The terrain around here is far too dangerous to go it alone.
Rumi knew. And so do you.
Leading in Liminality is a 6-month group coaching container for leaders in these times of upheaval, uncertainty, and possibility. We meet every other Wednesday starting May 20th — 16 sessions over 7 months, capped at 20 participants.
Sliding scale: $150 / $250 / $350 per month. Link in bio to learn more. 🌀
You love this world with every cell in your body.✨
Its tree branches swaying in the wind, its perfectly imperfect humans, the magic intelligence of mycelium, flowers and bees, kind strangers, incredible babies… its aliveness.
And this world that you love — like any intimate relationship — also breaks your heart sometimes (or probably... on the daily)
So what do we do with all of this big wild love and epic heartbreak, all at once?
We let it make us bigger. 🌱
(Swipe for more — and for an invitation.)
#LeadinginLiminality #GreatTurning #WorkThatReconnects #ClimateLeadership #JoannaMacy #ShowUpAnyway #HeartbreakAndHope #LoveThisWorld #GroupCoaching #SocialChangeLeaders #Liminality #ClimateGrief
Join me this Friday, May 8th at 9am PT for a casual info session on Leading in Liminality — my 6-month group coaching container for leaders navigating these times of upheaval, uncertainty, and possibility.
I'll share a bit about the program, then we'll chat, explore your questions, and see if it's a fit.
No pressure, no salesy stuff — just a real conversation to help you discern if LIL is right for you.
Link in bio to join. 🌀
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You love this crazy world with every cell in your body.
Its tree branches swaying in the wind, its perfect yet achingly flawed humans… its stupid, charming internet memes and silly kitchen dance parties, the magic intelligence of mycelium, flowers and bees, its kind strangers, its hugs, roaring oceans, cuddly cats, it’s incredible babies… its aliveness.
✨Read the rest on my substack - link in bio
Introducing Leading in Liminality — a 6-month group coaching container for leaders navigating these times of upheaval, uncertainty, and possibility.
Starting May 20th, we gather to explore how we lead in these wild times with integrity, courage, and compassion — sustainably, and in community.
If you're an organizer, healer, teacher, artist, parent, or professional dedicated to building a better world, this is for you.
🔗 Link in bio to learn more and apply.
We live in a time of dying worlds, decaying empires, collapsing stories of who we are and how the world works...
This is not the end of the world — but it may be the end of THIS world, of this paradigm.
It's scary and disorienting by design, but amid the messiness there is also something precious: an opportunity to churn the dominant paradigm into the rich compost we need to plant seeds of a world more beautiful than we could ever imagine.
🌱Leading in Liminality is back 🌱
LIL is a 6-month group coaching container for leaders who are dedicated to showing up fully in service of life — starting May 20th.
If you're an organizer, healer, teacher, artist, parent, or a professional whose work is in service of a better world — this is for you.
Sliding scale: $150/$250/$350/month. Pay-what-you-can spots available.
Link in bio to apply. Enrollment is open now. ✨
Doors are open for another round of the We Are The Great Turning Podcast Club!
If your heart is broken,
If you feel like you're holding too much of it alone,
If you long to be love with this world even as it breaks your heart,
this community is for you.
🌀Zoom- Wednesdays at 6-8pm EST
🌀March 25 – May 13, 2026 — 8 weeks
🌀20 spots total — filling on a rolling basis
🌀Sliding scale $400–$800, scholarships available
🌀Who it’s for: activists, artists, organizers, community leaders and changemakers who are longing for community and the emotional and spiritual fortitude for the work ahead
🌀 Link in bio or at Jessserrante.com/podclub
Over 8 weeks, we’ll listen to all 10 episodes together — not just as listeners, but as active explorers and practitioners. We’ll let Joanna’s wisdom move from our heads into our bodies, tell the truth about what we’re facing, and resource ourselves to keep showing up in service of life.
In the last few years of her life, I sat at the kitchen table with my friend and mentor Joanna Macy, talking about what it takes to live with our hearts intact in this time of crisis.
We talked about grief and gratitude, burnout and belonging, and falling in love with the world even as it breaks our hearts. Some of these conversations were turned into our podcast, We Are The Great Turning.
Over the last two months, in the WAGT Podcast Club, I had the privilege of returning to those powerful conversations with a crew of brilliant, big-hearted people —folks stubbornly committed to seeding beauty and justice through these times of war and destruction.
The responses from the last Podcast Club moved me so deeply. People kept telling me the same thing: "I didn’t know how much I needed this. This has given me essential fuel for the work I’m doing."
That’s why I’m offering it again. If you’ve been curious, or you’ve been waiting for the right moment — this is your invitation.
🌸Zoom- Wednesdays at 6-8pm EST
🌸March 25 – May 13, 2026
🌸8 weeks
🌸20 spots total— filling on a rolling basis
🌸Sliding scale $400–$800 with scholarships available
🌸Who it’s for: activists, artists, organizers, community leaders and changemakers who are longing for community and the emotional and spiritual fortitude for the work ahead
register + learn more at jessserrante.com/podclub (link in bio)
For the last year and a half, people have been gathering in podcast clubs—with families, colleagues, neighbors, even PTA crews (!!!)—to listen to We Are The Great Turning together.
In these clubs, folk are getting real with each other about what it's like to live in these times: their fears and grief, their hopes and visions, the beauty they long to create, and the longing for deeper community to do the work with.
After hearing all these stories, I got some pod-club envy! So, I'm hosting my own—online and in my Berkeley living room.
🌟8 weeks starting early January
🌟Online - Wednesdays 9am PT
🌟In-person- Mondays 6pm PT
🌟Spaces limited.
🌟Link in bio.
#joannamacy #workthatreconnects #wearethegreatturning #polycrisis #climateaction #belovedcommunity
I’m honored to have been a guest on @tricyclemag “Tricycle Talks” podcast in October. In the episode, I chat with @sharonsalzberg + James Shaheen about the many gifts and lessons I’m carrying on from of my friendship and mentorship with Joanna.
You can find the episode on all podcast apps.
The We Are The Great Turning Podcast Club is a circle for folks who are
Leading in the Great Turning—whether you're:
🌱 An activist or organizer working for justice
🌱 A teacher, healer, or social worker supporting frontline communities
🌱 Working to build alternatives to extractive systems
🌱 A community builder creating spaces that gather people
🌱 An artist using your work to imagine new worlds
🌱 Otherwise challenging the dominant systems of extraction and domination
If you’re longing for community where you can bring the whole complex truth about how it feels to be alive in these times, if you want practical tools for facing grief, staying grounded, and leading with power - Join us.
We begin January 5th (in-person Berkeley) and January 7th (online).
Over 8 weeks, we'll move through the complete arc of the We Are The Great Turning podcast and explore the foundations of the Work That Reconnects framework—from gratitude to grief, from hope to action.
Sliding scale pricing available. Link in bio to learn more.
#GreatTurning #wearethegreatturning #joannamacy
New on my substack: reflections + gifts from the messy underworld of grief
"It didn’t matter that we spent years talking about her coming death or that we made a podcast about it. The real-time experience of living in a world without my beloved friend dropped me into a messy underworld—a place with few words, no clear direction. A place that sometimes felt oddly peaceful, sometimes numb, and sometimes like a quiet frightening disorientation— as if the floor had fallen out from underneath me without making a sound."
link to the full essay in my bio
