Building Capacity for Hope-As-Action: Reconnecting to the Soul of Our Work
Facilitated by SJ FDP graduates Hanna Jertz and Rebecca Sampson
July 5th 13:00-16:00 UTC (6-9am PDT, 15-18 CEST, 18:30-21:30 IST)
In a culture that asks us to do more and do it faster, regardless of the emotional weight of the context, it’s often difficult to find space to pause, name what we’re experiencing, and access practices and strategies that both honor these feelings and help us move through them to a place of strength and possibility. For those dedicating their work, whether paid or unpaid, to our collective healing and thriving, this emotional weight can feel especially heavy. The goal for this session is to leave us feeling more resourced to carry the weight of our caring by reconnecting with what is true for and sustains each of us.
Over the course of this session, we will follow an intentional progression of Work That Reconnects teachings and practices that integrate deep ecology, systems thinking, engaged Buddhism, and indigenous wisdom traditions to empower us to be able to both hold our pain for the world and move through it towards wise action.
By slowing down, reconnecting to our bodies, and using our imaginations to connect with future generations, we will gift ourselves the time and space to connect anew with the truths alive in each of us.
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Purpose this fundraiser series:
Spiral Journey extends a lot of scholarship beyond our sliding scale to participants of our programs often ⅔ of our participants need scholarships in order to participate in the FDP.. We don’t turn away applicants for lack of funds – and we explicitly try to expand the reach of our programs into lower-income countries and participants of the Global Majority. In 2025, we also lovingly put a lot of time and effort into rebirthing the Spiral Journey Facilitator Development Program (FDP) to respond to requests and feedback we’ve received from recent graduates.
We’ve expanded our team and have extended 20 partial scholarships to facilitators joining the 2025/26 cohort of the Spiral Journey FDP.
And we need to refill our scholarship pot!
Your contribution will help us extend even more scholarships and pay our facilitator team fairly as part of our commitment to The Great Turning!
For Work That Reconnects facilitators: would you like to donate your time in support of the SJ scholarship fund? Learn more on how to sign up to facilitate a session
Spiral Journey is a partnership of Work That Reconnects facilitators – we are Molly Brown, Sara El-Sayeh, Ian Goh, Rukmini Iyer, Yulia Smagorinsky, and Constance Washburn.
Spiral Journey offers programs and workshops based in the expanded spiral of the Work That Reconnects (as adapted by Mutima Imani), working toward the Great Turning, a livable future and liberation for all. The International Facilitator Development Program (FDP) is a 7-month intensive online training that is offered annually, for emerging and experienced facilitators – with a strong focus on anti-oppression work and decolonization.
Please donate generously
Please give something – make a donation. This event is offered as a fundraiser for the Spiral Journey scholarship fund. Your generosity will be deeply appreciated.
Do you need guidance? $50 or $75 would be really lovely! Think $1-100 or more. Why such a wide range? Because the global income disparity is vast. Because the factor 100 represents the range of payment capacities of our program participants. And because we don’t know your socio-economic situation. So please give what feels right. We are grateful.
Thank you for your support!
