Women's Intercultural Network (WIN) Sponsored Sessions
at the Upcoming UN CSW
(WIN is a United Nations NGO with Consultative Status)
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Women's Leadership and Women in Leadership
Feb. 28, 2:00 PM, 8th floor - Church Center
In this workshop we will discuss how having women in positions of power and leadership in Government, Organizations (public and private, as well as community-based), and Networks (both on-the-ground and in cyberspace) will bring the discourse of gender from margin to the center of agenda and add a gender lens to these issues. The case studies of San Francisco Department on the Status of Women and what they have found in their work on CEDAW, including the passage of the SF CEDAW Ordinance and Gender Responsive Budgeting, as well as Global human rights, peace and collaboration networks will be shared.
Panelists: Elahe Amani (Chair, Women's Inercultural Network); Anu Menon (San Francisco Department on the Status of Women) and Nahal Jalali-Farahani (Governor of Southern California Junior State of America 2008-09)
Sponsor: Women's Intercultural Network (WIN)
Co-sponsors: US Women Connect, California Women’s Agenda,
Winning Strategies for Gender Equality (panel)
March 2, 10 am 2nd floor – Church Center
Women’s Intercultural Network (WIN) will host US Women Connect, anchor for the US Women’s Agenda since the 4th World Conference on Women, in conversation with women from US states and other countries on moving our agendas forward on the ‘ground and on theInternet’ toward a 5th World Conference on Women - sharing winning strategies with each other. A stellar panel from state, regional, national networks, governmental and technology perspectives will give brief remarks on their policy mechanisms and 'winning strategies’ - how they work smarter, faster, louder, followed by small ‘circle’ discussions to collect participants 'winning strategies' for a closing plenary of recommendations. This session will be posted online for an on-going ‘conversation’ on best organizing practices and paradigms.
Panelists:
Welcoming: Marilyn Fowler (CA) President/CEO Women's Intercultural Network (WIN)
Moderator: Jackie Weatherspoon (NH) US Women Connect (USWC) Board, New England Hub Representative
Liz Abzug (NY) Bella Abzug Leadership Institute
Dana Balicki (NY) National Campaign Coordinator, Code Pink,
Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen (CA) Author, Millionth Circie and 5th World Conference on Women Advisor (5WCW.org)
Terri McCullough (DC) Chief of Staff for Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Rona Popal (CA) President, Afghan Women's Association International
Rosemary Smithson (MO) Chair, US Women Connect; President, Missouri Women's Leadership Coalition
Sponsor: Women's Intercultural Network (WIN)
Co-sponsors: US Women Connect, Afghan Women’s Association International, Bella Abzug Leadership Institute, California Women’s Agenda, Code Pink, Millionth Circle, Missouri Women’s Leadership Coalition
The Grail Story: Healing Psyche, Patriarchy and Planet
March 2, 4 pm, Grum Room-Church Center
Until feminine and masculine qualities are equally valued, there can be no equality in decision-making or care-giving by couples, families or patriarchal institutions. Cultural attitudes change when a critical number of people change their perceptions, when a tipping point is reached and that which was resisted is accepted as normal. Valuing women and valuing feminine qualities are what leads to equal rights and responsibilities. Heeding the urgent message from Mother will only be possible through the combined efforts of grassroots activism and enlightened leaders. A deeper understanding of the problem and the potential solution comes through mythic insights into the sacred feminine, the grail and goddess archetypes. Workshop led by author, Jungian analyst and activist Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.
Sponsor: The Grail-WIST (Women’s Institute for Social Transformation).
Co-sponsors AWE (Anglican Women’s Empowerment), Pathways to Peace, and WIN (Women’s Intercultural Network)
Millionth Circle Workshop and Circle Experience:
A Form and Process for Sharing Responsibility
and Caregiving between Men and Women
March 4, noon 11th floor, Church Center
The circle is the opposite of hierarchy and when it specifically invites participants to speak from the heart and from their own experience, it enhances trust and compassion. It is a form and process that leads to sharing responsibility and caregiving between men and women. Circles support authenticity and activism. The millionth circle idea draws upon the example of how consciousness-raising groups became the women’s movement and changed the world. The millionth circle is the metaphoric circle that creates a critical mass in perception and ends patriarchy, through an egalitarian balance between masculine and feminine. This workshop led by Jean Shinoda Bolen, Peggy Sebera and other conveners of the Millionth Circle Initiative, includes an experiential portion for participants to be in small circles with a center.
Sponsor: Pathways to Peace .
Co-sponsors: Women’s Intercultural Network (WIN). Millionth Circle