I think my success in facilitating so far really speaks to the success of an inter-generational model of mentoring. I've been so supported for so many years...
that I really feel ready to do this. (Or, sometimes I have doubts, but always have someone to call or reach out to." Teaching these classes has been so powerful.
Really, genuinely life-changing, and I'm so grateful for the model you've put in place and for the abundance of support I have even now."
(Megan Stentz, e-mail 10/10/11)
that I really feel ready to do this. (Or, sometimes I have doubts, but always have someone to call or reach out to." Teaching these classes has been so powerful.
Really, genuinely life-changing, and I'm so grateful for the model you've put in place and for the abundance of support I have even now."
(Megan Stentz, e-mail 10/10/11)
December 28, 7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
December 29 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
December 30 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Where
Women Writing for a Change building
6906 Plainfield Road
Who
16 slots are available
Call now to reserve your place in the circle
(1) *Participants: any girls / women, ages 16 and older who want to learn together by BEING a community practicing conscious feminine expression, facilitation, and connection across the board: from logistics through the depths of feeling and the heights of "new thinking" and paradigm re-creation.
*I am hoping for a blend of FLA / YFLA participants, participants in the September 28-30 facilitation training, current or former participants in writing classes from any/all WWf(a)C sites, current or former facilitators of girls and women's classes, board members, newcomers who are passionate about learning a depth model of conscious feminine ways of working in the world, and of writing their truths. Women who have been successful in masculine-only ways and want to learn the orphaned other... Deadline: December 1, 2011. Class will be offered if there are ten participants by December 1.
How much
Sliding scale of $100-$300 will resource the teacher, fund use of the physical space and two scholarships.
You will be asked to donate time and food for December 29 breakfast & lunch and December 30 Breakfast.
Visa, Master Card, American Express, Paypal or checks
Why
liminal 1884, a rare word, from L. limen "threshold."
My dear sisters across the generations and around the country,
I don't need to tell you we are in liminal time, all of us on the planet. It's by now a cliché, but no less powerful an image that Chinese pictographs which form the word crisis are two: risk and opportunity.
What is at risk during the excitement and the terror of threshold moments is what is always at risk---only more so: the expression of the conscious-of-itself feminine ( as opposed to the unconscious defined by what the culture says it is feminine).
A number of stories have intersected to prompt me to create a container for sustaining the connection to the conscious feminine which many of us have held because of our participation in Women Writing for (a) Change.
One story I must tell is that in the late summer of 2011, Chelsey Shannon, Avery Smith and Meg Stentz approached me to ask me to think / feel with them about how they might continue to develop their vocations as conscious feminine teachers of girls and women.
We met, wrote and talked together, and the name SCFC emerged from our readback lines. I said I would create a container to mentor these busy, gifted college-aged women who have been held in the WWf(a)C communities since they were girls. We discussed a distance learning model using skype and a community blog, to be followed by face-to-face gathering during their Christmas break.
However, I have been too swamped with commitments to clear space for doing more than asking the ED at WWf(a)C Cincinnati, Emilie Davis, to hold December 28-30, as dates I would like to use the first floor space for a workshop-retreat.
Additional details:
Teacher: Mary Pierce Brosmer
Place & overnight Accommodations
Local hotels or stay with friends in Cincinnati (arrange on your own) the WWf(a)C building is handicap accessible and is located at 6906 Plainfield Rd. 45236
Other Stories
SCFC is not the same as the former Feminist Leadership Academy (FLA) and Young Feminist Leadership Academy (YFLA) programs, and does not certify or license participants to use the Women Writing for (a) Change trademark. Women Writing for (a) Change has suspended those programs while leaders are wisely discerning priorities for the second generation of organizational life.
Texts:
Women Writing for (a) Change: A Guide for Creative Transformation available at Amazon, on Kindle, at Jos. Beth
To Be A Woman: The Birth of the Conscious Feminine. Copies available at bookfinder.com
Directions for registration:
(1) send check for tuition (see sliding scale) to
Mary Pierce Brosmer
6240 Beechview Circle
Cincinnati, OH 45213
(2) Please include one typed page to this prompt: What do you want to learn here? What do you hope to teach? Why? Why now?
(3) Request for scholarship: add a note re amount desired. Scholarships available first come, first served.
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