Cheryl Walker says a film about Texan prisoners might be the first step for shire residents looking to find Inner Peace.
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“It could benefit a lot of people in this area,” Ms Walker said.
The peace educator said the award-winning documentary was four years in the making, and followed four men incarcerated at the Dominguez State Jail on their journey of self-discovery.
“The film – Inner Peace – outlines a different approach: a program which puts people in touch with their own humanity and innate resources,” Ms Walker said.
There is nothing wrong with achieving big things but that is not who you are.
- Cheryl Walker
“This is no band-aid solution; the Peace Education Program goes to the heart of being human. These men grew up in poverty, believed they were what they were. They didn’t know they had good in them.
“Anyone who watches the film will enjoy it – its a good film and an inspiring one.”
Ms Walker said the Peace Education Program wasn’t just for prisoners.
“These men were the worst of the worst but it works in other settings – we are all human beings,” she said.
“It’s a program I would like to run here. It’s about personal peace – inner peace – not world peace.”
This movie is so inspiring but you can only see it at the cinema.
- Cheryl Walker
Ms Walker has spent her life as a peace educator and Prem Rawat – originator of the Peace Education Program – has been a strong influence.
“Next year I turn 70. I first heard him speak when I was 26 and completely lost. He brought me home to myself,” she said.
“He doesn’t teach anything new, just reminds people of their humanity. In the film he visits the prisoners with such humility; it touches you to watch it the way it touched the prisoners to experience it.”
Last year Ms Walker joined a team in Canberra who took the program to the Alexander Maconochie prison, “a success and still running”. She has since run the course at Bermagui and Kianga.
“Life isn’t about what we do but about being alive. There is nothing wrong with achieving big things but that’s not who you are,” she said
“How much bad news is there around? This movie is so inspiring but you can only see it at the cinema.”
Inner Peace screens at the Narooma Kinema at 7.30pm on Friday, June 1 and 2.30pm on Saturday, June 9. Tickets are $10 and half of proceeds will be donated to mental health research through Australian Rotary Health.
View the movie trailer.
More information: Cheryl Walker 0413 83 4141
This movie is so inspiring but you can only see it at the cinema.
- Cheryl Walker
