Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in without Going Crazy
11 April 2014
Active Hope Reading Group
We are starting a new group to read and discuss the book 'Active Hope' by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnston. This will meet monthly on the 4th Thursday of the month, meeting at different venues (to be decided) around the Black Isle, and starting at 7pm on 24 April at 7 Duke Street, Cromarty IV11 8YH. Contact John Wood on 01381 600491 for details.
'Active Hope' is about finding, and offering, our best response to the crisis of sustainability unfolding in our world. It starts by accepting that the challenges we face can be difficult even to look at: climate change, the depletion of oil, economic reversals and the die-back of our natural world act together to create a planetary emergency of overwhelming proportions.
The book offers an approach that strengthens our capacity to face disturbing information and respond with unexpected resilience and creative power. Drawing on decades of experience running workshops in an empowerment approach known as The Work That Reconnects, the authors aim to equip readers with practical tools to help them face the mess we're in and find and play their role in the collective transition, or Great Turning, to a life-sustaining society.
All welcome to come and explore this approach and our reactions to it. No cost.
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Forthcoming Events…
- Tuesday 8 October
- 18:00 Zero Food Waste Challenge - Make Your Own Fakeaway Pizza Workshop
- Saturday 12 October
- 10:30 Cromarty Community Market
- Tuesday 15 October
- 18:00 Zero Food Waste Challenge - Growing & Storing Your Own Food
- Saturday 19 October
- 10:00 Culbokie Community Market
- Tuesday 22 October
- 18:00 Zero Food Waste Challenge - Fermenting & Pickling Workshop
- Saturday 26 October
- 16:00 Halloween on the Green at Culbokie
- 10:00 North Kessock Community market
- Tuesday 29 October
- 18:00 Zero Food Waste Challenge - Cooking With Leftovers
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