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Kathleen RudeGaia Wisdom

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I conduct workshops on sustainability, environmental and social change and earth-based spirituality. I am also a shamanic practitioner and ceremonial leader in Earth-based tradition and an environmental writer/advocate with an M.S. in natural resources. I facilitates Council of All Beings, and one or two-day WTR workshops for adults, high school and college students. Emphasis can be more scientific or spiritual, depending on group. I also offer a 3- and 4-part series, Deepening in the Work That Reconnects.

Why I am called to facilitate the Work

I found my voice for environmental activism at age 10. My first career was an an environmental writer. When I first read about Joanna Macy and the Work in a 2006 Yes! Magazine article, I knew immediately that I wanted to study with her. Reading about Honoring Our Pain, I realized that, over my many years of activism, I had numbed out and that I needed this Work to heal myself.

My first 5-day intensive with Joanna changed my life, as this Work so often does. I love seeing the transformation in people that happens when they move through the Spiral. To witness people coming in to a workshop fatigued, depressed, hopeless and leaving inspired, energized and full of purpose is so healing for me. This is where I find my hope for the world—in the faces and hearts of everyone I’ve had the honor to facilitate in the Work.

How I see the Work serving the Great Turning

This Work reinvigorates us, helps us cultivate resilience, restores us, so we can be fully present to live our gifts and participate in The Great Turning.

Audiences I work with

I work with all kinds of audiences, from activists, religious/spiritual communities, high school and college students, concerned citizens, energy workers.

Background & Training

Background & training in the Work That Reconnects

  • Work That Reconnects (2007, 5 days)
    Location: Louisville, KY
    Facilitated by: Joanna Macy
  • Work That Reconnects Intensive (2008, 10 days)
    Location: California
    Facilitated by: Joanna Macy and Fran Macy
  • Work That Reconnects (2009, 10 days)
    Location: Findhorn, Scotland
    Facilitated by: Joanna Macy
  • WTR Facilitator Intensive (2010, 10 days)
    Location: California
    Facilitated by: Joanna Macy
  • WTR Facilitator Intensive (2010, 10 days)
    Location: Lindenburg, Germany
    Facilitated by: Joanna Macy

Other relevant training

  • Convergent Facilitation Training (2017, 3 days)
    Location: Chicago, IL
    Facilitated by: Miki Kashtan
  • White Awake (2017, 10 days)
    Location: online
    Facilitated by: Aravinda Ananda and Eleanor Hancock
  • A Brain & Body Approach for Undoing Oppression (2018, 6 days)
    Location: online
    Facilitated by: Madeline McNeely

Other relevant skills & experiences

As a shamanic practitioner, I work with people dealing with trauma, and tough emotional issues. I am a ceremonial leader, I love ritual and know how to create sacred space for deep connection. I am a singer, dancer and writer. I have degrees in wildlife ecology and natural resources. I love both the scientific and the spiritual sides of life on this amazing planet.

Experience facilitating WTR events & workshops

Work That Reconnects workshops I have facilitated

  • Active Hope: Cultivating Resilience and Spiritual Wisdom in Challenging Times (2020, 2 days)
    Location: online
  • Active Hope Renewed: Answering Earth's Call for Loving Action (2019, 3 days)
    Location: Hiawatha, IA
    Prairiewoods Spirituality Center
  • Active Hope (2019, 1 days)
    Location: Wheaton, IL
    Theosophical Society of America
  • Active Hope with Council of All Beings (2019, 1 days)
    Location: Frankfort, IL
    Portiuncula Center for Prayer
  • Active Hope (2019, 3 days)
    Location: Highlands Ranch, CO

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User Info

WTR Facilitator since 2007
Languages served: English
Location: Gaia Wisdom, Glenview, IL 60025, USA
Contact info
  • Contact website: gaiawisdom.org

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