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"This class is the highlight of my week! Thank you to the women who listen to me, hold my words, laugh with me."
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What Is the FLA?
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A NOTE FROM MARY PIERCE BROSMER... The Feminist Leadership Academy (FLA) 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 the FLA is membership in a body of becoming-conscious, truth-telling women. The FLA gathers women, and for the first time, men, 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: - learning to facilitate teams which attend to process as a way of fostering productivity
- learning multiple ways of lifting up the 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 FLA 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 participant to explore growing edges, talents and vulnerabilities.
Academy graduates complete both a practicum and a major piece of writing exploring themes of the training.
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The Feminist Leadership Academy: Who Should Apply?
- Women seeking a meaningful, and meaning-making vocation
- Women seeking to add wisdom and depth to current vocations
- Women who wish to add intentional writing practice to current vocations
- Women with experience and skill in writing, teaching and healing arts
- Women of integrity with a desire to foster the creative expression of others
- Women of maturity, self-knowledge and spiritual wholeness
- Women able to respect and be present to depth of feeling
- Women able to create their own work in the world
- Women able to thrive in a nurturing, challening but non-competitive community
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WHAT TO EXPECT IN FLA METHODOLOGY
The Academy's Methodology...
- will model the centrality of writing as a way of learning, healing, manifesting
- will occur within a safe and confidential container
- will respect the experience of the learner
- will model a high level of preparation and careful facilitation
- will tap intellectual, emotional, spiritual and bodily ways of knowing and learning
- will tap the experience of WWf(a)C faculty, staff and volunteers
- will employ writing, reading, interview, contemplation and conversation
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HOW TO REGISTER...
To be considered for a place in the 2008 training, send a packet including:
- Completed Application
- Completed Registration Form
- Up to two-page Resume
- A deposit of $400. Deposit refunded only if application is not accepted.
Questions about the program?
Email: mpierce@womenwriting.org
Phone: 513-272-1171 x3
Application Period: April 1, 2007 through September 1, 2007
Application notification: October 1, 2007
Scholarship support is available. To apply, request an application or download from website.
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FLA OPTIONS FOR LEADERSHIP CERTIFICATION AND LICENSING...
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How has my life been different because there has been a place for me as a writer? I have hope for the world again, and that is no small thing.
- Gail Barker, M.D., Graduate of the 2006 Builders Class |
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THERE ARE TWO OPTIONS FOR LEADERSHIP TRAINING:
1. CERTIFICATION IN LEADERSHIP (Components I, II, III - V as an option)
Particpants will gain:
- Membership in a community of conscious, creative, spiritually-evolved leaders
- Learning and mentoring within feminist, spiritually-based traditions
- Creative contemplation, writing and study of isues facing women leaders
- Training in ways to build community through the use of writing and ritual
- Training in ways of using writing as a healing art
- Practical problem-solving skills for personal and professional development
2. LEADERSHIP CERTIFICATION & LICENSING (Components I - V)
Pre-requisite: Successful Completion of Certification Program
Participants will gain:
- Training and spiritual / vocational formation to create a WWf(a)C school or Men Writing for Change
- The core semester course for adult women
- Retreat programs
- Tutorials
- Theme workshops
- Right to Trademark: WWf(a)C or MWfC
- Presence on womenwriting.org with a link to your website (additional fee)
- Curriculum and community materials
- Semester class agendas from Cincinnati faculty for one year
- Mentoring
- Business practicals mentoring
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