Joanna Macy

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Joanna Macy is the pioneering teacher of experiential deep ecology and "The Work that Reconnects".

Eco-philosopher Joanna Macy, Ph.D. (sometimes listed as Joanna R. Macy or Joanna Marie Macy), is a scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. She is also a leading voice in movements for peace, justice, and a safe environment. Interweaving her scholarship and four decades of activism, she has created both a ground-breaking theoretical framework for a new paradigm of personal and social change, and a powerful workshop methodology for its application. Her wide-ranging work addresses psychological and spiritual issues of the nuclear age, the cultivation of ecological awareness, and the fruitful resonance between Buddhist thought and contemporary science. The many dimensions of this work are explored in her books, listed below.

Over the past twenty years many thousands of people around the world, particularly in North America, Europe (especially Britain, Germany and Russia) and Australia, have participated in Joanna's workshops and trainings, while her methods have been adopted and adapted yet more widely in classrooms, churches, with activist groups and in grassroots organizing. Her work helps people transform despair and apathy, in the face of overwhelming social and ecological crises, into constructive, collaborative action. It brings a new way of seeing the world, as our larger living body, freeing us from the assumptions and attitudes that now threaten the continuity of life on Earth.

Joanna travels widely giving lectures, workshops, and trainings in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. She lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband Francis Macy, near her children and grandchildren. She serves as adjunct professor to three graduate schools in the San Francisco Bay Area: the Starr King School for the Ministry, the University of Creation Spirituality, and the California Institute of Integral Studies.

[edit] Works

(Note: listed are the most recent publications. Original, sometimes unrevised, editions of these may exist, and may have different ISBNs.)

• Coming Back to Life : Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World; Joanna R. Macy, Molly Young Brown; New Society Publishers (1998); ISBN 0-86571-391-X
• Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age; New Society Pub, (1983); ISBN 0-86571-031-7
• Dharma and Development: Religion as resource in the Sarvodaya self help movement; Kumarian Press revised ed (1985); ISBN 0-931816-53-X
• Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory: The Dharma of Natural System (Buddhist Studies Series); State University of New York Press (1991); ISBN 0-7914-0637-7
• Rilke's Book of Hours : Love Poems to God; Joanna Macy, Anita Barrows; Riverhead Trade (2005); ISBN 1-59448-156-3
• Thinking Like a Mountain: Toward a Council of All Beings; Joanna Macy, John Seed, Pat Fleming, Arne Naess, Dailan Pugh; New Society Publishers (1988); ISBN 0-86571-133-X
• Widening Circles (memoir); New Society, 2000
• World as Lover, World as Self; Parallax Press (2005); ISBN 0-938077-27-9

[edit] External links

• Joanna Macy's website on the work of Experiential Deep Ecology
• Gaia Foundation of Western Australia — an Australian organisation based on the principles of Deep Ecology.
• California Institute of Integral Studies
• The Healing on Mother Earth Project — a Sebastopol, Ca organisation based on the principles of deep ecology.