Joanna Macy’s body of teachings and group work has helped thousands transform despair and apathy, in the face of overwhelming social and ecological crises, into constructive, collaborative action. This work, called the “Work That Reconnects,” brings a fresh way of seeing the world as our larger living body, freeing us from the assumptions and attitudes that now threaten the continuity of life on Earth.

adrienne maree brown’s teachings ground us in the principles of emergent strategy, generative collaboration, right relationship, and imagination as antidotes to the pervasive patterns of harm in today’s society. Her work infuses possibility into everything it touches, making community liberation a work of art and devotion.

Lydia Violet's work weaves together deep ecology, cultural healing, and the transformative power of music to guide communities through the necessary passages of our time. Through her synthesis of the Work That Reconnects, emergent strategy, and ancestral wisdom, she creates spaces where people discover their unique gifts and callings. Her facilitation awakens what lives beneath despair; the courage to tend our collective inheritance and the imagination to birth new cultures of belonging.

Is an Indigenous musician, scholar, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages. Her messages focus on Indigenous rights, supporting youth, traditional land stewardship practices and healing inter-generational and inter-cultural trauma. She blends her study of Human Ecology at Stanford, graduate work in Indigenous Pedagogy, and the traditional worldview she grew up with to inform her music, perspectives and solutions. Her doctoral research focused on the ways in which pre-colonial Indigenous Nations shaped large regions of Turtle Island (aka the Americas) to produce abundant food systems for humans and non-humans.