All workshops are $35 for members, $45 for non members.

All workshops are for women only, except Saturday afternoon from 1:30 - 4:30PM which include men.

All events will be held in the North Seattle Community College, Education Building.


To register for these events go to the registration page


For any questions about the conference go to the conference information page




Sor’a Garrett Gayle Gregory Ann Marie Stuart

Sunday, February 15th
9:00 AM - Noon












Ann Marie Stuart, Gayle Gregory and Sor'a Garrett
We're the One's From Passion to Unified Action


It's time to gather our wisdom in a way that will activate world service through unified action. It's time to BE the ones we've been waiting for. Come and share you passion for service in the womb of sacred circle. We will explore a new model of shared leadership to revitalize and engage you and women across the globe.


This experience is guided by 3 founding members of The Service Connection, a new paradigm women's leadership and social activism program. Ann Marie Stuart, founder of Circle Power, brings extensive training and experience in facilitating and convening sacred circle and dialogue. Gayle Gregory, co-author of "the Grand Experiment" teaches fearlessness and invites boundless living. Sor'a Garrett is a visionary leader who serves as an inspirational guide and catalyst.




Kathy Kali

Sunday, February 15th
9:00 AM - Noon


Kathy Kali
Sacred Dakini;
Transmitting Feminine Power through the Tantric Dance


Tantric Dance of the Divine Feminine supports us in holding our power within, rather than leaking it. Join Tantric guide & counselor Kathy Kali for a 3 hour intensive in this sensuous devotional practice. Learn to access the sexual/spiritual power that dwells in your womb-space, hold the frequency of this core energy for your own pleasure & healing, and transmit this vibration of power to bring alignment to your life and the planet.


Kathy Kali, counselor, teacher, coach, Tantric guide, sacred dancer and singer, offers Tantric Dance, Hypnotherapy, and Prosperity Work. She invites you to explore and deepen being, with greater giving and greater receiving. Kathy Kali holds a degree in Women's Studies and is the Director of the Lotus Moon Temple, A Sanctuary for Healing & Transformation.




Teri Degler

Teri Degler workshop is cancelled

Sunday, February 15th
9:00 AM - Noon


Teri Degler
The Divine Feminine Fire:
Kundalini, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness


The age-old yogic and Tantric teachings tell us that the cosmic feminine force known as kundalini-Shakti dances with Shiva, her beloved, in an external dance of cosmic creation. They also tell us that when she awakens she is the source of mystical experience and divinely inspired creativity found in the great saints and mystics.


But kundalini-Shakti is also active in each and every one of us. In this hands-on creative writing workshop you'll explore this divine feminine energy as the source of creative inspiration, spiritual growth, and empowerment in your life and help you balance the divine masculine and feminine you hold within.


Award-winning writer and public speaker, Teri Degler is the author/co-author of nine books including The Fiery Muse: Creativity and the Spiritual Quest. For more than twenty years Teri has been involved in research on kundalini-shakti, the divine feminine, and the lives of highly creative women mystics. Her latest book, The Divine Feminine Fire: Creativity and Your Yearning to Express Your Self, is expected out in 2009.




Margaret Starbird

Sunday, February 15th
9:00 AM - Noon


Margaret Starbird
Mary Magdalene:
Reclaiming the Divine Feminine


What if the first Christian heresy was the denial of the Bride? Was Mary Magdalene the wife and beloved of Jesus? What became of her after the Crucifixion? Why was her story suppressed by the Church Fathers and why must we now retrieve it? We will examine the Sacred Partnership revealed at the very heart of the Christian faith, correcting the tragic "design flaw" in Christian doctrine-the loss of the Holy Bride.


Margaret Starbird has a MA degree in Comparative Literature and is widely acclaimed for books cited as catalysts for the "The Da Vinci Code." Her world-wide presentations reclaim Sacred Partnership in Christianity. Author of Mary Magdalene, Bride in Exile, The Woman with the Alabaster Jar, The Goddess in the Gospels, Magdalene's Lost Legacy, The Tarot Trumps and the Holy Grail and The Feminine Face of Christianity.




Heather Taylor Zimmerman

Sunday, February 15th
9:00 AM - Noon


Heather Taylor-Zimmerman
Healing Mandalas


We will create healing mandalas as an act of reconciliation or atONEment, aligning the individual within the world and the world within the cosmos. Cosmos means order and so we will create an ordered sphere in which to project our divine potential. In the sacred circle we are whole we are healed and so with our planet. This requires that we embrace all parts of ourselves; that we unite as people, as women, and as a planet. Working with the trinity, sacred numerology, and cosmology we will explore the macrocosm and the macrocosm, learning to channel energy as above so below. Both the theoretical and practical or applied aspects of mandala imagery will be covered. Two mandalas will be created, one exploratory and one finished. $7.50 material fee paid to presenter.


