Recordings of Past Events

Book Launch: Coming Together in the Great Turning

November 22, 2025 – In collaboration with the Anti-Oppression Resources Group (AORG), Interhelp and New Society Publishers, the WTR Network hosted a celebration of the publication of Coming Together in the Great Turning: Collective Liberation and Work That Reconnects – a decade-long interrogation and expansion of the revolutionary practices of the Work That Reconnects, with powerful contributions from practitioners across the world.

Joanna Macy’s Literary Legacy

October 14, 2025 – Offered through partnership between the Work That Reconnects Network, Parallax Press, Shambhala Publications and New Society Publishers, this event brought a panel of Joanna Macy’s fellow authors to offer readings, dialogue, community reflection and open discussion to honor Joanna’s literary legacy. Leilani Navar moderated and was joined by Kazu Haga, Jo Confino, Judith Plant, Molly Young Brown and Stephanie Kaza.

Thrutopian Narratives: Creating Flourishing Futures with Manda Scott

October 11, 2025 – We are living through a time between stories. Narratives of scarcity, extraction, greed and separation are crumbling, while new stories of a flourishing and healthy planet are seeking to be born. Manda Scott, author of Any Human Power and creator of the Accidental Gods podcast will invite participants into a visioning and writing process to explore the layers of what they truly value, and how they might express that value in ways that nourish life.

Holy Grief! Emotional Vitality in the Great Turning – Seasonal Ritual with Inna Alex

September 20, 2025 – While living amidst the Great Unravelling in today’s time, it requires a lot of courage to resist armouring our hearts against the onslaught of despair and instead choose to actively keep our hearts breaking open – to dare to be present to our sadness, fears and anger. In this session we accessed the power of being amongst a supportive community of practice to create a brave space for expressing our emotional responses to the matters of our time. Through regular practice of expressing our heart’s feelings we gain access to more vitality for our human expression. Expanding our emotional literacy, by learning how to harvest the fruitful energies of the often-shunned feelings of anger, fear and sadness, allows us to strengthen our power to act on behalf of Earth at this time. This was a rich opportunity to actively care for our personal emotional wellbeing as well as to support others by bearing witness to their journey.

This Seasonal Ritual was not recorded.  

Becoming a Good Relative: Calling White Settlers toward Truth, Healing and Repair with Hilary Giovale

September 13, 2025 – Foundational to the Work That Reconnects are Deep Time practices that activate our moral imagination and bring us into relation with our ancestors and future ones. This work can reveal painful truths about past and present generations that call for acknowledgement, grief and reparations as we actively work toward a more just and regenerative future. In this webinar, Hilary Giovale, author of Becoming a Good Relative: Calling White Settlers toward Truth, Healing, and Repair, shares the story of learning that she descends from early Euro-American settlers who received grants of stolen Indigenous land and enslaved people of African descent. She also participants to take part in community-based ancestral storytelling, experience a universal practice to honor their ancestors and learn about creating reparation plans for their own ancestral healing work.

Sacred Storytelling for the Great Turning: Claiming Your Role During Times of Change with Leah Lamb and Constance Washburn

August 30, 2025 – In this webinar, Constance Washburn introduces the important role of stories in the Work That Reconnects and Leah Lamb guides us into the practice of sacred storytelling. Through journaling and small group sharing of our stories of personal transformation and our experiences with the Work That Reconnects we expand our gifts as storytellers and change agents.

Celebrations of Life for Joanna Macy

August 5, 2025 – We offered two gatherings to honor the life of Joanna Macy with a global, online connection space. These celebrations of life brought together the global Work That Reconnects community, and all others who felt called to join. They were a time to mourn, remember, and celebrate together to bring comfort, connection, and meaning to all who gathered. We are happy to share the merged recordings of these events as well as the resources that were shared and collected.

Islands of Sanity: Cultivating Community in the Midst of Collapse with Margaret Wheatley

August 2, 2025 – In these precarious times, we’re being called to turn toward each other to create Islands of Sanity – cohesive conscious communities of humans who recognize that we cannot survive the incoming tsunamis of insanity on our own. Margaret Wheatley reminds us that we create these islands not to withdraw in self-protection, but to strengthen ourselves for the work we do in the world. She reminds us that we were made for these times and our gifts are truly needed. She invites us to embrace this so we can shift from being traumatized, isolated, and apathetic to being available, connected, and empathetic.

10th Anniversary Spirals for WTR Network Members

July 18 and 19, 2025 – For the past decade, the Network has been a space where we come together to deepen our work, hold each other through grief and gratitude, and weave a future rooted in connection. As we reach this milestone in our shared work, we invited the community to join us in celebrating and gathering to connect with why we do what we do, and why it matters. In these special WTR Spirals for WTR Network members we were guided by a group of experienced WTR facilitators on a journey through the spiral to wrestle with the challenges and meet the unique opportunities of these times. These gatherings were offered at two different times to cover all the times zones.

