by Isabel Smyth

This is the perfect book to read in a crisis. It gives a process for facing the world as we are living in it today.

The foundation of the book is Joanna Macey’s stories of how we understand, relate to and participate in the world – Business as Usual (which we know doesn’t work) the Great Unravelling (which we see all around us) and the Great Transformation. She and Chris Johnstone offer a practice for contributing to the Great Transformation which is set out in terms of a spiral – gratitude, honouring our pain for the world, seeing with new eyes and going forth. Some practical reflections show us how to enter into this spiral as a way of contributing to the healing and transformation of our world. And this is what gives us hope for the future.