Coming Back to Life in Times of Crisis
A Work That Reconnects Course
No doubt, we are in the midst of times that demand our strength and resilience and our courageous hearts.
Over four weeks, this course will guide people through the spiral of Joanna Macy's The Work That Reconnects – a profound and much needed body of practice that reconnects participants to each other and the web of life. In coming back to life, we come to rest in a sense of interconnection and a deeper hope, we find strength and resilience, and we find refuge amidst the turmoil.
This course consists of four live online workshops, starting Monday September 7 (Australian Eastern Time):
This course can be taken on its own or with its companion course: The Courageous Heart: Yoga & Buddhism for Challenging Times
All sessions will be via zoom, and recorded.
Scholarships available if finances are an obstacle to your participation. Please email wildchildmoves[at]gmail[dot]com to request.
Welcome!
Module One: Meeting Agenda
Module One Recording: Core Concepts and Grounding in Gratitude
Module One Presentation (pdf)
Daily Practice Suggestion
Inspiration and Suggested Resources
Module Two: Meeting Agenda
Module Two Recording: Honouring Pain
Module Two Presentation
Daily Practice Suggestion
Practice: Regulating the Nervous System with Breath
Practice: The Cairn of Mourning
Module Two Resources
Module Three: Meeting Agenda
Module Three Recording: Seeing with New/Ancient Eyes
Module Three Presentation
Daily Practice Suggestion
Practice: Letter to the Future
Module Three Resources
Module Four: Meeting Agenda
Module Four Recording: Going Forth
Module Four Presentation
Mapping Our Roles in Social Justice Ecosystems by Deepa Iyer
Daily Practice Suggestion
The Work That Reconnects is the work of our time, created by Joanna Macy and others it has emerged with the Deep Ecology movement. This body of practice aims to heal the separation between human and nature - the next big cognitive shift that needs to be made (or returned to) for the health of our planet. In the Work That Reconnects we align with the regenerative power of life. The Work That Reconnects spirals through four stages: Grounding in Gratitude, Honouring Pain for the World, Seeing with New/Ancient Eyes and Going Forth. Workshops generally contain a mixture of group processes, meditations, nature connection, deep time work and it has pulled me out of despair and helplessness many a time. The feeling of resting in a deeper hope and connection is one I want to share with others.