work that reconnects
a group process that helps us remember and experience our deep belonging to the living world. It supports participants in moving from feelings of isolation, paralysis, and eco-anxiety toward connection, clarity, and active hope.
Rooted in the teachings of Joanna Macy, and drawing on deep ecology, systems thinking, and ancient wisdom traditions, the work invites us to recognize our interdependence with all life and to act from that awareness.
At its heart lie four movements: Gratitude, Honouring Our Pain for the World, Seeing Anew with Ancient Eyes, and Going Forth — a spiral that helps us find courage, meaning, and renewed purpose in turbulent times.
I have been practicing this work since 2011 and am a registered facilitator within the Work That Reconnects Network. I have studied closely with core teachers including Joanna Macy, Molly Brown, Mutima Imani, Constanze Washburn, and others.
Over the years, I have facilitated processes ranging from 1.5-hour introductions to 5-day immersions, for self-organized groups, municipality teams engaged in climate transition, schools, activists, artists, and educators.
Alongside my facilitation, I also mentor and support emerging facilitators in the Work That Reconnects, offering guidance and reflective practice as they find their own way of holding this work.
If you or your group feel called to experience or host a Work That Reconnects process, I would be glad to explore possibilities together.
what former participants say….
In this moment I am only available to connect to awe. Awe of the impact of the work in me and the potential for the world. Awe of wisdom, humbleness and care it is delivered with. Awe of generosity. Awe of simplicity. Awe of the journey and experience it took to bring it here in this format. Thank you for being our guide, teacher, placeholder and community weaver today - i feel deeply drawn for more. Leaving with awe, hope, inspiration, nurtured, reminded, home, gratefulness.
-Participant of a one-day workshop
Thank you for your clarity and care in your speaking. I felt deeply held and safe and thank you for clearing the space for grief, fear, anger, emptiness - because we stand/sit on hope. Otherwise we would not be there. And not least thanks for revealing the other side of each of these. Love, courage, passion, openness. The access to go deep into this work comes easy because you have the courage and skill to hold the structure. Set a frame. And look with kind eyes. I am truly inspired.
-Participant of a one-day workshop
It was so refreshing. I feel a renewed sense of meaning in the work I do and we do as a collective. Feeling part of a broad group of human beings who are alive to what is life affirming. Utterly inspired.
— Participant of an intro-workhop
I am walking away with deep sense of connection with all the humans here and with the world. Maybe my DNA has changed too, it feels like it. Standing stronger.
— Participant of a 5-day immersion