Women & Power
Workshop Descriptions
Learning to Love the Body You Have
Adrienne Ressler, LMSW, CEDS, and Elisa Mott, BA, CYT, MEd
This experiential workshop, led by a mother-and-daughter team, focuses on reclaiming a positive body identity at all life stages. We learn to nurture and respect our bodies by shifting our focus from external images and expectations about body size, weight, and shape to one based on the signals and sensations of the body itself. We also learn how to make peace with our bodies by utilizing new concepts from art, movement, and yoga to transform our internal self-talk, and engage in role play.
Practices for Sustaining & Passing On Our Feminine Wisdom
Gail Straub
In this workshop, we explore the seven practices for sustaining our powerful female wisdom, including facing our deepest fears; cultivating the sacred quartet of silence, simplicity, solitude, and slowness; and engaging in the creative arts. We also discuss how to pass on our wisdom to the next generation through an appreciation of paradox and the unknown, and the capacity to live with death as a holy advisor. Intended to empower, our time includes lecture, meditation, and small group work.
Blogging Demystified
Ann Friedman, Courtney Martin, Samhita Mukohopadhyay, Miriam Zolia Perez, Jessica Valenti, and Vanessa Valenti
Come to this interactive workshop with the six young editors of Feministing.com, a site with over half a million readers a month. Never even read a blog? No problem—you'll get a virtual tour of some of the most exciting feminist spaces online. Are you a casual reader of blogs, flirting with the idea of writing your own? Fabulous. You'll spend time learning about your options, easy-to-use blogging platforms, and a few notes on outreach and sustainability. All levels of familiarity are welcome. An open mind and a sense of humor are required.
7 Strengths We Inherit From Our Mothers & Grandmothers
Ana Nogales PhD
We each inherit strengths from our mothers, our grandmothers, and other valued women to whom we are connected. As we come to appreciate this rich inheritance, we can learn to integrate what has been bequeathed to us. We explore how to best honor and employ the creative spirit, determination, diplomacy, courage, camaraderie, balance, and confidence that have been handed down to us from preceding generations of women.
Yoga for All Ages: An Experiential Workshop
Maya Breuer and Jana Long
No matter what your age, the practice of yoga can bring balance, harmony, and peace into your life. Yoga is an ever-evolving practice that supports our health and well-being through the various phases of womanhood. In this workshop, explore how you can personalize the practice of yoga to meet you where you are on your journey. We explore the basic tenets of breath, self-awareness, and the tangible and esoteric benefits of yoga for body, mind, and spirit. Come prepared to move!
Orchestrating Our Lives: Work, Home & Self-Care
Cathy Collins
The multiple roles our lives contain can leave us feeling overwhelmed by our busyness and disenchanted with our efforts. This workshop explores ways to harmonize our inner world needs with our outer world responsibilities. Through reflection, discussion, fun, and thought-provoking activities, we begin to see how we can make the different facets of our lives synchronize into a more sustainable life song.
Communicating Across the Generations
Sil Reynolds, RN, and Eliza Reynolds
Come and be a part of our communicating community: sisters, aunts, grandmothers, godmothers, friends, mentors, mothers, and daughters (after all, we are all daughters). Exercises in communication provide us with creative and useful tools for expressing ourselves and listening to each other in new ways. This workshop is run by a mother-and-daughter team who help guide us through any generation gaps into a deeper understanding of ourselves and each other.
The New Sisterhood: Stabilizing an Insecure World
Edit Schlaffer
Provoked by violence and promoted by rhetoric, the world is caught up in a climate of fear. Women, not armies, are ideal agents for positive change. Women believe in the power of soft power and are experts in its skills: listening, persistent negotiations, and dialogue. In this workshop, we view the documentary Journeys through Darkness, and discover from Women without Borders founder, Edit Schlaffer, how you can use your soft-power skills to build long-term education programs and alternative security networks that are the building blocks for a peaceful future.
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