All are welcome to join Nettie for Active Hope Sunday Sessions @ 5pm – 6pm (online & free).
Whether you’ve attended a previous Active Hope workshop or you don’t know anything about it – these one hour free sessions are designed as a weekly check in or an introduction to the work of eco-philosopher, Joanna Macy.
If you are feeling overwhelmed by the current state of the world – you are not alone! It is completely reasonable and understandable to be experiencing feelings of anxiety and grief as we witness the unravelling of the eco-system and the economic system that sustains us.
But we can also feel joy as we celebrate the beauty of our planet and all who dwell within.
Using Joanna Macy’s spiral model, we map a journey through four successive stages:
- Coming from Gratitude: we begin with gratitude as a basis for wellbeing and personal resilience.
- Honouring our Pain for the World: we honour the feelings of pain that can arise when we face the reality of social and ecological injustice.
- Seeing with New Eyes: we explore the internal and external resources available to us to see things from a new perspective and develop individual and collective power and potential.
- Going Forth: we use this momentum to set concrete intentions and practical actions that we can take back into the world.
“Soul and soil are not separate. Neither are wind and spirit nor water and tears. We are eroding and evolving, at once, like the red rock landscape before me. Our grief is our love. Our love will be our undoing as we quietly disengage from the collective madness of the patriarchal mind that says aggression is the way forward.” Terry Tempest William
Send an email if you would like to know more or to receive the Zoom link (thank you RESEED!)
5pm Sunday is in Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time (AEDT) until 3 April when we will be in AEST. (Same as Hobart.)
Facilitator: Nettie Hulme
Nettie lives in north west Tasmania and has a passion for life-long learning and working towards a life-sustaining future.
Nettie has moved around a lot and loves working with her local community, wherever that is, and has conducted weddings, funerals and publishes a magazine: Otway Journal – Coming Back to Earth https://issuu.com/otwaylifemagazine/docs/2021otwayjournal2
Nettie intends to keep learning and teaching until she is very old and believes that education should be freely available to everyone on the planet.
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