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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" align="CENTER"><font size="5"><b>Active
Hope Winter Series</b></font></p>
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size="3"><i>"While experience equips us well for dealing with familiar situations, our imagination is essential in formulating creative responses to new challenges." </i>Joanne Macy
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Stay tuned for the Active Hope Winter series (read the book:
Active
Hope by Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone). Any day now the exact
date and location in Marietta Ohio, will be released. For now be
thinking about how you might participate either on ZOOM (starting
Tuesday, January 30th for five weeks) or in person (starting the
first week of March for five weeks).</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Details: The Premiere Zoom class is
our gift to you. There is a fee for the in-person class (to be
determined) and scholarships are available. Childcare may be
available based on the ages pf the children. Classes will last
approximately 2.5 hours (6:30 pm to 9 pm) with possible discussion
after the regularly scheduled time. The plan is to create a
listserv
or social media page so that participants have a way to connect
after
the five-week class. </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Leaders: Rev. Hilary Krivchenia
(retired UU minister) and Annie Warmke (activist)</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">If you're itching to get started or to
learn more take a listen to these two webinar/podcasts (also
audiotapes are available for both) I've found interesting.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="5"><a
href="https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/active-hope-how-to-face-the-mess-were-in-without-going-crazy_joanna-macy_chris-johnstone/360539/">Active
Hope: How to Face the book by Joanna Macy</a>, Ph.D. and Dr.
Chris
Johnstone</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#131313">The challenges
we
face can be difficult even to think about. Climate change, war,
political polarization, economic upheaval, and the dying back of
nature together create a planetary emergency of overwhelming
proportions. This revised, tenth-anniversary edition of Active
Hope
shows us how to strengthen our capacity to face these crises so
that
we can respond with unexpected resilience and creative power.
Drawing
on decades of teaching an empowerment approach known as the Work
That
Reconnects, (WTR), the authors guide us through a
transformational
process informed by mythic journeys, modern psychology,
spirituality,
and holistic science. This process equips us with tools to face
the
mess we’re in and play our role in the collective transition, or
Great Turning, to a life-sustaining society.</font> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thwVe_LVp0w">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thwVe_LVp0w</a></p>
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<h2 class="western"><strong><a
href="https://templeton.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=afebe06609a423c59c59cee74&id=0e8b441556&e=42da07744f"
target="_blank"><font color="#030303"><font
face="Arial, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font
size="5"><span style="font-style: normal"><b>How
to See People, One Conversation at a Time</b></span></font></font></font></a></strong></h2>
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David Brooks is a political and cultural commentator who has
written
an Opinion column for <em>The New York Times</em> for two
decades.
His newest book, <em>How to Know a Person</em>, is a practical
guide
to fostering deeper connections at home, work, and throughout our
lives. David joins the podcast to discuss the social and
relational
crisis in our society, why it’s better to be an illuminator than a
diminisher, and his practical advice on how we can become better
people.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.templeton.org/news/how-to-see-people-one-conversation-at-a-time?utm_source=Receive+News+from+the+John+Templeton+Foundation&utm_campaign=938f7e3a64-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_possibilities_20231121&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-938f7e3a64-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D">https://www.templeton.org/news/how-to-see-people-one-conversation-at-a-time?utm_source=Receive+News+from+the+John+Templeton+Foundation&utm_campaign=938f7e3a64-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_possibilities_20231121&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-938f7e3a64-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D</a></p>
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