Women’s Intergenerational Dialogue Series: Description

We are all facing tremendous change as we make our way into 2021. The upheaval of systems that are no longer working for people or the planet. Tremendous opportunities to shape our own lives and communities in ways that further goodness, truth, and beauty. And especially for women, these times are calling for us to create places of belonging ~ places to connect, places to make meaning, and places to be supported.

In a word: we need a village.

This invitation is to provide you such a place.

Please join New Stories’ Executive Director Jenn Meilleur and me for this four-part Dialogue series!

Together we’ll engage both large and small group discussions on four timely topics:

Dialogue 1: (Completed) Where and Who is Our Village? Where are you finding your village?  What are the characteristics of an ideal village? How might we be it?
Dialogue 2: Feminine Leadership. How do we view the best of feminine leadership? How does it relate to power (inner and outer)? How are we being feminine leaders? How can we support each other in that?   
Dialogue 3: Exploring our Intergenerational Roles/Relationships. Who are we to each other intergenerationally? How do we see each other? What do we want from one another?
Dialogue 4: What are These Times? What is the time we’re in right now? What are the implications? Where do we go from here?

Each 90-minute Dialogue session will include an introduction to the topic, context-setting by Jenn and Sue, small group breakout discussions around provocative questions, and large group sharing and reflections.

The Dialogue Series is for women of all ages to come together in a welcoming space to explore questions pertinent to this moment, and to be a village of meaning-making for each other.

 

 

Registration information

You may sign up for the entire Dialogue series or for individual sessions.

Since we don’t want cost to be a barrier to anyone wanting to join, we’ve created three payment tiers. When you register at the Supporter level, you are helping to fund women who otherwise could not join. Email Jenn if cost is a barrier (jenn@newstories.org).

Supporter: Four-session series $188. Per session $49.
Regular: Four-session series $120. Per session $34.
Supported: Four-session series $85. Per session $24.

* Note: The registration button will take you to the New Stories website sign-up feature.*

 

Your Dialogue Co-Hosts

     Jenn Meilleur
Executive Director, New Stories

Jenn Meilleur is the Executive Director at NewStories and an ex officio member of its Board of Directors. She is a systems change facilitator, sense-maker and strategist. Her passion is for cultivating bold, creative, and participatory leadership to build capacity and create the conditions for happier, healthier, and more environmentally sustainable and resilient communities and workplaces. She has two decades of experience supporting and leading initiatives at the intersections of sustainability, community development, organizational development, and systems change. With a deep commitment to building connection and belonging, Jenn is on a lifelong learning journey around anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion in the centre of systems change.

 

     Sue Brightman
Author, Researcher, Business + Being Coach for Women Over 50

Sue Brightman is the founder of Women on the Journey of Their Lives, an enterprise dedicated to amplifying the voices of women over 50 and helping them lead inspired lives in later decades at a time the world needs their wisdom. A conscious business consultant and leadership development coach for 28 years to some of the world’s largest corporations, Sue has dedicated the last six years to studying the new evolutionary patterns of women over 50. Writing and speaking about the promise of millions of women emerging from the feminist movement with savvy, resilience, and observational wisdom from being outside the power circle, Sue coaches and leads retreats to support women finding their own paths of continued learning, loving, and leading. She is a certified coach, a master trainer of conscious business, trained negotiator and certified in EQ and SQ (spiritual intelligence), and a volunteer interfaith chaplain to correctional and mental health institutions. Living in Boulder, Colorado and working globally, Sue is the mother of two young adults.