Coming-From-Gratitude on deep ecology

Gratitude as a Revolutionary Act (training video)

Mon, 21 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Gratitude as a Revolutionary Act (Joanna Macy, 2006) is a training video made as a companion to Coming Back to Life, for facilitators — both those new to this work and those more experienced — wanting to ground a group in gratitude before moving into the harder stages of the spiral. See also the accompanying teaching points drawn from the same chapter.

Watch it via the Work That Reconnects Network — the primary home for Joanna’s work online (may require free registration).

Coming from Gratitude: Teaching Points

Sun, 20 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Paraphrased summary of Chapter 6 of Coming Back to Life (Joanna Macy & Molly Brown, 2nd ed., 2014). Full teaching points at the Work That Reconnects Network — the primary home for Joanna’s work online. See also the companion training video.

The spiral of the Work That Reconnects begins with gratitude, not because the world’s condition doesn’t warrant grief and anger — those come next — but because gratitude is what grounds everything that follows.