Every symptom in our culture can be traced back to our inability to grieve well.
Every symptom in our culture can be traced back to our inability to grieve well.
Honouring-Our-Pain
Grief is not a feeling but a skill - the skill that allows us to love fully in the face of loss.
Grief is not a feeling but a skill - the skill that allows us to love fully in the face of loss.
Grief is praise. It is the way the heart acknowledges the beauty of what we have lost.
Grief is praise. It is the way the heart acknowledges the beauty of what we have lost.
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.
The Earth is grieving, and our grief for the Earth is one way we can be in relationship with her ...
The Earth is grieving, and our grief for the Earth is one way we can be in relationship with her pain.
We live in a grief-illiterate culture, and this illiteracy is killing us and the planet.
We live in a grief-illiterate culture, and this illiteracy is killing us and the planet.
Quote: Joanna Macy; "The sorrow, grief, and rage you feel is a measure of your humanity and your evolutionary maturity..."
“The sorrow, grief, and rage you feel is a measure of your humanity and your evolutionary maturity…” – Joanna Macy Source: Greening of the Self (2013)
Despair and Empowerment: Joanna Macy's Foundational Work
Everything ported into the “Honouring Our Pain for the World” section of this site — the Truth Mandala, the Mourning — has one direct ancestor: Joanna Macy’s Despair and Empowerment …
The Role of Hope in the Truth Mandala
In the Truth Mandala process, it’s common for participants to observe that while there is a quadrant for Doubt, Fear, Anger and Sadness, there does not seem to be a place for Hope in the …
The Shambhala Warriors — A Prophecy
From World as Lover, World as Self (Joanna Macy, Parallax Press, 1991). For more of Joanna’s own telling and context, see the Work That Reconnects Network’s page on this prophecy — the …
The Council of All Beings
By Joanna Macy, Ph.D. Written for The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. Full source page: rainforestinfo.org.au/deep-eco/Joanna Macy.htm. The Council of All Beings is a communal ritual in which …
Breathing Through (training video)
This is Joanna Macy’s own version of tonglen, the Tibetan Buddhist practice of breathing in suffering and breathing out ease. In her written instructions for it, she describes the exercise as …
The Truth Mandala
Joanna Macy’s Truth Mandala, reproduced from Coming Back to Life (Macy & Brown, 1998). The dominant “Honouring Our Pain for the World” practice in current use — see also The …
John Seed's Introductions to the Council of All Beings Workshop (full transcripts)
Transcribed by Chris Lehman from the Council of All Beings workshop at Northern Pines Lodge, Maine, USA, 24–25 October 1992, and reproduced here as the numbered sequence in which John gives them over …
The Cairn of Mourning
A facilitation note by John Seed, drawing directly on Joanna Macy’s Despair and Empowerment work. These days the Truth Mandala, is usually used, but the Carin of Mourning can be a useful …