Resources

Introduction to The Work That Reconnects/ Experiential Deep Ecology:

• Joanna Macy – On Being Podcast (podcast)
• Joanna Macy – For the Wild podcast (podcast)
• John Seed – For the Wild podcast (podcast)
• The Work that Reconnects by Daniel Christian Wahl (article)
• World As Lover, World as Self– Joanna Macy (book)
• Thinking Like a Mountain – John Seed, Joanna Macy, Pat Flemming and Arne Naess (book)
• Coming Back to Life – Joanna Macy (book)
• Active Hope – Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone (book)
• A Wild Love for the World– Joanna Macy and Essay collections (book)
• Minding the Earth, Mending the World – Zen and the Art of Planetary Crisis – Susan Murphy Roshi (book)

Seeing Through the Story of Separation/ The History and Elements of Business as Usual:

• Why do we need to change the stories we live by? by Daniel Christian Wahl (article)
• The Patterning Instinct – Jeremy Lent (book)
• Naomi Klein: The Struggles Against Climate Change and Racism Are Inseparable (article)
• Seeing white by Scene on Radio (podcast series)
• My Name is Chellis and I’m in Recovery from Western Civilization – Chellis Glendinning (book)
• The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible – Charles Eisenstein (book)

The Great Unravelling Data and Predictions:

• Facing Extinction – Catherine Ingram (Audio)
• Facing Extinction – Catherine Ingram (Article)
• Deep Adaptation – Jem Bendell (video)
• Deep Adaptation Paper– Jem Bendell (Paper)
• Choosing Earth – Duane Elgin (book)
• If Your House is on Fire – On the Moral Urgency of Climate Change – Kathleen Dean Moore (article)
• Climate, A New Story – Charles Eisenstein (book)
• Brace for Impact, as the Climate “End Game” has arrived– Dahr Jamail (article)
• Overshoot in a Nutshell: Understanding Our Predicament – Michael Dowd (Video)
• Collapse in a Nutshell: Understanding Our Predicament – Michael Dowd (video)

The Long Dark/ The Rough Initiation/ Collective Descent:

• Francis Weller –A Response to Our Times (podcast)
• Francis Weller and Michael Lerner – The Long Dark: Tending to the Soul in Unknown Territory (video)
• In the Absence of the Ordinary– Francis Weller (Book PDF)
• Unraveling– Terry Tempest Williams (article)
• Darkness Rising– Lewellyn Vaughn Lee (article)
• Extinction Illness; Grave Affliction and Possibility – Deena Metzger (article)
• The Five Gates of Grief- Francis Weller (audio)
• When Things Fall Apart – Pema Chodron (book)
• Learning to See in the Dark Amid Catastrophe: An Interview With Deep Ecologist Joanna Macy
• Everything is not going to be okay’: (article)
• Ground Truthing– (article)

Gratitude, Praise and Reciprocity:

• The Reverence of Approoach – Francis Weller (article)
• Restoration and Reciprocity – Robin Wall Kimmerer (video)

Honouring Our Pain/ The Gates of Grief/ Wisdom of Anger:

• Josh Schrei: I Wish It Could have Been Another Way (Podcast)
• Francis Weller: Workshop on the Gates of Grief (video)
• Francis Weller: A Beautiful and Strange Otherness (video)
• Francis Weller: The Wild Edge of Sorrow (video)
• The Wisdom of Anger – Melvin McCleod (Article)
• Grief as an Ally of Emergence- Amanda Jade Fiorino (article)
• Grief as an Eco-Mystical Agent – Amanda Jade Fiorino (article)
• Lament Portal – Amanda Jade Fiorino (practice)
• Guided Meditation on Encountering Grief – Joan Halifax (audio)
• The Apprenticeship with Sorrow and Grief by Francis Weller– (Audio series paid)
• Francis Weller: Of Grief and Reverence (podcast)
• The Wild Edge of Sorrow – Francis Weller (book)
• The Smell of Rain on Dust – Martin Prechtel (book)
• Healing through the Dark Emotions- Miriam Greenspan (book)
• Through A Glass Darkly- Miriam Greenspan On Moving From Grief To Gratitude (article)
• The Geography of Sorrow- Francis Weller (article)
• Transforming Despair– An interview with Joanna Macy
• In Facing Mass Extinction, We Must Allow Ourselves to Grieve (article)
• Hope and mourning in the Anthropocene: (article)
• Climate and Mind (article)

Seeing with New Eyes/ The Wider Sense of Self/ Animist Perception/ Interbeing:

