Come experience (or remember) the power women have to liberate each other’s bold and purposeful leadership. Get a taste of what our CWL 6-day immersion retreats offer, and meet and connect with other alumnae. Bring your whole self, and you’ll be warmly welcomed. With: Nina Simons, Bioneers and CWL co-founder; Toby Herzlich, Biomimicry for Social Innovation founder and CWL co-founder.
Leadership is a practice that must begin with insight before it can become impact. Participants will explore their own leadership capacity, engaging in the question: What insight do I need to have in order to create the impact I desire? By examining the personal and social forces that most commonly create obstacles, such as gender, group dynamics, authenticity, and organizational culture, we can begin to raise our leadership capacity for greater impact. With: Lorri Sulpizio, Ph.D., Director of the Leadership Institute at the University of San Diego/founder, USD’s Center for Women’s Leadership.
Women in the Permaculture movement are in the forefront of developing “Social Permaculture”—the application of ecological principles and systems thinking to social dynamics—to structure healthy groups, create meaningful diversity, resolve conflicts and design empowering environments. This interactive session will use exercises and discussions to give us a taste of how these visionary women are highlighting “people care” in regenerative design. With: Starhawk, Earth Activist Training; Pandora Thomas, Earthseed Consulting, Black Permaculture Network; Wanda Stewart, Program Director for the Victory Garden Foundation; Delia Carroll, founding member of the 13 Moon CoLab.
Because traditional healing practices survived centuries of attack but went underground, we inherited a costly divide between spirituality and healing. This is the moment to reintroduce our modern world to the nine sacred healing practices of ritual, initiation, alchemy, soul restoration, shadow and dream work, creativity, embodiment, regular personal practice and connection to the living earth web around us.
Come explore and experience essential practices to bring medicine and healing back into wholeness with acupuncturist/activist Gerri Ravyn Stanfield, LAc.
Come discover a unique breakthrough for transforming gender oppression. Gender Equity and Reconciliation is an innovative experience developed over 24 years in nine countries. In this experiential session, we create a safe forum to engage in interactive exercises to address sensitive issues related to gender, sexuality and relational intimacy. We experience how to build trust and authentic communication so that we can speak truth to our pain without blame or shame, and reclaim mutual harmony and beloved community. With: Rev. Cynthia Brix and William Keepin, Gender Reconciliation International (GRI) co-founders/Directors.
