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Gather with others who share your concerns about climate collapse and other critical issues to experience the full spiral of the Work That Reconnects - Joanna Macy’s empowering group practices facilitated by Stephanie Killingbeck-Turner and Zoe Betts.

What is The Work That Reconnects?

The central purpose of the Work That Reconnects is to bring us back into relationship with ourselves, with each other and with all life on earth. It does this by helping us to trust in our own experiences and to find ways of voicing what we are seeing and feeling happening to our earth. As a result of finding our voice and connecting to our experiences in this way, the WTR helps us to step into a desire to be active participants in the healing of our world.

It is an interactive group process and it was developed by the American scholar and activist Joanna Macy. She along with many colleagues developed this work over several decades. And whilst it originally began with the threat of nuclear war in the 1970s, today it is used by activists in many disciplines worldwide. It is work that helps to unlock creative collective solutions for some of today's most urgent problems through working with us, with everyday people.

The WTR draws on a number of foundational teachings. Teachings such as systems thinking and deep ecology which illustrate the interconnectedness and the value of all beings. It draws on deep time, helping us to recognise ourselves as part of a long line of ancestors as well as understanding that we too are the ancestors of all that is yet to come. The WTR also works with spiritual traditions which reflect the reality offered by systems thinking. Centring a deep knowing of our inter-connectedness, along with the gratitude and reverence this generates. Also deeply embedded in the WTR is the aim of undoing oppression. Recognising the importance of uprooting racism, classism, sexism, and oppression related to gender expression, ability and culture in order to restore the web of mutual belonging. 

In order to do this, the Work That Reconnects aims to  engage our moral imagination and to push us to question our assumed identity. It aims to broaden our perspectives of the world, to create empathy for others and to expand our awareness of what is possible. It helps us to reframe our pain for the world as evidence of our mutual belonging and to awaken within us our stamina and our commitment to transform all of our institutions for the benefit of all humans. It helps us identify the strengths and resources we can mobilize in our commitment to the self-healing of the world and it presents this as a challenge that every one of us, in collaboration with others, is fully capable of addressing in our own distinctive ways.

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