Name: The Work That Reconnects Workshop
Start: 2025-11-05T08:30:00+13:00
End: 2025-11-05T10:30:00+13:00
Location: Cherish Hearts. Minds. Body & Soul

The Work That Reconnects is an inspiring, interactive group process for anyone who longs to serve the healing of our world in a more powerful and effective way.
"The Work That Reconnects helps people around the world 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
This two hour workshop will be facilitated by Terra Dumont.
Please bring a pen or pencil if you can!
The Work That Reconnects guides you on a Spiral journey through four stages:
-Coming from Gratitude
-Honoring Our Pain for the World
-Seeing with New/Ancient Eyes
-Going Forth
In practice, each of these stages flows naturally to the next. We depict the process as an open spiral, because every journey through the process changes us. We return to Gratitude with a fresh perspective to engage with the spiral again and again.
The Spiral begins in Coming from Gratitude, with an invitation to reflect on what we are grateful for. This process quiets the frantic mind and helps to ground us. Feelings of inadequacy may fall away, as we open to both empathy and confidence. We become more fully present and emotionally grounded in preparation for the next phase.
In Honoring Our Pain for the World, and daring to experience it, we learn the true meaning of compassion: to suffer with. We begin to know the immensity of our heart-mind. What had isolated us in private anguish now opens outward and delivers us into the wider reaches of our inter-existence. Honoring our pain opens us up to our love, courage, imagination and sense of justice.
As we experience the reality of our inter-existence, we begin Seeing with New/Ancient Eyes. We can sense how intimately and completely we are related to all that is. It becomes clear how social justice and environmental justice are intertwined. We can taste our own power to change, and feel the texture of our living connections with past and future generations, and with our sibling species.
In Going Forth we move into the actions that call each of us, according to our situation, gifts, and limitations. Working with others whenever possible, we set a target, lay a plan and begin to take action steps. We don’t wait for a blueprint or fail-proof scheme, for each step will be our teacher, bringing new perspectives and opportunities. Even when we don’t succeed in a given venture, we can be grateful for the chance we took and the lessons we learned.