Clearness Committee
The Quaker discernment practice: a focus person brings an important question or decision; a committee of four or five holds them for three-quarters of an hour with ONLY honest,…
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The Work That Reconnects (Joanna Macy & Molly Brown)
openaligned IDG relationtradition-based64 practices across the Spiral stages (full inventory in notes/inventories/)
Global network and open practice library for Macy's Spiral of the Great Turning — gratitude, honoring our pain for the world, seeing with new eyes, going forth. Dozens of group practices (Truth Mandala, The Milling, Council of All Beings) for ecological grief, connection and empowerment work.
workthatreconnects.org — Work That Reconnects Network; methodology by Joanna Macy, book 'Coming Back to Life' with Molly Brown
License: Shared by Joanna Macy as "open source — a gift freely given"; facilitators are asked to acknowledge the source (WTR, Macy as root teacher, named adapters). See workthatreconnects.org/open-source-attribution/.
Tools from this source (11)
Council of All Beings
A communal ritual in which participants set aside their human identity, are "chosen" by another life-form, often make simple masks, and then sit in council speaking AS that bein…
Despair Ritual
A communal ritual in which sorrows for the world are spoken archetypally — moving between small groups and the whole circle, voices joined and witnessed — building emotional sol…
Letter from the Future
Each person writes a letter to themselves AS a human living one or two centuries from now — offering counsel, gratitude, and encouragement to the person working at this hinge of…
Loving-Kindness / Compassion Meditation
The progressive compassion practice at the heart of most compassion trainings: settle into body and breath; direct kind, non-judging attention first to yourself (self-compassion…
Open Sentences
Pairs sit face to face; one speaks, completing a sentence-stem read aloud by the facilitator ("When I see what's happening to the natural world, what breaks my heart is…"), whil…
Seventh Generation
A ritual dialogue across two hundred years: in a double circle, the inner ring speaks as people of the seventh generation hence, asking the outer ring — people of today — what i…
The Systems Game
Everyone silently picks two other people and moves to stay equidistant from both; the room self-organizes into a shifting, settling, reorganizing whole no one is steering. Varia…
The Milling
The group walks silently through the room in shifting currents; at the facilitator's word, each person pauses face to face with whoever is near for a guided, wordless encounter…
Truth Mandala
A ritual structure for honoring pain for the world. The circle is divided into quadrants holding symbolic objects — a stone (fear), dead leaves (sorrow), a stick (anger), an emp…
Widening Circles
In groups of four, each person speaks about an issue they care about four times over: first as themselves, then from the perspective of a person who opposes their view — in firs…