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Defining Active Hope in a Changing World

By Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone — 2012

The challenges we face can be difficult even to think about. Desertification, mass extinction, peak oil and economic upheaval together create a planetary emergency of overwhelming proportions. Active Hope (New World Library, 2012) by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone shows us how to strengthen our capacity to face this crisis so that we can respond with unexpected resilience and creative power. The following excerpt defining "active hope" is taken from the introduction.

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Can We Change Our Mental Health Genes?

Hyla Cass shares the words of William Walsh, a nutritional medicine expert.

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Why We Need the Great Turning

It’s the movement of all those who want to create a life-sustaining society, writes Joanna Macy, and it’s even more important at a time when the future looks so bad.

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Joanna Macy on How to Prepare Internally for Whatever Comes Next

“Yes, it looks bleak," says Joanna Macy. "But you are still alive now. You are alive with all the others, in this present moment. And because the truth is speaking in the work, it unlocks the heart."

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Widening Circles: An Interview with Joanna Macy

In this interview, Buddhist eco-philosopher and author Joanna Macy discusses her life and work. From her anti-nuclear activism in the late 60’s to her work with deep ecology, Joanna expresses the need to live within an ethic of care for the earth.

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Why Painful Things Happen to Good People

Understanding how caretaking is different from caregiving.

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Intentions and Effects

To change the experiences of your life requires becoming aware of the intentions you are choosing moment to moment, and the experiences you encounter, and then making the connections between your intentions and your experiences.

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Courage

Courage takes many different forms such as physical courage in the face of bodily harm or death, social courage in the face of rejection or exclusion, intellectual courage to engage new ideas and concepts, and moral courage to do the right thing in the face of opposition or disapproval.

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How to Create a New Vision for the Planet

There is so much change occurring politically and economically, and in the environment it is important that we hold a good and positive vision for the planet.

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Understand Your Emotions to Grow and Heal

In McLaren’s view, we typically perceive emotions as problems, which we then thoughtlessly express or repress. She advocates a more mindful approach, where we step back and see our emotions as sources of information.

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Repressing or Expressing Emotions? There’s Another Choice!

I don’t know what happened to emotions in this society. They are the least understood, most maligned, and most ridiculously over-analyzed aspects of human life.

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Ecospirituality