A study/action group using Joanna Macy’s Work that Reconnects. She invites you to join in this 6-week series. The aim is to help participants find more clarity, integrity, vitality and wisdom in this apocalyptic world moment.
The study/action group will use three resources:
1) Savage Grace: Living Resiliently in the Dark Night of the Globe by Andrew Harvey and Carolyn Baker (2017) to help us focus on the interlocking challenges now facing life on Earth, including the rise of fascism in varying forms.
2) The Work that Reconnects with its interactive practices that will enliven, deepen, and integrate our engagement with Savage Grace. A fruitful correspondence is to be found between the book’s four chapters (Reconnection, Resistance, Resilience, and Regeneration) and the four stations of Joanna Macy’s Spiral of the Work that Reconnects.
3) The living Earth, Gaia, with whom we can cultivate a direct, embodied, nourishing, and reciprocal relationship. Aided by our practice with one another, we open up to our mutual belonging, and we grow in our capacity to feel Earth supporting and acting through us, like grace.
The series will be led by Linda Seeley and will take place at St. Benedict’s Episcopal Church on Clark Valley Road in Los Osos. Dates: February 19, March 5, March 19, April 2, April 16. Time: 6:30-8:30 PM.
There is no cost for the series; however, at each meeting, a donation for the use of St. Ben’s will be taken.
The number of participants is limited to 16., When you have decided whether or not you can take part, please let Linda (lindaseeley@gmail.com) know right away. It may be possible to form a second group that will meet in the afternoons. If you are interested in this option please contact office@stbenslososos.org so that we can gauge interest.