Roots of Resilience For Uncertain Times: A 5-Part WTR Workshop for Europe, Africa and the Americas

This online workshop meets on five Wednesdays: September 4 - October 2 from 10:00AM Pacific/12:00PM Central Time – 12:15PM Pacific/2:15PM Central Time. Plan to attend all sessions. (Central Time is UTC -5. To convert to other time zones, click here.) This time works well with European and African Time Zones. 6:00pm BST; 7:00pm CEST; 7:00pm SAST.

It’s heartbreaking to remain conscious and engaged in our crazy times. Everywhere we turn, we experience the Great Unraveling of our society and our world: systemic racism, the pandemic, global climate change, poverty, mass extinctions, etc. It’s clear we can’t continue with Business As Usual. The fear, grief, anger, and helplessness we feel can be unbearable because it’s not just our personal pain; it’s the collective pain of all life on Earth. When we come together and honor our feelings about our world, we realize our radical interconnectedness with all peoples and species, and become part of the Earth healing herself. It is essential that we do this work now—root into the wisdom of our living planet, heal our divisions and foster our resilience to take part in this transformation known as the Great Turning.

In this 5-part Work That Reconnect online workshop, we grow our roots of resilience for these uncertain times as we move through the Spiral—beginning with Gratitude, then Honoring Our Pain for the World, Seeing with New and Ancient Eyes, and Going Forth. Join us for this life-changing group experience that will help you restore your sense of purpose and possibility to address the complex nature of our times.

COST: We want to make this workshop available to everyone, so we are offering a sliding scale: $200 – $60. Your generosity helps us continue this important work. If your contribution needs to be less than $60, please contact us at kathleen@gaiawisdom.org.

REGISTRATION: Class size is limited. Sign up soon to save a spot. Registration is at the top of the page.

Online Class Details, Format, and Schedule

This work is very interactive. There will be ample time for teachings, experiential practices, small group discussions, large group sharing and community rituals. There will also be optional home practices, readings, and “buddy” calls.

This is a 5-part online workshop (11 hours total). We will meet via Zoom.

Class 1 : Gratitude for Our World
Class 2: Honoring Our Pain for the World
Class 3: Seeing With New and Ancient Eyes
Class 4: Deep Time with our Ancestors and Future Beings
Class 5: Going Forth into the Great Turning

Kathleen Rude fell in love with the natural world as a young child and found her voice for environmental activism at age 10. She has a B.S. in Wildlife Ecology and an M.S. in Natural Resources. Kathleen began her career as an environmental writer. Her studies of indigenous spiritual practice eventually led her to become a shamanic practitioner, ceremonial leader and teacher. She is a senior facilitator of the Work That Reconnects (WTR) and has been mentored by Joanna Macy. Building on the brilliance of WTR, Kathleen is developing her own process for helping people be an effective force for change in their lives and in the world through the choices they make every day. She will detail this practice in her upcoming book, How To Be An Every Day Difference Maker. Kathleen has created A Guided Self-Practice of The Work That Reconnects (42 minutes), available as a digital download. She is the author of the novel, The Redemption of Red Fire Woman, a spiritual story of suspense and romance in the Colorado high country.