Welcome to our last episode, where we look at the possibilities of Going Forth with new learnings and renewed feelings. "We have come to see with new eyes our ineluctable place in the web of life, our connections with all beings through space

9/10 Practices around Seeing with New Eyes, the third Stage of the Spiral

Aug 25th, 2021 13m 53s

“Realize that for every ongoing war and religious outrage and environmental devastation and bogus Iraqi attack plan, there are a thousand counter-balancing acts of staggering generosity and humanity and art and beauty happening all over the wor

8/10 Practices around Honouring our Pain for the World, the second Stage of the Spiral

Aug 24th, 2021 17m 25s

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so you must know pain.And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of yo

7/10 Practices around Gratitude, the first Stage of the Spiral

Aug 23rd, 2021 22m 16s

Having read the theory behind the Work that Reconnects from the book Coming Back to Life by Joanna Macy and Molly Young Brown, facilitator Joanna Tomkins will guide us through some of the practices extracted from the book Coming Back to Life.P

6/10 Trusting the Spiral of the Work That Reconnects

Jun 21st, 2021 8m 31s

In this episode, Joanna Tomkins reads from the book "Active Hope" by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone to introduce the Spiral of the Work That Reconnects. The rich and broad knowledge of the work has been condensed into this incredibly simple st

5/10 The Basic Miracle: Our True Nature and Power

Jun 15th, 2021 14m 25s

In this episode Joanna Tomkins, a Work that Reconnects facilitator, reads selected extracts from Chapter 3 of the book "Coming Back to Life" by Joanna Macy and Molly Young Brown. “THE GREAT TURNING ARISES in response to what we know and feel i

4/10 The Greatest Danger: The Deadening of Heart and Mind

Jun 1st, 2021 9m 29s

In this episode, Joanna Tomkins delivers a weaving extracts from the second chapter of "Coming Back to Life" by Joanna Macy and Molly Young Brown. As Joanna Macy says: "Of all the dangers we face, from climate chaos to permanent war, none is s

3/10 The Three Dimensions of the Great Turning

May 24th, 2021 11m 52s

In this episode Joanna Tomkins, introduces the next cornerstone of the framework of the "Work That Reconnects": The Three Dimensions of the Great Turning. To do so, she borrows an extract from another book: Active Hope by Joanna Macy and Chris

2/10 To Choose Life

May 6th, 2021 7m 49s

In this episode, Joanna Tomkins, a facilitator of the Work That Reconnects, provides insights into the First Chapter of the book "Coming Back to Life", by Joanna Macy and Molly Young Brown, called "to Choose Life". Including quotes by the cont

1/10 An Introduction to The Work that Reconnects

Apr 14th, 2021 5m 29s

In the first episode of this podcast Joanna Tomkins provides an introduction to "The Work That Reconnects" by Joanna Macy, a framework followed by a growing network of people willing to truly look at and honour their pain for the world, so that

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