Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in with Unexpected Resilience & Creative Power: Revised Edition

by Joanna Macy PhD, Chris Johnstone, C.S.E. Cooney (Narrator)

The challenges we face can be difficult even to think about. Climate change, the depletion of oil, economic upheaval, and mass extinction together create a planetary emergency of overwhelming proportions. 

Active Hope shows us how to strengthen our capacity to face this crisis so that we can respond with unexpected resilience and creative power. Drawing on decades of teaching an empowerment approach known as the Work That Reconnects, the authors guide us through a transformational process informed by mythic journeys, modern psychology, spirituality, and holistic science. This process equips us with tools to face the mess we're in and play our role in the collective transition, or Great Turning, to a life-sustaining society.

Genres: Nonfiction, Nature, Social Justice, Buddhism

Audible Audio

Published June 28, 2022

Reviews

[Alicia Naab · Rating 3 out of 5]

The last third of the book has some helpful advise if you're struggling to stay positive through the difficulties of the world. The rest is really just a long description of how horrible everything is.

[Ginna · Rating 4 out of 5]

So much to ponder here - useful and actionable ways to address the heartbreak of climate change so that we can get to solutions for addressing te issue itself. Only reason for 4.5 instead of 5 stars was the narrator, whose overblown emotional expression sometimes distracted me from the content.

[Shilan Keskin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent. Will order a physical copy and read again - one that’s worthy of scribbles and attentive pursuit of the activities introduced.

[Faith Nason · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very Educational