The Work That Reconnects
Aims of the Work That Reconnects (WTR)
The central purpose of the Work That Reconnects is to bring us back into relationship with each other and with the self-healing powers in the web of life, motivating and empowering us to reclaim our lives, our communities, and our planet from corporate and colonial rule.
Undoing Oppression & the Work That Reconnects:
In the past few years there has been a growing community of folks who are interested in the Work that Reconnects and who have also committed their time, energy and hearts into organizing and educating themselves around decolonizing the Work that Reconnects. From this movement many resources, materials and ways to be involved in this “Evolving Edge” have been cultivated. For more information about this Evolving Edge, how decolonization is viewed through the lens of the Work that Reconnects, access to online resources and education, and how to become involved please click here.
The Work That Reconnects:
- provides practices and perspectives drawn from systems science, Deep Ecology, and many spiritual traditions that elicit our existential connectivity with the web of life through space and time.
- reframes our pain for the world as evidence of our mutual belonging in a relational universe, and hence our power to take action on behalf of life.
- awakens stamina and buoyancy to live with full awareness of both the Great Turning and the Great Unraveling, historically and in present time, and to embrace the uncertainty.
- awakens us to the systemic injustice, racism, and oppression of the Industrial Growth Society, and generates our commitment to transform all our institutions for the benefit of all humans, whatever their color, culture, religion, gender identity, and history.
- affirms that our intention to act for the sake of all beings, and to become allies to all oppressed or marginalized people, can become organizing principles of our lives.
- helps us identify the strengths and resources we can mobilize in our commitment to the self-healing of the world.
- presents the Great Turning as a challenge that every one of us, in collaboration with others, is fully capable of meeting in our own distinctive ways.
Core Assumptions of the Work That Reconnects
- provides practices and perspectives drawn from systems science, Deep Ecology, and many spiritual traditions that elicit our existential connectivity with the web of life through space and time.
- reframes our pain for the world as evidence of our mutual belonging in a relational universe, and hence our power to take action on behalf of life.
- awakens stamina and buoyancy to live with full awareness of both the Great Turning and the Great Unraveling, historically and in present time, and to embrace the uncertainty.
- awakens us to the systemic injustice, racism, and oppression of the Industrial Growth Society, and generates our commitment to transform all our institutions for the benefit of all humans, whatever their color, culture, religion, gender identity, and history.
- affirms that our intention to act for the sake of all beings, and to become allies to all oppressed or marginalized people, can become organizing principles of our lives.
- helps us identify the strengths and resources we can mobilize in our commitment to the self-healing of the world.
- presents the Great Turning as a challenge that every one of us, in collaboration with others, is fully capable of meeting in our own distinctive ways.
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