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Threads of Connection: The Global Fabric of the Work That Reconnects
Friday, 12 December 2025 | 12:30 PM IST
Register here: https://form.jotform.com/253147265575160

Across the world, we are living through times that test the very fabric of our belonging: wars that mirror inner fractures, ecological loss that echoes our disconnection from the sacred, and systems that reward isolation more than interdependence.
The Work That Reconnects offers a way to meet these times, not by retreating, but by remembering. It helps us hold grief without despair, act without domination, and root our movements in interbeing.
On 12 December, I’ll be in conversation with Amanda Yik (Hong Kong) and Joanna Tomkins (South Africa), moderated by Denise Pang (Norway), for Threads of Connection, a global dialogue exploring how this Work is being reimagined across cultures.
From India, I’ll bring reflections from my work in leadership, peacebuilding, and systems transformation, on what it means to decolonise, to listen to the Earth, and to act from reverence rather than urgency.
Join us as we explore how the Work That Reconnects can help us remember who we are: threads in a vast, living web.

I arrived into Nairobi a couple of weeks ago exhausted, probably at the edge of a burnout. It has been a challenging year professionally with the turbulence in the world, both in terms of my corporate consulting practice and peacebuilding work. Of course there have been high points too: utterly rewarding pieces of work, several publications, podcasts and ideas that are still in the nursery. Nevertheless, sometimes the battles catch up with you. All I remember of the flight from Mumbai to Nairobi is boarding and settling into my window seat and being squashed against the window because of a rather large man on the middle seat. But it had been a few long days before that and the tiredness took over. The next thing I remember is the landing announcement.
The week in Kenya promised to be intense (and it was), with a board meeting, some colonial legacies needing to be challenged, and some ideation for the way forward. Thankfully, it was also a gathering of women, and when women gather, invariably magic happens. Even if the week was intense, it was nourishing. Some of us also managed to sneak out a little time to connect with the land and its beings, and they brought us the healing and grounding we needed.
I came back to a busy week of graduation seminars for a course I was doing this year, and then crashed into a viral fever, but the vibrant, grounded spirit of Africa continues to pulse within and evoke primal memories of connection with the planet as I heal.

In our November study of the Devi Mahatmyam at Vishoka, we entered the most intricate terrain of the text: the deaths of Raktabīja and Niśumbha, and the Devi’s first steps into Chapter 10. These chapters revealed not only mythic battles but the deeper mechanics of how harm multiplies, how ego reorganises, and how clarity interrupts both. Raktabīja showed us the danger of unchecked replication — in violence, in misinformation, in collective outrage — and the need to break cycles rather than overpower them. Niśumbha illustrated how ego sheds form after form, resisting dissolution even when its time is done. Through it all, the Devi’s lion reminded us of power held in right measure. And as Chapter 10 opened, sound became a tool of dispersal — a clearing of intoxication before renewal. These teachings feel urgent in a world struggling with retaliation, delusion, and the need for discernment.
Read the full blog at https://devimahatmyam.substack.com/p/the-echo-after-the-roar-moving-beyond

It’s a deep honour to share that Coming Together in the 'Great Turning: Collective Liberation and the Work That Reconnects' is being launched globally today.
For over a decade, the Work That Reconnects has been a living thread in my facilitation and peacebuilding practice — a way of remembering our interbeing through systems thinking, story, and shared grief and gratitude. Co-authoring the short chapter on this work in India with my friend and colleague Mayuree Pandit felt like a homecoming: an invitation to root this work in the soil of our land, with all its ecological wisdom, caste complexities, and decolonial awakenings.
This book is not just a collection of essays; it’s a living map of the Great Turning, written by many hands. I would love for you to join us for the online launch today and be part of this unfolding conversation.
📅 November 22, 2025 @ 8:30 am - 10:30 am PST/ 10:00 pm - 12 midnight IST
Register at https://workthatreconnects.org/event/coming-together-in-the-great-turning-book-launch/