Animist Perception:

• David Abram- Animate World (podcast)
• David Abram- Remembering our animal senses (podcast)
• Human Exceptionalism and Entagled Agency– Amanda Jade Fiorino (article)
• Josh Schrei- Animism is Normative Consciousness (podcast)
• Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology – David Abram (book)
• The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World -David Abram (book)

Gaian Awareness:

• Gaia — being of a living Earth by Daniel Christian Wahl (article)
• The Web of Meaning– Jeremy Lent (book)
• Future Sacred: The Connected Creativity of Nature– Julie Morley (book)
• Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm – Stephen Harrod Buhner (book)
• The Perceptual Implications of Gaia– David Abram (article)
• How Collective Intelligence can Change your World, Right Now by Daniel Christian Wahl (article)
• A conversation with Stephan Harding: Deep Ecology, Holistic Science and right relationships in an Animate Earth (video/audio)
• Why Gaia? By Daniel Christian Wahl (article)
• Into the Depths of A breathing planet– David Abram (article

Living Systems and Complexity Theory:

• Why Whole Systems thinking? by Daniel Christian Wahl (Article)
• Goethe’s science of wholeness by Daniel Christian Wahl (Article)
• Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory – Joanna Macy (book)
• Web of Life – Fritjof Capra

Deep Time / Story of the Universe:

• The Great Work– Thomas Berry (book)
• The Dream of the Earth – Thomas Berry (book)
• The Journey of the Universe– Brian Thomas Swimme (book)
• Canticle to the Cosmos – Brian Thomas Swimme (audio series)

Deep Ecology:

• Depth Ecology– David Abram (article)
• Deep Ecology by Daniel Christian Wahl (article)
• We are Nature Defending Itself (article)

Anima Mundi:

• A Beautiful and Strange Otherness P1- Francis Weller (article)
• A beautiful and Strange Otherness P2- Francis Weller (article)

Ecopsychology and Eco Poetry:

• Listening to the World– Mary Oliver (podcast)
• The Enchanted Life– Sharon Blackie
• Soulcraft – Bill Plotkin (book)
• Wild Mind- Bill Plotkin (book)
• Journey of Soul Initiation– Bill Plotkin (book)

Interbeing/ Prajnaparamita:

• Interbeing- Thich Nhat Hanh (article)
• The western mind in carnal intimacy with a living Earth by Daniel Christian Wahl (article)
• The Fruitful Darkness– Joan Halifax (book)

Going Forth/ Cultural and Ecological Regeneration/ Living with Uncertainty:

• Does Activism Look like at the End of Hope– Bayo Akomalafe (video)
• Courage and Acceptance for Troubled Times– Catherine Ingram (video)
• Rethinking Activism in the Face of Catastrophic Collapse – Dahr Jamail (article)
• Designing Regenerative Cultures – Daniel Christian Wahl (book)
• Eco-Mystical Uncertainty- Amanda Jade Fiorino (article)
• The Courage to Live without Knowing How-By Unmani Hyde (article)
• Pleasure Activism– Adrienne Marie Brown
• Beyond Hope– Derrick Jensen
• Terry Tempest Williams: “Survival Becomes a Spiritual Practice” (article)

On Death and Dying:

• Being with Dying – Joan Halifax (book)
• Die Wise– Stephen Jenkinson (book)
• The Five Invitations– Frank Ostaseski (book)
• The World of Dew– Melvin Mcleod (article)

Podcasts:

• Podcast channels I recommend: The Emerald, Kalliopes Sanctum, For The Wild, Emergence Magazine Podcast, Embodiment Matters, Mythic Medicine, Bespoken Bones, On Being, A New and Ancient Story, Islands of Sanity, The Poetry of Predicament, Good Grief Network, Sustainable World Radio, BioneersRadio, LivingMyth, Adventures Through The Mind

Films:

• Once You Know
• Living in a Time of Dying
• This Changes Everything
• Facing Dversity: Choosing Earth

People to Check Out:

Joanna Macy, John Seed, Stephen Harrod Buhner, Daniel Foor, Gabor Mate, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Adrienne Maree Brown, Thomas Berry, Brian Thomas Swimme, Joan Halifax, Adyashanti, Jon Young, Stephen Jenkinson, Bill Plotkin, Michaela Boehm, Charles Eisenstein, Daniel Christian Wahl, Sharon Blackie, Lama Tsultrim Allione, Francis Weller, Martin Prechtel, Brene Brown, David Abram.