These gatherings were not recorded. 

Work That Reconnects and the Four Paths of Creation Spirituality with Matthew Fox

July 12, 2025 – Reawakening our authentic awe and gratitude for the miracle of life is essential to our ability to meet the challenges and opportunities of this complex moment. In this webinar, scholar of Christian Mysticism, Matthew Fox, begins by sharing about his long-time friendship and collaborations with Joanna Macy. He then invites us to activate a mystical relationship with life so we can engage in the sacred responsibility of living our lives in service of compassion and collective wellbeing. Matthew then guides us in an experience of his Four Paths of Creation Spirituality and an exploration of how they align with the four phases of the Work That Reconnects spiral.

WTR Network 10th Anniversary Celebrations

June 13 and 14, 2025 – For the past decade, the WTR Network has been a space where we come together to deepen our work, hold each other through grief and gratitude, and weave a future rooted in connection. We began our celebrations with a vibrant tapestry of offerings and connection with our global community. We have combined the recordings of these two events and included the shared resources from those gatherings with gratitude to our presenters.

Threads of Connection: The Global Fabric of the Work That Reconnects

May 17, 2025 – Beginning as an initiative from the Social Justice Committee of the WTR Network, Threads of Connection is a confluence of facilitators from around the world, each gathering spotlighting a different continent. This conversation is moderated by Shayontoni Ghosh from India and includes Helen Sui from China, Om Sunisa Jamwiset from Thailand, and Thao Kin from Vietnam. The panelists explore topics such as the presence and growth of The Work That Reconnects in these Asian regions, the role and process of translating and adapting its core texts, the facilitators’ personal journeys, and the points of resonance between these distinct cultures.

Council of Water Beings: a WTR Network Webinar with Emily Coralyne and Frieda Nixdorf

April 19, 2025 – Offered in celebration of the release of the documentary film Water is Love: Ripples of Regeneration, in this webinar Emily Coralyne and Frieda Nixdorf invited participants into a Council of Water Beings. A much-beloved practice of the Work That Reconnects, the Council of All Beings is a ritual of honoring and connecting with the voices of all beings. For this experience, participants are invited to arrive already “called” or “chosen” to embody a particular non-human water being or water body. This might have been an animal that lives in or near the water or your favorite body of water – a river, or a lake. Participants brought their voices – their experiences, their plight, their joys, their love for life – whatever it was that wanted to move through to share on behalf of the beings. Participants made and wore masks representing their beings and came adorned with costumes and face paint.

Mycelial Resilience: a WTR Network Webinar with Héctor Aristizabal and Claudia González

April 5, 2025 – For over seven years, Hector Aristizabal and his colleagues at Fundación Re-Conectando have been contributing to peace-building in Colombia from the perspective of Deep Ecology, using the Work That Reconnects and other healing methodologies. During four years of work with the Truth Commission, they approached reconciliation from an ecocentric perspective, understanding that conflicts between humans have their deepest roots in the trauma of separation between humans and other beings and living forces on the planet.

Faced with the dissolution of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Inter-American Foundation (IAF) by the current administration of the United States, the Re-Conectando team and colleagues in other organizations throughout Latin America are scrambling to respond to the sudden loss of organizational funds and the cancellation of vital projects.

In this webinar Hector and Claudia share about this sacred work.

Conversations with the Seventh Generation: a WTR Network Ritual with Anna Swisher

March 22, 2025 – In this special WTR Network ritual, Anna Swisher guided us into direct conversation with the Seventh Generation – those humans who will live seven generations after us. This ritual invites us into a space of Deep Time, helps us express the challenges we face living in the world right now, and supports us in discovering more about the part we want to play in creating a better world for future generations. All you need in order to participate is a willingness to use your imagination. The framework of the Work That Reconnects (WTR) acknowledges that we are living in a challenging, confusing, and heartbreaking time. This classic WTR ritual helps us to share our pain for the world – which often lightens our load – as well as to widen our perspective, find the beauty, gifts and strengths in the challenges, and identify small steps that we can each take to support Life on our beautiful planet for the ones yet to be.

This Seasonal Ritual was not recorded.  

Deep Ecology for Youth with Jennifer Chesnut and Katharine Burke

February 1, 2025 – Growing up in this time of increasing climate chaos, political turmoil and impending systems collapse with access to all the information of the internet in the palm of their hands is a harrowing experience for many of the world’s young people. The children of today are in need of deeper support and more creative tools for emotional resilience than conventional educational models provide. WTR Network Facilitator Members, Jennifer Chesnut and Katharine Burke are two educators who have been responding to this need by integrating the Work That Reconnects and principles of Deep Ecology into their classrooms with great success. Whether you’re a teacher, parent, grandparent, auntie/uncle or friend to youth, this webinar offers resources for supporting the young people in your life during these turbulent times.

