Active Hope – A Framework for Positive Collaborative Impact

Please join this upcoming Roundtable event offered by the SCC – Sustainability Coaching Coalition (there are 2 sessions, on 11th and 12th March 2026).

The event is hosted by SCC Representatives Eve Turner, Hetty Einzig and Uma Arora, and features panelists Linda Aspey and Alice Howard-Vyse (see biographies below). Linda and Alice will share about the Work that Reconnects (WtR), which helps to support and mobilise us to reconnect with what is really important, to face reality, and to reframe passive hope into active engagement during these troubling times. It was originally developed by inspirational eco-philosopher Joanna Macy in the late 1970s for activists, bringing together aspects of deep ecology, systems theory and Buddhism.

The Work is structured around the Spiral Journey, a framework that invites participants to explore their lived experience with honesty and care—acknowledging both gratitude and pain—while developing new perspectives and a deeper sense of connection. Rather than relying on passive optimism, Active Hope reframes hope as a practice: something we do, individually and collectively, through values-led choices and courageous conversations.

In this SCC Roundtable session, we invite you to experience WtR with a view to drawing on it as a framework, insight and set of resources you can use in your own client coaching work. It will also deepen our individual and collective capacity to work with climate related emotions, complexity and uncertainty, and strengthen our ability to journey together as a collaborative in these uncertain times.”

Event Hosts – Eve Turner, Hetty Einzig and Uma Arora

Panelists – Linda Aspey and Alice Howard-Vyse

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SCC Roundtables are 90-minute sessions designed to provide a collaborative learning space where practitioners from the SCC Signatory professional bodies gather to discuss topics that are timely and important in the global coaching and mentoring community. Anyone with interest in the topic is invited to freely attend.

As a Signatory of the SCC, the event is freely offered to our members to increase your knowledge on this important topic. You are invited to register for the event at: https://www.sustainabilitycoachingcoalition.org/events/