Without the training of FLA I would have given up.... I would not have believed in my ability to facilitate the work... I would not have been able to vibrate from joy in each step of the way. I am very honored to do the work, to support the mission and Mary Pierce Brosmer's vision of Women Writing for (a) Change.

- Mindy Weaver Flask, Site Owner, Indianapolis

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The Feminist* Leadership Academy has grown out of my realization that many aspects of the Women Writing for (a) Change model inspire and support women’s growth as leaders. The first and most important resource of both WWf(a)C and FLA is membership in a body of becoming-conscious, truth-telling women.

The FLA gathers women committed to making their businesses, church communities, faculties, activist (and other organizations) healthier, more peaceful, and life-encouraging.

In the FLA training participants learn and practice skills which translate to their professional work, such as:

• Learning to facilitate work teams which attend to process as a way of fostering productivity.
• Learning multiple ways of lifting up the spiritual, creative and emotional resources of a group.
• Learning to integrate conflict as a creative resource.
• Learning to cultivate self-knowledge, authenticity, integrity, and wisdom as sources of leadership.

The Feminist Leadership Academy is based on an understanding of women’s history in both public and private spheres, and is grounded in much of the rich learning and research about women as leaders, about women’s communities and spirituality made available to us because of second-wave feminism.

FLA learners are fostered within the tradition of the “conscious feminine” which I define as an energy of life and leadership available to both women and men, emphasizing such values as transparency, hospitality, ability to hold paradox, and a model of community which supports individual gifts, but not at the expense of societal or planetary well-being.

The Feminist Leadership Academy of Cincinnati is both a rigorous and supportive community encouraging each woman to explore her growing edges, her talents and her vulnerabilities with regard to her vocational life.

Academy graduates complete both a practicum and a major piece of writing exploring themes of the training.

~ Mary Pierce Brosmer

* I use the word feminist to denote the academy’s place within an honorable history of those working to make the world more peaceful and more just. Participants need not identify themselves as feminist.