Women of Wisdom: Celebrating the Living Legacy of Buddhist Women
Active Hope and Green Tara: Responding to Our Climate Crisis
with Margo van Greta and Paula Chichester
Beginning September 1, 2025
Registration required
with Margo van Greta and Paula Chichester
Beginning September 1, 2025
Registration required
A six-week online workshop with Paula Chichester and Margo van Greta, beginning on September 1, 2025.
We live in an age of ever-increasing human and environmental crises—Rising prices of electricity, gas and food are very real and current threats. In other parts of the world, disasters from fires, hurricanes, floods and rising sea levels endanger lives and livelihoods. Reports from scientists are more grim and serious than ever. The UN says we are past the point of no return.
Desperate times can also bring out the best in us. It can connect us with our strength, courage, and our zest for life. It can bring cooperation and co-creation. Luckily we are also surrounded by support on many levels. We do not have to do this alone. Tried and tested methods have been developed over time to cultivate inner work which supports us in our lives.
This workshop offers two complementary practices:
Active Hope and The Work That Reconnects is a set of practices developed by Author, Deep Ecologist and Buddhist practitioner Joanna Macy to build resilience for our challenging times. It helps you discover and experience your innate connections with others and the self-healing powers of the web of life, transforming despair and overwhelm into inspired collaborative action. We will move through the Spiral of Gratitude, Honouring our Pain for the World, Seeing with New Eyes, and taking the Next Steps. This work is experiential and interactive.
Green Tara meditation is a 2500-year-old deity yoga that works with our body, mind and spirit to uncover our authentic sense of being, our deeper self that isn’t shackled by learned cognitive patterns that limit our capacity for love and empathy, inner wisdom, joy and strength. By first creating a personal environment of safety and connection, we then use our imagination, sound, breath and awareness to reframe our experiences so we can transform fears, delusions and issues of dignity and grace. Green Tara is especially known for manifesting change and creating positive causes and conditions in our outer world. So, this is a very good practice to do if we wish to create a more sane world.
Format:
Dates: Monday September 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, October 6, 2025
Time: 7.30-9pm BST (UK time) 11:30am-1pm PT (California time)
Find the time in your time zone here
We live in an age of ever-increasing human and environmental crises—Rising prices of electricity, gas and food are very real and current threats. In other parts of the world, disasters from fires, hurricanes, floods and rising sea levels endanger lives and livelihoods. Reports from scientists are more grim and serious than ever. The UN says we are past the point of no return.
Desperate times can also bring out the best in us. It can connect us with our strength, courage, and our zest for life. It can bring cooperation and co-creation. Luckily we are also surrounded by support on many levels. We do not have to do this alone. Tried and tested methods have been developed over time to cultivate inner work which supports us in our lives.
This workshop offers two complementary practices:
Active Hope and The Work That Reconnects is a set of practices developed by Author, Deep Ecologist and Buddhist practitioner Joanna Macy to build resilience for our challenging times. It helps you discover and experience your innate connections with others and the self-healing powers of the web of life, transforming despair and overwhelm into inspired collaborative action. We will move through the Spiral of Gratitude, Honouring our Pain for the World, Seeing with New Eyes, and taking the Next Steps. This work is experiential and interactive.
Green Tara meditation is a 2500-year-old deity yoga that works with our body, mind and spirit to uncover our authentic sense of being, our deeper self that isn’t shackled by learned cognitive patterns that limit our capacity for love and empathy, inner wisdom, joy and strength. By first creating a personal environment of safety and connection, we then use our imagination, sound, breath and awareness to reframe our experiences so we can transform fears, delusions and issues of dignity and grace. Green Tara is especially known for manifesting change and creating positive causes and conditions in our outer world. So, this is a very good practice to do if we wish to create a more sane world.
Format:
- Six weekly facilitated Online sessions of 1 ½ hour using Zoom
- Six buddy group sessions with peers
- You receive integration practices to deepen at your own pace
Dates: Monday September 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, October 6, 2025
Time: 7.30-9pm BST (UK time) 11:30am-1pm PT (California time)
Find the time in your time zone here
About Margo van Greta and Paula Chichester:
Margo van Greta is deeply inspired by the work of Joanna Macy. Margo met her in Findhorn Ecovillage in Scotland where she has lived since 1991. She facilitates courses in Active Hope/The Work That Reconnects. She created Heartbeat Findhorn, Inner Work for Outer Action, facilitating the journey of spiritual deepening, resilience building and the transformation of consciousness. Margo has been a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism since 1987, created Togme Sangpo Buddhist Group, teaches Discovering Buddhism and leads short retreats.
Paula Chichester began her interest in deep ecology when she volunteered at the Ecology Center of San Francisco Bay area in 1969 at the age of 16. After a decade of environmental activism and scientific study, she realised that our planetary ecological demise could not be solved solely by science or politics because the cause is rooted in the tragedy of human greed, fear and ignorance. She discovered that Buddhist body/mind practices could offer a remedy to this tragedy from the inside out. Inspired to heal inner pain for outer change, Paula delved deeply into all sorts of meditation/body/psychology study and practice for 50 years now. Paula now teaches meditation all over the world and lives in the Shetland Islands of Scotland.
Registration:
Please visit https://www.trybooking.com/uk/events/landing/34206? to register for this online workshop.
Margo van Greta is deeply inspired by the work of Joanna Macy. Margo met her in Findhorn Ecovillage in Scotland where she has lived since 1991. She facilitates courses in Active Hope/The Work That Reconnects. She created Heartbeat Findhorn, Inner Work for Outer Action, facilitating the journey of spiritual deepening, resilience building and the transformation of consciousness. Margo has been a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism since 1987, created Togme Sangpo Buddhist Group, teaches Discovering Buddhism and leads short retreats.
Paula Chichester began her interest in deep ecology when she volunteered at the Ecology Center of San Francisco Bay area in 1969 at the age of 16. After a decade of environmental activism and scientific study, she realised that our planetary ecological demise could not be solved solely by science or politics because the cause is rooted in the tragedy of human greed, fear and ignorance. She discovered that Buddhist body/mind practices could offer a remedy to this tragedy from the inside out. Inspired to heal inner pain for outer change, Paula delved deeply into all sorts of meditation/body/psychology study and practice for 50 years now. Paula now teaches meditation all over the world and lives in the Shetland Islands of Scotland.
Registration:
Please visit https://www.trybooking.com/uk/events/landing/34206? to register for this online workshop.