The purpose of this journey is to find, offer, and receive the gift of Active Hope. Our approach is to see this as the starting point of an amazing journey that strengthens us and deepens our aliveness. This is where we begin-by acknowledging that our times confront us with realities that are painful to face, difficult to take in, and confusing to live with. The central plot is finding and offering our gift of Active Hope. Involving the emergence of new and creative human responses, it is about the epochal transition from an industrial society committed to economic growth to a life-sustaining society committed to the healing and recovery of our world. The third story is held and embodied by those who know the first story is leading us to catastrophe and who refuse to let the second story have the last word. It is an account, backed by evidence, of the collapse of ecological and social systems, the disturbance of climate, the depletion of resources, and the mass extinction of species. The second story, the Great Unraveling, draws attention to the disasters that Business as Usual is taking us toward, as well as those it has already brought about.
Economic growth is regarded as essential for prosperity, and the central plot is about getting ahead. In the first of these, Business as Usual, the defining assumption is that there is little need to change the way we live.
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In their book Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in without Going Crazy, Buddhist teacher Joanna Macy and her co-author Chris Johnstone talk about the “Three Stories of Our Time.” Telling a New Story Friday, January 15, 2021
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