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HIGHLIGHTS
Editorial – five principles for cultivating inspiration for action
(1) Great Turning film resources on You Tube
(2) Positive Energy conference at Findhorn, March 2008
(5) Transition Initiatives take off internationally
(18) Joanna Macy talk in London

Dear Readers,
 
Welcome to the new look, new format Great Turning Times. With nearly two thousand subscribers now, I needed to introduce an automated mailing system. I’m grateful to Cindy Barnes and Suzi McGhee of Greener Consulting for their help in setting this up. I’ve also decided to have just one edition, rather than separate UK and international versions. In future, the newsletter will have information about issues and inspiring resources, but less news about events. To find out about, or publicise, events, please use the listings page on our website instead (see 3. below for more about this).

One of the purposes of this newsletter is to support empowered responses to global issues. When facing problems like climate change, peak oil, mass human starvation and the vast destruction of eco-systems, why is it that people sometimes rise to the challenge and other times look the other way? What makes the difference? A few weeks ago, I explored this topic in a talk I gave at Transition Bristol’s Big Event. I introduced five principles for cultivating inspired responses to global issues and I’d like to share these with you now.

The starting point is to look at where inspiration begins. Can you remember when you first became interested in tackling an issue? Were there “motivational spark” moments that roused you to action? Such sparking events might include watching documentaries that alerted you to a problem, reading books or magazine articles that introduced a new perspective, or conversations with friends that reinforced something you’d been feeling already. Often it takes a series of these motivating moments before we feel moved to do something. But while some sparks ignite enthusiasm, others get put out quickly. A common way this happens is when someone views uncomfortable feelings as unhelpful, and so seeks to avoid them. Blocking out bad news might bring temporary peace of mind, but it can also suppress the spark. The first principle, of inspirational dissatisfaction, involves harnessing the motivational energy of distressing emotions. If you feel disturbed or uncomfortable when you encounter disturbing information, view this as a healthy and appropriate response. Allow yourself to dwell on the negative long enough to be roused by it. But if you find this too overwhelming, then the next principle may help.

Have you noticed how many great adventure stories begin from a place of gloom? Early on in these tales, things usually seem hopeless. But what makes the story is the way the central characters defy the odds and rise to the challenge. The second principle is to draw inspiration from adventure stories.  Embedded in these tales are lessons that can help us when facing difficult challenges. For example, the central character may initially appear under-powered for their task. Have you ever felt this? Have you thought, “who am I to do something about this?” A recurring theme in adventure stories is of people finding strengths they didn’t know they had, when they engaged in situations where these strengths were needed.

There are often crucial threshold moments in the story where the main character encounters an obstacle that seems impossible to get through. It is at times like these that the third principle is needed: What comes before How. First decide what you’d like to happen, then look for ways to make this more likely. Don’t be put off if your task seems impossible; history has many examples of things that initially seemed impossible, but which later happened anyway. Have you had experiences of doing things you’d previously thought you couldn’t do? Or seen other people go through this sequence? What comes before How is an important principle of creativity as it recognises that searching for a way generally comes before finding one. If you can’t see how to do something, think of yourself as being in a preparation stage, where you seek out skills, information, allies and other resources that can help you move forward. I think of this as a training phase that involves both practical steps (on the outside) and psychological steps (within our hearts and minds). One type of psychological step is a shift in perspective, where looking at the same thing from a different angle can open up new possibilities. In The Work That Reconnects workshops developed by Joanna Macy and colleagues, this is often referred to as “seeing with new eyes”. The next principle for cultivating inspired action is based on this.

When you look at a newsprint photograph under a magnifying glass, all you see are tiny dots. The picture only emerges when you step back and see the dots acting together as a whole. In a similar way, each of our own lives and life choices are like tiny dots in a larger picture. There’s something bigger going on, and we may not see the full picture when looking only at the pieces. The fourth principle is to allow a larger story to act through us. This principle is based on the holistic science concept of emergence – that new properties and capacities emerge when parts act together as a larger whole. You can’t predict these properties when looking only at the parts. For example, termite colonies regulate their internal temperature and humidity in ways you wouldn’t think possible if you only studied individual termites. What new properties might emerge if more and more people started to act for the recovery of our world?

