Honored Elders
Joanna Macy
Joanna says of our work: “Earth Elders has an important story to tell and an essential job to do. The story is about the pioneering environmental leadership and grassroots activism of seniors. And the job is to enlist yet more of them, so they may continue to inspire and guide all ages in the healing of our world.”
Eco-philosopher Joanna Macy, PhD is a scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory and deep ecology. Weaving these threads together, she has created both a groundbreaking 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. Dimensions of this work are explored in her many books including Thinking Like a Mountain (with John Seed), World as Self, World as Lover, and Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World (with Molly Brown), her most recent book.
Joanna’s work is at the interface between spiritual breakthrough and social change, helping people transform despair and apathy, in the face of overwhelming social and ecological crises, into constructive and collaborative action. Joanna Macy is an elder and mother of three children; she and her husband live in Berkeley, California. Joanna is in great demand as a lecturer and workshop leader. We are honored to have Joanna’s enthusiastic support for Earth Elders.