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At the one year mark of Joanna Macy’s passing, we gathered to celebrate the audiobook publication of her memoir, Widening Circles, read by Leilani Navar, host of Turning Season Podcast. In this interactive event, Leilani is interviewed by Jess Serrante, host of the We Are the Great Turning podcast – Joanna’s final project. These two WTR facilitators and friends of Joanna’s share what they learned from Joanna’s life story and invite participants into conversation about how her story can help all of us to rise to meet the opportunities and challenges of our times. Participants reflect together, share what Joanna’s story stirs in them, and bring questions to Leilani and Jess.
The audiobook is now available on all audiobook sales channels including the New Society Publishers website (be sure to select Audiobook format at checkout).
About the Presenters
Leilani Wong Navar is a mother, acupuncturist and herbalist, and dreamworker. With groups, she facilitates the Work that Reconnects and teaches practical wisdom from Chinese Medicine. Leilani hosts Turning Season Podcast, a series of conversations with people around the world taking part in the Great Turning in their own unique way.
Leilani attended Evergreen State College where she studied Political Economy and Holistic Health, and earned her Masters of Science in Oriental Medicine from the National University of Natural Medicine. She is in ongoing study and practice of traditional wisdom and modern science about caring for the landscape of the body, and the body of the Earth.
Jess Serrante is a ritualist, cultural regeneration facilitator, and leadership coach who works with people at the intersection of their grief, their love for the world and their hunger to create a more beautiful future together. For over a decade she has been a practitioner and teacher of the Work That Reconnects — the transformative framework developed by eco-philosopher Joanna Macy — and is the creator and host of the We Are The Great Turning podcast. Her style is warm, grounded, and a little irreverent — she has a gift for helping you fall deeper in love with life, even when — especially when — it’s breaking your heart. She lives in Berkeley, California, where she also tends her beehives. You can find her online at substack.com/@jessserrante.