S'mores Stories: “Listening to Earth: Be Fearless and Get Dirty”
How does a person transmute extremely painful circumstances and thwarted expectations into a life dedicated to service and healing of people, communities, and Earth?
Listening to Laura Lee Lienk opens the door to discovering what insatiable curiosity, willingness to be present with discomfort, and “profundity of thinking and feeling” can catalyze.
Laura Lee connects the dots to create a life-offering of:
Planting seed of hope and curiosity;
Helping people step out of fear;
Finding that when you are willing to sit on the ground and get dirty, “something wonderful will come your way.
Follow how Laura Lee comes to and then is true to her life promise: “My work is to speed up the healing.”
About Laura Lee Lienk
Laura Lee Lienk currently coordinates community-based programs for Watershed and Service Learning Institutes of California State University Monterey Bay. She teaches service learning courses in the Environmental Studies program and she works with faculty in making partnerships with the community. She is dedicated to bringing children, university students, and the general public together in healing the earth and healing human communities in what has become the new environmental and social discipline called Civic Ecology.
Her commitment to simultaneously providing healing opportunities for people and the planet is embodied in her work today. For her work in community, Laura Lee was chosen as one of Monterey County’s Outstanding Women and as a CSUMB Presidential Administrator Awardee. She is Director of Return of the Natives Restoration Education Project.
More from Laura Lee Lienk
As a child, Laura Lee followed her insatiable curiosity, delighting in “the immediacy of finding little things and little moving things, … and puddles.” This energy of discovery, combined with a life-changing circumstance of significant injury and loss, inspired her dedication to service and healing.
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