This event is free but registration is required.
In this talk, Echo Brown discusses the spiritual practices that have influenced her life including her career choices and literary works, which are both spiritual in nature. Echo began practicing yoga and meditation. She also began studying shamanism, tantra, and creative development. While living in France, Echo healed the suicidal depression that had plagued her since she was six years old through EMDR and generative coaching. After her kidneys failed, Echo was forced to do some of the deepest spiritual healing of her life,coming to a new understanding of the world and her place in it. She will be sharing the lessons she has learned from her spiritual work and how it has influenced her life.
Echo Brown is the award-winning author of Black Girl Unlimited: The Remarkable Story of a Teenage Wizard (Macmillan), which was named a William C. Morris Award Finalist, a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, a New York Public Library Best Book of the Year, a CCBC Choice Title, and a Rise: A Feminist Book Project Selection, among other honors; as well as The Chosen One: A First-Generation Ivy League (Hachette), which Booklist praised as “powerful and vulnerable” in a starred review. A performer and playwright, Echo created the acclaimed one-woman show Black Virgins Are Not for Hipsters. She is a Dartmouth alumna and the first female college graduate in her family.
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