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Webinar with Shams Kairys. Be inspired by this example of creating an online event with "Climate As Spiritual Path" as Shams interweaves his reflections with Joanna's teachings. - May 20, 2022 I think one of the most important things this book did for me was to redefine and broaden the definition of activism. Activism doesn't have to mean being the next Angela Davis or Fred Hampton; activism means, " using our skills, experience, networks, enthusiasm, and temperament to the healing of our world." And when our activism aligns with our values, it can even lead to flow, a state described as, " [when] people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience is so enjoyable that people will continue to do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it." The thing about flow though, is that there must be a challenge enough to absorb us but not so difficult that we feel overwhelmed. Our awareness that the outcome is uncertain is what prompts us to prepare; it calls us to attention. n’t have to wait for a natural disaster before opening to the rich experience of community described by Solnit and others.
In Chapter Five, we’ve added a new section on applying inspiration from the Shambhala Warrior Prophecy in our lives. Close your eyes, imagine yourself journeying forward through time and identifying with a human being living two hundred years from now. Imagine what this person would want to say to you. Open your mind and listen. Now begin putting words down on paper as if this future one were writing a letter just to you that starts Dear Julyan.. When we come from gratitude we become more present to the wonder of being alive in this amazing living world, to the many gifts we receive, to the beauty we appreciate. Rob Hopkins used this “imaginary hindsight” approach when founding the Transition movement. He told us: “It was more a case of thinking “I wonder what would happen ifnd then imagining what a permaculture response to the challenge of peak oil would look like, particularly a response that could easily catch on around the world”. The last chapter draws threads of the book together in building towards a climax that identifies resilience as a powerful and creative force of nature that can happen through us in unexpected ways. It identifies three ways we can open to active hope, with a framework of three Acts of Opening.Joanna travels widely, giving lectures, workshops, and trainings in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Australia. She lives in Berkeley,California, near her children and grandchildren. The Work That Reconnects is informed by Deep Ecology, systems thinking, Gaia theory, and spiritual traditions (especially Buddhist and indigenous teachings), as well as group wisdom from earlier workshops. Common to all of these is a non-linear view of reality. It illuminates the mutuality at play in self-organizing systems, and unleashes the power of reciprocity. We live in an epidemic of loneliness: in modern urban environments, people can live in the same building yet still have no real connection to one another. Joanna Macy Ph.D, Author and teacher, is a scholar of Buddhist, systems thinking and deep ecology. A respected voice in movements for peace, justice and ecology, she interweaves her scholarship with learnings from six decades of activism. This offered a beautifully held and welcoming space to connect with each other and reconnect with ourselves. I loved the journey through the spiral, coming away with a greater sense of possibility for our lives with this earth.”
In Chapter Twelve, a new section draws on health psychology research in looking at how to nourish and strengthen our motivation to act for positive change.
Chapter 2: Trusting the Spiral
The group selects one of these and has a brainstorm process generating responses to the question: “What would be needed for this?” To draw strength and guidance from the living Earth, the ancestors, the future generations, and my brothers and sisters of all species. An action that might seem inconsequential by itself adds to and interacts with other actions in ways that contribute to a much bigger picture of change. In this pandemic moment, many of us are hearing the call to cultivate hope, resilience and deep connection (to ourselves, our community, and our earth)… these things are innate to each of us, but they are also skills that can be honed, so that we have access to them in trying times such as the moment we are in.
Similarly, there’s no way that we personally can fix the mess our world is in, but the process of healing and recovery at a planetary level can happen through us and through what we do. As the root teacher of The Work That Reconnects, Joanna has created a ground-breaking framework for personal and social change, as well as a powerful workshop methodology for its application. In our workshops we often use an exercise called “the milling” in which participants move around the room and then stop to face each other in pairs. We invite them to consider the possibility that the person in front of them might become a victim of the unraveling we face.Affluenza is a term used to describe the emotional distress that arises from a preoccupation with possessions and appearance. Because we can never know for sure how the future will turn out, it makes more sense to focus on what we’d like to have happen, and then to do our bit to make it more likely. To pursue a daily practice that clarifies my mind, strengthens my heart, and supports me in observing these vows. When you fall in love, you feel incredibly bonded with your loved one and at the same time more uniquely yourself, different from anyone else in the world. When people are able to tell the truth about what they know, see, and feel is happening to their world, a transformation occurs. There is an increased determination to act and a renewed appetite for life.
The first session - a full day - will take you through the above, and the half day one month later will be for you all to reflect and share your journey since then, and continue to discover what Active Hope means and looks like for you. Fee: Neither complacent optimism nor resigned pessimism has power to motivate us; they don’t generate a hunger for learning or provoke our best response.A lot of us are used to thinking three or six or 12 months ahead with something like holidays,” says Sharp. “I would encourage people not to give up on their longer-term dreams because we will get there… but, maybe don’t put specific dates on it.” Active Hope is a Christian charity based in Warrington, we are committed to providing quality outdoor and adventurous activities from well qualified and enthusiastic instructors to children and young people from across the area. There comes a point in many adventure stories when the main characters have seen the true nature of the crisis they face and it is far worse that they’d previously imagined. Part Two: Seeing With New Eyes Chapter 5: A Wider Sense of Self
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