More about the Facilitators
Marion, Jeannie and Rosemary together with Glennie Kindred form
the Elementals. We have met regularly for 15 years to support,
inspire and empower each other to change the world and ourselves.
Jeannie Thompson
Jeannie has been a group facilitator and trainer in group skills
since 1988. A lifelong activist Jeannie trained with Joanna Macy
and has trained others in her approach. She has been actively
involved in Creative Campaigning (www.streetacts.org),
Playback Theatre for Community Building and as a Rebel Clown Army
trainer. Over the last few years her activism has been channelled
into Transition Nottingham. Jeannie is also a trained and experienced
counsellor, drama therapist, psychodrama psychotherapist and trainer.
Her extensive experience of group work and her personal commitment
to heartfelt change are brought together in this workshop based
on Joanna Macy’s work.
Marion McCartney
Marion has been involved in the Work that Reconnects for 20 years,
training with many facilitators including Joanna Macy, the originator
of the work, and John Seed, who developed the Council of all Beings,
which she has facilitated with both adults and children (during
her long career as a teacher).
A lifelong campaigner and activist, one of her passions is developing
effective networking, via for example her website (www.streetacts.orgwww.streetacts.org),
sharing ideas for street theatre and creative campaigning.
The Transition movement
made perfect sense to her as soon as she came across it, and she
has been involved in supporting and building links between new
groups in her local area. She is fascinated by what makes meetings
and groups work most effectively, sustainably and enjoyably. She
is keen to work with transition tales, encouraging the creation
of positive visions of the future for all to share, and using
her skills as a storyteller to inspire change. The power of both
the theory and practice of the Work that Reconnects never ceases
to amaze and move her. She can think of nothing better or more
worthwhile than sharing it with others.
Rosemary Greenwood
Rosemary helped start one of the first Rape Crisis Centres in
1982, and has ever since continued to work in community groups
as an organiser, trainer and participant. Helping people find
their power is one of her passions. She runs her own business,
working as a counsellor and trainer, and lives in a small market
town in Derbyshire. She is greatly inspired by Joanna Macy and
“The Work that Reconnects” knowing from her therapy
work that when people can express their grief and rage about the
Pain of the Earth in a safe, holding environment, enormous creativity
and renewed energy can be unleashed. She has always been a keen
organic gardener, helps manage a local community orchard, and
is involved in local Transition groups.
