Discovering Your Personal Power during a Climate Emergency
with Margo van Greta and Jacqueline Buckingham
22nd, 29th January, 5th & 12th February 2022
In November 2021 the world's eyes were on COP26, the UN Climate Change Conference - a vital moment for our planet's future. But did it live up to its promise? Did it deliver all that it could? If your response is 'No', your next question might be... 'Now What?'
Instead of feeling like we're sitting on the sidelines, how can we believe that we have power to engage with the unfoldment of our future, and how do we tap into that belief? Discovering Your Personal Power during a Climate Emergency explores these themes, and supports you to build a resilient and engaged relationship to the future of our planet.
And as urgent as the climate crisis is, how can we worry about that when we're dealing with the challenges of every day life? How do we rediscover our personal power two years into a pandemic - in the workplace, in the family, in everyday life?
When life throws us one curveball after another it can feel almost impossible to get back to a place of grounded strength. When life has been reduced to 'spinning plates' and 'putting out fires' the idea of focussed action can feel like a distant dream. We need to get power back in all areas of our lives in order to contribute to the greater whole.
'How we spend our days is how we spend our lives', Annie Dillard
Using the tools of Active Hope and the Work that Reconnects you will be guided to discover powerful new actions you can take for yourself and your life
CONTENT:
This four half-day online workshop is informed by mythic journeys, modern psychology, spirituality and holistic science. It aims to help each participant find their own pathway to ‘Going Forth’ - providing clarity around next steps, identifying inner and outer support, and discovering practices to maintain momentum.
Session 1: Catching an Inspiring Vision:
The first session will begin with an exploration of the first three parts of the Spiral of the Work that Reconnects - Gratitude, Honouring our Pain and Seeing with New Eyes - before we focus on Going Forth. How to coalesce our vision, our dream, our goals and start to identify steps we can take towards that.
Session 2: Daring to Believe it is Possible:
We will ask ourselves what resources we have available to us and what resources we need to cultivate, to create the world we want to live in? How do we connect with our courage, determination and resilience, even when we encounter difficulties?
Session 3: Building Support: We do not have to do everything alone. Do we have supportive networks around us? If not, how do we find those networks and how do we tap into them to provide energy for our commitments?
Session 4: Maintaining Energy and Enthusiasm:
What practices do we need to prioritise in our lives so we can maintain our energy, stay enthusiastic? How do we allow ourselves time and space for self-care and nourishment?
This course is open to you regardless of whether you have previous experience of Active Hope or the Work that Reconnects.
THIS COURSE IS FOR YOU IF YOU:
- are passionate about finding new ways to connect with your inner power and resources
- 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 ready to face the challenges of life head on and find new ways forward
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 TIMES:
Saturday 22nd, 29th January, 5th & 12th February 2022 – 3pm-6pm UTC
7am PST (USA); 10am EST (USA) [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.
PROGRAMME STRUCTURE:
- FOUR THREE-HOUR Zoom classes, facilitated by Margo and Jacqueline. Each class will explore a new theme through experiential activities, inner work, questions, sharing in small groups, large group sharing and dialogue.
- WEEKLY Zoom meetings in a small buddy-group format in between the main classes.
- Activities and journalling 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)
“It was a real privilege to be able to able to enter a container like this to talk about important issues and connect with inspiring individuals. After the final session, I left with a heart full of hope and gratitude and a whole new appreciation for the power of nature.”
“For this old hand Joanna Macy devotee this workshop was like a homecoming. For a neophyte it would serve as a wonderful, well-led introduction to The Work that Reconnects.'
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:
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