The Work That Reconnects Facilitator Training
From Thursday 15 October 2026, six months,
Online with Margo van Greta
This training gives you the skill and confidence to be a facilitator in the Work That Reconnects.
In this time of unprecedented challenges in our world, we need people who are awake, and who will make a positive contribution.
“The Work that Reconnects helps people discover and experience their innate connections with each other and the self-healing powers of the web of life, transforming despair and overwhelm into inspired, collaborative action.” Joanna Macy
It takes the form of a transformative journey through the Spiral of Hope, Honouring our Pain for the World, Seeing with New Eyes and Going Forth.
This training gives you the skill and confidence to be a facilitator in the Work That Reconnects.
Since personal experience of going through the Spiral is essential to facilitate others, the course includes a journey through the practices, while you develop your facilitation skills.
This training is highly experiential. You will actually practice leading aspects of the Spiral both in your buddy groups and in the larger group. We use a holistic, multi-perspective feedback system to enhance your understanding and competence leading people through the transformational journey.
Guest Presenters:
What you can expect:
Course Structure
Prerequisites:
What a previous participants says:
"Now, after less than 2 years since I embarked on this journey of becoming a WTR facilitator, I am very satisfied with where I am at. I can confirm what I had already shared: that your training provided a solid and comprehensive foundation to get started and then be able to dive deeper into the WTR work, while also being able to hold my first WTR spaces right away. After the training, I embarked on a fulfilling and succesful collaboration with another course participant and buddy and we already offered two complete 5-week WTR spirals on Zoom, to an international cohort, as well as a spot event for grief. In addition I have been collaborating with a friend to hold The Council of all Beings online as well as at the European ecovillage gathering in 2024 in Sweden."
Dates and Times
Online, with Zoom.
Cost with Early Bird discount between £1750-£750 until 31 July
There are 5 prices, to make this course available to all:
From 1 August: £2000-£1000
In this time of unprecedented challenges in our world, we need people who are awake, and who will make a positive contribution.
“The Work that Reconnects helps people discover and experience their innate connections with each other and the self-healing powers of the web of life, transforming despair and overwhelm into inspired, collaborative action.” Joanna Macy
It takes the form of a transformative journey through the Spiral of Hope, Honouring our Pain for the World, Seeing with New Eyes and Going Forth.
This training gives you the skill and confidence to be a facilitator in the Work That Reconnects.
Since personal experience of going through the Spiral is essential to facilitate others, the course includes a journey through the practices, while you develop your facilitation skills.
This training is highly experiential. You will actually practice leading aspects of the Spiral both in your buddy groups and in the larger group. We use a holistic, multi-perspective feedback system to enhance your understanding and competence leading people through the transformational journey.
Guest Presenters:
- Mona Zeidan, Cultural Competency
- Kathleen Rude, facilitating the Truth Mandala.
- Jane Hera: recorded video interview dealing with emotions and grief.
What you can expect:
- You will discuss how to lead WTR sessions, courses and events with groups.
- You will identify the target group(s) you will work with.
- You will practise leading the Spiral Journey of The Work That Reconnects: Gratitude, Honouring our Pain for our Worlds, Seeing with New Eyes, and Going Forth.
- You will experiment all aspects of leading sessions, including group building and safety,
- You will design a session or course, using the 8 steps for course design.
- You will evaluate your design and facilitation skills after receiving constructive feedback from yourself, the trainees and the trainer.
Course Structure
- Ten facilitated experiential online sessions, 2 hours each.
- Ten buddy group sessions in small group, 90 minutes each.
- Facilitate WTR exercises with constructive feedback, to yourself, from trainees and the trainer.
- Integration material, including videos with Joanna Macy, weekly study.
- Individual exercises
- An individual coaching session with Margo, 45 minutes
- Course design
- Identify your key audience.
- Identify how to become a registered WTR facilitator
Prerequisites:
- You have actively participated in The Work That Reconnects/Active Hope courses for at least 12 hours, with a qualified facilitator. More experience is very welcome!
- Active participation during the sessions.
- You have read Coming Back to Life by Joanna Macy and Molly Brown, and if possible also Active Hope, by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone.
- Write a short introduction of who you are, why you would like to participate, plus any previous relevant experience in leading groups.
What a previous participants says:
"Now, after less than 2 years since I embarked on this journey of becoming a WTR facilitator, I am very satisfied with where I am at. I can confirm what I had already shared: that your training provided a solid and comprehensive foundation to get started and then be able to dive deeper into the WTR work, while also being able to hold my first WTR spaces right away. After the training, I embarked on a fulfilling and succesful collaboration with another course participant and buddy and we already offered two complete 5-week WTR spirals on Zoom, to an international cohort, as well as a spot event for grief. In addition I have been collaborating with a friend to hold The Council of all Beings online as well as at the European ecovillage gathering in 2024 in Sweden."
Dates and Times
- 2026: Thursday October 15, 29, November 12, 26, December 10.
- 2026: Thursday January 14, 28, February 11, 25, March 11.
- 7-9pm UK time, Check the time in your time zone here
Online, with Zoom.
Cost with Early Bird discount between £1750-£750 until 31 July
There are 5 prices, to make this course available to all:
- Level 5: £1750: To financially support those without the means to participate.
- Level 4: £1500 The regular price to sustain this course.
- Level 3: £1250 The regular price to sustain this course.
- Level 2: £1000: For those on low income and in need of financial assistance.