It is easy to look at individual actions and dismiss these as unlikely to lead to much. But if you look at something you do and ask “what could this be part of? What could it contribute to?” you start to look in a different way. You look upwards, at a bigger story. The self-regulation of termite colonies acts through the individual termites. Could our world have self-healing potentials far beyond what we could imagine from studying separate pieces of our planet? Could such a larger story of earth recovery act through us? This concept of emergence is important because it challenges the limiting view that says we can’t do much. We can take this idea further though, bringing science and spirituality together in a way I find more deeply inspiring.

Team spirit acts through team members. If we reconnected with the sense that we are part of the larger team of life on this planet, could some vastly magnified form of team spirit act through us? Systems act through their parts. We are part of the living earth system, so it isn’t far fetched to think of the earth as acting through us. In chapter 11 of my book Find Your Power, I’ve written about this as Power-through, which I’ve described as a power of larger processes emerging out of and through the actions of smaller parts. The big acts through the small; when we have a sense that we’re contributing to, and receiving from, some vaster process, this opens possibilities in a way that can be inspiring. Maybe it is possible that we could wake up and succeed in bringing about the changes needed in our time. If so, future generations might look back on the early twenty-first century and talk of it as the time of The Great Turning. Ask yourself “if that is a story I am part of, what might my contribution be? How could the Great Turning act through me?”

In his book The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell describes the process by which ideas and behaviours that are initially on the fringe can become as contagious as viruses, spreading rapidly through communities. I think something like this is already happening with the Transition movement, which has grown in just over a year from an initiative in one or two small towns to over 400 projects around the world. (See item 5 below for more on this). What makes an idea or behaviour contagious? Gladwell identifies one of the factors as ‘stickiness’: the degree to which something is memorable enough to stick in our minds. The fifth principle for cultivating inspiration relates to stickiness. It is this: make it enjoyable. We are more likely to stick at something if we enjoy doing it. And if people see us enjoying what we do, they’re more likely to become interested too. How do we make acting for our world more enjoyable? Perhaps the question is more important than the answer, as it leads us to reflect on how we feel about what we do and consider making changes if needed. Some types of activism are associated with high burnout rates. Is it possible to design ways of being active that we want to stick at for longer? The study action groups used by Joanna Macy and others, and the community building that is integral to the Transition approach, are steps in this direction.

Of course there are many more than five principles for cultivating inspiration. If you have an approach that works well, please tell me about it and I may include that in future editions of this mailing. The core point is that inspiration can be cultivated. It is a renewable resource. And we need to become more skilled at promoting it. The purpose of this newsletter, and our website at http://www.GreatTurningTimes.org , is to bring you news of insights, events and resources that help in this direction.

With you, in this adventure of earth recovery

Chris Johnstone
Editor, The Great Turning Times.
email: chris@chrisjohnstone.info
http://www.chrisjohnstone.info
http://www.GreatTurningTimes.org


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(1) Great Turning Film Resources on You-Tube.
Here are five You-Tube films I’d recommend. The first two focus on The Great Turning as a pivotal moment in human history and introduces two key people who’ve popularised this term. The third gives an overview of Peak Oil as one of the main challenges we face. The fourth introduces the Transition movement as an empowering community response to Peak Oil and Climate Change, while the fifth explores a psychological perspective to cultivating inspiration for action.

