Women of Wisdom Conference February 11th - 15th, 2010

This is only some of the talent that will be at the conference.  Ms T

18th Annual Women of Wisdom Conference
February 11 - 15, 2010


Remember you can attend the conference without purchasing an event ticket! 

·  Visit the Goddess Market, with wonderful arts and crafts from artisans

·  get a reading or a healing from the Temple of Oracles/Healing Temple, view the Art Show

·  have tea and  treats in our social network area.


It doesn't cost to enter the conference general areas at the North Seattle Community College.  The Art Show is open in between workshops - and on Saturday afternoon from 2:30PM until the evening dance. Also you can join us for the opening and closing ceremonies for free.  


Did you know you can attend any one event?  It's not a one price event like other conferences, you can create your own conference and attend any number of events around your own schedule. 



If you would like to register for any of these workshops call 206-783-3363 or you can register online at www.brownpaper.com

Saturday, Feb 13: 1:30 - 4:30 PM

Tanja Diamond
Women and the Art of Tantra

This class will teach both the spiritual aspects and sexual techniques of Tantra. You will learn ancient Tantric techniques that will amaze your lover and yourself. This is a frank conversation that will awaken your senses and dispel the myths that are keeping you from experiencing the bliss that is your birthright. We will also discuss men's bodies and needs and new ways to pleasure your partner and yourself. This class will change the way you make love and experience love.

Tanja Diamond, 'The Tantra Teacher' ACTE, C.Ht, NLP, CHSH, is a sexual intimacy expert for the past 25 years. Tanja is the most practical and easily understood Tantra teacher today, flexible in any format, using humor to make the sometimes awkward subject of sex and spirituality educational, enlightening and fun. She maintains that sex isn't a luxury; it's an integral part of our everyday living. Sexual energy is a creative force that keeps us healthy mentally and physically. Being sexually empowered is about living your life as fully alive as you were born to be.


Alisa Starkweather
Riding the Dragon ~ Cultivating Healthy Leadership


This is our time now women to be everything that we were born to be, to bring forward our wisdom, and be rooted courageously in our clarity. There is power lurking in any of our hesitations that can be harvested by weighing in on the risks, taking council with our saboteurs and being willing to be more than we ever realized we were because we are. In delicious laughter mixed with tears of recognition we know that our excuses are over. We'll use skills of Shadow Work, breathwork, movement, circle and archetypal landscape.

ALisa Starkweather is the founder of Priestess Path Apprenticeship, Daughters of the Earth Gatherings, the Women's Belly and Womb Conferences, the Red Tent Temple Movement and co-founder of the Women in Power initiation. ALisa also has three recordings of her chants for circles, is a certified Shadow Work facilitator and a women's empowerment trainer with 24 years of experience.



Sunday, Feb 14th : 9:00 - Noon


Marti MacEwen and Stephanie Eldringhoff
Change Your Energy ~ Change Your Life


This workshop will teach you how you can successfully and consistently work with your own energy to 'accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative' in your life, whether in work, play or relationships. Marti MacEwan and Stephanie Eldringhoff are long-time licensed therapists in the Seattle/Bellevue area and master practitioners and teachers of Energy Psychology, which adds our growing knowledge of subtle energy fields to the practice of psychology. We promise you will take with you immediately usable, effective, tools for change.

Marti MacEwan, is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Performance Coach and singer/songwriter. She is Diplomate, Association for Energy Psychology and member of the American Counseling Association. Stephanie Eldringhoff is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist; Diplomate, Consultant and Trainer, Association of Comprehensive Energy Psychology; Advanced Practitioner and Faculty Eden Energy Medicine; Clinical Member of AAMFT. Marti and Stephanie have private practices respectively in Seattle and Bellevue specializing in trauma, anxiety, couples, chronic pain and illness, performance blocks and all things energy. They have conducted extensive personal and professional trainings and have developed the Emotional First-Aid Process.


Barbara Boren
Divine Mother and the 2012 Prophecy


This session combines discussion, meditation and stories of Divine Mother (some incarnate today). Worship of the Absolute in the form of Divine Mother, lost to the west for hundreds of years, has continued as an unbroken source of spiritual inspiration in the East for millennia. We'll look at Her many forms and the proliferation of Her appearances in the last 100 years. What's the message she's attempting to give us and how can we better hear Her? What's the connection between Her messages and the Mayan prophecy for 2012? We'll compare Mayan mythology to the messages of the Goddess/Mother figures to weave together enlightening and useful information!

