The WOrK That ReconnectS
“This is the gift of the Great Turning. When we open our eyes to what is happening, even when it breaks our hearts, we discover our true size; for our heart, when it breaks open, can hold the whole universe.”
– Joanna Macy
In Key and Compass, we recognize and embrace that grief for our world is essential to our ability to hold space for ourselves and others in these urgent times. The Work That Reconnects is one of the most beautiful and accessible bodies of work that helps us move from “despair to empowerment.”
The Work That Reconnects is meant for anyone who longs to serve the healing of our world in a more powerful and effective way. This interactive group process was developed by Joanna Macy, in cooperation with many colleagues over several decades.
The Work That Reconnects (WTR) is a dynamic group process designed to empower individuals to actively participate in the healing of the world. It offers tools and practices to reconnect with oneself, others, and the Earth, transforming despair and overwhelm into inspired action for a life-sustaining civilization.The Work That Reconnects draws on foundational teachings, including Systems Thinking, Deep Ecology and Deep Time, Spiritual Traditions and Undoing Oppression.
The Work That Reconnects guides you on a Spiral journey through four stages:
Coming from Gratitude
Honoring Our Pain for the World
Seeing with New/Ancient Eyes
Going Forth
In practice, each of these stages flows naturally to the next. We depict the process as an open spiral, because every journey through the process changes us. We return to Gratitude with a fresh perspective to engage with the spiral again and again.
In Key and Compass, we will utilize the Spiral, which has gorgeous correspondences with the Nature Based Map of the Human psyche, to process grief and lean into our greatest service in THESE times on Earth, and ignite our passion to defend Life and create a thriving future for the ones yet-t0-come.
source: The Work That Reconnects website