Heather is an artist and art history major who has studied spiritual and artistic practices from around the world and throughout. Her art has been commissioned for the past 15 years for hospitals, banks, museums, schools, and clinics. During the last two years she created a series of female mandalas as a process of reconciliation within herself and for others.




Dianna Worth

Sunday, February 15th
1:30 - 4:30 PM


Dianna Worth
Awakening the Warrior Within


How does the Amazon, the Female Warrior, manifest in women today? How can you activate this power for action to aid yourself, your family, your community? What action would you like to take? With songs, stories, drumming, ritual, dance and meditation I will help you prepare the field for your victory. We will create a prayer shawl to take home with you. All materials and tools provided. Wear comfortable clothing. $10 materials fee paid to the presenter


Dianna Worth was born a little girl filled with a desire to help make things better and that's how she has spent her life. She has no formal spiritual training; she is simply always ready and willing to move the energy in a positive way for herself and for others. She is a licensed massage practitioner and received Reik attunements from Rosa Redtail. She is a self-ordained "Spiritual Cheerleader".




Jacky Essombe

Sunday, February 15th
1:30 - 4:30 PM


Jacky Essombe
African Healing Dance


This healing workshop takes us on a journey into Africa and into ourselves. We use it as a metaphor for life, and we take this opportunity to let go of what does not serve us and embrace life more fully. We are not doing anything, we are being and we are feeling... We feel our steps and we allow ourselves to be FREE. Using African wisdom, story telling, music and dance, we celebrate being a woman in a safe, supportive and truly loving environment. Come and join us. You will feel like you are... back home, in the village.


Originally from Cameroon, Jacky Essombe grew up in Paris and now lives in Vancouver. She has toured in Canada, the United States and Europe with major recording artists and has appeared on television and radio in Canada and France. From 2006 to 2007 she was the host of a weekly television show on the French CBC TV channel called "A la Carte". A true ambassador of the African culture, Jacky's passion for her culture inspired her to become a professional dancer, dance teacher, storyteller, trainer and speaker and a TV and radio show host.




Len-Erna Hoakalei Cotton

Sunday, February 15th
1:30 - 4:30 PM


Len-Erna Hoakalei Cotton
DEVIC WORLD


The Devas Invite you to connect with them at this time. Learn about their fascinating history and how they want a deeper co-creating relationship with humans. Hear many stories of how other cultures have kept their connections alive over time. Experience special rituals and tools that will assist you In establishing a relationship with the Devas. Celebrate the oneness with all creation.


Len-Erna has an extensive background In this timeless art of connecting with the Devas. Thru her Hawaiian tradition and upbringing she has been Involved with the awareness and mindfulness of this honored skill. Her book, Deva World, gives much Insight Into the world of these very present beings. She has a DEVA CONNECTION practice where she does consulting, facilitating and workshops.




Clare Mann Rita Lustgarten

Sunday, February 15th
1:30 - 4:30 PM








This Workshop has been cancelled.

Rita Lustgarten
Clare Mann
Collaborative Leadership - Women's Wisdom in Action


We are living in unprecedented times, calling for new ways of leading to meet the challenges and complexities of a vastly changing world. The myth of the individual heroic leader will no longer suffice. To be effective leaders whether in family, teams, organizations or communities, requires us to question the outworn myths and assumptions of 20th Century leadership. And this requires becoming conscious. Meeting these requirements will open the way for the emergence of a new paradigm of leading; a paradigm that is more inclusive, sustainable, compassionate and wise, at its heart, Collaborative Leadership. Women are most poised to bring this forth, for they are on the leading edge of a vital vanguard of visionaries, ushering in new collaborative paradigms.


This workshop will be an introduction to Collaborative Leadership- its core principles, applications and implications for our lives and leadership in communities and organizations.


Rita Lustgarten, Ph.D. is Founder and CEO of Visionary Leadership International. She is an organizational consultant, psychotherapist, seminar leader, facilitator and executive coach. Her current focus is primarily on women's leadership development and the application of wisdom to the field of leadership.


Clare Mann,C.Occ,Psychol, is an organizational psychologist, existential psychotherapist, coach, speaker and author, skilled in dispelling the myths that inhibit individual, team and organizational transformation. She facilitates sustainable engagement models, resulting in conscious leadership/cultures. She is the co-founder of The Path of Conscious Leadership Membership Site and the author of The Myths of Life and The Choices We Have.




