Books, videos, films, and music that support the Work That Reconnects and the Great Turning.
March 2020
A Guided Self-Practice Of The Work That Reconnects
created by Kathleen Rude
The Guided Self Practice is a 40-minute experience of the Work That Reconnects Spiral.
The Guided Self Practice is a 40-minute experience of the Work That Reconnects Spiral.
The Healing Work of Anti-Oppression: Two Book Reviews
reviews by Paula Hendrick
Reviews of Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Cultureby Nora Samaran and My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
Reviews of Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Cultureby Nora Samaran and My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
Dreamfruit Almanac
by Elizabeth Russell, reviewed by Martha O'Hehir
A review of an almanac/planning tool for radical being that is inspired by the Work That Reconnects
A review of an almanac/planning tool for radical being that is inspired by the Work That Reconnects
August 2019
Living in End Times: Beyond Hope and Despair
Abstract by Sean Kelly
Abstract of a 35 page essay "for those who, consciously or unconsciously, have already abandoned all hope that we will be able to prevent civilizational collapse and halt the accelerating Great Unraveling."
Abstract of a 35 page essay "for those who, consciously or unconsciously, have already abandoned all hope that we will be able to prevent civilizational collapse and halt the accelerating Great Unraveling."
Think Resiliency and Winona LaDuke’s “The Seventh Fire”
Resource review by Martha O'Hehir
Raised in the Shadow of the Bomb by D. Leah Steinberg
Book review by Karina Lutz
Subtitle:Children of the Manhattan Project
Subtitle:Children of the Manhattan Project
Radical Gratitude Video Available
by Barbara Ford
Barbara reflects on the value of "Radical Gratitude" even in these challenging times, with a link to her recently released introductory video.
Barbara reflects on the value of "Radical Gratitude" even in these challenging times, with a link to her recently released introductory video.
February 2019
Radical Joy for Hard Times by Trebbe Johnson
book review & excerpts
Finding Meaning and Making Beauty in Earth’s Broken Places
Finding Meaning and Making Beauty in Earth’s Broken Places
Yellow Lotus Flower by Jen Myzel
book review by Martha O'Hehir
A Children's Sing-along Book about Rising Up from the Muck
A Children's Sing-along Book about Rising Up from the Muck
The End of Ice, by Dahr Jamail
book review by Carolyn Treadway
Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption
Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption
July 2018
Harvesting the Evolutionary Gifts of Our Ancestors
by Constance Washburn
A 40-60 minute “milling” practice for gathering the gifts of our ancestors of other species and our human ancestors.
A 40-60 minute “milling” practice for gathering the gifts of our ancestors of other species and our human ancestors.
Relational Intelligence for the Visionary Activist
by Deborah Eden Tull
Deborah describes "Relational Intelligence" as a resource we each have deep within, which helps us to remember that, “It’s not what we do, it’s how we do it.”
Deborah describes "Relational Intelligence" as a resource we each have deep within, which helps us to remember that, “It’s not what we do, it’s how we do it.”
Identification and Disidentification: Self-care with Strong Emotions
by Molly Brown
Adapted from Growing Whole: Self-realization for the Great Turning, PsychosynthesisPress, 2004. In the Work That Reconnects,
Adapted from Growing Whole: Self-realization for the Great Turning, PsychosynthesisPress, 2004. In the Work That Reconnects,
February 2018
Hope Sings – An Interview with Sarah Pirtle
Interview by Aravinda Ananda
Hope Sings is a free web-based collection of songs for Work That Reconnects workshops and beyond. This interview took place on December 13, 2017 – the day Hope Sings was launched.
Hope Sings is a free web-based collection of songs for Work That Reconnects workshops and beyond. This interview took place on December 13, 2017 – the day Hope Sings was launched.
Ursula Le Guin’s Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
In memory of Ursula Le Guin, here is a link to one of her essays.
Links to Resources related to the Work That Reconnects
The Science and Environmental Health Network & Radical Joy for Hard Times
May 2017
My Journey Through Singing in the Great Turning
by Gretchen Sleicher
One of the primary purposes of the Work That Reconnects is to help us turn toward each other rather than against each other as we navigate these times of great danger and opportunity we often call the Great Turning, and singing together is one very effective tool in the Work That Reconnects toolbox.
One of the primary purposes of the Work That Reconnects is to help us turn toward each other rather than against each other as we navigate these times of great danger and opportunity we often call the Great Turning, and singing together is one very effective tool in the Work That Reconnects toolbox.
Book review: Positive Thinking in a Dark Age
by Jim Tull
Review by Carolyn Treadway
Even the title of Jim Tull's small book, "Positive Thinking in a Dark Age," is a welcome invitation to move beyond catastrophic thinking into “seeing with new eyes.” Goodness knows we need to find the opportunities within these dark times to claim and act upon!
Review by Carolyn Treadway
Even the title of Jim Tull's small book, "Positive Thinking in a Dark Age," is a welcome invitation to move beyond catastrophic thinking into “seeing with new eyes.” Goodness knows we need to find the opportunities within these dark times to claim and act upon!
Book Review: 101 Ways to Make Guerilla Beauty
by Trebbe Johnson
Review by Emily Ryan
This slim book is both a how-to manual and deep dive guide into the philosophy of Radical Joy for Hard Times and its signature practice, the Global Earth Exchange.
Review by Emily Ryan
This slim book is both a how-to manual and deep dive guide into the philosophy of Radical Joy for Hard Times and its signature practice, the Global Earth Exchange.
Announcement: Systems Thinking Seminar with Joanna Macy
This 5-day seminar is devoted to systems thinking, with emphasis on its generative relation to the Work That Reconnects. We will look at how Deep Ecology, the Buddha’s teachings, and Ubuntu as well as other indigenous traditions converge with systems thinking and dramatize its relevance to this global moment.
A Call to Life – Variations on a Theme of Extinction
A link to an amazing hour-long meditation of music and poetic prose by Kathleen Dean Moore, writer, and Rachelle McCabe, pianist--a powerful video to view as part of the Honoring Our Pain for the World stage of the Spiral.
Resources on the Doctrine of Discovery and U.S. History
compiled by Elder Activists for Social Justice, Conscious Elders Network
A list of resources to help Americans, especially those with settler ancestry, educate themselves about this tragic legacy of our nation’s history that lives on today.
A list of resources to help Americans, especially those with settler ancestry, educate themselves about this tragic legacy of our nation’s history that lives on today.