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Looking ahead to our 7th and 8th leadership programs for women, we welcome you to consider participating in this unique experience. With each program, we have become more fully convinced of both the need for and the power of a “time away” for women to reflect, learn and recharge in a supportive and energizing community.
The Program
The core of our multidimensional curriculum is the concept of “voice,” which is, for women, synonymous with our identity. How do we in our personal and professional relationships speak with confidence in our authentic voice? How do we encourage it in others? How do we remain true to ourselves and whole as we do our work in the world?
We do this work together in a process that moves back and forth from experience to theory, from individual to community, from structured to unstructured learning. Some key elements of our process are:
STORYTELLING
- Storytelling: the opportunity for each of us to tell our stories and reflect on where we’ve been, where we are and where we’re going. Our personal stories, revealing all that we have in common as well as the ways we’re different, become the glue that connects us as a community.
- Storytelling from different perspectives – hearing about the incredibly rich history of the home we inhabit, visiting the Taos pueblo to immerse ourselves in a totally different worldview – feeling the groundedness of the oldest continually inhabited community in North America. Spending an evening with a woman from the pueblo, hearing her story, and her efforts to have her voice heard.
CUTTING EDGE THEORY
- Relational Theory: What we know about how women develop and how that impacts leadership style and personal choices.
- Voice and women’s ways of knowing: what are the different stages of knowing and using our voice? How do different situations impact our ability to remain authentic and confident?
- Using our voice as effective agents of change who are able to bring about positive results without losing ourselves.
EXPERIENTIAL and REFLECTIVE LEARNING
- A visiting artist gives us an evening of using our hands to create visual expressions of our journey.
- A visit to the Taos Pueblo UNESCO world heritage site.
- Using an ancient Chinese story to reflect on what it means to protect one’s spirit as we do the world’s work.
- Time alone or with a new friend to walk, journal, sit in the sun, and be inspired by the unique culture and art of Taos.
Who Attends?
Our past attendees, who now number well over 100, have come from major corporations, academic, non-profit, legal, medical, small business, advertising, and consulting. Our richness has been the diversity and breadth of experience unique to each group. A partial list of organizations include: Proctor & Gamble, Kimberly Clark, General Mills, Hewlett Packard, Avery Dennison, Office Max, Appleton Coated Paper, Chevron, Gannett Publishing, Fannie Mae, Sun Microsystems, Cadbury Schweppes, SC Johnson, UCLA, Penn State, New Mexico State University, Families in Transition, Pacific Crest Trail Association, and Roswell Park Cancer Institute
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