Active Hope for Changing Times
with Margo van Greta and Jacqueline Buckingham
Do you experience change and uncertainty in your life? Do you wish you had more inner strength and resilience to make inspired and constructive choices? Are you concerned about the state of the planet, the environmental crisis, and wish you could make a positive contribution, large or small?
Every change or crisis can be seen as a wake up call, an opportunity to make a difference. It is not always easy to make changes in our personal lives, or in the world. These times of uncertainty on so many levels gives us the opportunity to reflect, to pause, to reconsider our options. Yet how do we do that?
Through a four-week journey around the Spiral of the Work that Reconnects, we are able to face and move beyond the current realities that can be difficult to take in and painful to live with, and to respond with active hope.
“Active Hope helps people discover and experience their innate connections with each other and the self-healing powers of the web of life, transforming despair and overwhelm into inspired, collaborative action.” Joanna Macy.
The overall aim of the program is to help each participant find their own practice of Active Hope. Each time you put your unique gift into action, you strengthen yourself, inspire those around you, and take a step in support of life on Earth.
CONTENT:
Informed by mythic journeys, modern psychology, spirituality and holistic science, the course follows a FOUR-PART strengthening journey structured around the spiral of the Work that Reconnects.
The journey begins with GRATITUDE, a nourishing quality we can all tap into, that reminds us of our allies and all that supports us.
In the second stage we HONOUR OUR PAIN for the world, acknowledging our feelings: our hurt, anger, or numbness. It allows us to be present with them, in our journey to wholeness.
In the third stage we explore new perspectives that allow us to SEE WITH NEW EYES, increasing our sense of what's possible, catching an inspiring vision and daring to believe in new possibilities.
The final stage focuses on practical steps we can take as we prepare to GO FORTH. We discover tools and resources both within and outside of ourselves, identify learnable skills that help us harness the inspirational power of positive visions and find our personal role in working towards them.
The overall aim of the program is to help each participant find their own practice of Active Hope. Each time you put your unique gift into action, you strengthen yourself, inspire those around you, and take a step in support of life on Earth.
THIS COURSE IS FOR YOU IF YOU:
- are passionate about creating change in your life or in the world
- have a desire to share your gifts with the world and need some help getting clear next steps
- would like to meet a group of like-minded passionate people who are aware of what is happening in the world and aren't afraid to look at it together
WHAT YOU WILL GET FROM THE COURSE:
- clear next steps that you can put into practice in your life
- inspired reconnection to your love for life and your fellow humans
- a community of supportive caring people
SESSION TIME:
Wednesday 2, 9, 16 & 23 June – 9.30am-12.30pm BST
[4.30pm Singapore/Beijing; 6.30pm Sydney/Melbourne; 8.30pm Auckland]
[find the times in your own timezone here]
This is a fully-participatory event. If you are unable to attend all four sessions, please contact us before you book to ensure that you are still able to achieve the outcome that you desire.
We are also offering: Active Hope for a Climate Emergency on Saturday 16, 23, 30 October & 6 November – 9.30am-12.30pm BST - please go here to book
PROGRAMME STRUCTURE:
- FOUR THREE-HOUR Zoom classes, facilitated by Margo and Jacqueline. Each class we will explore a different part of the spiral, introducing each theme and exploring it through experiential activities, inner work, sharing in small groups, large group sharing, questions and dialogue.
- WEEKLY Zoom meetings in a small buddy-group format in between the main classes.
- Journaling during the week, to support you to integrate each session.
INVESTMENT:
£180 / £150 / £120 - sliding scale *
[* In order to make this program available and accessible to everyone, we offer a sliding scale fee where you choose the level of ticket price that you are able to afford.]
PRESENTERS:
Margo van Greta is a pioneer of holistic spirituality and a facilitator of transformation. She studied with Joanna Macy in the UK, and comitted to bring more Active Hope programs into the world. Passionate about creating a safe and supportive space for transformation, Margo is a qualified guide of the Game of Transformation and has been leading retreats and workshops for 25 years. Margo is a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism since 1987 and is a qualified Discovering Buddhism teacher. She lives in the Findhorn Community since 1991 and deeply loves nature.
Jacqueline Buckingham is an animal communication teacher and mentor and a master facilitator. Having studied with Anna Breytenbach, Joanna Macy and John Seed she has facilitated workshops founded in Deep Ecology principles, since 2006. Jacqueline is committed to reconnecting people to their own inner resources and personal power; and to restoring balance and harmony between humans the rest of the natural world.
This programme was offered as a weeklong residential at Findhorn in 2019:
"We're delighted Margo van Greta and Jacqueline Buckingham are offering this week of Active Hope at Findhorn. They bring much richness to this work and we encourage you to join them." Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone, authors of Active Hope
TESTIMONIALS: (from previous participants in this online course)
“Jacqueline and Margo bring their unique resources and ease in teamwork to this work. They are able to hold a space (even online) that feels safe enough for participants who enter as strangers to explore deep feelings and find connection with themselves, one another, and the wide world we live in.”
“Thank you! This was just what I needed in so many ways, both in terms of my ongoing inner work/spiritual journey, and it’s outward expression in the world”
Watch an Active Hope webinar led by Margo and Jacqueline on 15th August 2020, and experience a brief journey around the Spiral
LOCATION:
Online on the Zoom platform
CONTACT: