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How Women are Changing the Way We Live |
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Presented by The Women's Institute at Omega, in partnership with The Enlightened Power Project
As women gain increased power and authority in all walks of life, many are asking the question: Can women's leadership create meaningful change in the world? The answer is a resounding Yes!
We know that gender alone doesn't determine a person's behavior and that the feminine side of the human psyche resides in both women and men. Yet, new data is revealing what many have always known: women across political, racial, class, and religious lines bring different and vitally important experience and perspective to life's table.
Join us for a weekend conference of inspiring keynote talks, workshops, and a world-café conversation to celebrate and study how women are changing the way we live both at home and at work. By bringing their authentic feminine voices into business, politics, environmental concerns, money matters, relationships, creativity, and spirituality, women are transforming the very nature of power. This new kind of enlightened power balances personal fulfillment with professional excellence and groundbreaking social change.
Enjoy movement, meditation, music, reflection, and conversation as we address a wide range of topics through expertly led workshops as well as a Saturday night celebration with the dynamic vocal ensemble, Voices of Africa.
Throughout the weekend we address how to balance our inner spiritual work with our desire to make an engaged contribution to the world. We will come away from the conference emboldened, empowered, and expanded by so many powerful like-minded women.
We invite women—and men—from different backgrounds, professions, races, ages, and nations to join us.
Workshop sessions and faculty include (see Descriptions below):
The Imperative for Diversity and Inclusion with Toni Riccardi; Gutsy Women with Lisa Sarasohn; What About Men? Moving Beyond Political Correctness to Gender Inclusion with Tricia Naddaff; Embracing Your Power Woman with Barbara Wilder; Work/Life Integration: Beyond the Myth of Balance with Rayona Sharpnack; Sing, Daughters! Sing Your Dreams Alive with Rachel Bagby; Cultivating the Still Point: The Power of Reflective Leadership with Ellen Wingard; Engaging Men and Children in Green Housekeeping with Annie B. Bond; The Inextricable Link Between Mentoring and Leadership with Stacy Blake-Beard; Making a Space for Yourself with Janine Sarna-Jones; and our visual scribe Carol Anderson, who will capture the conference in images.
Keynote Speakers
Yolanda King, the first child of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King, Ms. King is cocreator of a book of short stories and poems entitled, Open My Eyes, Open My Soul: Celebrating our Common Humanity.
Marcia Ann Gillespie, former editor-in-chief of Ms. and Essence magazines, is president of Liberty Media for Women, a limited liability corporation comprised of women investors that purchased Ms. magazine in 1998.
Celinda Lake is president of Lake Snell Perry Associates, a research-based strategy firm in Washington, D.C., and author of What Women Want: How American Women are Quietly Erasing Political, Racial, Class, and Religious Lines to Change the Way We Live.
Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed author and lecturer. She has published nine books, including her latest book The Gift of Change, and founded the Peace Alliance to establish a U.S. Department of Peace.
Loung Ung is a survivor of the killing fields of Cambodia, national spokesperson for Campaign for a Landmine-Free World, and author of First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers and Lucky Child.
Gail Straub is a teacher, activist, writer, and pioneer in the field of empowerment. The author of The Rhythm of Compassion: Caring for Self, Connecting with Society and coauthor of Empowerment, she codirects the Empowerment Institute and will be co-weaving the conference with Carla Goldstein.
Carla Goldstein, J.D., is an activist, teacher, and lawyer, with 20 years of public interest advocacy experience and is the director of the Women's Institute at Omega. She will be co-weaving the conference with Gail Straub.
Rachel Bagby, formerly of Bobby McFerrin's Voicestra, is our musical weaver. She offers a fragrant world fusion of rhythmically rich chants.
Sharon Salzberg will teach two meditation sessions and assist the focus of the community as a whole in meditation throughout the weekend.
WORKSHOP SESSIONS
The Imperative for Diversity and Inclusion
Toni Riccardi
While progress has been made, people and organizations continue to struggle to incorporate and benefit from diversity. Before learning about others and moving toward inclusion, each of us must recognize and embrace not only our uniqueness, but also our biases. In this session, Toni Riccardi will share her story of "enlightened power" and how she used her personal uniqueness to rise to the senior management at one of the country's premier professional services firms and gain organizational consensus for diversity issues she believed in. She will also share the lessons she has learned since leaving corporate America.
Gutsy Women
Lisa Saraohn
Kindle the soul-power that ignites your confidence, creativity, intuition, and sense of purpose. With energizing movement, breath, and body awareness you learn to develop the pro-creative power concentrated in your body's center and direct it according to your intention for personal, community, and global healing.
What About Men: Moving Beyond Political Correctness to Gender Inclusion
Tricia Naddaff
Through an open, provocative exploration, we delve into the challenges of moving beyond stereotypes and our sometimes confused coexistence with men to boldly envision what the world would look like in a genuine gender inclusive framework and what it will take to begin to move us to that vision.
Embracing Your Power Woman
Barbara Wilder
At midlife, women begin a brand new stage of life. Older women have not been valued in the past, but this workshop helps you move past the old paradigm beliefs to discover your power, your creativity, and your valuable purpose in the second half of life.
Work/Life Integration: Beyond the Myth of Balance
Rayona Sharpnack
In this session we reveal and begin to break free from the tyranny and idealization of work/life balance to a space of designing a plan and practices for a fully integrated life. Come prepared to shed old (and inherited) habits and paradigms.
Sing, Daughters! Sing Your Dreams Alive
Rachel Bagby
Give voice to the vibra lingual powers of your daughterly wisdom. With breath, intention, tone, rhythm and repetition, sing your dreams alive.
Cultivating the Still Point: The Power of Reflective Leadership
Ellen Wingard
Through mindful awareness of our habits of attention as leaders, we deepen our capacity to generate a new kind of power amidst the daily rigors of leadership. The session includes mindfulness practice, dialogue, and shared inquiry into the nature of reflective power as an essential way of being.
Engaging Men & Children in Green Housekeeping
Annie B. Bond
Ninety percent of Annie B. Bond's audience of nontoxic, eco-friendly, and healthy home readers are women. How do we interest men and children in subject of earth friendly living?
Mentoring
Stacy Blake-Beard
Mentoring relationships have been identified as a crucial factor in supporting the career development and advancement of women. Although we have seen an increase in the attention focused on mentoring in women's careers, a number of questions about how to leverage the power of mentoring remain. In this session, Stacy Blake-Beard facilitates an interactive discussion about women's mentoring experiences. Participants in this session: gain greater understanding of the process of mentoring; identify ways to find and enlist mentors; highlight your role in building effective mentoring relationships; discuss the benefits and challenges of cross-gender mentoring; and share best practices around mentoring in contemporary organizations.
Making A Space For Yourself: Finding Your Personal Path to Organization
Janine Sarna-Jones
When getting organized feels unattainable, it is time to forget about cookie-cutter solutions. Define your own vision of "organized" and develop a roadmap for realizing your organizational goals. |
What Our Price Includes: Price above is for tuition only. See the accommodations page for housing/commuter information and fees. See the travel directions page for information on transportation services.
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