We Are The Great Turning
Joanna Macy & Jessica Serrante
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Ep 2 Bonus: Envisioning the Great Turning
We Are The Great Turning
04/25/24 • 13 min
This bonus episode will support you to take the main insights from Episode 2, “The Three Stories of Our Time,” deeper into your life.
In Episode 2, we talked about the three stories of our time: Business as Usual, the Great Unraveling, and the Great Turning. All three stories are true, and we can choose to give ourselves to the Great Turning—to building a more just and life-sustaining society.
We need inspiring visions for the kind of world we want to live in that can motivate us, move us to action, and so that we know what it looks like to succeed. So, in this bonus episode, we’re going to envision, in detail, what the world might be like if the Great Turning really were the predominant story of our time.
All you need is a quiet place where you can sit and close your eyes. We hope you’ll do this exercise with someone else, so that you can talk together about your experience after you finish. It might also help to have something to write with and on.
We recommend starting a podcast club with friends or family to do these practices together. Links and assets to help prompt reflection and build community can be found with every episode on WeAreTheGreatTurning.com.
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Ep 1: Love and Loss
We Are The Great Turning
04/17/24 • 28 min
As Joanna Macy approaches the end of a long life dedicated to healing our imperiled planet, she begins the conversation with Jessica Serrante, her student and dear friend, “standing afresh with what it’s like to live on Earth at this moment.” As we look into the face of the climate crisis, injustice, and war, difficult feelings arise; all are welcomed.
You are invited to join them at Joanna’s kitchen table, and invited into a deeper sense of your belonging and love for our world.
In this episode:
- How to connect with the great possibilities that still exist for us even in these precarious times Joanna reflects on her awakening of environmental consciousness
- Jess reflects on how meeting Joanna changed her life
- Love, laughter, heartbreak, and the Work That Reconnects
- Bonus Exercise: “Open Sentences”—a practice for partners
We recommend starting a podcast club with friends or family to do these practices together. Links and assets to help prompt reflection and build community can be found with every episode on WeAreTheGreatTurning.com.
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Ep 2: The Three Stories of Our Time
We Are The Great Turning
04/25/24 • 30 min
What’s really going on in the world right now? “Business as Usual”—a comforting narrative in which industrial growth and progress overcomes all? “The Great Unraveling” —a planet careening toward inevitable destruction? Joanna‘s work introduces a third story, “The Great Turning”—a paradigm shift on an epic scale, the creation of a just and life-sustaining society. The stakes are high, the outcome uncertain. This conversation invites you to devote yourself to the Great Turning even as you grasp the truth in all three stories.
In this episode:
- Three outlooks on these times: Business as Usual, the Great Unraveling, and the Great Turning
- What’s behind all three—how they affect us in conscious and unconscious ways
- What the Great Turning means, and how to devote yourself to it
- Bonus Exercise: Envisioning the Great Turning
We recommend starting a podcast club with friends or family to do these practices together. Links and assets to help prompt reflection and build community can be found with every episode on WeAreTheGreatTurning.com.
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Ep 7: We Are a Part of a River of Time
We Are The Great Turning
05/30/24 • 31 min
Jess and Joanna explore the third phase of the spiral: Seeing with New Eyes. In this part of the spiral, the fog of our pain begins to lift off, and what comes in its place is a feeling of greater connection and belonging. Jess and Joanna talk about Deep Time, a way of understanding ourselves as a part of a long lineage of human and planetary history, and how our imaginations are an essential tool for “plugging back in” to the great web of life we’re a part of.
In this episode:
- Discovering ways to truly feel our interconnection with all life, and how that profound reconnection transforms us
- Deep Time—slowing down and discovering a broader sense of ourselves in the world
- “Plugging in” to our part in the web of life to fuel our own work for the Great Turning
- Bonus Exercise: The Seventh Generation—connecting with those who came before and those who will come after us
We recommend starting a podcast club with friends or family to do these practices together. Links and assets to help prompt reflection and build community can be found with every episode on WeAreTheGreatTurning.com.
Special Episode: Outrage + Optimism
We Are The Great Turning
07/25/24 • -1 min
Since we’ve just completed the release of our 10-part series, We Are the Great Turning, we wanted to introduce you to another podcast with a spirit similar to ours: Outrage + Optimism.
The episode we’re going to play for you is called “Our Story of Nature: From Rupture to Reconnection.” It’s the first in a miniseries that shines a light on our relationship to the rest of nature. Remembering our place in the web of life is an essential part of building the Great Turning.
Be sure to subscribe to their podcast, and give them a follow on social media @outrageoptimism.
Now that this season of We Are the Great Turning is over, naturally, the question that’s emerging is ... “What’s next?” As we consider whether to do a second season, we’d love to hear more about what you got from the first. What impact has it had in your life, and what might you love to hear from us next? Send us an email or a voice note at [email protected] or send Jess a DM on Instagram @jess_serrante.
