Work That Reconnects Online Workshop
The Unfixing: Loss as an Invitation to Map a Future of Resilience and Belonging - Saturday, March 7
Workshop includes exclusive link to online screening of the award-winning feature documentary film The Unfixing.
The stories we tell ourselves of loss, illness, and the climate crisis shape the landscapes of our lives. If we hope to end the patterns of destruction created by the dominant cultures in our world, we have to start with our mental maps. What are we ignoring? How do we express our pain for the world? How do we live in the creative tension between surrendering to the Great Unraveling and co-creating the Great Turning? How can we unfix ourselves from our current patterns and dream a new world into being?
Join us on Saturday, March 7 for an experiential 2-hour workshop engaging loss as an invitation to map a future of resilience and belonging. Together, we’ll explore what chronic illness can teach us about how to live in between loss and healing, grief and regeneration. Participants will be guided through the Spiral of the Work That Reconnects with a series of practices inspired by the film The Unfixing and led by Director Nicole Betancourt and WTR Facilitator and Weaver Frieda Nixdorf. Clips from the film will be shared and participants will engage in writing and sharing in small groups. Saturday, March 7 @ 10am-12pm PST (UTC-8) LINK TO REGISTER
An Invitation to host The Unfixing workshop
Bring the workshop to your conference, exhibit, or institution.
Re-mapping personal and global narratives.
Experiential 2 or 3-hour workshop using loss as an opportunity to map a future of resilience and belonging.
The stories we tell ourselves of loss, Illness, and the Climate Crisis shape our lives and the landscape. If we hope to end the patterns of destruction created by the dominant cultures in our world, we have to start with our mental maps. What are we ignoring? How do we express our pain for the world? How can we unfix ourselves from our current patterns and dream a new world into being?
This workshop will guide participants through a series of activities inspired by the new film THE UNFIXING (in festivals now) by director Nicole Betancourt who leads the workshop with Co-Facilitator Allaya Cooks-Campbell (in NYC only). Following Joanna Macy's methodology from The Work That Reconnects Expanded Spiral, you will be guided through practices of:
- Gratitude
- Honoring our pain for the world
- Seeing with new and ancient eyes
- Emergence
We will be watching sneak peek clips of the film, doing a little bit of writing, and meditating. The focus will be on process not outcome. Please let us know if you have any disabilities or need any support.
Email to host a workshop: nmbetancourt@gmail.com
Past workshops :
The Unfixing Workshop - Manhattan, USA
Our Fragile Moment art exhibit event April 19, 2025 at The Hudson Guild Gallery, Chelsea, NYC
The Unfixing Workshop - Brussels, Belgium
Millenium Documentary Film Festival, Saturday, April 5, 2025