A weekend with Joanna Macy!! Friday's talk you can pay at thw church, the
weekend retreat you can send a check to Mary at Nature's Song:
Nature's Song, 217 Peter Rd., Willseyville, NY 13864
Hope to see some of you there!
Eric
The Great Turning
Friday, Sept. 26, 2008 7PM - 9:30PM Cost: $25 Children under 17: $10
(NO credit cards accepted. Just cash or personal checks, please.)
First Presbyterian Church 315 N. Cayuga St. Ithaca, N.Y. 14850
This evening, combining experiential work with lecture and discussion,
will focus on the larger context of our lives and work: the shift from the
industrial growth society to a life-sustaining civilization. This revolution
is the essential adventure of our time. Joanna will reflect on the character
and dimensions of this "Great Turning," and the many ways we can take part in
it. Joanna will share concepts and methods from her work empowering social and
environmental activists around the world.
Taking Heart in Tough Times
Sat.&Sun., Sept. 27-28, 2008 9AM – 4:30PM Cost: $175. (At Nature’s
Song)
(Must attend Friday night since that is the beginning of the workshop. Friday
night fee will be applied to the cost.)
To ensure an intimate environment, attendance will be limited to 70 people.
There are powers for the healing of our world, and they have nothing to do with
military might or military technology. These powers arise directly from the
self-organizing and life-generating relationships of Earth, our deep ecology.
In our days together we will learn to apply the power of our deep ecology to
guide and sustain us in our work for the world.
The most remarkable feature of this historical moment on Earth is not that we
are on the way to destroying our world--we've actually been on the way for
quite a while. It is that we are beginning to wake up, as if from a
millennia-long sleep, to a whole new relationship to our world, ourselves and
each other.
The Work That Reconnects is a pioneering form of group work which brings direct
experience of our interconnectedness in the web of life and our authority to
take action on its behalf. It has helped many thousands around the globe find
insight, solidarity, and courage to act, despite rapidly worsening conditions.
We will draw insights from systems theory, deep ecology, and movements for
social change, as well as ancient teachings (primarily Buddhist). Interactive
exercises will help us see more clearly the changes we want to make in our
lives and the roles we can play in creating a just and nonviolent world.
Spiritual and social practices that sustain during tough times will be shared.
Full time attendance is required. Come prepared to fall in love again with
life.
Internationally acclaimed eco-philosopher Joanna Macy, Ph.D., is a scholar of
Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. She is also a leading voice
in movements for peace, justice, and a safe environment. Interweaving her
scholarship and four decades of activism, she has created both a
ground-breaking theoretical framework for a new paradigm of personal and social
change, and a powerful workshop methodology for its application. Her
wide-ranging work addresses psychological and spiritual issues of the nuclear
age, the cultivation of ecological awareness, and the fruitful resonance
between Buddhist thought and contemporary science.
This work is described in her books World as Lover, World as Self: Courage for
Global justice and Ecological Renewal (2007), Widening Circles: A Memoir
(2000), Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World (with
Molly Young, 1998), Rilke’s Book of Hours (with Anita Barrows, 1996), Mutual
Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory (1991), Thinking Like a
Mountain (co-edited with John Seed, Pat Fleming and Arne Naess, 1998), Dharma
and Development (1985) and Despair and Empowerment in the Nuclear Age (1981)
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