Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects

Coming Back to Life • has been translated into more than six languages • The new edition includes three new chapters: 1) working with communities of color, 2) working "within the System," 3) engaging children and youth in the Work That Reconnects. • In the last sixteen years, the form of group work found in Coming Back to Life • has continued to spread on every continent around the world, used in many cultures and settings. • In the years since the publication of Coming Back to Life, we have seen soul-shuddering changes in world conditions. Among them are: 9/11 and its aftermath, the "War on Terror;" accelerating climate disruption; myriad environmental disasters. Coming Back to Life • directly addresses these perils and the anguish people feel. • Previous edition of Coming Back to Life sold over 27,000 copies • As the root teacher of the Work That Reconnects, Joanna Macy has created a groundbreaking theoretical framework for personal and social change, as well as a powerful workshop methodology for its application. • With over 10 previous books to her name Joanna Macy's wide-ranging work addresses psychological and spiritual issues of the nuclear age, the cultivation of ecological awareness, and the fruitful resonance between Buddhist thought and contemporary science.

© 2014 New Society Publishers (E-bog): 9781550925807

Release date

E-bog: 1. november 2014