JOANNA MACY - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LwlXTAT8rLk
In less than six minutes, Joanna Macy describes the three dimensions of the Great Turning.
A great introduction to the concept. For more about Joanna Macy, see her website at http://www.joannamacy.net

DAVID KORTEN - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=33JC0lZ2xgA
“The key to changing the course of the human future” says David Korten, in this half hour talk, “is to change the stories by which we live”.
David Korten’s book The Great Turning is an important text outlining the choice point we collectively face. This talk introduces some of its core themes.
For more about David Korten’s work, see his website at http://www.davidkorten.org/

RICHARD HEINBERG - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DHXdS9XYVs8
This is the best short introduction to peak oil I’ve seen, from one of the world’s leading authorities.
For more about Richard Heinberg’s writing and work, see his website at http://www.richardheinberg.com/

ROB HOPKINS - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3B0zQ1pJAaY
Rob was invited to speak at the International Forum on Globalisation, but as he’s given up flying, he sent this video instead.
Here he describes the development of the Transition Movement. For more on this, read his excellent blog at http://www.transitionculture.org

CHRIS JOHNSTONE - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XFPp7l1GLzo
Exploring how we cultivate empowered responses to global issues, Chris Johnstone describes drawing inspiration from adventure stories.
For more information about Chris Johnstone’s work, see his website at http://www.chrisjohnstone.info

You can see three of the people in these videos (Joanna Macy, Rob Hopkins and Richard Heinberg) at the conference described in the next item.
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(2) Joanna Macy speaking at UK conference on Climate Change, Findhorn, Scotland, March 22-28, 2008
POSITIVE ENERGY, Going Carbon Neutral
An exploration of creative community responses to Peak Oil
and Climate Change in the company of some of the world’s
leading thinkers, activists  and practitioners
Speakers to include Joanna Macy, Richard Heinberg, Richard Olivier, Richard Lochhead,
Dorothy MacLean, Megan Quinn, Rob Hopkins and Jonathan Dawson

As we move into the uncharted waters that lie before us, we need to draw upon all the resources at our disposal and to engage head, hands and heart.  The week begins by encouraging us to open to our creativity.  Joanna Macy will lead a two-day exploration of deep ecology while Richard Olivier will lead a one-day workshop on Green Leadership using the themes in Shakespeare’s As You Like It.  We then transition in the second half of the week to look at the many positive responses that are already emerging from communities around the world.
 
The conference will take place at the Findhorn Foundation ecovillage in the north of Scotland.  The community was recently found to have the lowest ecological footprint ever measured in the industrialised world – just half the UK national average. There will be workshops based on the Findhorn experience and that of other conference presenters and participants in community-owned renewable energy systems, organic community-supported agriculture, ‘Living Machine’ waste water-treatment systems, community currencies and banks, eco-buildings and so on.

Cost if booked before January 21, 2008
Low income £495, Medium income £555, High income £645
(If booked after 21 January: Low £525, Medium £585, High £675)

To book: bookings@findhorn.org             For further information: jonathan@gen-europe.org
http://www.findhorn.org/positiveenergy
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(3) GreatTurningTimes.org
The website of this newsletter introduces the Great Turning, has past newsletters, offers an inspiring web-links page, and has an international events page allowing you to enter events so that other people can find out about them. The events page has five geographical fields. Choose your part of the world to find out about workshops on The Work That Reconnects, Deep Ecology, Eco-psychology and other events supporting the shift towards a life sustaining society. If there aren’t many events currently listed (it may take a little while for this to catch on), then please do enter some! Here’s how to do this.

To publicise an event that contributes to The Great Turning, go to Events in the top bar, and then select 'Add New Event' from the pull down menu. Choose the part of the world the event is in, (banded to UK, North America, Australia, Europe and Other), and then fill in the details, according to the fields given. Please put the duration of the event in the details bit. When it is complete, click on 'Save Details' at the bottom. All that you've written should then disappear without a trace. Then if you email me (chris@chrisjohnstone.info) to let me know you've entered something, I can authorise it so that it goes up on the site. There may be a bit of a time delay before this happens. If you have any problems with this, let me know.

