A quick trip around the Active Hope spiral - online, Sundays

Active Hope is about finding, and offering, our best response to global issues in this time of unfolding crisis.

It offers tools that help us face the mess we’re in, as well as find and play our role in the collective transition, or Great Turning, towards a society and way of being that support the flourishing of life.

In this session we briefly explore: coming from gratitude, honouring our pain for the world, seeing with new eyes, and going forth.

This one hour session can be experienced as a brief introduction, a refresher or a check in at the 'end' of your week...
I use information and resources gathered from these sites dedicated to  sharing the perspectives of deep ecology - where indigenous wisdom and modern western science meet....
https://workthatreconnects.org

The Work That Reconnects helps people around the world discover and
experience their innate connections with each other and the
self-healing powers of the web of life, transforming despair and
overwhelm into inspired, collaborative action.
-Joanna Macy 

https://www.deepecology.org.au

“Ecological ideas won’t save us, what we need is ecological identity, ecological self” – Arne Naess

Find out more about Active Hope: http://activehope.info/

I will send a weekly email with an outline of the program and zoom link.

Here is an example:

A brief check in to begin:

How are you arriving to this moment, what patch of earth/Country are you sitting on?

Then some grounding breaths x 3

Gratitude for the World

1. What awakens/nourishes me in this time on earth is ......

Breathe x 3 

Pain for the World

2. What wearies/drains me in this time on earth is

 (listeners respond: "we hear you....name...") 

Breathe x 3 

New Eyes

Guided Practice

3. The Web of Life

Breathe x 3 

Going Forth

4. I will take this practice into everyday life by....

Breathe x 3

Check out: how are you leaving?

 Creating a booking on Humanitix adds you to my email list.

for the earth

Nettie