Take Heart: The 5 Vows of the Great Turning with Erin Geesaman Rabke and Leilani Wong Navar

The Most Compelling Story with Rivera Sun

November 9, 2024 – Work That Reconnects experiences often start with an exploration of the Three Stories of our Times. Author and nonviolence trainer, Rivera Sun, describes these stories as metanarratives. They are the big stories we tell ourselves about what’s going on in the world. They are told, often subconsciously, in the background of our minds and inform the way we live in the world. Story is one of humanity’s most ancient, enduring and powerful technologies. In this webinar, Rivera Sun guided participants in a creative exploration of the power of story and how it influences the way we engage with the world during these epic times.

Hospicing Modernity with Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti

October 26, 2024 – In the Work That Reconnects we acknowledge that the unraveling of the structures of Business As Usual is an essential aspect of the Great Turning and we are invited to embrace the uncertainty of what lies ahead. But how do we navigate such uncharted terrain?

In Hospicing Modernity, Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti guides readers through layers of this inquiry and directly into the experience of tenderly extracting ourselves from the entanglements of modernity. How can we see modernity through to its end with compassion, curiosity and dignity?

In this webinar, Vanessa and Azul Carolina Duque joined us to reimagine ways of broadening our personal and collective response to the demise of modernity.

Coming Home to the Great Remembering with Erin Geesaman Rabke and Carl Rabke

September 21, 2024 – In a time when there are so many external demands for our attention and the pain of the world can feel so intensely overwhelming, we invited the community to gather together in this sacred, interactive ritual experience. WTR Facilitators and Embodiment Mentors, Erin Geesaman Rabke and Carl Rabke, guided us in a process of coming home to our own embodied presence to undo, unlearn and make space for the vastness of the experience of being alive in these times.

This Seasonal Ritual was not recorded. 

The Soul’s Mycelium: a WTR Grief Ritual with Héctor Aristizabal

April 6, 2024 – Drawing inspiration from ways in which he has applied the Truth Mandala in the context of Reconectando in Colombia, Hector Aristizabal will guide us in a profound exploration of re-signifying soul wounds through communal ritual, mirroring the regenerative nature of mycelium in the forest. How do we explore the power of shared narratives to breathe new life into personal and community struggles? Much like the mycelium, which draws sustenance from decomposing matter to nurture new growth, we will emphasize the potential for meaning and growth to emerge from the depths of our individual and collective challenges. By embracing the cyclical nature of growth and decay, this ritual invites a deeper understanding of how our wounds can become the fertile ground for profound personal and communal evolution.

This Seasonal Ritual was not recorded. 

Dreaming and Becoming with Orland Bishop and Mutima Imani with special guests Bayo Akomolafe and Resmaa Menakem

February 17, 2024 – For Black History Month we welcomed Orland Bishop for a webinar Dreaming and Becoming, along with special guests, Bayo Akomolafe and Resmaa Menakem. Last year, these visionary leaders traveled the diaspora as Three Black Men. On February 17, they joined us for a radical re/imagination of how to respond with emergent possibilities. In Dreaming and Becoming we invite you to quiet your mind, open your heart and let love in – together we will explore the movement from dreaming and believing to knowing and becoming. This webinar, moderated by Mutima Imani, is a fundraiser for the upcoming Three Black Men documentary film.

Maternal Gift Economy with Miki Kashtan

January 27, 2024 – In this webinar, Miki Kashtan and Jo delAmor converse about the possibility of shifting to the new and ancient paradigm that Genevieve Vaughan calls the Maternal Gift Economy, where we focus on sharing resources based on care for everyone’s needs, where we recognize our interconnectedness with all life, and where we know our power to participate in making life work.

November 1-4, 2023 – The Work That Reconnects Network’s Gaian Gathering brought inspiring speakers, and engaged facilitators and participants from all over the world. It was made especially wonderful by Joanna Macy’s presence and lively participation in many of the sessions. If you couldn’t make it to the Gaian Gathering live, don’t worry! You can still access the treasure trove of conference recordings which contains profound sessions on foundational WTR concepts of gratitude, honoring our pain, dharma and spirituality, deep time, deep ecology, undoing oppression, and so much more!

Sociocracy for All: Self Governance for the Great Turning with Ted Rau

October 7, 2023 – Governance is an essential aspect of human society but it doesn’t have to be done in the Business As Usual way. To create and support Life Sustaining Societies we need functional, egalitarian, co-liberatory methods for working together, making decisions and governing our communities. Working for the Great Turning requires us to actively unlearn oppressive patterns and forms of governance while learning and becoming skillful at co-liberatory, life sustaining forms of governance. In this webinar we speak with Ted Rau, co-founder of Sociocracy for All to learn more about Sociocracy as an essential tool for engaging in the Great Turning.

