Intro to Work That Reconnects Facilitation

In this one-day immersion, Lydia Violet Harutoonian will lead an introduction to facilitating the “Work that Reconnects,” Joanna Macy’s experiential group work. Lydia will offer skills and resources for conducting community process metabolizing climate anxiety and empowering action.

This facilitator training supports emerging and intermediate facilitators in deepening their theoretical understanding of Joanna Macy’s work and its context in contemporary social and ecological issues. Participants will leave with tools for facilitating the foundational exercises of the Work that Reconnects, as well as personal plans for further development, resourcing, and education.

Over the course of the day, Lydia will cover “The Spiral” of the Work that Reconnects: moving through Gratitude, Honoring our Pain, Seeing in New/Ancient Ways, and Going Forth. This roadmap has provided thousands of past participants with psychological resourcing when facing the most pressing challenges of our time, and is central to the skills and teachings the "Work That Reconnects" offers. Articles and readings will be provided beforehand.

Lydia Violet is joyously committed to sharing this work with others, conjuring integrity and deep emotional resources for our time. Lydia serves as a dedicated keeper and steward of the lineage of deep ecology elder and wisdom keeper Joanna Macy. After fifteen years of sustained study and mentorship in Joanna Macy’s Work that Reconnects, as well as immersion in systems theory and anti-oppression education, Lydia is a vital BIPOC facilitator supporting the continuation with integrity of Joanna Macy’s teachings. Lydia shares from her experience of facilitating hundreds of WTR workshops over the past decade, internationally.

Saturday, June 10th : 9:00am-5:30pm : $120

Canticle Farm, Oakland

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Snacks will be provided, participants will please bring their own lunch.

Host or Publisher Lydia Violet