Mountain Stream invites you to attend an Eco Dharma Program ~
The Work That Reconnects (WTR)

Teachers: Constance Washburn and Frieda Nixdorf
Date: Wednesday, February 11
Time: 6:30 to 8:30 pm PT
Cost: There is no fee for this introduction class. It is offered freely by Constance & Frieda. Donations for the teachers are gratefully accepted. Teacher Donations (Dana)

Join us on Zoom: link coming soon

“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  

Class Description: Join Constance Washburn and Frieda Nixdorf for an introduction to the Spiral of the Work That Reconnects. Starting with an overview of the Work, we’ll then move briefly around the Spiral - Gratitude, Honoring Our Pain for the World, Seeing with New and Ancient Eyes and Going Forth. 
If you’re new to the Work or just wanting to check back in, this will be a sweet and welcoming place to do it. 

Following this introduction, please join Constance and Frieda for Gratitude and Grief: Connection and Action, A 5-Week Series Community Experience of The Work That Reconnects, starting Wednesday, March 4. Link coming soon.

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

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

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. Learn more about Frieda