Honoring Our Pain for the World: A Webinar with John Seed and Skye Mandozay

September 16, 2023 – John Seed and Skye Mandozay guide participants through the theme of “Honouring Our Pain for the World”, a key step in the Experiential Deep Ecology and Work That Reconnects Spiral Journey. Through poetry, song, story and experiential process inspired by Joanna Macy’s “Despair and Empowerment” work and Francis Weller’s “Five Gates of Grief”, participants acknowledge and validate difficult emotions such as grief, anger, fear and despair as evidence of our mutual belonging in a relational universe, and hence our power to take action on behalf of all life. Through this exploration, participants seek to establish the value of feeling as a form of deep intelligence and communication from the wider Earth system in which we are all inextricably embedded.

Facilitating Effective Work That Reconnects Rituals: Council of all Beings

August 18 & 19, 2023 – In the third of this 3-part series, facilitators Kathleen Rude and Frieda Nixdorf create space for a rich exploration of the Council of All Beings ritual. During the first half of our time together, Kathleen and Frieda invite us into ritual space with a grounding invocation, briefly outline the various aspects of effective ritual, and then lead us in an online Council of All Beings ritual. Please note that this is primarily a teaching webinar, so the ritual part is shorter than it would be if we were offering the ritual as a stand-alone experience.

During the second part, they lead a discussion about specific facilitation techniques and approaches (for both online and in person), explore the power of imagination and interconnection, and then open up the space for reactions, questions and sharing of additional tips and facilitation experiences from participants.

Facilitating Effective Work That Reconnects Rituals: Truth Mandala with Kathleen Rude

July 14 & 15, 2023 – During the first half of this webinar, Kathleen Rude invites participants into ritual space with a grounding invocation, briefly outlines the various aspects of effective ritual, and then leads an online Truth Mandala ritual.

During the second part, Kathleen leads a discussion about specific facilitation techniques and approaches (for both online and in person) for honoring our pain, and then opens up the space for reactions, questions and sharing of additional tips and facilitation experiences from participants.

Facilitating Effective Work That Reconnects Rituals: Seventh Generation with Kathleen Rude

June 2 & 3, 2023 – During this teaching webinar, Kathleen Rude invites participants into ritual space with a grounding invocation, briefly outlines the various aspects of effective ritual, and leads an online Seventh Generation ritual, covering aspects of effective ritual both in person and online.

Kathleen also offers a discussion about specific facilitation techniques and approaches (for both online and in person), explores the power of imagination and Deep Time, and then opens space for reactions, questions and sharing of additional tips and facilitation experiences from participants.

Experiential Deep Ecology with John Seed and Skye Mandozay

May 6, 2023 – Deep Ecology is a philosophy of nature which describes the psychological or spiritual disease that allows modern humans to attack the biological fabric out of which our own lives too are woven. This disease stems from anthropocentrism, or human-centeredness, and the ensuing illusion of separation from nature. The term was coined by Norwegian philosophy professor Arne Næss who claimed that “ecological ideas are not enough – we need ecological identity, ecological self.” He proposed that “community therapies” were needed to heal our relations with the non-human world. John Seed has been working with Joanna Macy and others for over 25 years designing and facilitating offerings to support this healing.

In this webinar we explore deep ecology and introduce some experiential processes that can support us in breaking through this illusion of separation and allow us to deepen our felt connection to touch the living Earth and nourish our ecological identity.

Paradigm as Choice in the Great Turning with Woman Stands Shining (Pat McCabe)

March 25, 2023 – The Great Turning requires profound shifts in consciousness and in our perceptions of reality. In a society that’s so heavily influenced by the Power Over Paradigm that defines reality in static, concrete terms, we often don’t realize that it’s within our ability to choose to see and experience reality through different paradigmatic lenses. As a holy earth surface walker of the Dine’ people, Woman Stands Shining (Pat McCabe) understands that the Power Over Paradigm is not the only way to understand and move through reality. She knows that the Earth operates within the Thriving Life Paradigm and that it is well within our ability to choose alignment with that paradigm. In this rich conversation we explore our capacity, as humans, to participate with Earth in service to Thriving Life.

Systems Thinking, Systems Doing, Systems Being with Felicia Chavez

February 25, 2023 – “Systems thinking” is often used as a catch-all term for many interrelated disciplines, from cybernetics to organizational development to the biological sciences. But what is “systems thinking” really?These days, we are drawn more than ever to the ‘systems’ worldview for answers to our social and ecological challenges. Its necessity is undeniable, however, it takes only a return to our conventional environments after a workshop or online course to bring us back to business as usual. The literature full of jargon in the realm of Systems Thinking does not help either. In this webinar we explore some models for contextualizing and understanding the extremely wide ranging systems worldview.

