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The Work That Reconnects empowers people to transform despair into constructive, collaborative action.
Coming Back to Life, Third Edition is the essential guide to using the Work in group settings to create life-sustaining and equitable human culture while addressing systemic racism, injustice, and oppression.
List of contents
Foreword
Preface to the Third Edition
Chapter 1: To Choose Life
Chapter 2: The Greatest Danger — The Deadening of Heart and Mind
Chapter 3: The Basic Miracle — Our True Nature and Power
Chapter 4: What Is The Work That Reconnects?
Chapter 5: Guiding The Work That Reconnects
Chapter 6: Coming From Gratitude
Chapter 7: Honoring Our Pain For The World
Chapter 8: Seeing With New Eyes
Chapter 9: Deep Time — Reconnecting with Past and Future Generations
Chapter 10: Going Forth
Chapter 11: The Work That Reconnects with Children and Teens
Chapter 12: Learning with Communities of Color
Chapter 13: Meditations for the Great Turning
Appendix A: The Bestiary by Joanna Macy
Appendix B: Ethics and Declarations of Rights
Appendix C: Bodywork and Movement and Using the Spiral in Writing Workshops
Endnotes
Resources
Index
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
About the author
Joanna Macy is an eco-philosopher, activist, and scholar of Buddhism, systems theory, and deep ecology. A respected voice for over sixty years in movements for global peace and social and environmental justice, she has developed a large international following. Her wide-ranging work addresses psychological and spiritual issues, the cultivation of ecological awareness, and the resonance between Buddhist thought and postmodern science. 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 methodology for its application. Many thousands of people around the world have participated in her workshops and trainings, and her methods have been adopted and adapted widely in classrooms, community centers, and grassroots organizing. Joanna is the author of thirteen books including two earlier editions of
Coming Back to Life and her memoir,
Widening Circles . She lives in Berkley, CA.
Molly Young Brown, M.A., M.Div. is a facilitator, teacher, life coach, and writer who draws on the Work That Reconnects, ecopsychology and psychosynthesis to support people struggling with feelings of despair and helplessness in the face of political, social, and environmental crises. A close colleague of Joanna Macy's for several decades, she is a founding Weaver of the Work That Reconnects Network, editor of its
Deep Times journal, and co-director of the Spiral Journey Facilitator Development Program in the Work That Reconnects. She offers mentoring to individuals and speaks and conducts workshops internationally, all rooted in an understanding of the interconnectedness of all life. Molly is the author of seven books including the two earlier editions of
Coming Back to Life , as well as
Growing Whole: Self-realization for the Great Turning . She lives in Mt. Shasta, CA.
Summary
The Work That Reconnects empowers people to transform despair into constructive, collaborative action. Coming Back to Life, Third Edition is the essential guide to using the Work in group settings to create life-sustaining and equitable human culture while addressing systemic racism, injustice, and oppression.
Foreword
A timeless manual for transforming despair into active hope
