World as Lover, World as Self, Joanna Macy’s enduring classic, is more timely than ever as it draws on Joanna’s lifetime of wisdom to offer a re-focus on the natural world. Within its pages, readers can find the strength and spiritual nourishment to envision a new future for humanity. Read more
Resources
Becoming Gaia: On the Threshold of Planetary Initiation
A book by professor Sean Kelly, who has co-taught with Joanna at the California Institute of Integral Studies. It frames our planetary emergency as collective initiation into a new identity as living members of Gaia, in whom we live and have our being. Read more
Walks that Reconnect – exercising our Active Hope in uncertain times
A resource for anytime, anywhere. Alone or with others.
This series of four walks move through the four elements of the spiral of the Work that Reconnects, while each walk can also be taken as a stand alone spiral journey.
Each walk comes in the form of a freely downloadable pdf guide with audio resources.
https://reconnect.works/walks-that-reconnect/ Read more
Coming Back to Life in Japanese
The Japanese translation of Coming Back to Life has just been published this September in Japan! After three years of work by Yuka Saito, a translator as well as WTR facilitator, the book is now available for Japanese speakers. To celebrate it, there was a series of workshops and events held online and a total number of… Read more
‘Time Travellers’ Gift Exchange’, devised by Ratnadevi, based on ‘Gathering the Gifts of the Ancest
This ritual or game fits in with both the first and the third stages of the Work that Reconnects process: ‘Gratitude’ and ‘Seeing with New Eyes’. It opens us to a sense of wonder and appreciation regarding humans’ discoveries and inventions through the millennia, thus expanding our sense of self. Who we are and how we lead our lives has arisen in dependence on our ancestors’ curiosity, ingenuity, courage and compassion. It is also a lot of fun, with room for the unexpected. Read more
The Solo Mirror Walk – A Gratitude Practice to Awaken our Nature
The Solo Mirror Walk – A Gratitude Practice to Awaken our Nature
by Jolie Elan
(Adapted from Mirror Walk by Werner Brandt)
The Mirror Walk awakens sensory awareness and a fresh sense of gratitude for life. Excellent training for the ecological self, it helps people experience the world as their larger body. Read more
When I Made a Difference (variation)
I was inspired to add a variation to Seeing With New Eyes resource "When I Made a Difference", which I love!
I lead it as inner work, as well as including an embodied experience. Read more
Four Elements Meditation by Jolie Elan
4 elements meditation from Work That Reconnects on Vimeo.
Joanna Macy – Befriending Your Despair
An inspiring talk with Joanna Macy on befriending our pain, rather than pathologizing it. Despair can open our heart and alert us to what needs attention. Befriending our pain liberates us to be alive and in love with our world. Thanks to the Tamagouche Center. https://vimeo.com/294069610 Read more
Mirror Walk – Solo Practice
The Mirror Walk awakens sensory awareness and a fresh sense of gratitude for life. Excellent training for the ecological self, it helps people experience the world as their larger body. Read more
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