Rising Women Leadership Jumpstart by Scilla Elworthy

In this session you’ll identify and acknowledge your unique gifts that will contribute to re-balancing the deep feminine with the deep masculine in today’s world. You’ll dive into why and how inner power, based on deep self-knowledge, is essential to what we undertake in the outer world. You’ll give gratitude to the genealogy of the powerful feminine in the world, from Hildegard of Bingen to Aung San Suu Kyi.

In this module you’ll:

• Learn a guided meditation to deepen your connection with the sacred feminine and support you in identifying your unique contributions.
• Discover why establishing a personal daily practice that is based in yoga, meditation, mindfulness or another gratitude practice contributes to your ability to serve the world.
• Learn how you can maintain your daily practice to support your work in this course.
• Discover your inner power based in self-knowledge, which will support you in doing your work in the world.
• Engage in key secrets (of renowned women) to unlock your true potential for changemaking and manifestation.

In this session you’ll develop and strengthen your emotional resilience to deal powerfully with the pain and suffering in our lives and in the world. This involves recognizing the facts about the state of the world, because we know that confronting the overall seriousness of the situation is essential to developing a strategy.

In this module you’ll:

• Learn spiritual and psychological tools to help you navigate challenges, such as overwhelm, to build endurance and resilience for your project.
• Discover the powerful ability to “walk towards the crisis” and work with its source and cause and still maintain your center.
• Learn why we are well placed to deal with this pain and how the deep feminine rises in support to face the challenges and tragedies in our lives and world.
• Identify and transform the shadow (dragon) aspects of the feminine that disempower and distort: playing small, manipulation, self-sabotage and becoming “sluts of power.”
• Cultivate the skills others have successfully used to transform their shadow sides.
• Practice “dialogue with your dragon” to discover the gem underneath the dragon’s foot and make the dragon your ally to extend your personal dragon to the dragons out in the world.
• Discover ways to maintain vital energy and integrity to work the challenges and cynicism you will encounter in social change work.

Einstein once said, “No problem can be resolved using the consciousness that created it.” In this session we’ll be exploring examples of well known and lesser known women and men who have made the leap in consciousness that enables them to help resolve global problems in a brand new way. Together we’ll look at the ways notable women and men have intervened to re-direct a predictable trajectory by using an entirely fresh perspective.

In this module you’ll:

• Engage in a “self-questioning” exercise that allows you to dive deeply into your highest potential and identify the steps needed to shift your consciousness.
• Ask deep questions like: How will I listen to my highest self to gain integrity, authenticity and personal truth? How do I deal with difficult feelings? How can I increase my well-being and energy? How will I use conflict as opportunity?
• Discover how asking yourself deep questions leads to a shift in your consciousness, moving from “me” to “we” and ultimately leading to discovery of the Beloved.
• Experience how to apply your own highest potential to whatever challenges arise.
• Notice when you collude with mediocrity and compare this to when you dare to live from your original and authentic self.
• Get more clarity on who you are serving and how you want to serve to create the impact you know is possible.

In this session we’re going to develop a vision for the future by actively imagining this improved future into being. Most people, when asked what the future holds, go blank, shrug or say something like “more of the same.” If we have not envisioned the world we want to create, it’s likely we’ll not be able to co-create a world that works better for all. A great mentor of Scilla’s said: “The future belongs to those who can see it.” This next step takes us on a journey of imaging… to help us see a clearer pathway.

In this module you’ll:

• Envision a world that honors the inner and outer – – from the deep feminine and deep masculine to nutritious food and a healthy body to pure oceans and clean drinking water to local communities and global nations.
• Learn how actively imagining an improved future supports your work in bringing your vision into reality.
• Engage in group visioning exercises and gather your collective ideas and visions.
• Discover how to harness the collective vision to imagine an even more improved future for the planet.

In this session you’ll begin to realize what’s possible by learning about the amazing initiatives already underway – from the personal to the global. Inspiring leaders will show how they have literally changed the world, including Thais Corral, who developed Local Food Labs in Brazil and 12-year-old Felix, who’s leading a global network of child activists aiming to reforest the planet (already up and running in 131 countries). We’ll expand our awareness from “me,” to “we,” to “our”.” and begin a journey of awakening that will leave us with a larger framework for a positive future.

In this module you’ll:

• Discover how changing the lens through which you see the world expands your vision for activism on the planet.
• Feel inspired by the social-change initiatives (lead by individuals and groups) that are already creating big impacts on the world.
• Be able to identify and see evidence of the new possibilities for positive change that are arising.
• Learn practices to document shifts in your consciousness and expansions of your perception of what’s possible in your community (local to global).
• Learn the “Noticing Exercise” to distinguish how your view of the world impacts your vision for what you see as possible in your work.

In this session you’ll begin to explore how to match your authentic self, skills and capacities with your deepest longing to serve. In this way you’ll discover and define a project that has purpose and meaning for you. And you’ll determine how your skills, training and resources are suited to not only impart change, but sustain and grow your impact and service.

In this module you’ll:

• Explore deep questions such as: What breaks my heart? What do I profoundly care about? Where does my passion lie? What would I love to do during my lifetime to make a better, safer world?
• Discover the deep inner longing that motivates you to achieve the improved world you know is possible.
• Learn what you’re keeping in reserve (aspects of your work that may have never shown themselves before) and recruit these parts to be your allies in your service.
• Identify the skills and resources you already posses and discern those which you need to acquire.
• Design your project based on authenticity and build upon your skills and capacities for service.

In this session you’ll complete the process of shaping what it is you want to contribute through sacred activism. This will require your active participation in accessing your responsibilities and those of your team. You’ll define milestones in terms of what you want to achieve and by when. Scilla will provide examples of projects she has set up, including the challenges as well as the triumphs.

In this module you’ll:

• Continue the practices to cultivate inner strength, focus and clarity to foster energy and passion for your sacred service in the world.
• Learn how to design a timeline and outline of tasks for your project.
• Discover ways to research what already exists in your chosen field and learn ways to decide whom to partner with, learn from, assist or build with.
• Create accountability in each other’s projects and celebrate when you reach your milestones.