One of the purposes of this events listings is to publicise workshops in The Work That Reconnects, the empowerment approach developed by Joanna Macy and colleagues. I get emails from people all over the world asking how to find out about local workshops, so if you’re offering these or similar trainings, please use this events pages to let people know about them. There are currently plenty of workshops listed for the UK. The events listings outside the UK have been a bit slower to take off, but as this facility gets known about, its use will increase.
See http://www.GreatTurningTimes.org
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(4) Articles about the GREAT TURNING
Joanna Macy didn’t coined the phrase ‘The Great Turning’, but she has certainly popularised it as the story of change required in our times.
An interview with her is viewable at the Permaculture Magazine website at:
http://www.permaculture-magazine.co.uk/articles/archive/article_45a.html

Other useful web resources include:
Another interview with Joanna Macy in Yes magazine: http://www.yesmagazine.org/pdf/Macy_Great_Turning.pdf  
An article about The Great Turning is viewable at http://www.rainbowbody.net/Ongwhehonwhe/MacyGreatTurn.htm
For details of Joanna Macy’s workshops, see the schedule listings at http://www.joannamacy.net/html/schedule.html
To hear her tell the Shambhala Warrior prophecy (followed by an interview with Chris Johnstone),
listen at http://www.planetaryvoices.org.uk/from_overwhelm_to_engagement.html
For a website inspired by David Korten’s book The Great Turning, see http://www.thegreatturning.net
For an article by David Korten about the Great Turning, see http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=1463
There is a wikepedia entry about The Great Turning at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Turning
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(5) Transition Initiatives take off internationally
In the July edition of the Great Turning Times, I mentioned the growth of the Transition movement from a couple of towns to nearly a hundred projects in less than a year. When I heard Rob Hopkins speak in Bristol in November, he mentioned there were now over 400 projects internationally. You can see a list of some of these at http://transitiontowns.org/TransitionNetwork/Mulling

For information about the growing transition network, see http://www.transitiontowns.org/
Here’s how they describe the transition approach:
 
A Transition Initiative is a community that is unleashing its own latent collective genius to look Peak Oil and Climate Change squarely in the eye and to discover and implement ways to address this BIG question:
"for all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how do we significantly increase resilience (to mitigate the effects of Peak Oil) and drastically reduce carbon emissions (to mitigate the effects of Climate Change)?"

The resulting coordinated range of projects across all these areas of life leads to a collectively designed energy descent pathway.

The community also recognises two crucial points:
    ▪       that we used immense amounts of creativity, ingenuity and adaptability on the way up the energy upslope, and that there's no reason for us not to do the same on the downslope
▪ if we collectively plan and act early enough there's every likelihood that we can create a way of living that's significantly more connected, more vibrant and more in touch with our environment than the oil-addicted treadmill that we find ourselves on today.

For regular updates about the Transition approach, become a reader of the Rob Hopkins blog at http://www.transitionculture.org
And also watch out for his book The Transition Handbook, which is due to come out in March 2008.
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(6) Your Planet Needs You
is a new book demonstrating how we can all make a difference by introducing changes to our daily lives in the way we think and act. The focus is on how we can act together to create a human presence on our planet that is environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just. The people who produced it, Jon Symes and Phil Turner, have also produced a delightful website and also produce an email newsletter.
Find out more at http://www.yourplanetneedsyou.org The book is also available at good bookstores.

"I would be very surprised if this beautifully designed handbook didn't inform you, provoke you, and motivate you to do your bit for a better world."
Sir Jonathon Porritt, Founder Director of Forum for the Future / Chair UK Sustainable Development Commission
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(7) Another inspiring book: Be The Change
Trenna Cormack produced this book after being inspired by the Be The Change conference in 2005. She wanted to present in book form something similar to the inspiring conference she’d just attended. So she set out to interview people active for positive change in the world that she’d been inspired by.

Be The Change presents the stories of 28 of these pioneers: social entrepreneurs, activists and campaigners working in many fields, including the media, education, health, peace, finance, business and the environment. In exclusive interviews, individuals working on all scales — from global and national to local and grassroots levels — describe how and why they are bringing positive change. They share the challenges and the joys, and show that a brighter future is not only possible, it's already emerging.

