The Work that Reconnects (WTR)

WTR was created in the 1970's by the Buddhist teacher Joanna Macy & colleagues. They realized environmentalists were getting demoralized and overwhelmed.  They designed a process to move through despair and hopelessness into constructive, collaborative environmental action.  

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Nowadays, most of us (especially children!) are feeling the fear or stress about the polycrisis - habitat loss, species decline, overpopulation, water pollution, air pollution, plastic pollution, ocean acidification, ocean heating, sea level rise, global temperature rise, CO2 increase, ocean reef decline, increasing storms, worsening storms, melting glaciers,  PFAS (forever plastics), heat injuries and deaths, increasing war, increasing migration, droughts and floods, political challenges, economic challenges, food systems collapse, increase in homelessness, landslides, wildfires, etc. etc.

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The Work that Reconnects gives us a space to turn towards the sadness, fear, anger and overwhelm and process them together.  Through guided, interactive group activities, we will build deep trust and affinity together as we explore our feelings and ideas around the current state of the world.  We will ground ourselves with gratitude before delving into our mourning.  The process will leave us seeing the world with new eyes as we venture forth in community with active hope.  

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There is an online, self-guided course to get a feel for the work.  If it inspires you, I encourage you to consider doing the work in an in-person setting where you can connect with others in your grief.

Contact me to design a gathering for you.
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I am grateful to my first WTR teachers, Molly Brown and Jolie Elan; the teachers of grief, Francis Weller, Martin Prechtel and Stephen Jenkinson; as well as Jem Bendell & Deep Adaptation.