Teri Grunthaner

Teri Lynn Grunthaner is a white, cis-woman from the coast of California, currently living on the prairie heartland in Lawrence, Kansas. She has been studying and practicing dramatic enactment, ritual, and therapy as a means to re-embody our cooperative nature for nearly a decade. She’s worked with troupes and groups in Theatre of the Oppressed, Playback Theatre, Psychodrama, and more for personal and collective resistance, resilience, and regeneration. Teri likes to get her hands dirty by growing fruit and vegetables, raising farm animals, and living closer to the land. She is also a leader of the Dances of Universal Peace with the Sufi Ruhaniat International and loves to bring the dances into the Work That Reconnects. In late 2016, she launched a local Work That Reconnects community group, currently offering monthly workshops and organizing to launch a weekly book club, regular potlucks, organizing trainings, and weekend/day intensives. She first fell in love with the Work in 2006, and just in the past year has had the privilege to attend a 10-day and 7-day intensive with Joanna.