Active Hope Course
ACTIVE HOPE COURSE – 6 Sessions over 3 months working in a group online 6.30 PM – 8.30 PM GMT Thursdays March 24th. 31st, April 14th, 28th, May 5th, 12th.
Would you like to make a positive difference for future generations of life on our planet, but feel overwhelmed, burned out, paralysed or numbed by the enormity of the challenges?
We are in a climate and environmental crisis. The recent IPCC report states that we are on “code red”. There is an urgency to act!
… yet action without reflection, calmness and clear thinking can be wasteful and burn you and others up. This course offers you a supported, focused place to think deeply for wise actions.
The Active Hope Course explores our human responses to this environmental crisis and how you can move forwards resourced and courageous, to make a meaningful impact, however small.
This workshop is a safe place to be with our feelings, helping us to stay grounded, connected and responsive to what’s happening in our lives, our communities and our world. Unless we have spaces to feel our responses to the destruction in our world we can easily feel paralysed or numb – and not take the necessary action to prevent more harm.
Active hope helps people to fall more deeply in love with “nature”, to feel our responses to the climate crisis in a safe and supportive environment, and to open to new ways of viewing our situation and to helping us to decide what, if anything, we want to do. We will move through the spiral of gratitude, honouring our pain, seeing with new eyes and then finding our way forwards. We will take time to discuss the effect of the exercises and how they may be applied in your work / life.
Core to this work is the importance of reconnecting back to our deeper selves, our community and to the natural world; to be in a healthy relationship with nature not its dominator; to realise our interconnectedness to all beings, human and more-than-human.
The approach is based on the work of Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone, who have been influenced by Buddhism, social activism and psychology.
This workshop is offered freely to people who are interested to join and fully participate.
Additional Details
Event Timezone Reference - GMT
Presenter(s) Bio
Jeannie Hodder is a Leadership Coach, a Facilitator and Trainer. She has run many leadership development programmes in the outdoors in North Wales. She is committed to working with people to explore how to respond to climate change in sustainable and creative ways. Her coaching and facilitation provides a reflective space for people to learn from their experiments with new behaviours in their daily lives. This process engages the whole person (mind, body and emotions). Through this process people become even more impactful, resilient and authentic. Jeannie runs Active Hope groups, reconnecting people with "nature". She finds this work profoundly meaningful; the exercises creatively and respectfully enable people to open up and to reflect. The work gives people a sense of gratitude, empowerment and belonging to a community; to stand up and to do what they are called to do even in the face of collapse; to engage where previously they had felt hopeless and impotent; to take good care of themselves. She believes that this work can help us to manage, collaborate and thrive in this most challenging of times. She was trained by Joanna Macy to do this work. She has a Masters in Psychological Coaching and Organational Development. She is also a qualified Drama Therapist and Drama Teacher.
Event Language - English
Posted By - Jeannie Hodder
Email - coaching@jhodder.co.uk