Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in without Going Crazy

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Do you hope this will happen for you? Or that you might play a role in helping this happen for others? If so, we invite you to join us in our journey. Together we will explore how we can access unexpected resilience and creative power, not just to face the mess we’re in, but also to play our part in doing something about it. But, just as the problems can happen through people, so can constructive responses, says Johnstone, who provides free online courses in active hope:

The authors have drawn on decades of teaching workshops with an approach known as Work That Reconnects. This book is filled with stories, questions, and group exercises which are obviously taken from their workshops. It’s the sort of book that could fit well with a group meeting regularly to discuss one chapter at a time. If the Earth could speak to us, what would it say? We can take a step toward finding out by imagining the Earth can write through us.Scan your recent memories and identify something that’s happened in the last twenty four hours that you’re pleased about.

Most of all, the book invites people to engage in a strengthening and transformative journey designed to nourish and build our capacity and commitment to play our part in the Great Turning. Each chapter has been revised to better support this journey from the context we face now.

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The authors are well respected advocates for social and environmental justice. Active Hope is a thought provoking book that requires engagement from the reader. It's about expanding our view of ourselves and the world. My favorite quote from the book is from Arne Naess who wrote: Love, Beauty and Solitude: Translating Rilke with Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy – ABC RN’s Soul Search hosted by Meredith Lake - 2021 The power of inner strengths drawn from us when we engage with challenges and rise to the occasion.