Time: 7pm - 9pm
Location: The Grant building - Quarterdeck Cost: $15.00 + GST
Course Code: GLEL1769-Y08
The Hidden Promise of Our Dark Age: The Wisdom, Strength & Beauty We Are Discovering - an evening talk with Joanna Macy
"As we free ourselves from the delusions and dependencies bred by the industrial growth society, something wonderful can happen to us. If we manage to steer clear of panic, we may well find at last the wild power of our creativity and solidarity."
The ecological and social crises we face are inflamed by an economic system dependent on accelerating growth. This self-destructing political economy sets its goals and measures its performance in terms of ever-increasing corporate profits--in other words by how fast materials can be extracted from Earth and turned into consumer products, weapons, and waste. A revolution is underway because people are realizing that our needs can be met without destroying our world. To see this as the larger context of our lives clears our vision and summons our courage. Joanna Macy provides this context in an inspirational evening talk, The Hidden Promise of Our Dark Age.
This is a precious and hope-filled opportunity …please join us!
MORE on Joanna Macy and Her Work...
Eco-philosopher Joanna Macy, Ph.D., is a scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. She is also a leading voice in movements for peace, justice, and a safe environment. Interweaving her scholarship and four decades of activism, she has created both a ground-breaking theoretical framework for a new paradigm of personal and social change, and a powerful workshop methodology for its application. Her 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.
This work is described in her books Despair and Empowerment in the Nuclear Age (New Society Publishers, 1983), Dharma and Development (Kumarian Press, 1985), Thinking Like a Mountain (co-edited with John Seed, Pat Fleming, and Arne Naess; New Society Publishers, 1988), Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory (SUNY Press, 1991), Rilke’s Book of Hours (with Anita Barrows, Riverhead, 1996), Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World (with Molly Young Brown, New Society Publishers, 1998); Widening Circles: A Memoir, (New Society Publishers, 2000); and World as Lover, World as Self: Courage for Global Justice and Ecological Renewal (Parallax Press, 2007).
Over the past twenty-five years many thousands of people around the world have participated in Joanna’s workshops and trainings, while her methods have been adopted and adapted yet more widely in classrooms, churches, and grassroots organizing. Her work helps people transform despair and apathy, in the face of overwhelming social and ecological crises, into constructive, collaborative action. It brings a new way of seeing the world, as our larger living body, freeing us from the assumptions and attitudes that now threaten the continuity of life on Earth.
Joanna travels widely giving lectures, workshops, and trainings in North America, Europe and Asia. She lives in Berkeley, California near her children and grandchildren.
Joanna will continue on to The Haven on Gabriola Island for a long weekend retreat October 9 through 12, 2009 . For more information please visit the Haven website: http://www.haven.ca/programs/the-work-that-reconnects.html
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