Announcing one of the most exciting events in the history of The Sophia Institute
A Convocation of Evolutionary Women Leaders, a Global Gathering of Women
Women of Wisdom
Transforming Our Lives, Transforming Our World
October 1-3, 2010
Art Exhibit Opening, September 30
Charleston, SC
http://www.thesophiainstitute.org/WomenOfWisdom.aspx
Featuring Barbara Marx Hubbard, Jean Houston, Claire Zammit and Katherine Woodward Thomas, Sue
Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor, Sera Beak, Carolyn Rivers and others
Imagine an extraordinary gathering of women awakening to their full potential and becoming
powerful co-creative agents for change. Women
of Wisdom welcomes women from all over the world for a weekend with
evolutionary leaders and teachers as we re-imagine and co-create our lives.
We'll explore how women are waking to their deepest callings and becoming catalysts
to create a more conscious world. How we can use our individual gifts and
talents as part of the incredible transformation happening in women’s lives and
in the world. How we can deepen our partnerships with men to be effective
co-creators of the future. How new pathways and practices are pointing us
toward our fullest potential.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama stunned a sold-out audience at his Peace Summit in
Vancouver last summer by proclaiming, “The world will be saved by the western
woman.” Maria Shriver’s 2009 conference, “Women, the Architects of Change” drew
24,000 women and was sold out soon after registration opened. Claire Zammit and
Katherine Woodward Thomas’s tele-seminar, “Women on the Edge of Evolution” drew
55,000+ women. The
Sophia Institute is drawing over 15,000 participants from 49 states and the
Feminine is at its heart.
Join us here, in historic Charleston
– for a global gathering of women working with these extraordinary women
leaders – as we begin to transform our lives, our relationships, our
workplaces, and our communities, to live and lead with heart and wisdom.
BIG CONVERSATIONS
The Genius of Women: A Conversation with Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor
about the Power of Women to Change the World
It is now widely recognized that the largest untapped resource on the planet is women and
that the problems in our world cannot be solved without the massive involvement
of women. In response to this cutting edge awareness, a ground swell
of women's genius has begun to emerge. What isthe particular
genius of women? How does a woman tap this genius in herself and
apply it in the sacred enterprise of becoming an architect
of change? These questions and others will be at the heart of a rare and unique
conversation between Sue Monk Kidd and her daughter, Ann Kidd Taylor. The two women
will speak across generations, probing each other's minds and hearts
about the creation of a new culture of feminine genius actuated on
behalf of the world. They will speak personally about the search for their
own 'genius' and their struggles to transmute their passions
into forces of change.
Presenters
Dr. Jean Houston, scholar, philosopher and researcher in human capacities, is one of the foremost visionary thinkers and doers of our
time, one of the principal founders of the Human Potential Movement. A powerful
and dynamic speaker, she holds conferences and seminars with social leaders,
educational institutions and business organizations worldwide. Jean Houston has
worked intensively in 40 cultures and 100 countries helping to enhance and
deepen their own uniqueness while they become part of the global community. In
1965, along with her husband Dr. Robert Masters, Dr. Houston founded The
Foundation for Mind Research. She is also the founder and principal teacher
since 1982 of the Mystery School, a school of human development, a program of
cross-cultural, mythic and spiritual studies, dedicated to teaching history,
philosophy, the New Physics, psychology, anthropology, myth and the many
dimensions of human potential. She is a prolific writer and author of 26 books
including A Passion for the
Possible, Search
for the Beloved, Life
Force, The
Possible Human, Public
Like a Frog, A
Mythic Life: Learning to Live Our Greater Story, and Manual of the Peacemaker.
www.jeanhouston.com
Barbara Marx Hubbard
is a visionary, social innovator, author, educator and leader in the new
worldview of conscious evolution which she describes as the awakening of the
spiritual, social, and scientific potential of humanity, in harmony with
nature, for the highest good of all life. She has worked closely with some of
the great innovators of our time such as Dr. Jonas Salk, Abraham Maslow, and
the great Buckminster Fuller who said of Barbara, “she is the best informed
human now alive regarding futurism and the foresights it has produced.” She is
the producer and narrator of the award-winning documentary series entitled
Humanity Ascending: A New Way through Together. She has been instrumental in
founding many future-oriented and progressive organizations, including the World
Future Society, New Dimensions Radio, Global Family, Women of Vision In Action,
The Foundation for the Future, and the Association for Global New Thought.
Barbara’s books include: The Hunger of Eve: One Woman’s Odyssey toward the
Future; The Evolutionary Journey: Your Guide to a Positive Future; Revelation:
Our Crisis is a Birth –An Evolutionary Interpretation of the New Testament;
Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of our Social Potential and Emergence:
The Shift from Ego to Essence. www.BarbaraMarxHubbard.com
Sue Monk Kidd is a writer, novelist and memoirist. She was born in Albany, Georgia and raised in the tiny
town of Sylvester, Georgia, a place that deeply influenced the writing of her
first novel The Secret Life
of Bees. The Secret Life of Bees has sold more than 6 million
copies, spent over 2 ½ years on the New York Times bestseller list and been
published in 35 countries. It was awarded the 2004 Book Sense Paperback book of
the Year, nominated for the Orange Prize in England, and chosen as Good Morning
America's Read This! Book Club pick. It was produced on stage in New York by
The American Place Theater and adapted into a movie by Fox Searchlight in 2008,
which won the People’s Choice and the NAACP Image awards for Best Picture.
