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Active Hope

How to Face the Mess We’re in with Unexpected Resilience & Creative Power: Revised Edition

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Active Hope

By: Joanna Macy PhD, Chris Johnstone
Narrated by: C.S.E. Cooney
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The challenges we face can be difficult even to think about. Climate change, the depletion of oil, economic upheaval, and mass extinction together create a planetary emergency of overwhelming proportions. 

Active Hope shows us how to strengthen our capacity to face this crisis so that we can respond with unexpected resilience and creative power. Drawing on decades of teaching an empowerment approach known as the Work That Reconnects, the authors guide us through a transformational process informed by mythic journeys, modern psychology, spirituality, and holistic science. This process equips us with tools to face the mess we're in and play our role in the collective transition, or Great Turning, to a life-sustaining society.

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This book is essential for helping us navigate a path to a sustainable better future. The narration is very disappointing. It's robotic, maybe AI. Not delivered with the empathy and nuance required of the subject matter.

This book is important. The narration is terrible.

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As someone who struggles with intrusive thoughts, I really wish the authors had been more careful in the presentation of the audiobook. I agree with other reviewers that the narration is robotic which creates a sense of detachment. in chapter 4 they include, without warning, a 'breathing exercise' where you are asked to visualise all the horrors in the world and "breathe through them". This sent me into an absolute tail spin and it wasn't helped by the robotic narrator. I have spent hours in therapy trying to overcome intrusive thoughts so to have this book reintroduce them without warning was horrific. lt took me days to recover my equilibrium after that and I have tried and failed to start listening again but my trust in the authors is gone. Perhaps these techniques work in person in a safe environment but over an audiobook with no support it was awful. A real shame as I very much enjoyed the first half that I listened to before this and I wish they had thought more carefully about what would actually be appropriate to include for the audiobook format. It''s a shame I have to miss out on the learning that no doubt is contained in the second half but every time I try to listen again my heart starts racing.

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