An Opportunity to grow, learn and develop

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Post Carbon Friends,

This week on Friday nite and in a Saturday Workshop you will be given a chance to learn from and develop because of a world-class workshop leader and catalyst.  Barbara Ford explains how to get beyond the futility that many of us feel related to trying to improve ourselves and the world around us.

Barbara's expertise is explaining exactly how to move from despair (depression or giving up) to em-powerment (feeling able to continue to work on ourselves and working for what we believe in).

She will present a lecture this Friday nite at the U, and a workshop Saturday, where you can get the meat of the matter.  Join us and experience the kind of enlivenment and empowerment that is necessary to carry on this work!

Check it out:

Taking Root: Nurturing the Tree of Life in Storms of Change 
Barbara Ford

activist, therapist, facilitator, singer, & artist from Portland, OR with over 25 yrs experience working with individuals & groups

and one of 9 stewards of Joanna Macy’s The Work that Reconnects

Friday, November 4, 2011, 7:00-9:00 PM

The Den, A. Ray Olpin Union (lower level), University of Utah

200 S. Central Campus Drive SLC

Campus Map: http://www.union.utah.edu/pdf/campusmap.pdf

Sponsored by Utah Interfaith Power & Light and Environmental Ministry, First Unitarian Church

 

Our western culture has become a culture of dissociation- from the earth, our creativity, our communities, our economic system, our bodies, and recently, the truth itself in political rhetoric.  We will explore how to strengthen our roots of connection in these and other areas of our lives as we navigate this time of cultural chaos and stratification.  This is a FREE presentation.

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Climate Change: Moving from Despair to Empowerment

Barbara Ford

activist, therapist, facilitator, singer, & artist from Portland, OR with over 25 yrs experience working with individuals & groups

and one of 9 stewards of Joanna Macy’s The Work that Reconnects

Saturday, November 5, 2011, 9:00AM-5:00PM

Episcopal Conference Center, 75 South 200 East, SLC

Sponsored by Environmental Ministry, First Unitarian Church of SLC and Utah Interfaith Power & Light

 

Feeling overwhelmed by the climate crisis?  Are grief and despair holding you back from action?  How do we stay present, emotionally and spiritually, in order to participate effectively and joyfully in the healing of our world?  How do we move beyond psychological barriers to confront climate change with determination and empowerment?   Come join us as we work through grief and despair to action, empowered to engage, advance, and defend a livable future.  Based in large part on the revolutionary work of eco-philosopher Joanna Macy, called The Work That Reconnects, this workshop will help participants move through disempowering numbness & despair toward a deeper sense of clarity and purpose regarding our role in the healing of the planet. As we honor our deepest feelings and gifts; our intention, vitality, creativity, and sense of connectedness deepen; opening a channel of joy and meaning for our work in the world.

 

Format: full-day workshop, discussion, music, art, exercises

Register: http://www.slcuu.org/adult-re-registration AND

Pay Registration Fee:   $50 via WEB: http://tinyurl.com/WkshpRgstrnDesprEmpwrmnt 

(Choose: Adult RE Workshop (11/5) & enter $50) OR

via CHECK:  First Unitarian Church, 569 S 1300 E, SLC, UT 84102  ATTN: Env Min Wkshp

Michael