- Level 1: £750: For those on low income and in need of financial assistance.
From 1 August: £2000-£1000
Free webinar: Becoming a Work That Reconnects Facilitator
Thursday 23 July 2026, 7.30pm BST (UK)
Thursday 27 August 2026, 7.30pm BST (UK)
Check out if this training is for you
Thursday 23 July 2026, 7.30pm BST (UK)
Thursday 27 August 2026, 7.30pm BST (UK)
Check out if this training is for you
About the Trainers
Margo van Greta is a pioneer of holistic spirituality. She creates a safe and supportive space for deepening your inner journey.
She met Joanna Macy in 2000 and fell in love with The Work That Reconnects. It combines her roles as a social activist, Ecovillage resident, and Buddhist practitioner. She facilitates courses based on The Work That Reconnects, both on-site and online.
Originally from the Netherlands, she has lived and worked in Spiritual Ecovillage Findhorn in Scotland, UK, since 1991. She is passionate about integrating spiritual practice into daily life and created Heartbeat Findhorn: Inner Work for Outer Action, providing online courses. She facilitates The Work That Reconnects, the Transformation Game and Feeding Your Demons. She has been a Buddhist practitioner since 1987, created Togme Sangpo Buddhist Group Scotland, and teaches Buddhism.
She has been involved in creating and facilitating experiential training in Ecovillage Findhorn, where she lives in a small eco-house and loves her daily walks to the beach.
Margo van Greta is a pioneer of holistic spirituality. She creates a safe and supportive space for deepening your inner journey.
She met Joanna Macy in 2000 and fell in love with The Work That Reconnects. It combines her roles as a social activist, Ecovillage resident, and Buddhist practitioner. She facilitates courses based on The Work That Reconnects, both on-site and online.
Originally from the Netherlands, she has lived and worked in Spiritual Ecovillage Findhorn in Scotland, UK, since 1991. She is passionate about integrating spiritual practice into daily life and created Heartbeat Findhorn: Inner Work for Outer Action, providing online courses. She facilitates The Work That Reconnects, the Transformation Game and Feeding Your Demons. She has been a Buddhist practitioner since 1987, created Togme Sangpo Buddhist Group Scotland, and teaches Buddhism.
She has been involved in creating and facilitating experiential training in Ecovillage Findhorn, where she lives in a small eco-house and loves her daily walks to the beach.
Mona Zeidan is a Palestinian Internal Family Systems (IFS) trauma therapist working with individuals, intimate partners and groups from diverse cultural backgrounds. Born and raised in the diaspora then settled in the UK as an immigrant, Mona draws on her lived experience of displacement, physical and emotional exile, marginalisation and exclusion as motivation and inspiration for building bridges of cultural curiosity, understanding and competency. Ultimately, she believes that dismantling the oppressive structures of injustice and destruction on this planet needs to fundamentally include a curious, courageous and compassionate inquiry into our own implicit and explicit biases, in our different circles and within our different roles of leadership, authority and/or activism. As well as her extensive training in trauma therapy, Mona has experience and background in the creative arts, community projects, group facilitation, education, journalism, women’s circles and plant medicine.
www.selfheals.co.uk
www.selfheals.co.uk
Kathleen Rude is an environmental activist, shamanic practitioner, and author with a B.S. in Wildlife Ecology and an M.S. in Natural Resources from the University of Michigan. Her passion for environmental advocacy began at age 10, leading to a 15-year career as an environmental writer. Initiated into indigenous spiritual practices by Blackfoot, Northern Ute, and Lakota elders, Kathleen is also a senior facilitator of The Work That Reconnects, mentored by eco-philosopher Joanna Macy. She serves on the leadership team of the Work That Reconnects Network. She has created a Guided Self-Practice of the Work That Reconnects and has authored the novel The Redemption of Red Fire Woman. As a board member of Nuclear Energy Information Service, she promotes sustainable renewable energy and the abolition of nuclear power. She is passionate about blending her diverse experiences to inspire others in creative engagement for a just, regenerative, diverse and thriving world for all.
www.Gaiawisdom.org Workshops: https://www.gaiawisdom.org/workshops
www.Gaiawisdom.org Workshops: https://www.gaiawisdom.org/workshops
What participants say:
"I enjoyed the communal experience of going through the spiral, seeing and getting to know people from other countries who are very engaged in their communities and doing great things."
"I loved that there were so many different formats - big group sessions, buddy groups, individual homework."
"I learned a lot from facilitating within this group, receiving feedback, and watching others."
"Integration materials were excellent at augmenting facilitated sessions and filling any gaps."
"The well-chosen videos and articles were great complements to what we've been learning."
"I appreciated the session design, with opportunities to facilitate in the big group and receive/give lots of feedback."
"I'm now feeling much more confident in facilitating my own sessions!"
Participants Work That Reconnects Facilitator Training, March 2024
"I enjoyed the communal experience of going through the spiral, seeing and getting to know people from other countries who are very engaged in their communities and doing great things."
"I loved that there were so many different formats - big group sessions, buddy groups, individual homework."
"I learned a lot from facilitating within this group, receiving feedback, and watching others."
"Integration materials were excellent at augmenting facilitated sessions and filling any gaps."
"The well-chosen videos and articles were great complements to what we've been learning."
"I appreciated the session design, with opportunities to facilitate in the big group and receive/give lots of feedback."
"I'm now feeling much more confident in facilitating my own sessions!"
Participants Work That Reconnects Facilitator Training, March 2024
