A Great Turning Retreat

 

I’m delighted to invite you to an event I’m hosting on the afternoons of Saturday and Sunday January 9-10, 2021, from 2-6 pm Mountain Time. I’m thrilled to start the new year this way and I’d love for you to join me!! Over two afternoons, we’ll hold and be held in the heart of a compassionate community. We will work with potent practices rooted in embodiment, systems thinking, deep ecology, & wisdom traditions that call forth our grief, our gratitude, our innate creativity and our unique wisdom, all held in our grounded, embodied presence with the wish to be of benefit to Life. I deeply believe in the simple potency of coming together to practice being human, including movement and stillness, including quiet and connection, including gratitude, grieving, and visioning how we might bring our unique perspectives and gifts to co-create the better version of the world we wish to see manifest. I’m blown away by the honesty, compassion, creativity and synergy that blossom every. single. time. Let’s dream together of the world of possibilities we’d like to see blossom. This is important and necessary work that we cannot do alone. What I won’t do in this gathering is talk and talk and feed you a bunch of information as if I’m the expert on what you need right now. What I will do is invite your fully embodied presence, the wisdom and confusions, the blessings and aches, the gratitudes and burdens, the hopes, dreads, visions, creativity, and unique gifts – and together we’ll invite them to come more clearly into awareness and then be shared in community for the benefit of all. Sitting in circle together, hearing multiple perspectives, allows us all to see with more clarity than just our own two eyes and our own big heart. What a gift! The potent, buoyant power of a compassionate community circle can’t be overestimated! People are often blown away and tell us this is the thing they miss the most between classes, between rituals, between workshops. We feel so lucky and blessed by the quality of humans who attend our offerings. In a workshop in early 2020, a new attendee said, “Wow! You have really great students!” We agree. You are real, authentic, goodhearted human beings. What an extraordinary blessing! Our time together will include Embodied grounding practice Sharing the blessings, gratitude and beauty that are essential ballast for these times The co-creation of a wonder-circle. Poetry to inspire and break our hearts wide open. Embodied gratitude & praise practice. An opportunity to slow down, to feel and name and honor what’s heavy in our hearts, and to share about it in a gentle, respectful, kindhearted community. A mini grief-ritual, centering our personal eco-grief. Gentle movement practice. A council of all beings – a potent ritual from The Work That Reconnects. An exploration of Deep Time perspectives. Writing practice to invite clarity to guide us as we return to our lives. We will explore in deeply personal ways the story of the transition from the Industrial Growth Society to a Life Sustaining Society in which attitudes shift from exploitation to respect, from extraction to regeneration, from competition to cooperation at many levels of life. More and more we come to see how interwoven we are as beings, and recognize that cultivating solidarity and beloved community with one another is the way through these crises. So let’s join together to act for the sake of life on Earth. You are warmly invited to join me for this unique community gathering. I’m inviting you to make a donation of any amount to register for this workshop. As offerings like these are a primary source of income for me during the pandemic, please know that I deeply appreciate your generosity. I know many have been hit financially hard, and even if you can’t afford much, you are welcome too. Please consider the resources you have as you decide what to donate. Offering more if you have more resources allows me to offer space to those with less. Thank you. The only stipulation is that I ask you to be present the whole time. For this kind of work, it won’t do to have folks popping in and out. Space is limited to 24 participants (or one zoom screen.) You can donate any amount to claim your spot here.  Once you register, you’re all set and your space in the circle is reserved. I’ll send you all you need to know to join in this community gathering we’ll cocreate on the 9th & 10th of January. I’m so deeply looking forward to starting 2021 in this way!!! The Work that Reconnects 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. ~ Joanna Macy