As a long term business woman and devotee, Barbara has been mindful to bring the lessons of Divine Mother into practical application in daily life, while educating and assisting other's growth in all areas. A long time community college instructor, and Money Wise Woman instructor, she's taught on all aspects of investing. Barbara's current interest is in Sustainable & Responsible Investing, and Conscious Business; bringing one's spiritual beliefs into active practice in the workplace as a means of personal and collective transformation. In addition, she has led and assisted women's spiritual groups for over 16 years, spreading the message of Divine Mother.


Sunday, Feb 14th : 1:30 - 4:30pm

Rev. Judith Laxer
Destiny, Karma and the Nature of Fate!

Judith Laxer
At some point in our spiritual lives we ponder our soul's mission. What are we here for? How can we best serve our destiny? In sacred space, meet the Fates, the Sacred Three, who await you with guidance for your soul's journey! Connect with the Fates and receive guidance and specific information to help us determine and understand our soul's mission in this lifetime. Rev. Judith Laxer treasures her profession as the founding priestess of Gaia's Temple, Minister, Spiritual Counselor, Psychic and Hypnotherapist. She dedicates her work to restoring the balance of female and male energies in our culture.


Kris Steinnes and Karen Fletcher

Claiming Your Voice as a Powerful Woman

Experience being fully expressed through your voice, language and movement. Discover your purpose and embrace your strength within as you connect with the tools that are inherently yours. Through qigong movement, meditation, writing, speaking and conscious language exercises we will celebrate as powerful women to bring forth our gifts to the world!

Kris Steinnes, meditation/spiritual teacher, is the visionary founder and leader of Women of Wisdom Foundation and award winning author of Women of Wisdom. Karen Fletcher is the innovator of QiDancing, apprentice to Qigong Grandmaster Xu Mingtang, and a certified Conscious Language™ facilitator.

Deanna Minich
Nourishment: Vibration of Food & Spirit of Eating

This dynamic, interactive workshop will dive into ways to make eating more meaningful and how to tap into all the energy - physical and subtle - that foods and the experience of eating can provide. Dr. Deanna Minich will talk about how the scientific and spiritual aspects of eating can be combined to benefit not just the body, but also the soul. Using the ancient chakra system as a guide, learn how the vibration of food and the spirit of eating connect to the seven aspects of our being: body, emotions, power, heart, voice, insight, and interconnection.

Deanna Minich, PhD, CN, is an 'out-of-the-box' nutritionist who sees more to food than calories. Instead, she teaches that food choices and how we eat are ways to dive into the inner reaches of our being and to heal deep issues connected to how we live life. Her approach is unique, with a base of science, a sprinkle of spirituality, and a dash of practicality to help create meaningful meals. Her cutting-edge ideas to nutrition and health are captured in her latest books, Chakra Foods for Optimum Health, and An A to Z Guide to Food Additives.


Sunday, Feb 14: 7:00 - 10:00pm
All Sunday evening workshops are open to men
Bring your partners for $20!

Miriam Dyak
Become a Social Artist - Embody the Change You Want to Create

Are you longing for change? Do you feel called to earth healing, people healing, system healing? If our planet were your canvas and you were a Social Artist, what wonders would you work? This is a workshop full of practical magic - multi-dimensional embodiment exercises and mythic journeys to help us manifest our 'passion for the possible.' And if you already have a project, you'll learn ways to take it further with more skill, creativity, and grace. Miriam Dyak will be sharing Social Artistry exercises and principles from her training in Social Artistry for the past four years with Jean Houston.

Miriam Dyak has been involved in social activism for women, peace, the environment, and political change since the late 1960's. For the past four years she has been training in Social Artistry with Jean Houston and has used those skills to 'accomplish the impossible' with the Washington State Legislature. Miriam is co-founder of The Voice Dialogue Institute where she teaches trainings and workshops in Voice Dialogue and the Psychology of Selves. She has a private practice as a counselor in Seattle, has published three books of poetry, and is a co-founder of Washington Professional Counselors Association.


Patricia Ann Davis
Indigenous Ceremony ~ A Collective Healing Circle

An Indigenous ceremonial change process is a healing ceremony with four phases for reframing an out-of-balance condition and correcting the root cause that maintains imbalance. The workshop design is to sit in a sacred circle format with participation in a collective healing process utilizing cedar and sweet grass to affirm power within to have power with others, which eliminates the need for power over.

Patricia Ann Davis is a diagnostician and practitioner of the Choctaw and Navajo Nations. She is initiated and trained in spiritual wellness restoration.

If you would like to register for any of these workshops call 206-783-3363 or you can register online at www.brownpaper.com


We look forward to seeing you at the Conference!