The Great Turning
Shifting Toward A Life Sustaining Civilization: An Evening with Joanna Macy
Friday, October 10, 2008 * 7:00 - 9:00 pm * $8 Brookline High
School, 115 Greenough Street

World-renowned Buddhist scholar, eco-philosopher, author, and teacher
Joanna Macy has called the current and crucial shifting from our
industrial growth society toward a life-sustaining civilization "the
essential adventure of our time". Like a growing number of people, she
calls this adventure "The Great Turning". Tonight, through a mixture of
inspiration and insight drawn from Buddhist philosophy and the science
of general systems theory, she will reflect on the structural causes of
the ecological and social crises we now face. In addition, she will
provide examples of ways we are beginning to create structural
alternatives in our own lives, understand the world as our larger living
body, and untangle from the assumptions and attitudes that now threaten
the continuity of life on Earth. Macy believes that whether or not
corporations or corporate-controlled media outlets recognize it yet, a
new, necessary, and life sustaining revolution is already well underway.
Join us this evening as we learn ways to help the great turning gain
ever increasing momentum.

Joanna Macy is a respected voice in movements for peace, justice, and
ecology who has woven her scholarship with four decades of activism. Her
groundbreaking theoretical framework for personal and social change, as
well as a powerful workshop methodology for its application, has been
adopted and adapted by classrooms, churches, and grassroots organizing
groups around the world. Her many books include Dharma and Development,
Thinking Like a Mountain, Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General
Systems Theory, a memoir entitled Widening Circles, and World as Lover,
World as Self, as well as two volumes of translation of Rilke's poetry.
Macy travels widely giving lectures, workshops, and training in the
Americas, Europe, Asia, and Australia. She lives in California.

To Register: Fill out a registration form with the course code X199 and
the course title: The Great Turning: Joanna Macy. Include a check for $8
made out to the Town of Brookline. To register by phone call
617-730-2700 or online at brooklineadulted.org

Brookline Adult & Community Education
617-730-2700 ext. 107
craig_hall@brookline.k12.ma.us