My Story
Christopher Reeves once said, "So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable". Nothing happens by accident. And the light that brought me to action to apply for a
womens leadership program at this moment in time is uncanny because I did everything wrong. I applied past the deadline. I asked for a scholarship. I didn't have the remainder of the funds to go. And then I started to organize. Against all odds, I have
been given an opportunity to grow funds to participate in an extraordianry new model of womens leadership that has been filling a very needed niche of women leaning in to support and have each other's back. This story hasn't ended, but it may come to be that
accidental intention, leads clarity, which then moves purpose.
I consider myself a community activist in residence, having lived, worked and practiced being on this Planet Earth across the map. A geo/political/anthropological surveyor and alchemist of sorts, I have seen change on many scales, in many communities along
the West and Beyond. What I have observed is that every being has something to teach, something to learn, and a great potential to build and improve themselves and this world. I want to go to the Bioneers August Women's Leadership Cohort to strengthen and
be acknowledged for my own leadership capacity, and to stay committed to leading initiatives with an integrated and sustainable form for my local hub - Oakland, the Bay area and beyond.
The first step is to ground the philosophy and approach of my work with the Support and Power of LEADERS and BELIEVERS! I believe the women leadership cohort may act as a guiding compass to steer the form of a new venture: Simple Clarity Moves Purpose. Coincidentally,
this will be the first time I will have been encouraged and reinforced to participate in a program that acknowledges and supports my own leadership potential and capacity.
To learn more about the simple clarity move purpose, please check out our
Venture page and our organization's
website.
To learn more about Michelle, please go
here.
What is the Women's Leadership Bioneers Cohort?
The Women's Leadership Bioneers Cohort is a 6 day residential intensive that brings together impassioned women from diverse cultures, ages, and backgrounds to learn from and with each other. Rooted in values of respect, humility, creativity, intentionality
and inquiry, CWL trainings develop women’s leadership by:
- Featuring experiential learning and transformative leadership practices including arts, ritual, movement and storytelling that help connect the personal with the structural, systemic and political.
- Consciously shedding insidious beliefs, stories and biases that can limit women’s leadership capacity and considering new ideas, narratives or frameworks in their stead.
- Surfacing and appreciating what women uniquely bring to reinventing leadership while integrating healthy feminine and masculine characteristics for full‐spectrum leadership.
- Prioritizing connecting across differences as an essential leadership skill.
- Connecting women to networks of diverse peers for ongoing coaching, influence, access and support.
To learn more about this program, please check out their
website.
Why It Matters
I believe that one person can and does make a difference. This program acknowledges my leadership capabilities to have an even greater positive influence on our world and culture as I clarify my own purpose and practice skills that will increase my capacity
to connect across differences with a cohort of 19 extraordianry women. I am deeply committed to see how we can support each other's growth in order to restore balance and equilibrium in our social and environmental environments and to lean into a women's
leadership model that serves women. I will challenge myself to find every way to train/teach/engage/facilitate/support/coach and serve people's potential by initiating and guiding. I strongly believe that paying attention for new models that allows what
has been undervalued a way to grow serves everyone and when you can extend these teachings and knowings as daily practices in the village/community, city, world you are present with, everything gets better.
How You Can Help
You can help by bridging the financial reinforcement Michelle needs to gather wisdom and spread the teachings back into her community and beyond.
Please make a donation today to support Michelle as she works to cultivate strength and clarity, and to share her lessons with the world.
Thank you for your generosity!