The Work That Reconnects with Emily Coralyne & Sarah Nahar
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The Work That Reconnects Spiral is an embodiment of systems thinking and deep ecology, revelatory meditations, and dynamic group exercises that reactivate your hope in a changing world.
During this 1.5 hour workshop, we will go around "the spiral", grounding in gratitude, honoring our pain for the world, perceive in new and ancient ways, and finding our ways to go forth knowing that we revisit similar places innerly and outerly at different depths and breadths throughout our experience being human.
As facilitators, we aim to offer a sanctuary in troubling times where you can allow yourself to open to the unraveling and grief of the world, but also access the vision of a reimagined future in your hearts.
We dedicate this space to those bodies on manufactured borders, political and climate refugees and those without designation. May they find belonging, open hearts, and generosity from all kin wherever they find themselves.
Emily Coralyne Bishop (she/her) has been on a path of facilitating the Work That Reconnects and supporting individuals awakening to the crises of our times since 2016 through guidance with cultivating and deepening in relationship to the more-than-human world to adjust from lives steeped in the industrial growth society to lives of service and repair.
She also serves as a tech-savvy assistant for people and projects that are contributing to the Great Turning through website development, program management, and virtual assistance.
Previously, she supported the anti-fracking movement in New York State and California as a Regional Organizer, and was a Project Manager for the Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign (2014) that renewed the first treaty between the Haudenosaunee Peoples and Settlers of their territory. For the past decade, she has woven herself into communities and lives between Syracuse, New York, the Bay Area, California and Tamera Healing Biotope in Portugal.
She has recently studied and obtained a Certificate in Ecopsychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She studied Sociology and Latin American Studies, with a focus on Community Development and Social Change at SUNY Purchase College.
Sarah Nahar neé Thompson (she/her) is a nonviolent action trainer and interspiritual theologian. Now as a PhD candidate in Syracuse, New York (Haudenosaunee Confederacy traditional land) she focuses on ecological regeneration, community cultivation, and spiritual activism.
Previously, Sarah was an organizational consultant for the Tolson Center for Community Excellence, a regional reparations project centered in Elkhart, Indiana. She was also a 2019 Rotary Peace Fellow and worked at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a member of the Carnival de Resistance and has been the Executive Director of Community Peacemaker Teams.
She attended Spelman College, majoring in Comparative Women’s Studies and International Studies, minoring in Spanish. She has an MDiv from Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary.
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