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Active Hope (Revised): How to Face the Mess We're in with Unexpected Resilience and Creative Power

by Joanna Macy

Finding ways to meet a planetary emergency

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Finding ways to meet a planetary emergency

Climate change, war, political division, economic upheaval, and ecological loss form the backdrop for this guide to responding to overlapping crises. Joanna Macy draws on the Work That Reconnects, an approach developed through decades of teaching, to present a process for strengthening the capacity to face difficult realities and take part in collective change. The book brings together ideas from mythic journeys, modern psychology, spirituality, and holistic science, framing resilience and creative action as practices for contributing to a life-sustaining society. This revised tenth-anniversary edition centers on how people can engage with the scale of the present crisis without turning away from it.

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  • People interested in ecological and social crises and ways to respond collectively
  • Readers exploring the Work That Reconnects or approaches informed by psychology, spirituality, and holistic science

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Ecological crisisCollective actionResilienceSocial transformation

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Book overview

The challenges we face can be difficult even to think about. Climate change, war, political polarization, economic upheaval, and the dying back of nature together create a planetary emergency of overwhelming proportions. This revised, tenth anniversary edition of Active Hope shows us how to strengthen our capacity to face these crises 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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