“An hour ago, I was totally exhausted, but then I started reading… Trust me! If you want to start bouncing off your seat, order Be The Change, and whenever you start to slide down, read another of its amazing first-person stories.”
Frances Moore Lappé on reading Be The Change

For more information, see http://www.lovebooks.co.uk/pages/book_detail.php
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(8) Leonardo DiCaprio’s new film “The 11th Hour”
"The 11th Hour" is the last moment when change is possible. The film explores how we've arrived at this moment -- how we live, how we impact the earth's ecosystems, and what we can do to change our course. Featuring ongoing dialogues of experts from all over the world, including former Soviet Prime Minister Mikhail Gorbachev, renowned scientist Stephen Hawking, former head of the CIA R. James Woolsey, Peak Oil educator Richard Heinberg and sustainable design experts William McDonough and Bruce Mau in addition to over 50 leading scientists, thinkers and leaders who discuss the most important issues that face our planet and people.
For more information, see the You Tube trailer at http://uk.youtube.com/user/The11thHourMovie
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(9) an inspiring web resource - WiserEarth . . .
serves the people who are transforming the world. It is a community directory and networking forum that maps and connects non-governmental organizations and individuals addressing the central issues of our day: climate change, poverty, the environment, peace, water, hunger, social justice, conservation, human rights and more. Content is created and edited by people like you.
See http://www.wiserearth.org/
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(10) IPPC latest
“It is about the size and weight of a theatre programme and when it was published in Valencia, Spain, at the weekend, the first eagerly grabbed copies were held together by a hastily punched staple. Yet these 23 pages are crucial for the future of the world.” So writes Mike McCarthy, in an Independent article about the summary of the fourth assessment of the IPCC. You can read the article, which summarises the summary, at:
http://environment.independent.co.uk/climate_change/article3174386.ece
You can download the summary from http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/syr/ar4_syr_spm.pdf
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(11) The Lean Economy Connection
The Lean Economy Connection is a research centre based in London, England. Its aim is to design strategies in the context of the environmental problems that are now almost upon us, especially climate change and the depletion of fossil fuels. Their website at http://www.theleaneconomyconnection.net/ offers useful free downloads and links. Here’s a few:

http://www.feasta.org/documents/review2/fleming.htm
David Fleming’s article offering excellent introduction to peak oil and the need for a lean economy.

http://www.theleaneconomyconnection.net/downloads.html
Energy and Common Purpose – introducing the Tradable Energy Quota

http://www.theleaneconomyconnection.net/links.html#Peak%20Oil
Excellent of collection of weblinks about Peak oil
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(12) Bill Plotkin’s new book Nature and the Human Soul
In Nature & the Human Soul, Plotkin offers a model for individual human
development that ultimately yields a strategy for cultural transformation, a
way of progressing from our current egocentric, materialistic, competitive
society to a ecocentric, soul-based one that embodies sustainability,
cooperation, and compassion. Using elders such as Joanna Macy and Thomas
Berry as examples, Plotkin plots the course of a human life on a
soul-centered journey that offers unique and valuable gifts to our world.
For more information see http://www.newworldlibrary.com/productdetails.cfm?SKU=15510
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(13) Joanna Macy’s DVD on the Work That Reconnects – a brief review
This DVD set offers an excellent introduction to Joanna Macy’s work. You not only get a guided tour through the main concepts she teaches, you also taste what it is like to attend her workshops and get a sense of her as a person as well. Chapters vary from short snippets to longer expositions. I particularly like “Gratitude as a Revolutionary Act”. In just 5 minutes forty two seconds, Joanna expresses with passionate clarity why gratitude can powerfully transform our world. The conceptual shifts offered by systems thinking are unpacked, the ecological self explained and deep time work introduced. But as well as the ideas also come the exercises, with workshop processes like The Truth Mandala, The Milling and Breathing Through presented. This DVD is incredible value, as you get over four hours of material on two DVD’s. It is highly recommended for anyone who wants experience Joanna Macy’s teaching and find out about The Work That Reconnects. For people who wants to facilitate this work in any setting, this DVD set offers an essential resource.

