The stories we tell ourselves of loss, illness, and the climate crisis shape the landscapes of our lives. If we hope to end the patterns of destruction created by the dominant cultures in our world, we have to start with our mental maps. What are we ignoring? How do we express our pain for the world? How do we live in the creative tension between surrendering to the Great Unraveling and co-creating the Great Turning? How can we unfix ourselves from our current patterns and dream a new world into being?
Join us on Saturday, March 7 for an experiential 2-hour workshop engaging loss as an invitation to map a future of resilience and belonging. Together, we’ll explore what chronic illness can teach us about how to live in between loss and healing, grief and regeneration.
Saturday, March 7 @ 10am-12pm PST (UTC-8)
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Participants will be guided through the Spiral of the Work That Reconnects with a series of practices inspired by the film The Unfixing, an award-winning feature documentary film, and led by Director Nicole Betancourt and WTR Facilitator and Weaver Frieda Nixdorf. Clips from the film will be shared and participants will engage in writing and sharing in small groups.
Participants will receive advance access to stream the film (87 minutes) for a limited time. In the meantime, you may view the trailer here.
About The Unfixing Project
The Unfixing is a multimedia project that includes a documentary film, a video/sound installation, and community experiences like this webinar. The heart of The Unfixing is inspired by the director’s training with Joanna Macy and The Work That Reconnects. Joanna said of The Unfixing video/sound installation: ”The installation you are making is like nothing I have seen. It needs to be taken to every city.”
Illness and film taught Emmy award-winning filmmaker, Nicole Betancourt how to map her way in this liminal landscape. A lyrical tapestry of life and landscape, The Unfixing film reveals Nicole’s path from illness to healing, framed by the intensifying global climate crisis. The film presents a richly textured visual diary, capturing the intimate moments of Betancourt’s personal struggles with a debilitating illness and the ripple effects on her family, all while engaging with larger ecological questions. As her body begins to break down, so too does the planet – both requiring a radical transformation and renewal.
Winner of five film festival awards including Audience Award, Sustainability Award, and Best Documentary.
Event logistics
Translated subtitles will be available for this event
This event will be recorded. The recording will be available three days after the live event and will be sent by email to all those who are registered.
If you are in China and having difficulty registering for this event, please contact Helen Sui 海静.
A portion of the donations for this event will go to the facilitators of the event to honor their work and contribute to their livelihood. Donations also cover the tools, resources and staff hours each event requires. Whatever is donated above and beyond these expenses will go to the general operating fund of the Work That Reconnects Network so it can continue to provide support, networking and programing for our global WTR community.
The suggested requested donation for this webinar is between $25-$35USD
However, no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Please donate generously within your means and feel free and welcomed to join us even without a donation.
Facilitators
Nicole Betancourt
Nicole’s work explores the complex interconnections of people with each other and with nature. She does this through documentaries, video art, and community projects. She is an Emmy award-winning Director (Before You Go/HBO), a Sustainability Leaders Fellow (where she was trained by Joanna Macy), and the winner of many film international festival awards. She has produced a celebrity-hosted activist film festival and made over 70 short films including the viral “Sing The Water Song.” She completed the Work That Reconnects Facilitator Development Program and is currently engaging communities internationally with WTR and her feature Documentary The Unfixing.
Frieda Nixdorf
Frieda’s work focuses on drawing community into transformational experiences to remember our belonging, our interdependence, and our kinship with the more-than-human world. Her great love is supporting humanity in navigating the liminal space of transition from Business as Usual into the Great Turning. Frieda is a WTR facilitator who has been incorporating Work That Reconnects practices into everything she does since she first met Joanna in graduate school in 2002. Frieda also serves as a Weaver on the Work That Reconnects Network team.