Presenting: 'We Are The Great Turning'
Outrage + Optimism
Persephonica
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
This week, something unique for our listeners from the podcast 'We Are The Great Turning'.
As Joanna Macy approaches the end of a long life dedicated to healing our imperiled planet, she begins the conversation with Jessica Serrante, her student and dear friend, “standing afresh with what it’s like to live on Earth at this moment.”
As we look into the face of the climate crisis, injustice, and war, difficult feelings arise; all are welcomed.
You are invited to join them at Joanna’s kitchen table, and invited into a deeper sense of your belonging and love for our world.
In this episode:
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How to connect with the great possibilities that still exist for us even in these precarious times Joanna reflects on her awakening of environmental consciousness
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Jess reflects on how meeting Joanna changed her life
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Love, laughter, heartbreak, and the Work That Reconnects
We recommend starting a podcast club with friends or family to do these practices together. Links and assets to help prompt reflection and build community can be found with every episode on WeAreTheGreatTurning.com.
Website: WeAreTheGreatTurning.com
RSS feed subscription links: Apple Podcasts + Spotify
Transcript
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| 0:24.3 | Hello and welcome to the special bonus episode of Outrage and Optimism. I'm Christina Figuettes and today we have something very unique in store for you. On our podcast feed we are featuring an episode from the compelling |
| 0:29.2 | podcast series We Are the great turning. We are the Great Turning in a 10-part series that takes listeners on a profound journey, |
| 0:53.2 | led by Jess Serrante, a dedicated activist |
| 0:56.8 | and student of the legendary and magnificent eco-spiritual teacher Joanna Macy. |
| 1:05.0 | In the series, listeners gather around Joanna's kitchen table |
| 1:10.0 | to explore what it takes to live with our hearts and integrity fully engaged during these |
| 1:18.6 | times of global crisis. |
| 1:21.3 | Through these conversations, they uncover wisdom that helps us remain joyful, energized, engaged, |
| 1:30.5 | and dare I say, optimistic as we strive for a just and life sustaining world. |
| 1:37.0 | Each episode can offer you a jumping off point for deeper conversations that you may choose to have with your |
| 1:46.9 | loved ones and colleagues about the climate crisis. As a bonus resource for their series, We Are the Great Turning has created a toolkit to form |
| 1:59.5 | podcast clubs following each episode. |
| 2:03.0 | Kind of like book clubs, but for podcast listeners like yourselves, |
| 2:08.0 | which could be maybe a great summer plan for you, your family, and your community. |
| 2:14.0 | If you're interested in starting or participating in a We Are the Turning podcast club, |
| 2:21.2 | we have included the links to all the material in our show notes. Now in the episode |
| 2:27.8 | we have chosen to feature today as Joanna approaches the end of a life devoted to healing our planet, she reflects |
| 2:37.8 | with Jess on what it's like to live on Earth at this very moment. |
| 2:43.8 | Together they explore how to connect with the great possibilities |
| 2:48.6 | that still exist for us, even in these precarious times. |
| 2:52.4 | Joanna shares her journey of environmental awakening. |
| 2:56.0 | And Jess reflects in a very moving way |
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