Resilience for the Great Unraveling with Richard Heinberg

January 28, 2023 – As a species, we have witnessed as entire empires collapsed. Living with ongoing collapse has been the reality for many communities and beings for a long time. What Richard Heinberg and many others share, however, is that the current Great Unraveling is a convergence of many crises, mainly our society’s deep dependence on fossil fuels for everything from food to health to transportation and energy. Building resilience is imperative, but what does that look like for individuals and communities? What has worked and how can we start building that now? In this conversation we explore, as WTR practitioners and followers, how we can contribute to the resilience of the most vulnerable in our communities.

Liberation for All: Bringing Tenderness to Conversations about Power and Privilege with Miki Kashtan

November 19, 2022 – When engaging with topics of power and privilege, would you like for everyone who has experienced impacts across power differences to be heard and engaged with deeply? Are you longing for people with access to resources, relational power, or societal privilege to leave such conversations with growing capacity and insight? This webinar explores how we can move in this direction and transform such conversations even while the systems we live in are unchanged.

Love, Rage, Rebel: Climate Activism and the Great Turning with Tom Deacon, Margo van Greta and Kirsty Heron

November 9, 2022 – In this webinar Tom Deacon, Margo van Greta and Kirsty Heron explore how the three dimensions of the Great Turning relate to each other, and how bringing them forward through Work that Reconnects inspired sessions can build trust, courage and resilience in movements for climate justice. We include recent examples and insights from the UK where we are part of facilitator collectives holding experiential Work That Reconnects based sessions in-service of peaceful direct action movements including Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil. We also give space for you to reflect where you are personally at in the Great Turning, and share your experiences with likeminded people from all over the planet.

Conducting Effective Work That Reconnects Rituals and Ceremonies with Kathleen Rude

October 8, 2022 – Rituals and ceremonies are some of the most powerful, transformative experiences in the Work That Reconnects spiral, especially when they are done well. Leading powerful ritual requires a set of skills and understanding that you can’t find in the WTR texts. Learn how to conduct truly inspiring rituals with experienced WTR facilitator and ceremonial leader Kathleen Rude. With a focus on the Council of All Beings, Seventh Generation and the Truth Mandala, Kathleen offers insights and techniques about how to set intention and establish boundaries, how to lead with confidence in the power of ritual, how to open and close rituals and how to bring your unique gifts and wisdom into the process.

Ecological Civilization: Humanity’s Transformational Alternative with Della Duncan and David Korten

October 1, 2022 – A choice making species of extraordinary potential, a false religion devoted to the worship of money has put us on a path to self-extinction. Join David Korten, global visionary activist and bestselling author, and Della Duncan, Renegade Economist and host of the Upstream Podcast for the most important conversation of our time. An exploration of the epic opportunity created by our existential crisis. This conversation will be both expansive and deep, touching on themes including science, spirituality, systems thinking, and economics. It will also be participatory, for the way forward must be collaborative.

Postactivism, Transraciality and Decoloniality with Bayo Akomolafe

September 16, 2022 – Dr. Bayo Akomolafe’s inquiry into postactivism challenges our conventional notions of activism and agency by asking the question: “What do we do when our response to the crisis becomes part of the crisis?” In a world replete with ever-increasing and compounding social and environmental crises, Bayo invites us to not just think outside of the box, but to “touch the box” by troubling our centrality within the complex, interconnected circumstances of a living world ‘suddenly’ alive, agential, and animated.

Principles and Practices of Deep Transformation with Jeremy Lent

August 13, 2022 – Our civilization is careening at an accelerating pace toward a precipice of climate breakdown, ecological destruction, and gaping inequality. Redirecting humanity’s trajectory will require a fundamental transformation of society encompassing virtually every aspect of the human experience: our values, our goals and our collective behavior. Jeremy Lent, author and facilitator lead of Principles and Practices of Deep Transformation: Laying the Groundwork for an Ecological Civilization shares his perspectives.

Active Hope (new edition) Book Launch with Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone

July 23, 2022 – Since Active Hope was first published a decade ago, the Great Unraveling has progressed at an alarming rate. To better address this disturbing new context, Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone have taken a fresh view of Active Hope, with the tenth anniversary edition published in June 2022. In this webinar, Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone joined us to share in celebration of the launch of the second edition of Active Hope. We invite you watch the recording of this highly interactive event and read the invitations, chat responses and resources that were shared.

Conversation Café: Regenerative Livelihood for the Great Turning

June 25, 2022 – In response to the important questions that arose during our recent webinar with Della Duncan, we are again joining in conversation and opening community space for a deeper exploration of our experiences of regenerative livelihood. As we delve into the “unlearning” of everything we thought we knew about economics, let us join in conversation to uncover tangible ways to bring the invitations of regenerative economics into actionable ideas for our personal and/or our professional lives as facilitators. This offering is hosted by Della Duncan and Frieda Nixdorf.