Ep 9 Bonus: The Bodhisattva Check-In
We Are The Great Turning
06/13/24 • 13 min
This bonus episode will support you to take the main insights from Episode 9: “Live the Questions Now” deeper into your life.
Jess will guide you through an adaptation of the Work That Reconnects exercise called “The Bodhisattva Check-In.” In Buddhism, the bodhisattva is the archetype of the compassionate person who devotes themself to collective well-being.
In this exercise, you will be invited to use your imagination to “step in” to each of the circumstances of your life in order to make the contribution to the Great Turning that is yours to make.
All you’ll need for this bonus exercise is enough space to take slow meditative steps in a straight line or in a circle. A living room or a yard are great. If you don’t want to or can’t walk, there will be instructions on how to do this without moving. You’ll need a total of 20 minutes, including time after the recording has ended.
We recommend starting a podcast club with friends or family to do these practices together. Links and assets to help prompt reflection and build community can be found with every episode on WeAreTheGreatTurning.com.
Ep 1 Bonus: Open Sentences
We Are The Great Turning
04/18/24 • 29 min
This bonus episode will support you to take the main insights from Episode 1, “Love and Loss,” deeper into your life. Jess will guide you through a simple yet profound exercise called Open Sentences where you’ll be prompted to speak from your heart. It will take about 25 minutes.
All you’ll need is a friend and a place that is quiet enough for you to speak freely and listen carefully to one another. If that’s not possible and you want to try this alone, you can answer out loud or write the questions in a journal.
The prompts for this exercise are:
- Some things I love about being alive on earth today are...
- What breaks my heart about living on earth in this time is...
- If I withhold my feelings about what’s happening in the world right now, I do so because...
- What keeps me going when the world breaks my heart is...
We recommend starting a podcast club with friends or family to do these practices together. Links and assets to help prompt reflection and build community can be found with every episode on WeAreTheGreatTurning.com.
Ep 3 Bonus: Lovingkindness Meditation
We Are The Great Turning
05/02/24 • 12 min
This bonus episode will support you to take the main insights from Episode 3, “We Begin with Gratitude,” deeper into your life.
In Episode 3, we talked about how in the Work That Reconnects we always start with gratitude, because it gives us the strength to speak the truth and act in service of life.
Lovingkindness meditation is a simple and powerful way to feel and express our gratitude and love for our world.
All you need to do this bonus exercise is a quiet place where you can meditate. We hope you’ll do this exercise with someone else, so that you can talk together about your experience after you finish.
We recommend starting a podcast club with friends or family to do these practices together. Links and assets to help prompt reflection and build community can be found with every episode on WeAreTheGreatTurning.com.
Ep 3: We Begin with Gratitude
We Are The Great Turning
05/02/24 • 26 min
When things are at their darkest, what is it that “allows you to see promise and allows you to see beauty?” Joanna begins her exploration of some of the most difficult emotions and circumstances we face in a surprising place: with gratitude. This episode introduces the concept of the spiral, the basic structure of the Work That Reconnects.
In this episode:
- Why it’s necessary to speak our darkest thoughts out loud
- How to follow our fear and pain into a state of profound gratitude
- The spiral of the Work That Reconnects: gratitude, honoring our pain, seeing with new eyes, and going forth
- Bonus Exercise: “Gratitude Meditation”—the first stage on the spiral
We recommend starting a podcast club with friends or family to do these practices together. Links and assets to help prompt reflection and build community can be found with every episode on WeAreTheGreatTurning.com.
Ep 4 Bonus: Breathing Through
We Are The Great Turning
05/15/24 • 13 min
This bonus episode will support you to take the main insights from Episode 4: There is No Future if We Go Numb deeper into your life.
This bonus is a recording of Joanna leading a meditation called Breathing Through, recorded at a retreat in 2006. In it, she’ll guide you to create space to acknowledge and honor the pain for the world that you carry without numbing or getting overwhelmed. All you’ll need for this bonus exercise is a place where you can close your eyes and relax.
We recommend starting a podcast club with friends or family to do these practices together. Links and assets to help prompt reflection and build community can be found with every episode on WeAreTheGreatTurning.com.
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FAQ
How many episodes does We Are The Great Turning have?
We Are The Great Turning currently has 20 episodes available.
What topics does We Are The Great Turning cover?
The podcast is about Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Podcasts, Self-Improvement and Education.
What is the most popular episode on We Are The Great Turning?
The episode title 'Ep 1: Love and Loss' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on We Are The Great Turning?
The average episode length on We Are The Great Turning is 23 minutes.
How often are episodes of We Are The Great Turning released?
Episodes of We Are The Great Turning are typically released every 6 days, 8 hours.
When was the first episode of We Are The Great Turning?
The first episode of We Are The Great Turning was released on Apr 4, 2024.
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