with Joanna Macy
Location: The Ojai Foundation
present JOANNA MACY
"The most remarkable feature
of this historical moment on Earth is not that we are on the way to
destroying the world-we've actually been on the way for quite a
while. It is that we are beginning to wake up, as from a millennia-long
sleep, to a whole new relationship to our world, to ourselves and each
other." -Joanna Macy
A new generation is coming
of age and waking up to their place within the Great Turning of our
times. As they are called into the world and begin to join forces with their awakening
olders and elders, every generation is discovering that they have a
special role to play in the transition to a life-sustaining society.
THE WORK THAT RECONNECTS is
a workshop based on systems
theory, spiritual teachings, and deep ecology
that has been offered by Joanna Macy in a variety of forms for over
30 years. Its central purpose is to help people uncover and experience
their innate connections with each other and with the systemic, self-healing
powers in the web of life, so that they may be enlivened and motivated
to play their part in creating a sustainable civilization.
This workshop-in partnership
with Generation Waking Up and The Ojai Foundation-will have a special
intergenerational focus, exploring the ways in which generations can reconnect to
bring healing and wholeness to our communities, and can work together
to create the change our world is calling for.
FEES:
$1200 includes workshop, all
meals and housing (mostly shared)
$950 includes workshop and
all meals, staying offsite or tent camping on site
$1500 Benefactor's Fee. Includes
workshop, meals and housing, as well as a $300 gift towards Scholarship
Fund.
**BENEFACTOR OPPORTUNITIES
We invite anyone with the resources
to help fund a young leader to attend. To become a Benefactor, please
pay $1500 enrollment fee. Or if you are unable to attend but would like
to support a youth, please make your tax-deductible gift to THE OJAI
FOUNDATION with memo line : "For Joanna Macy Scholarships." Or donate
online at www.ojaifoundation.org. Thank you.
SPACE IS LIMITED! RESERVE YOUR
PLACE NOW!
REGISTRATION APPLICATION REQUIRED. Download Application
PARTIAL SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. Download Application
We also encourage applicants
to do their own fundraising to attend. We can provide support materials
to ensure your success.
(All scholarship
applicants must pay the $300 deposit.)
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Call 805.646.8343 ext. 101
or registration@ojaifoundation.org
WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND
- Join with young
leaders, inspired adults, and experienced elders for intergenerational
collaboration toward the healing of the world. - Connect with the
larger story and framing of the Great Turning and develop an inspired
vision for your life and actions. - Reclaim and rediscover
your deep interconnectedness within the web of Life. - Gain tools for remaining
hopeful, inspired, and actively engaged during these challenging times of
planetary change. - Learn transformational
life practices and exercises you can bring to your own work. - Develop a relationship
with your ancestors and with future generations. - Transform fear and sorrow
about the state of the planet into hope and action. - Live in community for a
week in a beautiful and powerful place. - Build lifelong friendships
with co-travelers of the Great Turning. - Be in the presence of Joanna
Macy, one of the great Elders of our time. - Listen, dialogue, dance,
sing, play, speak, laugh, cry and co-create a rising new world.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Students and teachers
with interests in Education, Deep Ecology,
Environmental Studies, Eco-Psychology,
Depth & Transpersonal Psychology, Shamanic Studies, Mythology, Anthropology,
Social Justice, Community Renewal, and more...
Activists and community
leaders working in social services, social justice, or environmental
movements; workshop leaders and facilitators; and spiritual seekers
and healers.
Elders and anyone
who loves the planet and wants to make a difference!
Joanna Macy, Ph.D.,
is an eco-philosopher and scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory
and deep ecology. She is also a leading voice in movements for peace,
justice and a safe environment. Interweaving her scholarship and four
decades of activism, she has created both a groundbreaking theoretical
framework for a new paradigm of personal and social change, and a powerful
workshop methodology for its application. Her wide-ranging work addresses
psychological and spiritual issues of the nuclear age, the cultivation
of ecological awareness, and the fruitful resonance between Buddhist
thought and contemporary science.
Over the past 20 years many
thousands of people around the world have participated in Joanna's
workshops and trainings and her methods have been adopted and adapted
yet more widely in classrooms, churches and grassroots organizing. Her
work helps people transform despair and apathy, in the face of overwhelming
social and ecological crises, into constructive, collaborative action.
It brings a new way of seeing the world, as our larger living body,
freeing us from the assumptions and attitudes that now threaten the
continuity of life on Earth. To learn more: www.joannamacy.net
SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS
THE OJAI FOUNDATION: Timeless
Wisdom ~ Timely Action
The mission of The Ojai Foundation
is to strengthen individuals, families, schools and communities by teaching
ways to listen and speak from the heart, to honor life's many passages
and to expand our connection with nature. These practices deepen our
relationships with each other and the world and support the emergence
of a compassionate, sustainable and peaceful world. The Ojai Foundation
stewards a 40-acre semi-wilderness retreat center in the Ojai hills.
This sustainable-model community is steeped in traditional wisdom, contemplative
practice, council and ceremony and is the perfect gathering place for
this workshop. To learn more: www.ojaifoundation.org
GENERATION WAKING UP: Young
People Changing the World
Generation Waking Up is a nonprofit
organization helping to catalyze a generational wave of consciousness
and activism. Through mobilizing the fresh energy, inspired hope, creative
imagination, and collaborative actions of today's young people, we
are working in partnership with a broad and diverse Movement to give
rise to the next great wave of social change. To learn more: www.generationwakingup.org
"Your generation was born
to change the whole world."-Van Jones
SUGGESTED READING
Coming Back to Life:
Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World
By Joanna Macy and Molly Young
Brown
