Mountain Stream invites you to attend ~
The Work That Reconnects (WTR) 5-Week Series
Teachers: Constance Washburn, and guest teachers, Aryeh Shell and Frieda Nixdorf
Location: In Person, Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Dates: Five consecutive Wednesdays: October 8, 15, 22, 29 and November 5
Time: 6:30 to 8:00 pm
Cost: Sliding Scale $75 - $125. Limited partial scholarships available. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Pre-registration is required: To register, please visit https://square.link/u/DaDfvcVT
Your emailed payment receipt is your registration confirmation.
For questions or scholarship requests, email juanita@mtstream.org
“The Work That Reconnects arises in direct response to the ecological, social, and economic crises of our time. It helps people understand and meet these challenges with clear eyes and open hearts…” — Joanna Macy
Course description: This 5-week series will follow The Spiral of the Work That Reconnects.
We will start Oct 8th with an introduction and overview of the Work then proceed around the Spiral of the Work which moves through Gratitude, Honoring Our Pain for the World, Seeing with New & Ancient Eyes, and Going Forth. This progression allows us to open our hearts by touching into gratitude. Then in feeling our grief for the world we discover our love. Stepping into fear we find our courage. Owning our rage awakens our passion for justice. And our despair or not knowing can allow us to open to seeing with New/Ancient Eyes the greater wisdom all around us. We find new ways of working for the healing of the earth. We then go forth with plans for co-creating with other humans and the living Earth a sustainable living culture.
We request that participants attend all 4 sessions after the orientation and overview to create a safe container for this deeply transformational work.
This series qualifies for 10 hours of WTR experience towards application to Spiral Journey Facilitator Development Program
The course is open to everyone, with no previous experience needed.
Here are some suggested readings to learn more about WTR:
COMING BACK TO LIFE - Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects, by Joanna Macy and Molly Brown
ACTIVE HOPE - How to Face the Mess We’re in with Unexpected Resilience and Creative Power, by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone
For more information, visit www.workthatreconnecgts.org
Dana: During the course, there is an opportunity to offer a financial donation to the teachers part of the Buddhist practice of dana, the virtue of giving and receiving. All offerings are gratefully received. Teacher Dana
Constance Washburn is an activist, educator, director and a facilitator of the Work That Reconnects (WTR). Since 1994 she has attended many intensives with Joanna Macy and has been leading WTR retreats and workshops in Northern California for many years. In 2017 she co-founded the International Spiral Journey: a Facilitator Development Program.
Constance has been a Buddhist practitioner since 1968, a yoga teacher and a Community Dharma Leader. Constance has an MA in Theatre and Education with studies in psychodrama and sociodrama, and spent years teaching and directing theater. She trained in permaculture and For 20 years she engaged in land-based work, working in farmland preservation and education on behalf of organic local sustainable food systems. Learn more about Constance
Aryeh Shell: I help to create fertile conditions for people to learn, grow, heal and transform together. As a curriculum designer, facilitator, trainer and coach, I support individuals and groups to find that seed of potential inside, water it with love and practice, shine light on what is possible, pull the weeds of old paradigms and flourish. I seek to dismantle the myth of separation and supremacy by developing collaborative leadership skills and cultures of belonging, knowing that our liberation is bound together. Having lived, traveled and worked in over 30 countries with hundreds of communities, I know the power of art, story, community organizing and dialogue to protect our biological and cultural diversity, awaken our radical imagination and address the social and ecological challenges of our time. My work is inspired by social movements around the world and rooted in the traditions of the Work That Reconnects, popular education, deep ecology, systems thinking, somatics and cultural activism. I speak fluent Spanish and have two MAs in Education: Equity and Social Justice and International Relations: Peace, Conflict and Security.
Aryeh is currently the Climate Action Training and Community Engagement Director at the Pachamama Alliance; Previously the Director of Education and Training for Creative Action Institute, home of ArtCorps. Learn more about Aryeh
Frieda Nixdorf: My commitment is to drawing community into transformational experiences to remember our belonging, our interdependence, and our kinship with the more-than-human world. Amongst many other things, I have studied art, religion, psychology, yoga and the intricacies of the beautiful and broken world. I’ve taught Eastern and Western Psychology at the community college level, and Soul Purpose at the graduate level, and have been incorporating WTR practices into everything I do since I first met Joanna in graduate school in 2002. I live in northern California on the unceded land of the Nisenan people.