The Peace Center Welcomes Ellen Gunter

Healing Our Broken Connection with the Earth

Thursday, August 12, 7-9 p.m.

From the earliest mythologies, it's clear we all start as a little bit of dirt. But these stories aren't just entertaining. They also carry a profound message: each of us is born with a deep and abiding connection to the earth, one that many of us have lost touch with. And clearly, that connection is broken. The challenges facing each of us at this moment are these: what will it take to wake us up, to see what we are losing? Once awake, how can we understand how the vital components of life on earth—our soil, seed, food, air and water—are being destroyed? Finally—and critically--what can each of us as awakened beings do to help heal our earth and save our species—and all the others being lost in unprecedented numbers?

Author Ellen Gunter (and co-author Ted Carter) spent more than two years interviewing organic and biodynamic farmers, environmentalists, filmmakers, authors, farming advocates, teachers, and spiritual leaders to find the answers to those questions. Using historical narratives, dozens of simple and profound practices and examples of people whose adventures in earth stewardship are showing us the way to our own roles in the world's environmental crises, REUNION: HOW WE HEAL OUR CONNECTION TO THE EARTH is a vital and important venture into an earth-saving venture. Because once we rediscover and repair that connection to our planet, we open ourselves up to solutions we had never considered before.

REUNION is about our relationship to the earth at its most critical environmental juncture. It takes us on an adventure into seeing differently, showing us how to awaken ourselves to the many environmental challenges we live with, and how, by reconnecting to the earth, each of us can begin the work of healing our planet and our shattered, hungry hearts.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ellen Gunter has been a writer and an environmental advocate for more than 30 years. For 20 of those years she was a feature writer for the Dallas Times Herald, the Dallas Observer, and Texas Monthly magazine before becoming a consultant at top tier information technology companies during the technology boom of the 80s and 90s. In 2000, she left that world and began a search for inner meaning that culminated in the publication of REUNION. She now lectures and writes about the connections between spirituality and the environment in the Chicago area. She lives in Oak Park, Illinois.

$25 Advance/$30 at the door

Bring paper and something to write with.
NOTE: a minimum of 10 participants are required to offer this program - bring your friends!!!!

Copies of REUNION: How We Heal Our Broken Connection to the Earth will be available for sale along with a book signing by Ellen. For more information, please visit www.ellengunter.com or www.reunionthebook.com

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Ellen returns Saturday, September 11 for a full afternoon writer's workshop:

"Writing Your Own Spiritual Autobiography" Details and advance registration here.