Her group methods, known as the Work That Reconnects, have been adopted and adapted yet more widely in classrooms, churches, and grassroots organizing. Many thousands of people around the world have participated in Joanna’s workshops and trainings. The many dimensions of this work are explored in her books Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age (New Society Publishers, 1983) Dharma and Development (Kumarian Press, 198) Thinking Like a Mountain (with John Seed, Pat Fleming, and Arne Naess New Society Publishers, 1988 New Society/ New Catalyst, 2007) Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory (SUNY Press, 1991) Rilke’s Book of Hours (1996, 2005) and In Praise of Mortality (2004) (with Anita Barrows, Riverhead) Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World (with Molly Young Brown, New Society Publishers, 1998) Joanna’s memoir entitled Widening Circles (New Society, 2000) World as Lover, World as Self (Parallax Press, 2007), A Year With Rilke, (with Anita Barrows, Harper One, 2009) and Pass It On: Five Stories That Can Change the World (with Norbert Gahbler, Parallax Press, 2010). Her wide-ranging work addresses psychological and spiritual issues of the nuclear age, the cultivation of ecological awareness, and the fruitful resonance between Buddhist thought and contemporary science. As the root teacher of the Work That Reconnects, she has created a ground-breaking theoretical framework for personal and social change, as well as a powerful workshop methodology for its application.

A respected voice in the movements for peace, justice, and ecology, she interweaves her scholarship with five decades of activism.

Eco-philosopher Joanna Macy PhD, is a scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology.

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