For US and Canadian orders, please contact New Society Publishers, web details at http://www.newsociety.com/bookid/3961

This DVD is also orderable from amazon, where it is available at a highly discounted price.
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(14) School of Ecopsychology in Italy
Marcella Danon has set up a School of Ecopsychology in Italy.
For information, see http://www.ecopsicologia.it/
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(15) Why The Work That Reconnects?
We have some bumpy times coming, as climate change leads to an increase in extreme weather events, and unsustainable patterns of consumption fuel conflict over remaining resources, especially of oil and water. We are likely to be confronted by an increase in disturbing information as crisis continues to unravel in our world. There is going to be a need to train ourselves, if we’re to find our power to face such disturbing realities and bring out our best responses. The Work That Reconnects is one approach to this sort of training.
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UK EVENTS LISTINGS
Future newsletters will emphasise our listings page at http://www.GreatTurningTimes.org for events information rather than list them in detail here.
In the spirit of transition however, here are a few things coming up in the UK you might be interested in.
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(16) The Work That Reconnects in Hampshire
Facilitated by Maddy & Tim Harland
Friday evening 18th January to Sunday 20th January 2008
Held at The Hayloft, Emsworth, Hampshire, a centre for healing and
meditation
Cost £90 non-residential (local B&Bs can be recommeneded)
Limited places so please book early.
For more details call Maddy on 01730 823311 or email
maddy@permaculture.co.uk
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(17) The Work that Reconnects in Bristol
Drawing on the work of Joanna Macy, we will look at how we can honour our feelings as a source of information, energy and motivation to take creative, collaborative action.
 
This one day workshop will be repeated on:
15 March 2008
26 April 2008
7 June  2008
10am – 5pm
At: Gasworks Studio, 27 Narrowways Road, St. Werburghs, Bristol.
£40  (some concessions available)
 
Workshop facilitators:
Jenni Horsfall, Sue Ryall and Jenny McKewen.
 
For more info and booking contact Jenni Horsfall
jennifer_pintada@yahoo.co.uk <mailto:jennifer_pintada@yahoo.co.uk>
07970 746334
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(18) Joanna Macy in London, 31st March 2008.
News is just in that Joanna Macy will be speaking at St James Piccadilly as part of their Alternatives programme of Talks.
Details may not be on their website yet, but should be soon.
http://www.alternatives.org.uk/Site/Talks.aspx
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(19) Courses/Talks with Mary-Jayne Rust
Mary-Jayne is one of the leading eco-psychologists in the UK. Here are two events she’s appearing at.

Feb 13th 2008, Totnes, Devon: Totnes in Transition, Heart and Soul Group
present lecture:
Psyche in Transition: Steps to an Ecology of Heart.  By Mary-Jayne Rust.
Ecopsychologist and Jungian Analyst.
http://transitiontowns.org/Totnes/HeartAndSoul-ThePsychologyOfChange/Noticeboard details should be arriving soon.

June 20th - 22nd 2008 Seeking Health in an Ailing World: Therapy with the
Earth in Mind. A residential workshop in North Norfolk for therapists who
wish to explore ecopsychology in practice.
See www.mjrust.net for details of this and other lectures.
All details and flyers can be found on her website at http://www.mjrust.net/ .
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(20) More on Ecotherapy
Take a look at: http://www.ecotherapy.org.uk
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(21) Walking community/pilgrimage
Graham Joyce, who’s offered Work That Reconnects workshops in the past, asked me to mention this walk/pilgrimage he’s organising.
 
'AWAKENING ALBION - Pilgrimage along the Michael/Mary Leyline, from Cornwall to Norfolk, May and June 2008. A celebration of the land's beauty and a witnessing of its wounding, exploring mindful community, walking and camping together.
  
For further details: www. awakeningalbion.com'
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(22) The End
A big thank you to Cindy Barnes and Suzi McGhee for help producing this newsletter, and to Lynn Hyde for help with the Great Turning Times website. Please let me know of news and resources you would like included in future issues. Please also keep entries short, ideally about 100-300 words. Email Chris Johnstone at chris@chrisjohnstone.info