Active hope

How to face the confusion of today's times and not go crazy?

How to cope with climate change, disappearing natural resources, economic collapse and environmental grief? Ecophilosopher Joanna Macy and psychiatrist Chris Johnstone offer a path that reconnects us to the Earth and ourselves.

The book Active Hope reflects contemporary global challenges within an ecophilosophical concept, naming the steps on the path to self-empowerment and practical exercises to discover our own creative contribution to the world we wish to live in. It summarises the experience of a programme that the authors of the book have been running for decades under the name Work That Reconnects. It guides the reader through the four stages of the transformation process based on the mythical hero's journey, modern psychology, spirituality, deep ecology and integral science.

Active hope assumes a link between the current social, economic and environmental crisis and the increase in feelings of hopelessness, depression and loneliness. What happens to the world is closely related to our quality of life and our sense of inner fulfillment. Gratitude and compassion can be a remedy for a Western society that is largely consumerist and competitive, regardless of the consequences.