Clik here to view.
The Whole Spiral
An Exercise You Can Use When Giving A Talk Asking people to divide in pairs, you can offer four open sentences that reflect the four stages of the spiral. Give each person two minutes to complete each...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Practices
The Whole Spiral The books, Coming Back to Life, World as Lover, World as Self, and Thinking Like a Mountain, describe many forms of experiential group work relating to deep ecology, deep time, and...
View ArticleThe Web of Life
This spoken meditation is most effective if participants can stretch out. Lie down, stretch out…relax into the floor… Feel your breathing in your lungs, abdomen… how it glides in and out… The oxygen...
View ArticleGaia Meditation
This simple spoken meditation, composed by John Seed and Joanna, guides us into precise and close identification with the elements, and with the evolving life forms of Earth. This meditation is often...
View ArticleDeath Meditation
Most spiritual paths begin by recognizing the impermanence of human life. Medieval Christians honored this in the mystery play of Everyman. Don Juan, the Yaqui sorcerer, taught that the enlightened...
View ArticleLoving-Kindness
Loving-kindness, or metta, is the first of the four “Abodes of the Buddha,” also known as the Brahmaviharas. Meditation to arouse and sustain loving-kindness is a staple of the Sarvodaya Shramadana...
View ArticleBreathing Through
Basic to most spiritual traditions is the recognition that we are not separate, isolated entities, but integral and organic parts of the vast web of life. We can open to the pain of the world in...
View ArticleThe Great Ball of Merit
Compassion, which we generally understand as grief in the grief of others, is but one side of the coin. The other side is joy in the joy of others– which Buddhists call mudita. To the extent that we...
View ArticleThe Four Abodes
also know as Learning to See Each Other This meditative practice is adapted from the Buddhist Brahmaviharas, or Heavenly Abodes, sometimes called the Four Abodes of the Buddha, which are...
View ArticleTwo Litanies
These litanies can be used anywhere in a workshop that a centering ritual is needed, for example, before or following intense practices in Honoring Our Pain, or transitioning to Seeing With New Eyes....
View ArticleClik here to view.
New Partnership! People Binding The Earth (with LOVE) & Work That Reconnects...
Widening circles of activism and radical joy! The Work That Reconnects Network is pleased to be partnering with Radical Joy for Hard Times in the yearlong People Binding the Earth (with Love) project....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Active Hope for Italy
Italy seen from above has been compared to a bridge over the Mediterranean. In 2019 a crowdfunding effort coordinated by students and staff from the University of Florence will direct energy to the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
WTR Regional Gatherings & Upcoming Support Calls
Exciting things are happening! Momentum is building and facilitators are connecting to co-create regional gatherings. Please check out just some of the gatherings in the works below. If you are an...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Sneak Peek into Deep Times Journal
By Paula Hendrick As one of the Network Weavers for Work That Reconnects Network, I get a sneak peek at upcoming issues of Deep Times. “Living into the Great Unraveling” is the theme of the current...
View ArticleAnderson Valley, California, Regional Gathering Report
Written by Frieda Nixdorf On November 8 – 10, five of us gathered in the small rural community of Boonville, in Northern California. Our intention was to find connection with others doing the work,...
View ArticleCalgary, Canada, Regional Gathering Report
Written by Amy Spark Recognizing this year has been a difficult and extremely changeable year for Alberta (including both provincial and federal elections, climate emergencies, and massive budget cuts...
View ArticleSoutheast US Regional Gathering Report
Written by Beth Remmes The seeds of the Southeast Bioregional Gathering were planted in the summer of 2017 when an email went out to people listed in the Southeast on The Work That Reconnects (WTR)...
View ArticleMadison Wisconsin, US Gathering Report
Written by Sunshine Jones and Penny Andrews We planned our day long gathering in hopes of building community, offering nourishment to and seeking feedback from Work that Reconnects facilitators,...
View ArticleBiella, Northern Italy: Regional Gathering Report
Reposted in Italian from Eden Sangha with permission from WTR Facilitator, Ellen Bermann (English translation below) Eden Sangha, 2-3 Novembre 2019 Raduno sulla DEEP ADAPTATION appronfondita col metodo...
View ArticleGalvanized into Action
The Work That Reconnects in Western Australia (WTR WA) The call from the WTR Weavers for Regional Gatherings came at a great time. Two of us were co-convening an Active Hope group, others of us were...
View Article