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Created: Nov 18, 2008
Updated: Nov 17, 2009
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Semi-Private
Despair & Empowerment Workshop
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A workshop with Ruth Rosenhek, Director of the Rainforest Information Centre.
Through Joanna Macy's body of work known as "Despair and Empowerment",
we allow ourselves to recognise our feelings about what is happening to
our world. By acknowledging this level of our being rather than just
our thoughts on the subject, people around the world have found that
feelings of helplessness, hopelessness, "what can one person do
anyway?", "It's all to late" etc are transformed into inspired and
empowered positive action.
Through processes which nourish our vast ecological identity, we expand from the narrow confines of our social identity to experience our ancient ecological heritage, that every cell in our body is descended in an unbroken chain from the first cell of life. Then our kinship with all of life shines through the fog of civilisation and rooted in the history of Earth and in the living Earth itself, we seek wisdom and clear thinking on our role as we and our fellow beings face the crisis of global warming.