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

Product Information

Chris has been a trainer in the Work That Reconnects for more than three decades, working with Joanna on many occasions and running facilitator trainings in the United Kingdom. He has been active in the Transition movement since its very beginnings and contributed to a chapter on the psychology of change in The Transition Handbookby Rob Hopkins. To underline the crucial importance of visioning, consider how many aspects of our present reality started out as someone’s dream. The revised tenth anniversary edition is published on 14 June 2022 in the US, and 15 July 2022 in many other countries. Our large selves feel through us. Our emotions happen through us. But where do they come from? If we see ourselves solely as separate individuals, then we think of our feelings as arising within us and understandable purely in terms of our own story. Join us for a special evening exploring Active Hope and the Seventh Generation Experience. Step into the future and hold a conversation with your descendants to hear their advice and support!

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.If the Earth could speak to us, what would it say? We can take a step toward finding out by imagining the Earth can write through us. 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 this 12-week book-study and practice group, we’ll journey together through Joanna Macy’s book, Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in Without Going Crazy. This goal of this program is to explore what it looks like for each of us to integrate Joanna’s wisdom into our lives and work for a better world. We will create a space where participants can put the book’s lessons into practice, so it doesn’t just live in our heads as theory, but rather in our lives as embodied and living wisdom Affluenza is a term used to describe the emotional distress that arises from a preoccupation with possessions and appearance. The “Spiral” – four stages of a transformational journey that you can use regularly to support you to move gently from grief (which can be paralysing or make you manically busy) to a deeper, calmer, sense of purpose and agency - to a place of Active Hope.Within Buddhism, that intention is known as bodhichitta. Bodhichitta moves our focus from personal well-being to collective well-being. Chapter 6: A Different Kind of Power Close your eyes and imagine you are experiencing that moment again. Notice colours, tastes, sounds, smells and the sensations in your body. Joanna Macy speaks with Rev. Joan Jiko Halifax about the pandemic and the climate catastrophe - Aug 19, 2020 Here connected consciousness stems from a widening of our self-interest, where we are guided by the intention to act for the well-being of all life. 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.