 Active Hope: How to Face the Mess we're in without Going Crazy, co-authored with my long-time colleague Chris Johnstone of Bristol, England, aims to bring basic assumptions and ingredients of the Work That Reconnects to a mainstream readership. In the process some valuable new perspectives on the Work have emerged. A look at the Table of Contents can give you an idea of some.
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Part One: The Great Turning
Chap 1: Three Stories of Our Time
Chap 2: Trusting the Spiral
Chap 3: Starting with Gratitude
Chap 4: Honoring Our Pain for the World
Part Two: Seeing with New Eyes
Chap 5: A Wider Sense of Self
Chap 6: A Different Kind of Power
Chap 7: A Richer Experience of Community
Chap 8: A Larger View of Time
Part Three: Going Forth
Chap 9: Catching an Inspiring Vision
Chap 10: Daring to Believe it is Possible
Chap 11: Building Support around You
Chap 12: Maintaining Energy and Enthusiasm
Chap 13: Strengthened by Uncertainty
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 Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World (NSP, 1998) Theory and methods of the group work my colleagues and I pioneered over the last quarter century. (see The Work That Reconnects) To order a copy, click here.
 New Spanish language edition of Coming Back to Life translated by Mexican scholar-activist Adrián Villasenor-Galarza. Nuestra Vida como Gaia is now available online! (Dec. 2010)
(227 page pdf download)
 In German, Die Reise ins lebendige Leben, Strategien zum Aufbau einer zukunftsfähignen Welt, translated by Norbert Gahbler, a leader in this work in Germany, who has interpreted for me for 20 years. This book includes practices newly developed since the U.S. edition. Published by Junfermann, and available through www.junfermann.de.
 The Russian translation is available online at www.greenworld.org.ru/ Choose the Russian version.
 The Portuguese translation: Nossa Vida Como Gaia, Práticas para a Reconexão de Nossas Vidas e de Nosso Mundo
Joanna shares five stories from her more than 30 years of studying and practicing Buddhism and deep ecology. Gathered on her travels to India, Russia, Australia, and Tibet, these stories testify to Joanna Macy’s belief that either humankind awakens to a new and deeper understanding of our interconnectedness with its planet or risks losing it.
This is a revised edition in English of a lovely book that Norbert Gahbler and I originally brought out in German last year.
Parallax Press
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Also available in Taiwan.
 Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God (Riverhead, 1996, 2006 with Anita Barrows)
My translation, with Anita Barrows, of Rainer Maria Rilke's Stundenbuch. These luminous verses, written a century ago when the poet was in his early twenties, have woven through my life, my thought. What a joy, at last, to render them in English. The newly-published Centenary Edition includes the original German text.
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World As Lover, World As Self - Courage for Global Justice and Ecological Renewal, Parallax Press, 2007.
This collection includes new thinking that guides my work, along with favorite portions of the original book, all freshly rewritten.
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The Work That Reconnects training DVD
Here is a visual tool for educators, clergy, helping professionals, and activists who wish to understand this work. It is also a training guide for those currently facilitating the work and for those who may be inspired to do so. You will see Joanna teaching the conceptual foundations of the work, including the Great Turning, systems theory, deep ecology, and despair work, as well as many of her favorite exercises. To these she adds for the viewer guidelines on critical aspects and choice points of the experiential work.
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If you experience difficulty playing the DVD on your computer, you'll find information at the bottom of this page for downloading a free, alternative DVD player program for Windows 9X, ME, 2000, and XP
The DVD is also available for immediate download or online viewing at www.turntowardlife.tv/jm/
Thank you Dennis Rivers!
Thinking  Like a Mountain: Towards A Council of All Beings (with John Seed, Arne Naess, and Pat Fleming; New Catalyst Books, 2007)
With poems, artwork, meditations, and essays, this collection provides inspiration and instructions for leading deep ecology work.
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 In this informal setting in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Joanna Macy looks at creation and humanity and offers five guidelines to strengthen us in times of darkness.
She shows that we can know how to meet our needs without destroying our planet, and that we can take pride in knowing that we are able to be creative in healing our world. Joanna’s deep wisdom is blended with her warm presence to make this teaching inspiring and helpful.
Richard Rohr brings his Franciscan perspective to the discussion with his usual deep spiritual wisdom. In this talk he begins to share the perspective of “Church as Permaculture,” a refreshing way to look at how we see religion, community, and living our lives on the planet Earth.
Event attendees offered challenging questions, which brought forth thoughtful responses from Joanna and Richard.
Examples of the questions are:
- How do you help people to pay attention?
- What can I do today to change? Give us suggestions on what to do to today, on a practical level?
- How do we speak to young people about this, and what advice do you have for parents?
- What is the role of technology in all of this?
This presentation is one that should not only be viewed (or listened to) but also shared with family, friends, neighbors, and communities.
Approximate Length: 2-1/2 hours
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Produced: CAC Center for Action and Contemplation  www.cacradicalgrace.org
Joanna has set up a direct online bookstore link with her friend and colleague Paul Cienfuegos, who owns 100fires.com ("Extraordinary Books for a Healthy Planet"). Joanna encourages you to buy your books from 100fires.com rather than from a large corporate bookstore. To do so, simply click on any one of Joanna's books listed here, and a new screen will open on the 100fires.com site, where you can find out more details about that title, as well as purchase it with your credit card.
In 'A Year with Rilke: Daily Readings from the Best of Rainer Maria Rilke', Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy, the translators of Rilke’s 'The Book of Hours: Love Poems to God' team up again to offer daily readings from the beloved poet Rainer Maria Rilke, the newest addition to HarperOne’s “Year with” series. It including selections from Rilke’s journals and letters as well as his luminous poetry.
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In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus, my 2004 translation with Anita Barrows (published by Riverhead). Note: includes the original German text.
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 Dharma and Development: Religion as Resource in the Sarvodaya Self-Help Movement (Kumarian Press, 1993, revised 1995, reprints available by contacting Kumarian)
Sarvodaya, a Buddhist-inspired Movement in Sri Lanka, provides lessons in alternative economics and spiritually based community organizing. This book is based on my years of fieldwork in Sri Lanka as a student of this movement.
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Widening Circles: A Memoir (New Catalyst Books, 2007)
This story of my life recounts how a devout Cartesian, schooled at a french lycee, falls in love with her world and ends up as a Buddhist teacher of deep ecology. Adventures along the way move between Himalayan hermitages and political action, impelled by a determination to wed spirituality with social change.
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 Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory: The Dharma of Living Systems (SUNY Press, 1991)
The two bodies of thought, that most shaped my life and work, are brought into dialogue, shedding light on each other and on our power to change. This book is based on my doctoral dissertation.
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 Translated into Korean in 2004--available only in Korea.
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