Joan Ranquet | Live with Joan: with Special Guest Ellie Laks of The Gentle Barn @JoanRanquet | Uploaded December 2020 | Updated October 2024, 21 hours ago.
If you missed Live with Joan in the Facebook Group Learn to Communicate with Animals, my guest last week was Ellie Laks, founder of the Gentle Barn. It was very fun and she was so generous with her description of what CWALU means for her.
Founded by Ellie Laks in 1999, The Gentle Barn rescues, rehabilitates and gives sanctuary to severely abused animals. They also have children’s programs geared toward getting kids into the stalls and fields and interacting with the animals. This promotes healing in both the children and the animals!
If I could say one thing about Ellie, it is that she embodies leadership. The truth is, I would rather tell you 90,000 things about Ellie. But I will encapsulate it in one thing – embodied leadership. True, authentic leadership.
She leads with her heart and gives her heart to The Gentle Barn and all of the animals. She gives her heart to the humans that need healing. She gives her heart to her husband and her kids.
She simply gives her heart.
Way back when I still lived in Seattle, I started following the Gentle Barn. When I moved to Santa Clarita it took me about 6 months to realize that Ellie (and the Gentle Barn) were right around the corner!
One of my students reached out to Ellie on my behalf to see if she would be open to me teaching for The Gentle Barn. Her husband Jay replied, “Why would we do that, my wife is an animal communicator.”
So we backed off. But when I needed speakers for an event I was co-hosting with In Defense of Animals called Hope for Animals Summit I knew I had to reach out again. Ellie was my first pick.
I went to the Gentle Barn right after that, asked her if she would ever sneak out for lunch and the rest is history. Okay, it wasn’t that easy because between our two travel schedules back in the day when people used to fly, it was tough to nail down a lunch. But the first lunch we had was about 4 hours long.
Since then we (the school) have gone to the Gentle Barn every Spring and Fall Intensive. And The Gentle Barn animals are regularly in our private healing group. It is a beautiful relationship between the two organizations.
Ellie and I joke that we are possibly one cell/soul that was split before conception and made a contract that one would do the rescue thing and the other would do the communication thing and we’d meet up in the middle, exchange notes, and carry on with the work together to help all life.
The idea that she and some of her staff have joined CWALU’S Big Program is beyond the beyond. A true dream come true for us, for Ellie, for The Gentle Barn. And, I know, animals (and people) will be helped all over the globe.
If you are already familiar with the Communication with All Life University’s Animal Mastery Program and want to get your application in NOW, click here https://ql429.infusionsoft.app/app/form/amp-interview-form to be contacted for more information.
If you missed Live with Joan in the Facebook Group Learn to Communicate with Animals, my guest last week was Ellie Laks, founder of the Gentle Barn. It was very fun and she was so generous with her description of what CWALU means for her.
Founded by Ellie Laks in 1999, The Gentle Barn rescues, rehabilitates and gives sanctuary to severely abused animals. They also have children’s programs geared toward getting kids into the stalls and fields and interacting with the animals. This promotes healing in both the children and the animals!
If I could say one thing about Ellie, it is that she embodies leadership. The truth is, I would rather tell you 90,000 things about Ellie. But I will encapsulate it in one thing – embodied leadership. True, authentic leadership.
She leads with her heart and gives her heart to The Gentle Barn and all of the animals. She gives her heart to the humans that need healing. She gives her heart to her husband and her kids.
She simply gives her heart.
Way back when I still lived in Seattle, I started following the Gentle Barn. When I moved to Santa Clarita it took me about 6 months to realize that Ellie (and the Gentle Barn) were right around the corner!
One of my students reached out to Ellie on my behalf to see if she would be open to me teaching for The Gentle Barn. Her husband Jay replied, “Why would we do that, my wife is an animal communicator.”
So we backed off. But when I needed speakers for an event I was co-hosting with In Defense of Animals called Hope for Animals Summit I knew I had to reach out again. Ellie was my first pick.
I went to the Gentle Barn right after that, asked her if she would ever sneak out for lunch and the rest is history. Okay, it wasn’t that easy because between our two travel schedules back in the day when people used to fly, it was tough to nail down a lunch. But the first lunch we had was about 4 hours long.
Since then we (the school) have gone to the Gentle Barn every Spring and Fall Intensive. And The Gentle Barn animals are regularly in our private healing group. It is a beautiful relationship between the two organizations.
Ellie and I joke that we are possibly one cell/soul that was split before conception and made a contract that one would do the rescue thing and the other would do the communication thing and we’d meet up in the middle, exchange notes, and carry on with the work together to help all life.
The idea that she and some of her staff have joined CWALU’S Big Program is beyond the beyond. A true dream come true for us, for Ellie, for The Gentle Barn. And, I know, animals (and people) will be helped all over the globe.
If you are already familiar with the Communication with All Life University’s Animal Mastery Program and want to get your application in NOW, click here https://ql429.infusionsoft.app/app/form/amp-interview-form to be contacted for more information.
