I was rereading a blog that one of our most prolific bloggers Judie Fouchaux did a while back and was inspired by it. I guess because I have myself fully re-submerged myself in my own– Awakening the Essential Feminine Claiming your Influential Power. I have just completed designing our new course –The Essential Feminine Facilitator Training- http://theessentialfeminine.com/events. I am so excited as the course has within it –the very ability to transform the world as we know it today!
The facilitator Training is designed for therapists, counselor’s doctors and women who serve women and for women who want to create circles where women can learn about specific assets that we naturally have — that are very much needed in our world. Join us for a four week certified training beginning on March 15th…. You may never see the world in the same way again!
Judie blog that I mentioned – quite inspiring!:
Often we live our lives busy with the details and overlooking the big picture. We are making things happen, taking care of business, ourselves, our families. We overlook some things in favor of what appears the next necessary thing to do. In this way, important parts of us can fall asleep or can hide rather like dust bunnies in the corners of our nature. These are the parts of ourselves that Maureen Simon addresses in her new book “Awakening The Essential Feminine: Claiming Your Influential Power.”
Impossible! Not so. As bright young women fairly sure of ourselves we move out into a world which is dominated by a masculine mind set. Sometimes we are actually told, “You don’t think the way I do, with the implication that the way “I do” is the superior way to think. After all it is “logical”. Looking around at society it does seem to be the preferred way of thinking. With that influence around us, it is no wonder that we have devalued our gifts, our natural way of being in the world to take on a costume that all too soon becomes our reality.
However, by going in that direction, we are leaving behind valuable gifts that were meant to be a balance in the world, a balance we need now more than ever. As Maureen points out, these gifts were given to us in greater proportion as women. They are as important to our being women as the other attributes that differentiate us from men. They include our way of thinking.
Women’s thinking is naturally collaborative, inclusive, interconnected, intuitive, empathetic, and flexible. Her brain makes it so. When Professor Higgins asks, “Why can’t women think like a man?” he overlooks a basic fact. They weren’t meant to think like men. We were meant to think like women and bring balance and harmony in the world.
Now with the world in such chaos it is time to awaken our dormant attributes. By awakening The Essential Feminine within we can begin Claiming Our Influential Power.
Judie Fouchaux
The book is available at: http://www.amazon.com/Awakening-Essential-Feminine-Claiming-Influential/dp/0615413005
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Isn’t It Time To Ratify CEDAW?
Posted in Awakening The Essential Feminine, Change, Comments on World News, Maureen Simon, Women and empowerment, Women Influencing Now, Women's development, Women's Leadership, tagged “Awakening The Essential Feminine: Claiming Your Influential Power”, building relationships, CEDAW, communication, forward thinking, natural gifts, President Carter, relationship building, Women and Peace and Security on September 26, 2011| Leave a Comment »
A recent statement, which was directed to the United Nations by a “selection of major female world leaders including Hilary Clinton, called upon “all States to ratify and fulfill their obligations under the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and to implement fully Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) on Women and Peace and Security and other relevant UN resolutions.”
If you are assuming that the United States is firmly behind this treaty as would be fitting given its ideologies, you would be mistaken. Thirty years ago President Carter sent this treaty to the Senate for ratification. It still has not happened. Why? Because special exemptions have been added to all versions of the treaty. The result is that “in a recent Newsweek list of the best countries in the world for women, the United States ranked eighth overall, but it joined countries near the bottom of the list – Iran (125th), Sudan (156th) – in not being a signatory to CEDAW.”
There are numerous documents, reports and anecdotal information pointing out that in communities (whether it be rural, suburban, city or corporation) in which women have an equal and active role society improves. Women, as Maureen Simon points out in her book, “Awakening The Essential Feminine: Claiming Your Influential Power”, have natural gifts for building relationships, verbal ability and communication that creates connection and harmony. Consider this: “The feminine is highly relational and is interested in points of contact that connect people, allowing for deep exchanges, strong relationship building and communication.” Can the world benefit from these skills?
It is time for us to join with forward thinking and acting governments and to ratify CEDAW. We must reclaim our belief in ourselves.
Judie Fouchaux
Guest Blogger — The Essential Feminine Company
www.TheEssentialFeminine.com
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