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Linda Seeley

I live in San Luis Obispo County, California. Retired community nurse-midwife. Anti-nuclear activist. Spokesperson for San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace, legal intervenor against the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant. Core team member of Sierra Club No Nukes Campaign. board member and co-founder of Biodiversity First!, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving biodiversity, enhancing connectivity and protecting wild lands. Grandmother, Earth lover.

Why I am called to facilitate the Work

The Work That Reconnects is a gentle and effective method for helping people discover their own gifts and inner resources in this time of great uncertainty in the world. I have quite a lot of experience with it, and my offering it is a great way to give back.

How I see the Work serving the Great Turning

Having grounding in the Work can help us keep our feet firmly planted in these times that are awash with uncertainty. It gives us a common language so that when times get tough, we can find and help each other, both to create the Great Turning and to bless the Great Unraveling.

Audiences I work with

Activists (mostly antinuclear), religious groups, university classes. Have not worked with youth.

Background & Training

Background & training in the Work That Reconnects

  • 10-day intensive (1999, 10 days)
    Location: Pema Osel Ling
    Facilitated by: Joanna and Fran Macy, Doug Mosel
  • ? (2000, 10 days)
    Location: Pema Osel Ling
    Facilitated by: Joanna and Fran
  • Facilitator Training (2002, 10 days)
    Location: Land of Medicine Buddha
    Facilitated by: Joanna and Fran
  • 30 Day Intensive in Austraila (2005, 30 days)
    Location: The Cove
    Facilitated by: Joanna, Fran, John Croft, others
  • Can't remember (2007, 30 days)
    Location: Westwind
    Facilitated by: Joanna, Fran
    I was a member of the planning team

Other relevant training

  • Re-evaluation Co-Counseling (1974, 72 days)
    Location: Minneapolis
    Facilitated by: ?
    This was from 1974-1980
  • Interfaith Coalition (1984, 82 days)
    Location: San Luis Obispo
    Facilitated by: various
    This was from 1984-1991
  • Race Matters (2016, 36 days)
    Location: San Luis Obispo
    Facilitated by: various
    From 2016-2020
  • NVC (2018, 10 days)
    Location: San Luis Obispo
    Facilitated by: ?
    Weekly for 10 weeks
  • Tai Chi (2018, 16 days)
    Location: San Luis Obispo
    Facilitated by: Michelle (can't remember last name)
    A weekly class that met for 16 weeks

Other relevant skills & experiences

I worked as a midwife for 32 years. In that experience,I learned to listen, to trust, to ascertain the mood, to intervene when necessary, and to stay out of the process and allow it to unfold naturally and in its own time.

I have served at the bedside of over 20 people who have died.

I am a grandmother, and I have counseled many, many younger women in making choices for their lives.

Experience facilitating WTR events & workshops

Work That Reconnects workshops I have facilitated

  • Active Hope (2017, 108 days)
    Location: Los Osos CA
    Workshop bi-weekly for 3 years: Explored Active Hope, Savage Grace and Dark Gold within the context of the Work That Reconnects
  • Active Hope (2016, 12 days)
    Location: San Luis Obispo, CA
    Met weekly for 12 weeks
  • Widening Circles (2014, 2 days)
    Location: San Luis Obispo
    weekend workshop
  • Various Workshops from 200-2014. Can't remember all of them. (0, 0)

Experience facilitating other events & workshops

I have facilitated groups in various locations across the country as well as in Israel and Korea.

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