about   Sign up for my mailing list to stay up to date on offerings and to receive writings that many folks tell us they love to read.  

"The eyes of the future are looking back and praying that we see beyond our own time." - Terry Tempest Williams I'm grateful to be haunted by the demands of the unborn future beings of all species on whom the consequences of our lifestyle are piling up in such dramatic ways. I dedicate my life as a love poem to the future ones. I love to be a warm, loving bridge welcoming folks to face the truth of our times with a commitment to radical kindness and with a wealth of somatic skills that can support us on the journey.

As my mentor and friend Francis Weller says, "This is the solitary work we cannot do alone." While each of us is called to serve in unique ways based on our gifts and our particular heartbreak, it is so much easier, more powerful, and more fun when we gather together and not only learn from one another but find the great blessings of community - supporting and being supported - as we meet these times. I find the spiral of the WTR a brilliant framework to welcome our wholeness and to access deep support. I love this work!

Erin Holtz Braeckman is a writer and educator who seeks to rewild the Earth-based ancestral wisdom traditions of the Deep Feminine in her art and activism. She holds a B.A., B.Ed., and an M.A. in English Literature (Public Texts), as well as certification in Spiritual Counselling and a background in World Religions. She is a part-time faculty member at Lakefield College School, and teaches Hatha and Qigong as an E-RYT and reiki practitioner out of her home business, The Village Yoga Studio, in Ontario, Canada. When not with a book, her garden, or beloved family, she can be found weaving the Work that Reconnects into an “embodied inner life” by observing the sacred in the everyday. www.thevillageyogastudio.ca and www.womenswisdom.ca

I work on energy and climate policy by day and am exploring the Work That Reconnects in my personal time.

Dr Evangelia Papoutsaki is an engaged global citizen with a passion for social justice and one that is grounded in her local island community; a social change communication scholar, editor, published author, facilitator and educator; and a dedicated mentor to young women, agents of change and emerging researchers. For many years she delivered a postgraduate course on communication for social change and development and supervised related research projects that informed community action. Evangelia is an Associate Professor, the Co-convenor for the international Small Island Cultures Research Initiative and the Executive Editor of an open access publishing house, ePress. She runs Dialogos, a private practice that provides training, research and facilitation to social change engaged individuals and collectives. Her practice includes the co-facilitated Kuumba for Agents of Change Program: https://www.sesamathloapothecary.online/kuumba

The Work That Reconnects has provided me with the missing link in my practice that threads into my facilitation work the key WRT approaches of deep ecology, systems thinking, and non-dualistic spirituality. I felt called to bring these elements into my research, facilitation, and training work so that I can better respond to the pressing needs of our planet and community needs.

By bringing in aspects of non-dualistic spirituality, deep ecology and systems thinking into finding alternative and more holistic ways that in turn help bring more meaningful and far reaching change.

I provide virtual and on-site project and event management support to a variety of mission-driven clients, including nonprofits, solopreneurs, and performing artists. My services include online marketing (website maintenance, email marketing, social media), copywriting and editing, data structure and customer relations management, project management, and event organizing. My focus is to help enact the vision of creative individuals and communities in building, healing, and restoring, so that we may shape a more resilient future.