This class will illuminate your understanding of the 6 Energies of Life: Money, Time, Physical Vitality, Creativity, Enjoyment, and Relationships. You will walk away with an understanding of wealth and success in relation to the practice of balancing the 6 Energies. By this point, you will have worked with your coach to identify your internal stopping points, define your goals, and create action steps. This class will provide a personal understanding of where to direct your energy in order to experience success with your goals. We will look at time-management, productivity, and organization in depth. Our curriculum holds self-care as a major component of sustainable success. For this reason, we will dive into the connection between your productivity and hormonal cycle by practicing cycle synching— a tool for sustainable action and resilience.

Reclaiming Your Explicit Entitlement to Pleasure is a deep dive into the intersection of pleasure, creativity, and leadership. We welcome Muriel Vinson, a respected Bay Area therapist and activist, who will co-facilitate an interactive discussion on how sexuality, shame, and pleasure affect our relationship to lead-her-ship. Muriel will share insight on how our brain neurologically responds to pleasure and the impact of colonization and imperialism on pleasure.

Effective leadership— in our personal and professional sectors— calls forth our creative nature. Muriel’s lived experience as an activist, educator, and therapist has allowed her to cultivate an immense array of tools for empowerment. She will be sharing empowering tools for how to: stay present in your body, understand your body’s responses, and further explore your creative nature. Another highlight of this class is the collective yoni steam which will occur after respectfully studying the cultural history and health benefits of yoni steaming.  

There are two types of authentic actions. Type 1 serves the purpose of cleaning up unfinished business and type 2 serves the purpose of moving you toward a goal. Both types of authentic actions are motivated by an individual’s life’s intentions. In this class, we will utilize the SMART goal criteria to move toward our goals by creating small sweet steps. The purpose of this class is to learn the skills necessary to move goals from a visionary place into authentic action in a self-directed sustainable fashion.

We welcome Jihan McDonald, founder of Allies for Life. Jihan has been training people and organizations to be more aware, inclusive, resilient, accountable, and just in their work. Jihan’s facilitation invites introspection, empathy, liberation, and connection. You are being invited to join the vision of redefining our culture.

We will redefine success as a tried and true approach that emphasizes an effective, self-directed, and sustainable method to actualizing your goals and dreams. This class is packed with tools to better understand if/when your actions are/are not in coherence with your life’s intentions. The purpose of Women’s ALTER is to develop your skills and capacity as a leader, not just to advance a singular project.

We will begin our journey by observing and defining the personal familiar internal stopping points that you encounter when you’re up to something that you care about (i.e. projects, vision, ideas, goals, etc). Another name for this stopping point is monkey mind. Hence, the image of a monkey. In this class, you will gain the skills to begin observing your thoughts and narratives. Once you observe something, you no longer have to be it; literally liberating yourself to choose who you truly want to be in any given moment. We will explore confidence vs competence and collaboration vs comparison and competition. You will walk away with a clear framework that defines your personal life’s intentions as a guiding compass.