https://workthatreconnects.org/,  is based on the teachings of Joanna Macy, who has written that it “helps people discover and experience their innate connections with each other and the self-healing powers of the web of life, transforming despair and overwhelm into inspired, collaborative action”. Its exercises and rituals follow a spiral of practices: Gratitude, Honouring Our Pain for the World, Seeing with New/Ancient Eyes, and Going Forth…and Active Hope. Originally called Despair and Empowerment,  sharing our pain for the planet together, in a group, is empowering, liberating energy locked in despair or numbness.

This Work can support us in facing the crises of our time.  It is sometimes used by activist groups of various kinds: to recharge the batteries away from the front line; for team building and bonding, and to recapture and rekindle the commitment to the cause – to the calling.

The Work That Reconnects done one-to-one is essentially ecotherapy.

As our times become more troubled and turbulent, I am now develpng ths work, combining it with the approach of Hospicing Modernity: facing humanity’s wrongs and the implications for social activism by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira (2021), together with Mindfulness practice. For a programme of scheduled groups, see Events.