The Work that Reconnects

with Constance Washburn

Buddhist scholar and systems thinker Dr. Joanna Macy through her body of work known as the Work That Reconnects provides group practices and rituals to help us awaken to our interconnection with all beings on earth, our ancestors and future beings. The Work That Reconnects is being offered at Mountain Stream to deepen our interconnection and inspire action on behalf of all life. 

“It is my experience that the world itself has a role to play in our liberation. Its very pressures, pains, and risks can wake us up -- release us from the bonds of ego and guide us home to our vast, true nature. For some of us, our love of the world is so passionate that we cannot ask it to wait until we are enlightened.” ― Joanna Macy

Our fast paced disconnected culture is causing harm to our planet and to our fellow beings, human and more than human. Mindfulness practices and the teachings of the Buddha help us awaken to our interbeing. From that place of interconnection we grow our ability to be present with these times and ourselves as we listen deeply to what mother earth is asking of us. 

“The biggest gift you can give is to be absolutely present, and when you're worrying about whether you're hopeful or hopeless or pessimistic or optimistic, who cares? The main thing is that you're showing up, that you're here and that you're finding ever more capacity to love this world because it will not be healed without that. That is what is going to unleash our intelligence and our ingenuity and our solidarity for the healing of our world.” ― Joanna Macy