Jo Hamilton reports on her PhD research on how Work That Reconnects workshops helped participants embrace painful emotions related to the climate crisis and engage more fully in climate activism.
Juliana Mota Diniz explores the relationship between personal and collective trauma and the healing of both through embracing pain. The Honoring Our Pain for the World section offers poems by Marie Howe, bell hooks, and Jacqueline Sheridan that focus on the pain caused by patriarchy. We’ve put together a rich array of articles, essays, poems and artwork that address the challenge of unraveling patriarchy and shifting the dominant paradigm to one of reverence and respect for all life, based on our radical interconnectedness with our fellow humans of all cultures, ancestry, and identities and with all beings of Earth.įollowing the Spiral, the Gratitude section offers heart-opening poems by Ellen Bass and Karina Lutz, and a grateful remembrance b y Silvia Di Blasio of three teachers who have recently become ancestors: Thich Nhat Hanh, bell hooks, and Desmond Tutu-who each worked in their own ways to shift the patriarchal paradigm. Throughout its long history, what are the structures/attitudes/values-belief systems that enable patriarchy to persist? Can the Work That Reconnects help dismantle them, and if so, how? Power-over works to divide one oppressed group from another for the same reason.
Patriarchy’s exercise of power over all that was categorized as “feminine” necessitated “othering” of women and queer folk, along with other species, land, fruit, life, wildness, the heart, and intuition–in order to dominate or own them. The philosophical and political movement away from knowing the world as animate and alive gave birth to other hierarchies and oppressions, including the accumulation of resources by a few, capitalism, colonialism, labor extraction, racism, heteronormativity, etc. examines patriarchy as one of the intersecting sub-systems of the "power-over’" paradigm, which has deep and wide roots and branches in the idea of separation from the land and the superiority of humans. The theme for this issue is Unraveling Patriarchy and Shifting the Paradigm, including work that. My essay "Matriarchal Values: Our Pre-Colonial Heritage" has been published in the March 2022 issue of Deep Times Journal~! I am so thrilled to be included with such a wonderful array of cultural creatives, thinkers and ecological visionaries.
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