The focus on a future of low carbon, peak oil and living sustainably
can spur us to action or seem overwhelming. How do we take action
in a meaningful way, in a personal capacity when the scale of
change required is so huge.
This interactive workshop is based on the work of Joanna Macy
and will guide participants into a personal discovery of what
we can do to restore our precious and endangered world. It is
an opportunity to contact our own authentic response to environmental
deterioration and find our personal compassionate actions as an
antidote to numbness and paralysis.
Information about the Facilitators
The TRANSITION TOWN movement has embraced Joanna Macy’s
approach as a great contribution to the heart and soul of change
& to understanding change. Some of her exercises are part
of the two day initial Transition Town training.
The workshop will include skills in building healthy groups, experiencing
supportive community, finding sources of support to sustain us,
sharing feelings, personal action planning, drumming, visioning,
songs, ceremony and storytelling.
“An experience of transformative processes that will move
us from feeling alone or alienated to interconnectedness!”
Jeannie, facilitator
Joanna Macy
Joanna Macy is a renowned activist and teacher of uncanny courage
and ferocious compassion. For over 30 years she has been inviting
individuals and groups to walk through the gates of sorrow at
the state of the world into a new joy and gratitude at our utter
interdependence and solidarity with the rest of the planet.
Joanna’s approach combines the cognitive and ethical with
empathy and imagination. It draws on insights from contemporary
systems theory and ancient spiritual traditions to help us understand,
experience and gain strength from our connectedness. It is based
on the power of the group to generate courage and creativity.
She leads the way to a life with passion, joy and purpose.
For further info try an Internet search on Joanna Macy or The
Great Turning or look at a copy of ‘Coming Back to Life’
by Joanna Macy and Molly Young Brown (New Society Publishers 1998)
Course Outline
Friday Evening
• 7-8 simple meal; please bring any extra treats to share
• Introductions
• Introduction to the central ideas of the ‘Great
Turning’
• Collaborative Communication; we will use this skill all
weekend
Saturday
• Building a supportive group and sharing thoughts and feelings
about the state of the planet
• Experiential work with key Macy tools such as The Truth
Mandala and Deep Time work
Sunday
• Developing skills for healthy and sustainable groups,
including working with conflict and communicating with others.
• Individual action-planning, support and sustaining our
vision
Be inspired, empowered and encouraged!
To Book
The cost of the course is £115 and includes food and accommodation.
To book a place on the course please complete the Ragmans booking
form and send it with £50 (non returnable)
deposit to Ragmans Lane Farm, Lower Lydbrook, Gloucestershire,
GL17 9PA. For course enquiries email info@ragmans.co.uk
or telephone 01594 860244.
