Canceled – Holding Both: Facing Climate Crisis and Cancer in Community

Holding Both: Facing Climate Crisis and Cancer in Community (6-Week Series)

A ‘Work That Reconnects’ Podcast Club

This virtual podcast club is an opportunity to experience the fullness of our feelings – fear, anger, grief, love, gratitude and hope – as we reflect on the reality of living with cancer at a time when our whole planet’s health is at risk. This work can only truly happen in community.

Strengthened by our shared purpose, we will listen to We Are the Great Turning, a new podcast featuring revered climate activist and Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy and her dear friend, mentee and fellow activist Jess Serrante in conversation about the Work That Reconnects.

Developed by Joanna Macy over decades of facilitating groups around the world, the Work That Reconnects is a process for navigating climate grief in community that allows us to ground into our gratitude for life, honor our pain for the world, see with new / ancient eyes and go forth with new purpose. In our weekly meetings, we will discuss podcast episodes, engage in practices from the Work That Reconnects, and – above all – reflect on what this courageous act of caring means in the context of a cancer experience.

This group will meet for 6 weeks on Thursdays from October 9 – November 13 from 3:00-4:30pm EST on Zoom. Here are the meeting dates:

• October 9, 16, 23 & 30
• November 6 & 13

Here is the plan for our 6 weeks together:

Thursday, October 9 – Welcome + Introductions + Community Care

Please listen to Episode 1: Love and Loss and in advance of this meeting.  No need to listen to Bonus # 1 – we’ll cover it in session.

Thursday, October 16 – The Spiral: Gratitude for Life

Please listen to Episode 2: The Three Stories of Our Time and Episode 3: We Begin with Gratitude in advance of this meeting.  No need to listen to Bonus # 2 and # 3 – we’ll cover them in session.

Thursday, October 23 – The Spiral: Honoring our Pain for the World

Please listen to and Episode 4: There Is No Future If We Go Numb, Episode 5: This Pain Is Not for Nothing and Episode 6: The H-Word in advance of this meeting.  No need to listen to Bonus # 4/5 – we’ll cover it in session.

Thursday, October 30 – The Spiral: Seeing with New / Ancient Eyes

Please listen to Episode 7: We Are a Part of a River of Time, and Episode 8: Eros and Thanatos in advance of this meeting.  No need to listen to Bonus # 7 – we’ll cover it in session.

Thursday, November 6 – The Spiral: Going Forth with New Purpose

Please listen to Episode 9: Live the Questions Now and to Episode 10: We Are the Great Turning in advance of this meeting.  No need to listen to Bonus # 9 and # 10 – we’ll cover them in session.

Thursday, November 13 – Cancer + Climate Change

Please watch Climate Change Impacts on the Cancer Control Continuum with Dr. Leticia Nogueira, American Cancer Society, in advance of this meeting.

Facilitators

Program Facilitator ,

Susan Oetgen