A Storytelling Event that Connects Us with the Earth and with Each Other.

We invite you to join us and host a Sacred Earth: Common Ground event in your community.

Sacred Earth:  Common Ground is a creative, engaging way to bridge the cultural-political-religious divides that threaten democracy, devastate Creation and divide communities.  Our strategy is to take advantage of the bridge-building capacity of the ancient art of STORYTELLING.  We believe that “the shortest distance between two people is a story” and “you cannot hate someone whose story you know.”

We invite you to join us as we create a Sacred Earth:  Common Ground event in your community.  With your help we will invite people from a diversity of perspectives together for a time of personal storytelling about experiences we’ve had standing on Holy Ground.  Our definition of Holy Ground is simple:  any time or any place where you have felt DEEPLY CONNECTED with yourself (body, mind spirit), with your neighbor, with the wider natural world, with the Divine.  

We’ll invite “community artists” to spark our imaginations with a poem, a song, a dance, or a work of art on the theme of “Sacred Earth.”   Then we divide people into small, mixed groups, and invite them to tell a 3-minute story about sometime when they stood on Holy Ground.   

One story inspires another.  There will be laughter and camaraderie.  Though we came to the event as separate individuals, from different tribes, by the end of the evening we will have discovered Common Ground that we didn’t know existed.  Often, to celebrate, we serve refreshments that acknowledge the place where we live and move and have our being.  In the desert, for example, we’ve served chocolate chip mesquite cookies and prickly pear lemonade.  In the mountains we’ve served Apache tea and fry bread.

We’d love to bring Sacred Earth:  Common Ground to your community.  If you are interested in learning more, please contact Doug Bland, Melanie Beikman, or send us a message using the Contact Us form.