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Newsletter Updates and Save The Date
The World is Changing, and So Are We: Interhelp Community Meeting By Carol Harley Change is hard. I want to cling to the known, the familiar. What can we count on, anymore? Earth forces like gravity. Sunrise, sunset. Spirals — intrinsic to life, broad as the universe. I’m partnering with outgoing newsletter editor Paula Hendrick […]
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Interhelp Newsletter May 2020
Dear Interhelpers and friends,Earth Leadership Cohorts are immersions for young adult leaders in the Work That Reconnects. Supporting these efforts has been one of the joys, for me, of Interhelp participation over the last several years.The fifth Earth Leadership Cohort convened in August of last year, met again in October at Interhelp Fall Weekend and concluded […]
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Day of Conversation, February 2
Let’s begin the new decade together in community at the annual Interhelp Day of Conversation. We will journey through the Spiral of the Work That Reconnects, with a focus on the theme “power over / power with.” Join us on February 2, 9:30-4 in Cambridge, MA. There will be ample time to renew acquaintances, perhaps […]
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Interhelp Newsletter, July 2019
Dear Interhelpers and friends, We open this newsletter with link to a new video of Joanna Macy, in a Q and A with Jem Bendell of Deep Adaptation Forum. I am inspired by her fresh articulation, and heartened to see that Joanna, at age 90, continues to contribute her vibrant thinking and leadership. Watch here. Interhelp’s second Community Practice […]
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Earth Leadership Cohort V forming!
A fifth Earth Leadership Cohort – an immersion in the Work That Reconnects for young adults ages 18-30 – will convene this fall. The cohort will meet in September, October and again in November in western Massachusetts. The October meeting will be intergenerational, with the group joining the annual Interhelp weekend at Woolman Hill. Participants from the […]
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Interhelp Newsletter, April 2019
Dear Interhelpers and friends, As I write this, a flat of pansies sits outside my door, awaiting planting when the garden finally dries out enough. It’s so wet here. But nothing like in some other places: areas of Iran, Mozambique, the Midwest US. A couple of resources have helped me comprehend and think strategically about this […]
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New Eyes, New Vision
Carol Harley I recently turned 60, and immediately got in line for cataract surgery. My eyesight had become much worse in the past few years. It was time. And I was fortunate to be able to sign up for multifocal lens implants, which held the promise of 20/20 vision. To a girl who has worn […]
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Tending and Mending the Social Web; Community Practice Day
In this profoundly fractured world of ours, all of our Work That Reconnects efforts aim toward tending and mending the living web of all life. For the past several months, Interhelp’s “Tending and Mending the Web” Action Circle members have been focusing on the webs of human connection created and supported in our workshops and […]
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Interhelp Newsletter November 2017
Dear Interhelpers and friends, It’s been a rich Work That Reconnects season in our Interhelp region (northeast U.S.). Twenty-four participants joined Sarah Pirtle and Emily Koester for Mending the Web of Life in Greenfield, MA. Read about the experience below. They will offer this workshop again on February 10. Kirstin Edelglass, Anne Goodwin and Solomon Botwick-Ries (a member […]
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April 2017 Announcements
Active Hope: An Introduction to the Work That Reconnects will take place in Cambridge, MA, on Saturday May 20, 9:30-4:30. This event is offered by the Boston-area Work That Reconnects Community of Practice. Complete information here. Facilitation Deepening Weekend, August 17-20, Starseed Healing Sanctuary, Savoy, MA. Join seasoned Work That Reconnects facilitators – Sarah Pirtle, Aravinda Ananda, Joseph Rotella […]
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