Sue's second novel, The Mermaid Chair, reached the #1 spot on the New York Times bestseller
list and remained on the hardcover and paperback lists for nine months. Winner
of the 2005 Quill Award for General Fiction, the novel has been translated into
24 languages and was produced as a television movie by Lifetime. Sue's newest
book, Traveling with
Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story, co-authored with her
daughter Ann Kidd Taylor debuted in 2009, appearing on numerous bestseller
lists, including the New York Times Bestseller List. It will be out in
paperback in September. Sue is Writer in Residence at The Sophia Institute in
Charleston and on the Board Emeritus. www.suemonkkidd.com
Ann Kidd Taylor is a graduate of Columbia College in South Carolina. She has published articles and essays in Skirt! magazine in
Charleston, SC, where she worked for two years after college as an editorial
assistant. She left to pursue a career in writing, working on a book about her
travels, which evolved into Traveling
with Pomegranates, a memoir she co-authored with her mother Sue
Monk Kidd. It is her first book. Ann lives near Charleston with her husband and
son. www.annkiddtaylor.com
Carolyn Rivers is Founder and Director of The Sophia Institute. A teacher, visionary, and spiritual mentor, her work centers on
personal, interpersonal and societal transformation that fosters the emergence
of Feminine Wisdom, Sophia and the Divine, wholeness, oneness, integration,
sustainability, peace, and compassionate community. In the nine years since its
creation, The Sophia Institute has drawn more than 15,000 participants from 49
states and five other countries to join our core community in Charleston.
Carolyn’s Heart Callings workshop uses a holistic approach to help direct
people to their dreams and life’s purpose. Carolyn has done professional study
with many of the leading transpersonal teachers and visionaries of our time,
many of whom are faculty of The Sophia Institute. She offers coaching and
spiritual mentoring as a follow up to sustain and deepen the work begun at The
Sophia Institute. www.thesophiainstitute.org
Katherine Woodward Thomas is the national bestselling author of Calling
in “The One,” a licensed psychotherapist, and the co-creator and
co-leader of the Feminine
Powertransformative courses for women, and the co-founder and
co-leader of the Feminine
Power Global Community, a thriving community of thousands of women
throughout the world. Katherine is a creative and inspired transformative
educator with nearly 20 years experience designing and facilitating leading
edge seminarsthat support the emergence of life-altering shifts in
consciousness in both individuals and in groups. She is the co-creator and
co-host of the highly acclaimed Women
on the Edgeof Evolution teleseries, which gathers thousands of
women weekly to engage the world’s most preeminent female luminaries, thinkers,
scientists, artists and agents of change.Katherine is an honored member of the Evolutionary Leaders Group,
which both supports and promotes a call to conscious evolution, and she is
currently is co-authoring the forthcoming book, Feminine Power: Awakening to the Creative Force of Life.
www.FemininePower.com
Claire Zammit is the co-creator and co-leader of the Feminine Power courses
for women and the co-founder and co-leader of the Feminine Power Global Community. Claire a
highly trained specialist in transformative education with a unique gift for
designing and delivering dynamic, leading edge programs that give participants
access to life-altering worldview shifts that lead to embodied and lasting
change. Claire is currently completing her doctorate in the field of
Transformative Learning and Change at the California
Institute of Integral Studies, researching the life-changing
transformations of women in her year-long Feminine
Power Mastery program. She also holds a Masters degree in Social
Ecology and a BA in Communication. Claire is the co-author of the forthcoming
book, Feminine Power:
Awakening to the Creative Force of Life and co-creator and
co-host of the internationally acclaimed Women
on the Edgeof Evolution teleseries. www.FemininePower.com
Sera Beak is a Harvard-trained scholar of mysticism and comparative religion and an intrepid spiritual cowgirl who’s spent the last
dozen years traveling the world exploring spirituality. She’s the author of The Red Book: A Deliciously
Unorthodox Approach to Igniting Your Divine Spark. Check out:
www.serabeak.com. Sera was featured on the cover of The New York Times
Sunday Style Section in the article “Seeing Yourself in Their Light” as one of
the new “Carrie Bradshaws of self-help spirituality”. Her work has been
published in magazines ranging from People
Magazine to Skirt!
to WashingtonWoman.
She has been interviewed in Publishers
Weekly and on numerous radio shows ranging from the Dr. Oz show
on Oprah and Friends, Martha Stewart’s “Living A Charmed Life,” NPR’s New
Dimensions with Justine Toms, Father Paul Keenan’s Catholic radio show, “As You
Think,” Kristin and David Morelli’s show, “Everything is Energy”, and Stuart
Davis’s HBO show: Sex, God, Rock and Roll. www.serabeak.com
If
you are called to join us, you are a Woman of Wisdom. Space is limited, so register
today.
Explore. Create.
Join us. Pass it on.
Tuition: $325 until August 15;
$395 thereafter
To
find out more or to register, visit
our website.
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