We live in a time that asks us to hold enormous complexity – beauty and devastation, hope and grief, love and loss – often simultaneously, often alone. The Work That Reconnects, developed by Joanna Macy, offers a spiral practice for moving through this complexity together, finding in it not paralysis but power. 

Over four weekly sessions, we’ll follow the spiral: from gratitude that opens us, to grief that deepens us, to new ways of seeing that shift us, to action rooted in what we most love. Each session builds on the last, held by group process, writing practice, and the wisdom of the natural world teacher. 

This course is for anyone who has ever felt the weight of caring about their community, their work, the work. Anyone who is ready to transform that weight into something they can carry with grace. 

The four sessions: 

• Gratitude: opening to what we love – grounding practices paired with sharing and the power of naming what sustains us. 

• Honoring pain: turning toward grief at every scale – personal, communal, planetary as a source of connection rather than overwhelm

• Seeing with new eyes: shifting perception through writing and reflection, finding inspiration in what breaks our hearts

• Going forth: writing a letter to the future, naming the part we are called to play and the steps we’ll take next.

Investment:  Sliding scale: $100 · $175 · $265 

A Zoom link will be shared upon registration.

Early Bird Discount: use coupon code "earlybirdspiral" for 30% off!

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Meet your Facilitator:

Hope Springs Executive Director Rosie Santos has been facilitating circles on The Spiral Practice for the last several years, inspired by the work of Joanna Macy (specifically The Work that Reconnects). Recently returned from completing a rites of passage ceremony in the Raggeds Wilderness of Colorado, Rosie brings embodied experience of walking with these practices.