Regenerative Livelihood and Finances for the Great Turning with Della Duncan

May 21, 2022 – Unlearn everything you thought you knew about economics. Join our next Conversation Café for radical ideas, inspiring stories, and practical invitations for the just economic transition to a more regenerative and equitable world. Join Della Duncan hosted by Silvia Di Blasio, two WTR facilitators who have been practicing “regenerative livelihood” in their own lives and to inspire and coach others.

Men in the Work That Reconnects with Vincent Brown and Kevin Lay

April 16, 2022 – People who are raised as boys and men in our modern patriarchal society are typically trained to repress their emotions in an even more extreme way. This leaves them with a wide range of social and emotional barriers that can prevent them from becoming involved in the WTR or recognizing its value in their lives. As we strive to contribute to the Great Turning and dismantle systems of separation, working together across gender identities is a powerful and beautiful practice that is healing for all participants.

In this webinar, Vincent Brown and Kevin Lay share insights from this inquiry as well as their personal journey as decades-long practitioners of the Work and discuss the powerful benefits they’ve experienced and observed for men who participate in the WTR.

Global Elm Dance

March 19 and 20, 2022 – The Elm Dance, a practice for global healing and connection, invites us into the center of our hearts, our compassion, our longing to live, and our belonging to all life on Earth. It also supports us in standing in solidarity with those who are suffering.

Joanna Macy was first introduced to the Elm Dance in the 1980s and began offering it in the early 1990s, as part of her workshops, beginning with a community that was impacted by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. She continued to offer the Elm Dance as a daily practice in workshops and intensives throughout her career. Activists around the world share the dance in public protests. Many facilitators offer the Elm Dance as part of their work to invite participants into their feelings of gratitude and grief.

Typically danced in a group setting, we offer it here as a global, virtual experience. We invite you to join us, to learn more about the dance, to experience it, and to share it with your communities. Join our Facebook group to find the Elm Dance in your community or additional virtual offerings.

A Systems View of Life with Fritjof Capra and Jeremy Lent

March 5, 2022 – What happens when we bring together two great thinkers of Systems Theory and Deep Ecology in emergent conversation? Fritjof Capra and Jeremy Lent discuss three of the foundations of WTR – patterns, systems and deep ecology – and how we can use these theories to support our practices as activists, facilitators and change-makers. Together we explore how evolutionary biology, history and spirituality interact and provide answers to the challenges we now face.

Guidance for Emerging Facilitators: Panel Discussions with Experienced Facilitators with Kathleen Rude, Gunter Hamburger, Shayontoni Ghosh and Jo delAmor

February 19, 2022 – Each week, the core team at the WTR Network receives inquiries from people all over the world who want to bring the WTR to their communities and are inspired to become WTR facilitators. They inquire about how to become a facilitator and what steps they should take. The truth is, there are many paths to becoming a WTR facilitator and a variety of ways to continually deepen our practice and skills as facilitators. So, we gathered two panels of experienced WTR Facilitators from a number of countries to share about their own journeys of becoming facilitators and to answer questions for aspiring or emerging facilitators and those who are pursuing and deepening their facilitation path.

Guidance for Emerging Facilitators: Panel Discussions with Experienced Facilitators with Helen Sui, Yuka Saito, Molly Brown and Silvia Di Blasio

February 25, 2022 – Each week, the core team at the WTR Network receives inquiries from people all over the world who want to bring the WTR to their communities and are inspired to become WTR facilitators. They inquire about how to become a facilitator and what steps they should take. The truth is, there are many paths to becoming a WTR facilitator and a variety of ways to continually deepen our practice and skills as facilitators. So, we gathered two panels of experienced WTR Facilitators from a number of countries to share about their own journeys of becoming facilitators and to answer questions for aspiring or emerging facilitators and those who are pursuing and deepening their facilitation path.

Continued Exploration into De-escalating Patterns of Harm in White Dominant Spaces

October 23, 2021 – This is a follow-up event from De-escalating Patterns of Harm in White Dominant Spaces on August 28. Aravinda Ananda, Tzy-Ping Chen, Jo Hamilton, Jane Hera, and Mutima Imani invite you to join us to continue learning about and practicing how to de-escalate patterns of harm in white dominant spaces. Please watch the recording of the previous event here before the recording of this event, which can be viewed here.

Re-Wilding Motherhood: Parenting Rooted in Soul with Frieda Nixdorf and Meggan Hartman

October 3, 2021 – This webinar facilitated by Frieda Nixdorf and Meggan Hartman offered, a journey through the Spiral of the Work That Reconnects to (re)engage with the root of our motherhood, embody our true wild self, and embrace our ecological niche in order to parent and live with deeper clarity. This was for anyone who is currently actively engaged in the process of mothering. The only requirement was a genuine desire to show up for the wild re-imagining of your life purpose as mother and ever-evolving being.

