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Thursday Evening Event: 20th Annual Women of Wisdom Conference
Sponsored by Lisa Michaels, Natural Rhythms
www.naturalrhythms.com
Also join us for Opening Ceremonies 6:00 - 6:45 for women only, free
Opening performances by Lorraine Bayes and Simone LaDrumma
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.
Gaia the Living Earth, Goddess, Archetype and Mother of Us All
Gaia is in the photograph of Earth from Outer Space, at Newgrange on the Winter Solstice, and in the song, "We all come from the Goddess and to her we shall return . . ." She is ancient mother and whose health is threatened by global warming and nuclear winter, now that humanity has the destructive power to turn our beautiful planet into a wasteland. In the Grail Legend, there is a mysterious grail, which is always carried by a woman, and a wounded Fisher King (patriarchy) whose kingdom is a wasteland. Only the grail can heal him and restore and green the wasteland. Might we individually and collectively be grail carriers? (that it is up to us to save the planet is her message in Like a Tree). Might the whole world be in our hands? Gaia Hypothesis, Quantum science, the need for an indigenous spirituality are related insights.
Naomi Tutu
Truth and Reconciliation: Healing the Wounds of Racism
Whether in personal life or in the larger society, we have wounds that block our ability to be the wonderful gifts that we are meant to be in the world. We too have inflicted wounds unto others, but all these wounds can be healed. However, it takes courage and the willingness to speak and hear the truth. That first step to healing is so often the hardest. We are afraid to speak our truth for fear of judgment, rejection and anger. We are also afraid to hear truths that might question our images of ourselves. Yet the pain is only the first step, what comes after that is healing and wholeness. Using South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission as a starting place and model, in this presentation Tutu talks about how we can heal and be healed as individuals and a society.
~ Men are welcome to attend this event ~
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M. D, is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, and an internationally known author and speaker who draws from spiritual, feminist, Jungian, medical and personal wellsprings of experience. She is the author of Like A Tree: How Trees, Women, and Tree People Can Save the Planet, The Tao of Psychology, Goddesses in Everywoman, Gods in Everyman, Ring of Power, Crossing to Avalon, Close to the Bone, The Millionth Circle, Goddesses in Older Women, Crones Don't Whine and Urgent Message from Mother. She is a major advocate for a United Nations 5th World Conference on Women, a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco. She is in two acclaimed documentaries, the Academy-Award winning anti-nuclear proliferation film WomenFor America, For the World, and the Canadian Film Board's Goddess Remembered. www.jeanbolen.com
Naomi Tutu was led to become an activist for human rights through the challenges of growing black and female in apartheid South Africa. Those experiences taught how much we all lose when any of us is judged purely on physical attributes. In her speeches she blends the passion for human dignity with humor and personal stories.
Ms Tutu is the third child Archbishop Desmond and Nomalizo Leah Tutu. She was born in South Africa and has also lived in Lesotho, the United Kingdom and the United States. She was educated in Swaziland, the US and England, and has divide her adult life between South Africa and the US. Growing up the 'daughter of ' has offered Naomi Tutu many opportunities and challenges in her life. Most important of these has been the challenge to find her own place in the world. She has taken up the challenge and channeled the opportunities that she has been given to raise her voice as a champion for the dignity of all.
Her professional experience ranges from being a development consultant in West Africa, to being program coordinator for programs on Race and Gender and Gender-based Violence in Education at the African Gender Institute at the University of Cape Town. In addition Ms Tutu has taught at the Universities of Hartford and Connecticut and Brevard College in North Carolina.
Ms. Tutu is a sought after speaker to groups as varied as business associations, professional conferences, elected officials and church and civic organizations. Ms Tutu has also led Truth and Reconciliation Workshops for groups dealing with different types of conflict. Together with Rose Bator she is writing a book provisionally titled I Don't Think of You as Black: Honest Conversations on Race and Racism.
In addition to speaking, Ms Tutu is a consultant to two organizations, the Spiritual Alliance to Stop Intimate Violence (SAIV), founded by renowned author Riane Eisler and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Betty Williams, and the Foundation for Hospices in Sub-Saharan Africa (FHSSA). Ms Tutu is a single mother of three and currently lives in Nashville, TN.
~ Men are welcome to attend this event ~
Note:
This event has WOW member and non member prices. You can become a member of Women of Wisdom at the website: www.womenofwisdom.org. There are also special prices for teens, seniors, and students.
For full conference details go to our website, www.womenofwisdom.org. It will be helpful if you study the conference events there first, and be ready to register your selections at Brown Paper Tickets. All workshops are at North Seattle Community College and parking is free. Special evening events are held at Seattle First Baptist Church.
Men are invited to attend the evening events - Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, Feb. 16th-18th, and workshops on Sunday, Feb. 20th from 7:00 - 10:00pm. All other events are women only.
Registration will be available on site during the conference. Many workshops will still have space available, and evening events will have tickets available at the door. If any events are sold out we will list that here, or on voice mail, 206-782-3363. It's best to come to the conference and find out what's available.
Media- contact Women of Wisdom for passes to this event.
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LocationSeattle First Baptist Church (View)
1111 Harvard Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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