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Action Circles
The Interhelp Council invites the broader Work That Reconnects community to participate in any ongoing Action Circles. Our 2018 priorities include (but are not limited to): Tending and Mending the Social Web – click here for details. Facilitation Deepening Media and Arts – website, social media and more You may also be instrumental in forming […]
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Micro-Grant Application Form
The Interhelp Network’s Micro-Grant 2023 Application Form Applications are accepted on a rolling basis as long as funds last in calendar year 2023. Before filling out this form, please review the Guidelines.
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Interhelp Newsletter, January 2018
Dear Interhelpers and friends, As the dark days begin to brighten, I’m thrilled to announce the launch of Hope Sings, a treasure trove of songs posted by Sarah Pirtle. The songs progress through the elements of the Spiral of the Work That Reconnects. Please read more below. Also below, a report from our annual Interhelp Conversation […]
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Resistance and Regeneration
Resistance and Regeneration by Michael Rice I am grateful that we begin with Gratitude. I am grateful that I was born human – or at all – for my most recent incarnation was as a bumblebee! I am grateful that I grew up my first six years in a beautiful garden, forty feet wide and […]
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Interhelp Newsletter September 2017
Dear Interhelpers and friends, As the season turns once again, the weather brings blessings to some and terrors to others. We call the work we undertake together in this perilous time the “Work That Reconnects.” It’s an apt name, as is the name it was known by in early days, “Despair and Empowerment” work. It […]
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The Elm Dance, Revisited
I usually think of Michael Rice when I hear “Elm Dance.” I can see him in the circle, stepping back with his right foot purposefully; my mind conjures his focused expression as Latvian words join the guitar melody and we dancers begin to move. The song is Ka Man Klajas. The dance brings activists together […]
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New! Hope Sings
A gift has been given to all Work That Reconnects circles, and in particular to the Interhelp Network, sower of WTR seeds for many decades. Hope Sings is a collection of songs offered by Sarah Pirtle. The songs are all ready for you to listen to (and download for no cost). They will accompany you […]
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Interhelp Newsletter May 2017
Dear Interhelpers and friends, Mary Gleason of Rochester NY sends welcome news about the formation of the Genesee Valley Work That Reconnects Community. Mary served on Interhelp Council many years ago. See below for upcoming events in Rochester, and also for news and events from the Boston-area Community of Practice. Rising with Roots: Courage, Conviction […]
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Interhelp Newsletter March 2017
Some folks hoping to attend recent introductory Work That Reconnects workshops had to be turned away; the workshops filled and then some. This work is so needed right now. Marc Lapin led one of these workshops in Middlebury, VT; see below for a behind-the-scenes account of the Cambridge workshop, “A Learning Experience for New Facilitators.” […]
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An Open Letter to Janet White
Dear Janet, Remember when I worked for you in the house on Midland Street? The whir of the phototypesetting machine expelling its 40th galley of the week, the aroma of hot wax in the air? The two of us companionably in your small studio, cutting, repositioning rectangles of photo paper and rubbing them down to […]
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