Joanna MacyComing Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects

Coming Back to Life is one of the important books of our time. The view of the world and these times that Joanna and Molly offer is clear and compelling. And for me it is spot on. The exercises and processes they share are powerful. They offer us guidance for working with groups of people to stand awake in this world and to step forward to make a difference. Lately I've been using this framework as a core part of my work in Japan -- both in the 3.11.11 disaster area as well as in other parts of the country. The space it opens up for people is incredible. It is a space where we can dance with our grief and celebrate our joy. It is the space in which we create the future we want.

I have used this book in numerous workshops and trainings. It is not only a clear introduction to Joanna Macy's approach but a wonderful guide for teaching it. She is a brilliant transformational activist and teacher wth a powerful message and method for restoring our deep connection with all life. Her Buddhist foundation does not create "bad guys" and "good guys" but recognizes that we are all living beings who share this world and must learn how to make the shift from an industrial growth society to a life-sustaining world. Just read it; you will be heartened, inspired and moved into constructive action, out of despair and overwhelm.

Joanna Macy and Molly Brown are voices of sanity and hope and practicality in a bleak planetary doom and gloom landscape. Their words offer an intelligent perspective on why it is not too late and instructions on how to be part of the Great Turning toward a planet that works for all.

Excellent, inspiring book. Well organized and easy to read.

More of a guidebook than I expected, but good content to facilitate actions and workshops. Focused on global crisis awareness.

We need more people to read this and understand its significance to the times we live in. Easy to understand, good for teachers, facilitators of group work, people who want the change toward a new sustainable world to be for our spirits as well as the physical world around us.

This is a primer for life at this time in our history, filled with specific ways that you and your community can face the deep challenges we face... and unleash the creativity and courage that live on the other side of fear and numbness.

An updated version of Joana Macy's work. A "how to" prescription on making social change. Full of heart, great ideas, and practical things anyone can do.