Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in without Going Crazy

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A Wild Love for the World” Joanna Macy with Stephanie Kaza. On Grief, Gratitude, and Belonging - Barre Center for Buddhist Studies - May 22, 2021 In the first edition, the collapse of our civilisation was viewed as a risk for the future that might be preventable if we acted in time. With such significant worsening of planetary conditions over the last decade, the new edition begins with a recognition that a collapse process is already underway. The resources section at the end of the book has been updated, with links to a free video-based online course in Active Hope at https://www.activehope.training , and other resources that can support the activation of hope in and through our lives. The revised tenth anniversary edition is published on 14 June 2022 in the US, and 15 July 2022 in many other countries. Joseph Campbell wrote, “Follow your bliss - and doors will open where there were no doors before.” Chapter 10: Daring to Believe It Is Possible

The Work That Reconnects is a set of practices developed by Joanna Macy that moves through a transformational process informed by deep ecology, Buddhist psychology and systems thinking. This process equips us with tools to face the mess we’re in and play our role in the collective transition, or Great Turning, to a life-sustaining society.I think a lot of the ideas presented in this book tie in beautifully with the things I learned in Braiding Sweetgrass as well. (another book I highly recommend). The authors frequently speak of a spiritual connection with Gaia (or Earth and all life on it). This had me pondering the spiritual experiences I've had and so many that others have shared with me. It seems that if you were to ask almost anyone to describe a spritiual experience, it would center on communion with nature, or connection to humans on either a very grand or very intimate scale. How then, can we expand our sense of self to include such? The authors use a 4 part framework for developing such a sense. They emphasize the need to look at where an issue overlaps with the self, the immediate community, society-at-large, and all of life on Earth. They speak of gratitude as more than just "politeness" but rather as a necessity in recognizing our place in the web of life. They also emphasize that connectedness with a healthy community brings out our latent, distinct gifts. Seeing with new eyes reveals the wider web of resources available to us through our rootedness within a deeper, ecological self. The events are part of the first season of Sainsbury Centre’s ‘Big Question’: Planet for our Future: How do we adapt to a Transforming World? What comes into view when we see with new eyes is this interdependence. There is no such thing as a “self-made man” or a “self-made woman” 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.

In Chapter Five, we’ve added a new section on applying inspiration from the Shambhala Warrior Prophecy in our lives. Having a larger map of activism encourages us to move more freely between these different dimensions, as well as to combine them in ways that empower us Like seedlings that need thinning out, we need to choose which visions we support, and then clear space around them so that they have room to develop and thrive. When people coordinate their actions through a collective thinking process, we can think of this as “distributed intelligence.”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.

Based in Berkeley, California, close to her children and grandchildren, Joanna has spent many years in other lands and cultures, viewing movements for social change and exploring their roots in religious thought and practice. When we have this “team spirit” heightened sense of spiritual connection with life. Chapter 8: A Larger View of Time By inhabiting this vision with all our senses, imagining what colours and shapes we see, the expressions on people’s faces, the sounds we hear, the smells, taste, and feel of this future, we bring ourselves there in a way that activates our creative, visionary, and intuitive faculties. A central theme the book explores is how we can engage in a collective transition referred to as ‘the Great Turning’. The new edition brings a shift in emphasis in the way we think about the Great Turning, from outcome to process and from ‘will it happen?’ to ‘What helps this happen?”. Looking at how this larger story can happen through us in any moment brings a focus on three types of turning – turning up with an intention to play our part, turning away from that which causes harm and turning towards a way of doing and thinking and being that supports the flourishing of life. When giving talks, Chris sometimes guides audiences in imaginary time travel to a hoped-for future hundreds of years from now.

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