From book #ActiveHope by #JoannaMacy & #ChrisJohnstone on #ClimateDespair & Hope.

Where are you? Business as Usual- denial/not doing your part to slow down damage; The Great Unraveling, you recognize & acknowledge there’s a problem re the natural world & climate crisis, widening inequality, dis & Misinformation re what’s going on; or The Great Turning—turning towards raising awareness & engaging in behaviors that support the flourishing of life.
I’m moving toward The Great Turning. Join me?

Join me in reading #ActiveHope by #JoannaMacy & #ChrisJohnstone

If there’s interest, I’ll offer a free on going Zoom group to explore the book and work with #ClimateDespair (I’m American on the east coast but I’ll be sensitive to time zones).

This will not be a (small) group to debate #ClimateChange but rather how to be a okay and PRACTICE active hope, despite the despairing circumstances, in the context that climate change is real & humanity IS in part creating this mess.

@stevelord I'm new to the idea of #DeepAdaptation but had already come across #ActiveHope which I've found hugely helpful in the face of #ClimateCrisis and other things. The Active Hope process is 7 questions on hopes, fears and more but leads you to take action on something positive. Lots of useful info and free training resources here https://www.activehope.info/

@NatureMC yes! That is exactly it. It depends on what you mean by hope. For me the word does have a certain passivity about it, plus i was getting a bit fed up with science commmnicators emphasising need for positive mesages when majority of people are actually clueless - not bombarded with negative messages at all but deliberately kept in dark about just how bad things are already. But #ActiveHope is good and motivates me too.

https://www.activehope.info/

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.” Thanks to the Roman philosopher Seneca, for this quote that I find deeply resonates with me. I came across this in the book Active Hope by Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone. It’s a book on our climate disaster, specifically “How to Face the Mess We’re in with Unexpected Resilience & Creative Power”. #ActiveHope #climate #climatedisaster

Reading June Jordan's essays from the 1990s, collected in AFFIRMATIVE ACTS. A good remedy for grief and worry -- solidarity, ancestry, action. Makes sense. It matters to know one's fight is not new and not solitary. Like Dorothy Day wrote, we have all known the long loneliness and we know that the answer is love, and that love comes in community. Thankful for the writing of both of these people. #JuneJordan #DorothyDay #ActiveHope #Solidarity

#activehope Active Hope - How to face the mess we’re in with unexpected resilience and creative power Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone. A book to change our perspective, open our hearts and commit to creating a better world to share.

Where can we find the #heart, #wisdom and #compassion to come home to our Earth and meet her with responsibility, kindness and love #activehope.

1/2 Here's my #Introduction! I'm here on Mastodon to connect with other people who are living and working and thinking in ways that help humanity become more compassionate, interconnected, loving, and resilient. People who help me live with what Joanna Macy calls #ActiveHope, a kind of hope that comes from knowing just how scary and precarious everything is and yet living in ways that salvage and bring loving justice to one another.

The world situation is quite despaired, but each one can/must still do what one can to make things less bad/better.

Deciding what the best actions are is difficult when information is confusing.

You never go wrong with teaching other people, but you might want to choose well what to teach them according to the situation!

#ActiveHope #visionaryThinking

#ActiveHope heißen die #Tiefenökologie-Events von Gabi #Bott, die sich von Joanna #Macy ausbilden ließ.

Der sog. "Naturphilosophie" #DeepEcology wohnt sog. #Ökorassismus inne. Rassistische u. menschenverachtende Konzepte des Gründers Arne #Naess bilden die Grundlage. 2/