Interactive Session – Moving through Despair and Grief to Connection, Action and Passion
Using the practices of “the Work That Reconnects” in Education, Community and Faith-Based Settings
In this interactive workshop for environmental Educators and Community and Faith-Based leaders working with youth at the intersection of social justice, environmental degradation and advocacy, several leading educators and facilitators in “the Work That Reconnects” (WTR) will share strategies to help youth, emerging adults and others move from despair and grief around environmental breakdown, climate change and social injustice to community connection, engaged action and “Active Hope.” Participants will gain experience with and resources for integrating the Work That Reconnects into their own work. With: Constance Washburn, Co-Director of the Spiral Journey Work That Reconnects Facilitator Development Program; Mutima Imani, Co- Director of Spiral Journey, Coach and Healer at the Urban Healing Temple, and Heidi Honegger Rogers, Associate Professor, University of New Mexico.
Skillful Means Center, Dharma College
March 30th | 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm
Panelists
Mutima Imani
Facilitator
Spiral Journey International Facilitation Development Program
Mutima Imani is a social justice activist, life coach, and a Master Trainer and Facilitator of the transformational process, the “Work That Reconnects,” which was co-originated by Joanna Macy in the late 1970s. She is also a Facilitator with the Spiral Journey International Facilitation Development Program, which has trained over 250 practitioners from all over the world. Mutima, who holds a Masters’ Degree in Public Administration, has over three decades of experience working to motivate employees to increase their creativity and productivity and in healing conflicts that divide communities and teams.
Heidi Honegger Rogers
Associate Professor
University of New Mexico College of Nursing
Heidi Honegger Rogers, DNP, FNP C, APHN BC, FNAP, a clinician educator, is: Associate Professor at the University of New Mexico (UNM) College of Nursing; Director of Interprofessional Education for the UNM Health Sciences Center; and leader of the Planetary Health Task Force for the American Holistic Nurses Association. Her advocacy and scholarship centers on climate change and health, equity and justice, nature connection, wellbeing, and planetary health. She works with a number of organizations, including: Nurses for Planetary Health, Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, the Global Consortium for Climate Change, Health Education Nurses Working Group, and the Planetary Health Alliance. Heidi is also a Facilitator with “the Work That Reconnects” and a certified “Nature and Forest Therapy Guide.”
Constance Washburn
