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You are invited to join us for a taster session of Active Hope based on the work of the late Joanna Macy and the Work that Reconnects (WTR) on 21st August at 7.30pm online.
In this taster session, you will get a flavour of the spiral of Active Hope which has been developed and updated over many decades. The spiral provides us with a set of powerful collective practices that we can return to over and over again to resource ourselves for consciously participating in the world during these times of crises and chaos. Creativity, stories, music and movement are valued in this work as we give ourselves space to reconnect with nature, ourselves and others.
In this session, you will hear from and have a chance to ask questions to our experienced Active Hope facilitators who run workshops, days and weekend gatherings for the public and for existing groups.
“The Active Hope retreat was a peaceful and inspiring experience that gave me the space to reflect, re-energise, and reconnect with what truly matters. It helped me find a clear, motivating path forward for my work with Kyrie Therapeutic Farm and reminded me of the strength that comes from stillness, community, and purposeful hope.” - John McKeon, Kyrie Therapeutic Farm“I strongly recommend Sarah-Jane and Josephine’s Active Hope workshops/tasters/seminars as they offer a space for people to stop and think about the mess we’re in. Having the space to think deeply about the climate crisis in a calm, connected and serious way and then working through overwhelm towards hope was invaluable. People from across the university found benefit in the sessions, despite their different world views, ways of working and backgrounds. I highly recommend.” - Martina Mullin, Healthy Campus Manager, Trinity College Dublin
You are invited to join us for a taster session of Active Hope based on the work of the late Joanna Macy and the Work that Reconnects (WTR) on 21st August at 7.30pm online.
In this taster session, you will get a flavour of the spiral of Active Hope which has been developed and updated over many decades. The spiral provides us with a set of powerful collective practices that we can return to over and over again to resource ourselves for consciously participating in the world during these times of crises and chaos. Creativity, stories, music and movement are valued in this work as we give ourselves space to reconnect with nature, ourselves and others.
In this session, you will hear from and have a chance to ask questions to our experienced Active Hope facilitators who run workshops, days and weekend gatherings for the public and for existing groups.
“The Active Hope retreat was a peaceful and inspiring experience that gave me the space to reflect, re-energise, and reconnect with what truly matters. It helped me find a clear, motivating path forward for my work with Kyrie Therapeutic Farm and reminded me of the strength that comes from stillness, community, and purposeful hope.” - John McKeon, Kyrie Therapeutic Farm“I strongly recommend Sarah-Jane and Josephine’s Active Hope workshops/tasters/seminars as they offer a space for people to stop and think about the mess we’re in. Having the space to think deeply about the climate crisis in a calm, connected and serious way and then working through overwhelm towards hope was invaluable. People from across the university found benefit in the sessions, despite their different world views, ways of working and backgrounds. I highly recommend.” - Martina Mullin, Healthy Campus Manager, Trinity College Dublin
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M.A. in Teaching Mindfulness-Based Approaches, Bangor University, Wales
Josephine Lynch, M.A. Mindfulness-based Approaches (Bangor University), Lic. Ac., Dip. Herbal Medicine, has also gained the Certificate of Competence to Teach Mindfulness-Based Courses from the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice at Bangor University. She completed a two year programme with the Bodhi College in early Buddhist Psychology and its influence on contemporary practice. She is also a qualified to offer supervision to mindfulness teachers.
Josephine was among the first people to bring the teaching of mindfulness in the tradition of Jon Kabat-Zinn to Ireland and has been teaching MBSR/MBCT since 2005. She also teaches Mindful Self-Compassion and, having undergone a period of intensive supervision, and has completed all requirements to become a fully certified teacher of the Mindful Self-Compassion program as outlined by the Center for Mindful Self Compassion. Josephine was part of the team that brought the world renowned Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh to Ireland in 2012.
Josephine is one of the core team of teachers on the M.Sc. in Mindfulness-Based Interventions in UCD and had been involved in programme development and delivery since its inception in 2014.
Josephine’s background is in Mind / Body Medicine and she has worked most of her life using acupuncture, shiatsu and herbal medicine to foster mind / body wellbeing. She was involved in developing and working with Sláinte Pobal in Dublin in the 1990’s, an initiative to bring courses in health education into areas of socio economic disadvantage.
Josephine was one of the founder members of the professional body, the Mindfulness Teachers Association of Ireland (MTAI.ie) which represents mindfulness teachers in Ireland and was its first chairperson from February 2018 until October 2020. She has been organizing CPD for mindfulness teachers and teacher trainees since 2008, fostering and supporting the development of a strong community of mindfulness teachers in Ireland.
Josephine is one of the founders of The Mindfulness Centre (mindfulness.ie, 2008), and she is co-director of the 18-month Professional Mindfulness Teacher Training programme which the Centre has been running since 2015.
Diploma in Mindfulness-Based Interventions, PhD, Academic FCIPD
Sarah-Jane Cullinane (PhD, Diploma in Mindfulness-Based Interventions) is an experienced facilitator, mindfulness teacher, and educator with over 15 years experience working with adult groups ranging from 5 to 500 participants. She leads short and long programmes ranging from 8 week courses, weekend retreats and half/full-day workshops, working with both the general public, with community / advocacy and activist groups, and with management / board groups in the areas of Group Development, Mindfulness, and The Work that Reconnects. She has also completed training in facilitating Council Circles which she uses in much of her work with groups.
Sarah-Jane is currently chair of the board of the Mindfulness Teachers Association of Ireland, a non-profit professional body of qualified mindfulness teachers. She previously worked in Trinity College Dublin as lead Fellow of Education for Sustainable Development and Assistant Professor in Organisational Behaviour where she led a curriculum reform programme across the University and co-developed transdisciplinary modules on Education for Sustainable Development, the Climate and Ecological Crises, and Work and Wellbeing. She co-developed the Postgraduate Diploma in Workplace Wellness in Trinity College Dublin and acted as an academic lead for Healthy Trinity. During this time Sarah-Jane published and contributed to content in national and social media on the topics of mindfulness and sustainability.
Sarah-Jane is particularly interested in creating supportive space for individuals and groups to explore their deep ecology and relationship with the natural world, to grieve for its unfolding destruction and social injustice, and to cultivate their collective resilience and agency for deep transformation.
