What is... the Work That Reconnects?

Because we hold the future of all life in our hands, through the impacts of our various extraordinarily powerful technologies, we need also to hold, consciously, the future of all life in our hearts, and support one another in taking compassionate action to protect life’s continued unfolding on this planet.
Dennis Rivers

Why the Work That Reconnects?

If you are feeling overwhelmed, helpless, burnt out, or lonely in your love and concern for our world, the Work That Reconnects will be medicine for your soul. If you are actively working for a sane and livable world, you’ll find inspiration and support and perhaps more of your tribe. The Work That Reconnects is a transformational body of theory and practice, helping people move from a sense of isolation to a sense of participation in the web of life, from doubting their own wisdom to recognizing their unique gifts, and from inaction to action in harmony with those gifts.

Art by Dori Midnight used with permission

The central purpose of the Work That Reconnects is to bring people into new relationship with their world, to empower them to take part in The Great Turning, and to reclaim their lives from corporate rule. In order to do this, the Work That Reconnects:

  • provides perspectives and practices drawn from systems science, Deep Ecology and spiritual traditions that reveal our interbeing through space and time.
  • reframes our pain for the world as evidence of our mutual belonging and hence our power to take action on behalf of life.
  • awakens stamina and buoyancy to live with full awareness of both the Great Turning and the Great Unraveling, and to embrace the uncertainty.
  • awakens us to the systemic injustice, racism, and oppression of the Industrial Growth Society, and generates our commitment to transform all our institutions for the benefit of all humans of all skin colors, ancestries, cultures, religions, gender identities, and histories.
  • affirms that our intention to act for the sake of all present and future beings, and to become allies to all oppressed or marginalized people, can become organizing principles of our lives.
  • helps us identify the strengths and resources we can mobilize in our commitment to the self-healing of the world.
  • presents the Great Turning as a challenge that every one of us, in collaboration with others, is fully capable of meeting in our own distinctive ways.
"Reverence For Life as A Spiritual Path" by Dennis Rivers https://EarthCitizens.net/library/six-mandalas-exploring-reverence-for-life.pdf

Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects, by Joanna Macy and Molly Brown, describes the theory and practice of this work in depth. (New Society Publishers, 2014).

 

Deep Times: A Journal of the Work That Reconnects, edited by a team of Work That Reconnects facilitators, including Molly Brown.

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