I was first inspired by Joanna about 20 years ago, at a Work that Reconnects workshop led by her in London. I had come across her work during my therapy training. The Work That Reconnects was one of the two really powerful elements of that course. The other was Family Constellations. Both look at the collective healing of pain, as a symptom of systemic rather than individual problems.
I feel blessed to have met Joanna on several further occasions when I was working for the Transition Towns movement, creating community scale responses to the multiple crises of our time. My role was to anchor practices which brought depth, emotional understanding, curiosity about shadow and unconscious dynamics and more into a movement that could often be focused on material issues. Joanna’s clear and powerful teachings were a key part of what I shared with groups around the world.
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