Resources

Core Texts required for the International Facilitator Development Program

Coming Back to Life – The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects, 2014 – by Joanna Macy and Molly Young Brown

Find translations in the Work That Reconnects Network Resource Library: workthatreconnects.org/resources/coming-back-to-life-the-updated-guide-to-the-work-that-reconnects/

Facilitating Group Learning – Strategies for Success with Diverse Learners, 2nd edition, 2020 – by George Lakey

Facilitating with a Decolonizing Ethic: Practices for Holding Spaces of Inquiry, Imagination, and Repair, 2025 – by Rukmini Iyer

This manual is provided freely. We invite you to give back, by making a donation to the SJ FDP Scholarship Fund.

Coming Together in the Great Turning: Collective Liberation and Work That Reconnects, 2025 – by Aravinda Ananda, Molly Brown, Kurt Kuhwald

Sacred Instructions – Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change, 2018 – by Sherri Mitchell

Work That Reconnects Network Resource Library

The Work That Reconnects Network is maintaining a library that features many resources relevant to our work including practices, training videos, podcasts, meditations, online publications and links to books

Link to WTR Network Resource Library: workthatreconnects.org/directory-landing/

Resources to meet the Prerequisites of the International Facilitator Development Program

1- Participation in at least 12 hours of experiential practice in the Work That Reconnects retreats, workshops, ongoing study groups, or online workshops

Find Work That Reconnects workshops on the Calendar of Events page of the Work That Reconnects Network:

Calendar of Events

Spiral Journey offers various workshops in different timezones over the course of each year that meet this prerequisite – go to our programs page.

2 – Read Active Hope and Coming Back to Life

Active Hope (revised) – How to Face the Mess We’re in with Unexpected Resilience and Creative Power, 2022 – by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone

Find translations in the Work That Reconnects Network Resource Library: workthatreconnects.org/directory-landing/

Coming Back to Life – The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects, 2014 – by Joanna Macy and Molly Young Brown

Find translations in the Work That Reconnects Network Resource Library: workthatreconnects.org/resources/coming-back-to-life-the-updated-guide-to-the-work-that-reconnects/

3 – Diversity/Anti-Oppression Study or Training

Anti-Oppression Classes and Workshops:

We encourage you to find classes in your own country and culture. The following list provide some examples of quality workshops:

Rooted Global Village – rootedglobalvillage.com
Somatic Abolitionism – Cultural Somatics Institute – courses.culturalsomaticsinstitute.com
Black Octopus Society – https://blackoctopussociety.com/workshops-intensives/
Roxy Manning – https://roxannemanning.com/calendar/
Erotics of Liberation – https://www.eroticsofliberation.com
Ruth King – https://ruthking.net/about-ruth-king/
Amplified Humanity – https://www.amplified-humanity.com
Community Healing Network – building the global grassroots movement for emotional emancipation—mobilizing Black people across the Diaspora to heal from, and end, the trauma caused by the most powerful weapon ever formed against us: the lie that we are inferior. https://communityhealingnet.org/
Education for Racial Equity – educationforracialequity.com
White People Confronting Racism –whitepeopleconfrontingracism.org
Nicole Bauman – https://www.nicolebauman.com/calendar-1
Dara Silverman – https://www.darasilverman.com/upcoming-events
Showing up for Racial Justice – surj.org
Kathy O’Bear – https://drkathyobear.com/
Four Gates – with Larry Ward, Deeper Still Academy – lotusinstitute.thinkific.com/pages/FourGates
Elders Action Network – eldersaction.org
In India:
- Narrative Practices India – https://www.narrativepracticesindia.com/
- Sambhaavnaa Institute of Public Policy and Politics – www.sambhaavnaa.org
- One Future Collective – https://www.onefuturecollective.org/
- Anubhuti Striving for a Just, Equitable, and Democratic Society –https://www.anubhutitrust.org/
- Ekta Prarishad – https://www.ektaparishadindia.com/
- (related resource: Mariwala Health Initiative – https://mhi.org.in/about/)

In the UK: Racism in Real Time, Kokoro – https://www.kokorotherapy.co.uk/racism-in-real-time
In Australia: WEAL-LI – culturally informed trauma integrated healing approach https://www.wealli.com.au/
In Germany:
- Tupokademie https://tupokademie.de/ – 8 week online training, lessons and journaling
- Amplified Humanity – https://www.amplified-humanity.com
Programs rooted in WTR include:
- Our Spiral Journey workshop LIBERATION IN THESE TIMES is designed to meet both the Anti-Oppression Training prerequisites as well as the 12-hour full spiral WTR – https://spiraljourneyworkthatreconnects.org/programs
- Unraveling Whiteness – Embodied Anti-Racist Practices following the Work That Reconnects Spiral –https://www.nicolebauman.com/calendar-1

Anti-Oppression Books and other Resources:

We encourage you to find resources that are acutely relevant in your own cultural context.

Coming Together in the Great Turning: Collective Liberation and Work That Reconnects, 2025 – by Aravinda Ananda, Molly Brown, Kurt Kuhwald

Mindful Earth Liberation – An Expanded Spiral Guide for the Work That Reconnects, 2025 – by Dr. Angela Miller Porter and Queen Reverend Mutima Imani

An Global Invitation to a Thriving Worldwide Society: The Promise of the Great Turning – by Queen Reverend Mutima Imani

My Grandmother’s Hands – Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, 2017 – by Resmaa Menakem

What Does It Mean to Be White? – Developing White Racial Literacy, 2016 – by Robin DiAngelo

Caste – The Origins of our Discontents, 2020 – by Isabel Wilkerson

Me and White Supremacy – Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor, 2020 – by Layla Saad

How to Be an Antiracist, 2023 – by Ibram X. Kendi

The Good Ally – A Guided Anti-Racism Journey from Bystander to Changemaker. – by Nova Reid, 2021.

White Supremacy Culture – an informational website written and published by Tema Okun – whitesupremacyculture.info

White Fragility – Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, 2018 – by Robin DiAngelo

13th – The Movie – directed by Ava DuVernay

Sand Talk – How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World, 2020 – by Tyson Yunkaporta

Climate Change is Racist – Race, Privilege and the Struggle for Climate Justice, 2021 – by Jeremy Williams

How to Be an Antiracists – A Conversation with Ibram X. Kendi in Yes Magazine – yesmagazine.org

De-escalating Patterns of Harm in White Dominant Spaces – a guide for WTR facilitators and participants – Link to WTR Network Resource Library