The Great Turning and The Work That Reconnects with Anne Symens-Bucher

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Anne Symens-Bucher about the powerful experiential trainings and worldview called "The Work That Reconnects" and the lessons that bring us back to our hearts and into action during this time of the Great Turning. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Anne Symens-Bucher was first introduced to the work of Joanna Macy in 1984 and has served as her executive assistant since 2006. She is deeply immersed in Macy’s work and has been facilitating Work That Reconnects workshops for many years. In addition to Joanna Macy, Anne has learned directly from Dorothy Day, Richard Rohr, Marshall Rosenberg, and Bill Plotkin. Her teaching is woven from these mentors, from many years immersed in a nonviolent campaign to end nuclear weapons testing in the Nevada desert, and 25 years in the Franciscan Justice, Peace & Integrity Creation Office of the St. Barbara Province. The place of her deepest practice has been in her 30-year marriage and parenting of five children. She is deeply grateful for her Catholic Franciscan upbringing, which set her on the path of her soul work. Anne is a trained spiritual director and enjoys supporting people to embrace what is theirs to do. Related Links: The Work That Reconnects https://workthatreconnects.org/ Joanna Macy http://www.joannamacy.net/ Coming Back to Life by Joanna Macy and Molly Young Brown https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Back-Life-Updated-Reconnects/dp/0865717753 Active Hope by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone https://www.amazon.com/Active-Hope-without-Going-Crazy/dp/1577319729/ Steam Drills by Rivera Sun https://www.amazon.com/Steam-Drills-Treadmills-Shooting-times/dp/0984813225/ Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/