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

by Joanna Macy

Paperback, 2012

Status

Available

Call number

303.4

Collection

Publication

New World Library (2012), 288 pages

Description

The challenges we face can be difficult even to think about. Climate change, the depletion of oil, economic upheaval, and mass extinction together create a planetary emergency of overwhelming proportions. Active Hope shows us how to strengthen our capacity to face this crisis so that we can respond with unexpected resilience and creative power. Drawing on decades of teaching an empowerment approach known as the Work That Reconnects, the authors guide us through a transformational process informed by mythic journeys, modern psychology, spirituality, and holistic science. This process equips us with tools to face the mess we're in and play our role in the collective transition, or Great Turning, to a life-sustaining society.

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LibraryThing member b.masonjudy
Active Hope is a helpful book to read and consider the personal impact of the current global situations that breed apathy and fatalism. The text has practical tools and practices that are accessible and oriented to cultivating and sustaining ways of being that engender more life. It's not a silver
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bullet but it's a clear resource that doesn't try to be too rosy.
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Language

Original language

English

Physical description

288 p.; 5.75 x 0.75 inches

ISBN

1577319729 / 9781577319726

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