An Exploration of De-escalating Patterns of Harm in White Dominant Spaces

August 28, 2021 – Members of the Anti-Oppression Resource Group (AORG) invite Work That Reconnects facilitators to an exploration of some recurring patterns of harm that have occurred in numerous Work That Reconnects workshop spaces and steps we can take to de-escalate this harm. Each person who facilitates this Work undoubtedly shares this work out of a desire to be in loving service. Nevertheless, many of us – both facilitators and participants – have been conditioned by toxic cultures and ways of relating, and that conditioning comes with us whenever we gather in groups.

As facilitators of this Work, let’s not perpetuate or stand idly by as harm happens on our watch. Let’s support each other in our learning and growth so that we can become more skillful in reducing and minimizing harm in workshop spaces. This event was an opportunity to explore the document prepared by some AORG members “De-escalating patterns of harm in white dominant spaces: a guide for the Work That Reconnects facilitators and participants.” This is an invitation to build and be in beloved community together.

Working with the Work That Reconnects in Community and Community Groups with Margo van Greta and Jacqueline Buckingham

September 4, 2021 – How can the Work That Reconnects help communities and community groups to become more cohesive and resilient? Communities succeed or fail in part as a result of the systems they have in place.  Shared rituals and structures allow voices to be heard, feelings to be felt and expressed, in a healthy and held way. These systems are vital to a healthy and healed community / community group. Listen in as Margo van Greta and Jacqueline Buckingham share their experiences of bringing the Work that Reconnects into Community, including in the Findhorn Ecovillage.

Deeper Dive into Trauma Informed Group Work

June 12, 2021 – Following the inspiring panel on Trauma Informed Group work that we hosted on April 10 we received a flood of requests for a “part two” in order to journey deeper into this topic and to provide more opportunities to interact with other participants and the panelists. During this event our brilliant panelists offer deeper insight into some of the most poignant topics referred to in the panel. Participants had the opportunity to connect with each other and explore the topics in breakout sessions and enjoyed a dynamic whole-group community discussion generated by participant questions. Before watching the recording of this event, we ask that all participants watch the recording of the April 10 event.

Panel: El Trabajo Que Reconecta en América Latina y Centroamérica: desafíos y oportunidades

15 de Mayo, 2021 – ¿Es el TQR una herramienta universal? Cuando los impactos de la desigualdad e inestabilidad social históricas, la degradación ambiental y el agotamiento de los recursos se manifiestan de manera diferente, ¿cómo funciona el TQR? ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que comparten los facilitadores traen el Trabajo Que Reconecta a la vida? ¿Qué está sucediendo en las diferentes regiones y dónde están las oportunidades?

Ven y únete a este “panel latinoamericano y centroamericano” moderado por Adrián Villaseñor (México / Estados Unidos) y Silvia Di Blasio (Argentina / Venezuela / Canadá). Panelistas: Lia Beltrão (Brasil), Ana Karla Enríquez (México), Javiera Carrión (Chile), Felipe Landaeta (Chile).

The Work That Reconnects in the Corridors of Power: Examples from the Welsh Government

April 27, 2021 – During this webinar WTR Facilitator, Karen Scott, and Sustainable Development Change Manager, Diana Reynolds, share their experience of working together to bring WTR into the Welsh government. They illustrate the methods they used and insights they gained in their experience of applying WTR within a 10-year behaviour change programme for the civil service, while engaging participants to envision how they may bring the WTR into the public and private institutions in their own areas of the world.

Trauma-Informed Group Work

April 10, 2021 – This dynamic, moderated panel discussion with Lydia Violet Harutoonian, Vahisha Hasan, Tabitha Mpamira and Maggie Ziegler explores the relationship between individual, systemic, and collective trauma in the context of facilitating group work. Our panelists and moderator share the wisdom and perspective they’ve gathered on their diverse paths of studying and working with trauma as well as tangible tools and exercises for trauma-informed facilitation that can increase distress tolerance and improve our capacity for collectively holding the traumas group members may be carrying.

A Gratitude that Serves the World with Barbara Ford

March 27, 2021 – Gratitude is a powerful practice that not only serves us as individuals, but acts as a healer of the collective. Our gladness for the world is subversive to the destructive elements of culture, including toxic individualism, consumerism, and other ideologies rampant in these times. Barbara Ford offers a model for deepening into a kind of radical practice to benefit ourselves, and our world.

Introduction to Resilience-Building Tools for Facilitating in a Stressed and Traumatized World with Constance Washburn and Debra Clydesdale

February 20, 2021 – To support WTR facilitators in being more trauma informed, Constance Washburn and Debra Clydesdale introduce the key concepts of the Community Resilience Model (CRM) of the Trauma Resource Institute. Learn how our nervous systems react to ongoing stress and trauma, and experience resilience building tools for working with WTR participants of all ages, genders and ethnicities.

