Active Hope

Following Joanna Macy’s ‘Work That Reconnects’ framework, this week offers the opportunity to engage with three stories of our time: Business as Usual, The Great Unraveling and the Great Turning.

Throughout the week, we will learn about and move along a “Spiral Journey”, beginning with Gratitude, followed by Honouring our Pain for the World, Seeing Things with New Eyes and Going Forth with Renewed Energy.

Moving through the Spiral is a practice that can be repeated whenever we feel frustrated or stuck in a world of ongoing and increasing suffering and injustice, the climate crisis being our focal point.

The programme will give us a number of tools and practices that we can take into our own lives and use whenever there is a need for renewed hope. There will be guided meditations, group exchanges, and a variety of creative practices, including an easy-to-learn dance.

Most of the programme will take place indoors, but we will also make use of the beautiful surroundings to help us to relate to our environment in a holistic way, an integral part of the place and interwoven in the fabric of creation.

Programme Leader

Monica Mueller-Roemer is a retired system analyst and project manager. These days, she leads and organises Spiritual Retreats in the Anglican/Episcopal Church. She is a member of the Climate and Creation Care Ministry in the Episcopal Church in Europe and a Member of the Iona Community. Monica lives in Frankfurt, Germany.

Costs

6 Nights: £960 per adult, £480 concession.