Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
About this Documentary Short:
A scholar, activist, and Buddhist thinker, Joanna Macy, PhD, has shaped movements worldwide. This short film highlights her impact on activism, nuclear guardianship, and personal transformation, and showcases how the Joanna Macy Center at Naropa continues to inspire hope and responsibility for future generations, both locally and beyond.
About the Joanna Macy Center for Resilience & Regeneration:
Naropa University’s Joanna Macy Center seeks to advance Joanna Macy’s work and vision by empowering present and future generations to build a more resilient world that works for all. Our goal at the Center is to help Naropa students, faculty, and the broader community develop deep and loving relationships with themselves, each other, and nature. These healing connections inspire us to join together in collaborative action. As Dr. Macy reminds us, we are all interconnected, and this interconnectedness is the key to our healing.
Upcoming Conference: Reconnecting for a Just and Regenerative Future | April 11–13, 2025
Join us for Reconnecting for a Just and Regenerative Future, a powerful three-day conference at Naropa University, celebrating 50 years of visionary learning and action inspired by the legacy of Joanna Macy's The Work that Reconnects. In a time of deep social and ecological crisis, this gathering brings together frontline leaders from environmental activism, social justice, ecopsychology, Indigenous decolonization work, and more to reimagine what’s possible.
Register here: https://www.naropa.edu/reconnecting-for-just-and-regenerative-future/
Documentary Short Sponsors: This video is made possible by the incredible generosity and support of Christopher & LuAnne Hormel.
Production: River North Media & Naropa University staff
About this Documentary Short:
A scholar, activist, and Buddhist thinker, Joanna Macy, PhD, has shaped movements worldwide. This short film highlights her impact on activism, nuclear guardianship, and personal transformation, and showcases how the Joanna Macy Center at Naropa continues to inspire hope and responsibility for future generations, both locally and beyond.
About the Joanna Macy Center for Resilience & Regeneration:
Naropa University’s Joanna Macy Center seeks to advance Joanna Macy’s work and vision by empowering present and future generations to build a more resilient world that works for all. Our goal at the Center is to help Naropa students, faculty, and the broader community develop deep and loving relationships with themselves, each other, and nature. These healing connections inspire us to join together in collaborative action. As Dr. Macy reminds us, we are all interconnected, and this interconnectedness is the key to our healing.
Upcoming Conference: Reconnecting for a Just and Regenerative Future | April 11–13, 2025
Join us for Reconnecting for a Just and Regenerative Future, a powerful three-day conference at Naropa University, celebrating 50 years of visionary learning and action inspired by the legacy of Joanna Macy's The Work that Reconnects. In a time of deep social and ecological crisis, this gathering brings together frontline leaders from environmental activism, social justice, ecopsychology, Indigenous decolonization work, and more to reimagine what’s possible.
Register here: https://www.naropa.edu/reconnecting-for-just-and-regenerative-future/
Documentary Short Sponsors: This video is made possible by the incredible generosity and support of Christopher & LuAnne Hormel.
Production: River North Media & Naropa University staff
