Taking Heart in Tough Times
World as Lover,
World as Self

Joanna Macy

May 7-9 (Friday-Sunday), 2010
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May 9-14 (Sunday-Friday), 2010
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Combined May 7-14 (Friday-Friday), 2010
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Two different workshops — See description for details
If you suspect the accelerating destruction of ecological, social, political, and economic systems is at root a spiritual crisis, if you love life and want your energy and creativity to be released for healing our world, come to this special time with our longtime friend, visionary Joanna Macy.

A quiet revolution that will touch all aspects of life is underway. This “great turning” toward a life-sustaining civilization is the essential adventure of our time, calling us to roll up our sleeves, link arms, and adopt a radical shift in perspective: seeing the world as “lover,” and as “self” with whom we can discover our wider identity. We are intrinsic parts of the living body of Earth, like neurons in a vast mind, sustaining each other in an interdependent web.

Join in telling the truth, meditation, personal sharing, interactive exercises, improvisational role play, and deep-time work. Draw upon insights from systems theory, deep ecology, Buddhism, and movements for social change. We can transform our pain and confusion into courage and creativity. We can clarify our individual gifts in creating a nonviolent, just, and life-sustaining civilization.

To heal our world, Joanna believes, we need to experience it afresh, as a living system in which all beings are connected. This vision is found in contemporary science, in deep ecology, and in every major spiritual tradition. It is at the root of both our pain for the world and our power to bring real change.
There are two different programs. The weekend workshop is open to everyone. The retreat from Sunday evening through lunch Friday is for people who have studied with Joanna before and want the opportunity to go deeper. If you attend the weekend, you are welcome at the mid-week program. The cost for the Sunday-Friday is twice the cost of our regular weekend workshops.

Come to both and receive a 10 percent discount off your fees. For more information about Joanna’s work visit www.joannamacy.net.

 

Joanna Macy is a scholar of Buddhism, General Systems Theory, deep ecology, and the Gaia hypothesis. She has created a groundbreaking new theoretical framework for a new paradigm of personal and social change and offers some of the finest interactive growth experiences to enable people to experience this new paradigm for themselves. Her highly original books include Despair and Empowerment in the Nuclear Age; Thinking Like a Mountain; World as Lover, World as Self; and Coming Back to Life. Her work helps people transform despair and apathy into constructive, collaborative action, and Rowe is honored to welcome the return of this brilliant and passionate philosopher.

Click to read an article about Joanna in the Center Post.