Active Hope: Creating Our New Year with Margo van Greta and Jacqueline Buckingham

February 10, 2021 – Asking both how we would like to consciously step into 2021 and what it is we have gratitude for in 2020, Margo van Greta and Jacqueline Buckingham offer us the opportunity to create a new vision for 2021, and identify what steps we can take to create that new reality.

Parenting in Tumultuous Times with Jo delAmor

December 14, 2020 – Jo delAmor, author of Raising Children in the Midst of Global Crisis, offers this full spiral Work That Reconnects webinar for parents. In our time together participants orient within this pivotal moment in history and the unique challenges and opportunities presented by parenting at this time.

Active Hope in Times of Uncertainty with Margo van Greta and Jacqueline Buckingham

November 4, 2020 – We currently are surrounded by challenges, both globally and personally. Is it possible to consider bringing hope into our lives, into the world? Whatever you are challenged by, Margo van Greta and Jacqueline Buckingham guide participants through a process by way of the spiral of the Work That Reconnects, to help evoke a place of hope and inspired action.

Active Hope: Emerging Into A New World with Margo van Greta and Jacqueline Buckingham

August 15, 2020 – We currently are surrounded by challenges, both globally and personally. Is it possible to consider bringing hope into our lives, into the world? Active Hope holds the attitude of hope. It is not just an outcome, it is a process. In this Webinar, Margo van Greta and Jacqueline Buckingham will guide us through that process by way of the spiral of the Work That Reconnects.

White Supremacy in the Great Turning with Sarah Nahar, Mutima Imani, Aravinda Ananda and Rachel Marco-Havens

August 1, 2020 – As women of African descent with deep commitment to and understanding of the Work That Reconnects, Sarah Nahar, Mutima Imani, Aravinda Ananda and Rachel Marco-Havens will begin this webinar by sharing how white supremacy shows up in our WTR Network and in the work itself. They will explore ways to dismantle oppression within our work to make space for all to engage in the Great Turning more fully. After their opening remarks they will take questions from participants and engage in discussion on this topic.

How to See with Gaian Eyes with Jolie Elan

July 19, 2020 – Join Deep Ecologist Jolie Elan as we explore the intelligence of nature and how to tap into it. This program offers brain food and practices to see through new eyes so we can source directly from our mother earth for wisdom and insight.

Re-Conectando in the Wounded Land of Colombia with Helena ter Ellen and Hector Aristizabal

June 28, 2020 – In this Webinar, Helena ter Ellen and Hector Aristizabal share how the truth speaking WTR provides is essential in war torn countries, and how reconnecting with the Earth helps in opening ways to reconciliation between Colombians of all sides of the conflict and of all ethnicities.

Parenting within the Pandemic with Jo delAmor

June 14, 2020 – During this online session with Jo delAmor, we gather with other parents from around the world for deep reflection, connection and renewal. This full-spiral Work That Reconnects gathering was facilitated to create a safe and powerful container for authentic sharing and processing about our experiences and feelings of parenting within the pandemic.

The Gift of Our Moral Imagination with Joanna Macy, Phoebe Tickell and Kathleen Rude: A Webinar for WTR Network Facilitator Members

June 5, 2020 – Join Joanna Macy and Kathleen Rude for a conversation about the important role that moral imagination plays in the Work That Reconnects. Many of our practices arise from and employ our natural human capacity to imagine our way into the experience and outlook of other beings, human and more than human. All children know this in their play acting which seems to be an irrepressible force. It is a key to the power of such beloved rituals as the Council of All Beings, the Seventh Generation, the Gifts of the Ancestors, etc., as well as in the basic exercise we call Widening Circles. It expands awareness of what is possible and gives us an essential sense of kinship with others. There will be time for questions, first on this topic and then on anything else facilitators would like to ask.

This event was recorded for our Facilitator Members.

Offering WTR Online to Build Community Resilience

April 7 and 9, 2020 – This webinar explores ways to use WTR online to build community resilience. Using Work That Reconnects practices and concepts in an online setting, we can invite people to come together across the current physical distancing as well as across historic racial and social divides to find ways to support each other in harmony with our Mother Earth. In this webinar, Constance Washburn and Mutima Imani share practices from Work That Reconnects and other sources that they have adapted to work online. They also share suggestions for timing and structuring webinars using the Spiral that we have found work well, while mentioning pitfalls to avoid and offering templates for designing your own offerings.

This event was recorded for our Facilitator Members.

Technical Support, Set up and Promotion for WTR Online Offerings

March 29 and 30, 2020 – The first of our Webinar and Conversation Cafés Program, this webinar was offered to our Facilitator Members to support their transition to offering their events online. Here Jo delAmor and Silvia Di Blasio focused on the technical side of setting up and facilitating an online WTR offering.

This event was recorded for our Facilitator Members.