Dear Friends, Family, and my Community,

You hold inner gifts of unimaginable power and beauty.  For my life, I have been on a grail quest to find my gifts and help others to explore their inner landscape, discover their personal gifts and bring them to the world.  As a young man I lived my life by going into the wild to discover who I was and what I had to give. Nine years ago that path led me to Two Coyotes Wilderness School.  I became the Director of Two Coyotes and each year our school and its mentors transform the lives of hundreds of children, adults and families.  For some of you I have made an impact in your life, for others it is someone in your family, still for others my work is alive in your community. 

This May there is a 10-day workshop that is essential to my growth as a mentor and change maker and I can’t afford to go. . .

 But the story doesn’t have to end here. You can help me to get there.

There are so many dreams that just need a little support to come to fruition. Please be that support for me.  Your donation can help me attend this workshop and bring the heart wisdom of Joanna Macy back to our community and families.

I am so passionate about awakening the gifts in our youth and in our adults because there are so many challenges that we are facing and the future generations will have to face. We will need strong, creative and resilient people of vision and character to lead us home and help create the world we dream of.  The work of Joanna Macy will teach me new tools to help create this world in our community.  Click on the video below to learn about some of the challenges we are facing and how Two Coyotes helps to raise strong and vibrant youth.


Thank you for considering supporting my work and our vision of a healthy regenerative future.

Workshop costs
10-day workshop fee: $2,200
Donation Gifts: $125 (2325)
Go Fund Me fees: 186
Total to Raise: $2511

Gifts for your Donations
Besides my life long commitment to bringing transformational teachings and mentoring to the world and to paying it forward, If you are able to give toward this workshop, there are some delightful ways I want to thank you:

· Give $1-any amount: Come join me for a potluck where I share about the workshop and my experience.

· Give $50: Get a clay transformation bead necklace that was made by kids at a Two Coyotes program to represent transformation and the importance of connecting kids to nature.

· Give $100: Get a special edition mentoring T-shirt

· Give $150 Join me for a four-hour workshop on July 24th. where I share many of the activities I learned at the workshop.  No worries if you can’t make the workshop.  Get a recording of the meditations and activities shared so you can experience them at home.

· Give $300: You have me for a 2-hour birthday party or one-hour speaking event.

·  Give $500: Get a personal 5-hour mentoring session or class with Justin

· Give $1000: Get a Wilderness overnight for you and your family or up to 8 people. (10am-12pm the next day)

Any donations gathered above the cost of this workshop will be donated towards Two Coyotes Scholarship fund.

Thank you for considering supporting my work and our vision of a healthy regenerative future.


About Joanne Macy

Eco-philosopher Joanna Macy, Ph.D., is a scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. A respected voice in movements for peace, justice, and ecology, she interweaves her scholarship with four decades of activism. She has created a ground-breaking theoretical framework for personal and social change, as well as a powerful workshop methodology for its application. 

Her wide-ranging work addresses psychological and spiritual issues of the modern age, the cultivation of ecological awareness, and the fruitful resonance between Buddhist thought and contemporary science. The many dimensions of this work are explored in her books.

 Many thousands of people around the world have participated in Joanna's workshops and trainings. Her group methods, known as the Work That Reconnects, have been adopted and adapted yet more widely in classrooms, and grassroots organizing. Her work helps people transform despair and apathy, in the face of overwhelming social and ecological crises, into constructive, collaborative action. It brings a new 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.

 Link to video of Joanna Speaking at Bioneers Conference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrCPVtf0bWA


About the workshop
The central purpose of the Work that Reconnects is to help people uncover and experience their innate connections with each other and with the systemic, self-healing powers in the web of life, so that they may be enlivened and motivated to play their part in creating a sustainable civilization. In order to do this, we pursue these contributing goals:

· to provide people the opportunity to experience and share with others their innermost responses to the present condition of our world

· to reframe their pain for the world as evidence of their interconnectedness in the web of life, and hence of their power to take part in its healing 

· to provide people with concepts--from systems science, deep ecology, or spiritual traditions--which illumine this power, along with exercises which reveal its play in their own lives 

· to provide methods by which people can experience their interdependence with their responsibility to, and the inspiration they can draw from past and future generations, and other life-forms

· to enable people to embrace the Great Turning as a challenge which they are fully capable of meeting in a variety of ways, and as a privilege in which they can take joy 

· to bring people into mutual support and collaboration in working for the world

Here are the four successive stages or movements of the Work that Reconnects:

These four are:
1.   opening to gratitude,
2.   owning our pain for the world,
3.   seeing with new eyes, 
4.   going forth.

The sequence repeats itself, as the spiral circles round, but ever in new ways. The spiral is fractal in nature: it can characterize a lifetime or a project, and it can also happen in a day or several times a day. The spiral begins with gratitude, because that quiets the frantic mind and brings us back to source. It reconnects us with our empathy and personal power. It helps us to be more fully present to our world. Grounded presence provides the psychic space for acknowledging the pain we carry for our world.

In owning this pain, and daring to experience it, we learn that our capacity to suffer with is the true meaning of compassion. We begin to know the immensity of our heart-mind, and how it helps us to move beyond fear.

 “The most remarkable feature of this historical moment on Earth is not that we are on the way to destroying the world  we've actually been on the way for quite a while. It is that we are beginning to wake up, as from a millennia-long sleep, to a whole new relationship to our world, to ourselves and each other.” –Joanna Macy

Workshop Details:
Intensive: Theory and Practice of the Work that Reconnects
Presenters: Joanna Macy and Anne Symens-Bucher
Location: Loyola House, Ignatius Jesuit Centre, Guelph, ON
Dates: May 9-19, 2016      

Thank you for supporting my work and our vision of a healthy regenerative future.

Sincerely,

Justin Pegnataro