Empowerment Workshop for Women


Written Directions and Map to UUCB

Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley

Phone
(510) 525-0302

Office Hours
Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Sunday, 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Mailing Address
1 Lawson Road
Kensington, CA 94707

For more details on these upcoming workshops, and to register, call the church office at 525-0302.

Women Reclaiming Power

Led by Judy Lightstone

Saturday, May 18 from 1-4 pm at UUCB

Suggested Donation: $5 for UUCB

For more information, contact Judy Lightstone at 510-704-0940

How can we, as women, integrate the profound knowledge we gain from mothering and being nurtured by our mothers, into a culture where value is so often seen in material terms? Can women reclaim our rights to power and effectiveness in the world without doing so at the expense of others?

When women think of actualizing our power, we have many negative associations and blocks to overcome. I believe there are two good reasons for these blocks some of us have.1) Women have traditionally been expected to defer to men, and have internalized the dominant cultural expectations of females as submissive and powerless, and 2) There issomething wrong with the present system of power distribution for people which we, as women, may be particularly sensative to, having so deeply learned to respect the importance of other people’s needs.

In this workshop we will share our thoughts and practice experiential exercises aimed at exploring these questions and beginning to develop strategies to address them.

Judy Lightstone is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who has been providing psychotherapy for the pastseventeen years and training professional therapists for the past fifteen years. In her Berkeley private practice, shecurrently specializes in treating eating disorders, trauma survivors, and working with couples and families. For more information see her web site at www.psychotherapist.org

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