Collected by Martha O’Hehir
In October and November, 2021, The Work That Reconnects Network partnered with Pulp Films and Video Project to support the international release of Once You Know, an award-winning film by Emmanuel Cappellin in collaboration with Anne-Marie Sangla. Inspired by the Work That Reconnects, Extinction Rebellion and Collapsology, this film is a deeply personal exploration of coming to terms with crisis, collapse and active hope in these troubling times. The series of Once You Know film screenings and post-screening events was announced to the WTR Network mailing list, and more than 22 events in 9 different countries were scheduled very quickly. Martha O’Hehir, a facilitator and member of the Deep Times Journal Editorial Board, hosted two of these events on November 4th and 10th, and she identified many of the resources listed here for those who participated.
Books/Articles
Active Hope by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever proposed to Reverse Global Warming, and Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation, both By Paul Hawken
Becoming Gaia, by Sean Kelly
Power, by Richard Heinberg
Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet, by Thich Nhat Hanh
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katherine K. Wilkinson
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard
Sisters in Spirit: Haudenosaunee Influence on Early American Feminists, by Sally Roesch Wagner
Imbalanced Spheres of Activism and “The Great Turning” that Needs to Get Turning
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Pp. 105-117, “Allegiance to Gratitude,” is the chapter with The Haudenosaunee. Thanksgiving Address in full, with annotations.
Think Indigenous: Native American Spirituality for a Modern World by Doug Good Feather, transcribed by Doug Red Hail Pineda. pg. 53-66 contains the Water Ceremony for Healing Trauma
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Citation from Columbus’s log, page 1; citation from Las Casas’s History of the Indies on page 7
Videos/Movies
The Shambala Prophecy by Joanna Macy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Y10cdOE3M&t=59s
Befriending Your Despair (4:30) by Joanna Macy
https://workthatreconnects.org/resource/joanna-macy-befriending-your-despair/
*Climate Crisis as a Spiritual Path by Joanna Macy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQAYVKqTkKo&t=405s
Post Doom with Joanna Macy and Michael Dowd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h1wdh3yEc4
A hopeful movie on regeneration is 2040
Trailer for the Movie 2040:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-rTQ443akE
Bill McKibben’s Teach -In on Climate Change
#1- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvHCjsDBwxM (12:33) How We Got here
#2- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPV_coPAkCE (8:15) What We Can Do
Three Solutions That Can Slow or Stop Climate Change (4:29)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoZF16PZYoU
Climate Change: We are the Problem and the Solution (8:42)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D_Np-3dVBQ
His Epic message Will Want to make You Save the World (4:23)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-nEYsyRlYo
Some Call Me Nature- Julia Roberts speaks as the voice of Mother Nature (1:58)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmVLcj-XKnM
Climate Change is about Power (2:18)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m95K7LClIC4&t=12s
Friendly Guide to Climate Change and What You Can Do (16:52)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CM_KkDuzGQ
Great Thunberg: Democracy is the Only Solution to the Climate Crisis (1:29)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-xAHv4kRz4
Web Resources
The Work That Reconnects
Post Carbon Institute (Richard Heinberg)
Resilience (Richard Heinberg)
Localization Action Guide (out of Australia, applicable anywhere)
https://actionguide.localfutures.org
TH!RD ACT – Bill McKibben’s movement/website for our retired generation to begin protesting again for climate change Third Act!
https://thirdact.org/news-updates/2021/10/15/welcome-to-your-third-act/
Resources for Healing Our Pain
Grace and Lightness
https://graceandlightness.com/hooponopono-hawaiian-prayer-for-forgiveness/
To Set Right: Ho’oponopono: A Native American Way of Peacemaking
by Manu Meyer in The Compleat Lawyer, Fall 1995
https://www.narf.org/nill/documents/peacemaking/1995-meyer-to-set-right.pdf
Climate Psychology Alliance
Providing psychotherapy for people concerned about climate urgency and issues;
The organization supports therapists who wish to open their practice to climate concerns
https://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/about
And there is a tab for individuals to GET SUPPORT
Music
Music from the Work That Reconnects Resources Pages
https://songsforthegreatturning.net
May this Be an Opening
https://songsforthegreatturning.net/honoring-our-pain-for-the-world/may-this-be-an-opening/
Compassionate Eyes
https://songsforthegreatturning.net/going-forth/compassionate-eyes/
Climate Choir Melbourne has words to lots of well-known tunes https://climatechoirmelbourne.wordpress.com/word-sheets/
And here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jbwwo38QiEJ1msE4rEuJFXUZJn-kjWci/view
Justice Choir
Appalachia Rising: Resilient
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx17RvPMaQ8
MaMuse: We Shall Be Known
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX11MEtbkXI&t=23s
Thrive East Bay Choir: We Shall Be Known
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKhjaN72dRQ
Holly Near: The Souls Are Coming Back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AISD0cupGBY
ThisisLea: Honor the Dark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEztYa9uqKY
Courses
Free Online course on Active Hope by Chris Johnstone
Martha O’Hehir is an educator and writer and has served as an editor or contributing editor for several publications, including the The Music Practitioner,The Orff Echo, and Reverberations. She wrote curriculums, elementary music and math, religious studies, and music improvisation for healing musicians. She is a facilitator of the Work That Reconnects and gives retreats and workshops connecting the Great Turning with the spirituality of Teilhard de Chardin. Ordained to interfaith ministry as an Eco-Chaplain in 2017, Martha aspires to bring greater consciousness to Earth stewardship as an act of spirituality, through her writing, music, and spiritual direction.