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Active Hope: The Work that Reconnects
EWAN member Jane Hope is leading a course at Silver Wattle Quaker Centre from Thursday 27 March - Sunday 30 March 2025. The course offers a Quaker perspective on Joanna Macy’s The Work that Reconnects, a powerful framework for facing the crises of our time.
From the Silver Wattle course page:
This course takes a Quakerly approach to Joanna Macy’s teaching on ‘The Work that Reconnects’, a spiral of practices designed to support us in meeting the multiple crises of our times. The Work unfolds through four stages: Coming from Gratitude, Honouring our Pain for the world, Seeing with New/Ancient Eyes, and Going Forth. The journey helps us experience first hand that we are larger, stronger, more creative - and more deeply interconnected - than we knew.
In this Active Hope course, we will spend time experiencing nature connection, sharing in deep reflection in both large and small groups, singing and eating together, and learning some frameworks and tools for responding with Quaker depth and wisdom to challenging issues in our world. We will look closely at how this body of work connects to Quaker practices and concerns, and how Quakers collectively can use its insights to respond to the confronting situations we face.
Jane is a Quaker retreat guide and spiritual director from Gembrook Retreat. She invites you to join her on this course to explore how Quaker practices can foster resilience and collective action in a time of climate emergency.
For more information or to register, see:
QA calendar page
Silver Wattle course page