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Naomi Tutu Featured Workshop: 20th Annual Women of Wisdom Conference
Naomi Tutu
Healing Ourselves, Our Relationships, Our World
As we look around our world we see brokenness in so many places and people. If we are honest with ourselves we have to admit that the brokenness starts so often within ourselves. What happened to our dreams, to the great things we were going to do in the world? What happened to the wonderful people we were going to be; the most devoted friend, the most supportive spouse, the most loving parent, the most serene person? The path and dreams we laid out for ourselves are rarely the reality of our lives today. We each have faced challenges and experienced brokenness and broken relationships.
Reconciliation and healing moves us ever closer to the people we were created and intended to be. This workshop focuses on reconciliation and healing at three levels. As we begin to look at how we might reconcile a wounded world we must start with ourselves, so the first level is the personal. When and where did I lose my trust and love of myself, how do I reconcile and come to love and value myself. The second level looks at our relationships with those closest to us; our family and friends. Those closest us to us are also the ones most likely to hurt and be hurt by us. How can we start rebuilding and healing wounded and broken relationships? Finally, we move to the larger world, the them and us. Who is our other and how did we come to see them as such. How can we move to accepting and celebrating our common humanity along with our differences?
This workshop uses meditation, readings, activities and conversations.
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.
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This event has WOW member and non member prices. You can become a member of Women of Wisdom at the website: www.womenofwisdom.org.
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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LocationNorth Seattle Community College (View)
9600 College Way North
Seattle, WA 98103
United States
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