Eleversity

Mary Bisbee-Burrows – Building a Business and Empowering the Village Simultaneously

The purpose of this workshop is to provide tips and strategies for women of color to achieve success in business.  The presentation will be focused on the following bulleted items. All of these concepts will be explained and defined in detail, with a specific focus on equity and opportunity for women of color.

Objectives:

• Creating powerful Mission, Vision, and Goal statements
• Using your education and experience as a platform
• Designing/structuring your work and personal life
• Marketing your brand
• Programming and collaborating
• Servicing others
• Avoiding Pitfalls/Challenges

Ronalyn Pollack – Healing/Reconciliation through forgiveness – Not only for our personal lives, but for the workplace and our communities too

In a world where division and offense have us feeling incredibly emotionally charged, this workshop will focus on forgiveness as a healing tool, which is too often underused. The presenter will explore areas in our personal/professional lives and communities where a situation or offense has occurred that created pain, hurt, or perhaps trauma. This workshop will discuss the byproducts that harboring unforgiveness creates and how harboring unforgiveness and its toxic emotions can begin to affect our physical bodies. This presentation will ask the audience to be introspective and invite them to contemplate areas in their lives where forgiveness could be used to free themselves. The workshop will also discuss the healing benefits that forgiveness brings not just for the self, but for the community and every life that a person touches. Because forgiveness is not just meant to be utilized in our personal lives, it can be exercised in the workplace and in our communities to transform lives.

Objectives:

• Discuss the physical impacts that harboring unforgiveness creates.
• Utilizing forgiveness as a healing tool.
• Exploring the sense of freedom that forgiveness offers.
• Learning the healing benefits that forgiveness brings for the self and the community.

Sedruola Maruska – Speak Up: Advocating for Yourself in Business

Whether you’re working a job or in business for yourself, it’s important to advocate for yourself. It sometimes seems overwhelming because we’re sometimes unsure about why or how. In this session, we’ll talk about what it means to advocate for oneself and what we need. We’ll talk about having mentors, allies and connections that can help us with information. Ultimately, we’ll talk about how we have to believe enough in what we’re doing to close any deal.

Objectives:

• Understanding that no one works alone.
• Cultivating relationships is key.
• Your comfort zone is killer.

The D.A.R.E. method of stepping outside your comfort zone to your bliss.

Pamela Adams – P.I.T.C.H Perfect: Positioning Individuals Towards Complete Healing

One of the greatest hindrances to forward progression is the past. Whether past hurt, past pain, past relationships or past regret, old baggage can weigh you down and prevent you from progressing to the next level in life. During this interactive session, Chaplain Pam explains how healing from past hurt is the catalyst for evolution.

Objectives:

• Understanding Where You Are vs. Your Full Potential – Attendees will glean a deeper understanding of where they currently are and where they should aspire to be after utilizing their full potential.
• Soul Care – What is it? – Attendees will be exposed to the concept of soul care and learn that it is an ongoing work of nourishing and nurturing one’s soul, not just a one-time experience.
• Lessons Disguised as Failure – Attendees will learn to embrace past failures as lessons learned and come to understand that pain builds character.

Angela Douglas & Randi Bregman – Moving from Ally to Accomplice: Model of Co Leadership

There is no longer the need for mere allies. Women of color are calling for accomplices. Accomplices are formed in the fire of deconstructing mental models of white supremacy, acknowledging white fragility and internalized racism, while pursuing the authentic work of building solidarity without notoriety. The advancement of women of color is dependent on accomplices centering, positioning and promoting them within a very violent landscape. Co-leadership becomes a viable option to ensure the ascension of women of color into leadership. The co-leader accomplice is required to lean into the system that has sustained them and insist on its dismantling in order to give way to successful leadership by their counterpart of color. This pushes beyond a tokenized leader of color and opens the field for other talented women of color. This workshop will illustrate the need for accomplices, their role in leading the work and the practical work of accomplices.

Objectives:

• Differentiate between allies and accomplices.
• Dismantling and deconstruction of internalized white supremacy and racism.
• Identify the characteristics of the co-leadership model to advance women of color.