The Essential Joanna Macy | Online | Tuesdays - Oct 20 - Dec 8 | 5 - 6:30 pm PT | An 8-week course with Lydia Violet, featuring recorded teachings from Joanna Macy

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Singing the Bones | In-person - Oct 22-25 | Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY | Starts 4 pm | Reconnecting to Ancestral Folkloric Traditions with Lydia Violet and Leah Song

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An Evening of Community Singing with Lydia Violet and Singing Resistance NYC | In-person - Oct 29 | Christ Church Cobble Hill, NYC | 7 - 9 pm

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Bake & Blade | In-Person - Nov 4-8 | Sebastopol, CA | Limited to 12 participants

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Music as Medicine Community Sing with KJ Song | Online | Sun - Nov 15 | 10 - 11:15 am PST

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School for the Great Turning Entries

April 2, 2026

No Resolutions, Just a North Star: 2025 in review

Lydia Violet

A reflection on the year behind us and the vision ahead — honoring the gatherings, immersions, and teachers that shaped our community, and holding space for the profound losses of beloved teachers Manchán Magan and Joanna Macy, whose legacies continue to guide the Great Turning.

March 29, 2026

The Heart That Breaks Open…

Lydia Violet

It was the first meeting of our Wild Love for The World Book Group, beginning almost two years into a pandemic that has taken so much from us.

March 11, 2026

Joanna Macy

Lydia Violet

There are no words strong enough to honor what this luminous woman has given us. We always knew her transition would come, as Joanna herself often reminded us, quoting her Buddhist teachers: “Death is certain; time of death is uncertain.”But one thing is beyond question: Joanna Macy LIVED.

June 17, 2023

Joanna Macy at The Great Turning Summit - Being The Great Turning

School for the Great Turning

Being The Great TurningIn addition to working together on behalf of life, The Great Turning at its root also invites us into an identity shift that lifts us from human anthropocentrism into a homecoming into the web of life. We are, and have always been, a part of the larger miracle of life on this planet.

June 17, 2023

Lydia Violet at The Great Turning Summit

School for the Great Turning

Environmental activist, scholar, and writer Joanna Macy identifies three overarching narratives or stories that shape our understanding of the world and influence our actions. These stories provide different lenses through which we perceive and engage with reality. Macy refers to these as "The Three Stories of Our Time.” Listen in to orient yourself in these confusing times, and better understand what’s happening in your own life, through one of Joanna Macy’s most appreciated insights.

June 16, 2023

Messages from Memphis: Vahisha Hasan at Great Turning Summit

School for the Great Turning

Rev. Vahisha Hasan speaks from a critical intersection of frontline experience protecting Black lives in the United States, working with TRACC (trauma response and crisis care) for Movements, and faith-rooted organizing. Vahisha discusses some of her experiences as a facilitator responding to movement trauma, some of the manifestations of this trauma in the developmental cycle of movements, and a vision for a network of healing care providers (mental health, spirit care, holistic and embodied care), who can mobilize for crisis response. Learn and find new inspiration from Vahisha’s frontline experience and visionary perspective.