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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.
To order a set, click here.
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!
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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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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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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)
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In Spanish, Volver A La Vida, Practicas para conectar de nuevo nuestras vidas, nuestro mundo, published by Desclee De Brouwer; Books can be ordered directly online from the publishers at www.edesclee.com: go to Tematicas, then Crecimiento Personal
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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.
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The Russian translation is available online at www.greenworld.org.ru/ Choose the Russian version, then click on Публикации, then Возвращение к жизни." Дж. Мэйси, М. Я. Браун.
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The Portuguese translation: Nossa Vida Como Gaia, Práticas para a Reconexão de Nossas Vidas e de Nosso Mundo (Editora Gaia), 2004.
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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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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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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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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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Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age (New Society, 1983, no longer in print--some elements not summarized in later books to appear in this web site)
This guidebook to Despair and Empowerment work describes the psychology of denial and overwhelm, which keeps people subservient to the status quo. It also describes 47 group exercises for igniting creative responses to the dangers and suffering afflicting our world.
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Download Free DVD and Media Player for Windows Computers
Technical Support Page
Most Windows computers come with already installed DVD-player software. But these progams may or may not play every DVD you insert into your computer. Listed below are links that will provide you with Media Player Classic, a free, open-source, full-featured media player that should be able to play most media disks and files. If you are having difficulties viewing or listening to a disk with your factory-installed player, you may find that Media Player Classic will do a better job.
Please click the download link appropriate to your computer & chose the SAVE option*:
Download Windows 2000 & XP version of Media Player Classic
Download Windows 9X and Millenium Edition version of Media Player Classic
After downloading the file to your computer, un-zip the file.
Drag the icon representing the player onto your computer "desktop."
Media Player Classic does not need any further installation.
Double click on the Player icon to launch the program.
Insert your DVD into the DVD drive.
Click on the Player's FILE Menu.
Select the OPEN DVD option.
If you have difficulties playing a DVD or a media file, one possible solution is to update your computer's video support files (Codecs) by installing the FFDShow package.
* When your browser asks you what to do with the downloaded file, select "Save" (your browser's wording may vary) and pick an appropriate folder. If that doesn't work for some reason, on Windows you can click the link with the second mouse button (right click) to get the pop-up menu and select "Save Target As..." (again, the wording may vary).
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