Vivienne Filiatreault

Sunday, February 15th
1:30 - 4:30 PM


Vivienne Filiatreault
B.L.I.S.S - Bubbles of Light Inspiring Spiritual Sisterhood


The power and magic of sitting In circle goes back to the Dawn of the Ages. Please join me in becoming Bubbles of Light, which are multi-dimensional circles, full of the richness of the spectrum that is your life experience. I invite you to rise Into the air and explode over and Into the heads of those around you. Experience Ubuntu, the African concept of Inter-connectedness. Learn about how different cultures create circles of spirituality to empower their soul journeys and how you can, too. The first part of the workshop will focus on Spiritual and Mental Being, a few meditational exercises, the power of visualization / hypnosis and mindfulness. The second part of the workshop will focus on our Emotional and Physical Selves In Community Action, by Incorporating the Talking Stick exercise, ending In a special food ritual with drumming and short chants from around the world. Be prepared to be changed by this experience.


Vivienne Filiatreault was born In Zambia in 1961and lived in South Africa. She grew up singing professionally, acting, writing poetry and doing Batik and sketching. She has always been metaphysically multi-dimensional. At 16, she earned her B.A. In Psychology and five languages, and a Higher Diploma In Education / Counseling at Natal University. After teaching Literature, Drama and counseling, she completed a Hypnotherapy Diploma. She founded a spiritual group called Women of Worth and led meditation at the Centre of Universal Light. Emigrating to Canada, Vivienne became a Counselor In the Violence Against Women Program In Ottawa.




Awilda Verdejo

Sunday, February 15th
6:30 - 9:30 PM


Awilda Verdejo
The Female Voice and Sexuality


Do I like my voice? What does my voice tell me about me? What does my voice tell others about me? Can I change my voice?


The voice is the vehicle of sound given to you to express and articulate your thoughts, your emotions, your needs, your desires, - your dreams. Like your fingerprints, your voice identifies and expresses the uniqueness of who you are. This workshop, specifically designed for women, will address the relationship women have to their bodies and how that impacts the voice, their understanding of power and their commitment to freeing the voice. You will learn how the voice informs your sexuality and sexuality informs it. You will learn and practice owning and using the voice that has been custom made specifically for you with joy, authority and integrity. In order to do this, we will look at the Voice and the Body, the Voice and Power, the Voice and Freedom.


Awilda is a Puerto Rican Black woman, a wife, mother, teacher, and consultant. She trained at Juilliard and for the past 30 years has sung such roles as Aida, Madama Butterfly and Tosca internationally, also doing Symphonic concerts and recitals. Awilda served on the Board of Music Works Northwest, was a commissioner for The King County Arts Commission and served on the board of Ladies Musical Club, the oldest women's music organization in Seattle and currently serves on the Puget Sound Symphony Board and The Link Organization. She has done extensive Kinesiology, Feldenkreis and Byron Katie Work, and is a Reiki Level III master.




Elle Collier

Sunday, February 15th
6:30 - 9:30 PM


Elle Collier Re
Mastering Peace

Our world testifies to loneliness and bitter oppositions, and yet amazingly, love and life well up to burn away fear and keep us from hiding inside the lure of selfishness. We shall find the insight to bring clarity, the will to choose no enemy, and the love to know that differences in us and between us are there to bring our best attributes forth. You shall feel the inner doubt leave, and the higher power of your pure awareness arise. This is not a lecture. It is a re-embodying of and a training in altruistic love.


Elle Collier Re is a mystic and prophet, whose life-long inner training has brought her into a metaphysical awareness of the divine within all components of everyday life. After many years of self-inquiry, Elle became fully awakened in Unity Consciousness. In 1988, Elle began leading groups and supporting individuals with teachings and experientials in soul alignment. She is now the spiritual mentor and director of HeartGate Sanctuary, a non-sectarian study and retreat center in Hood River, Oregon.




Katja Beisanz

Sunday, February 15th
6:30 - 9:30 PM


Katja Beisanz
Dancing Meta Patterns


Drawing from somatic practices of chi cultivation and subtle integration techniques, we will explore the wisdom of our bodies, down to our very cells. We'll then investigate interaction with other movers, curious about patterns that resemble other exchanges in our lives. Taking this to the meta level, we'll examine the health of exchange in all the systems of our lives, from ecology to politics. As a group, we will look for how to bring sustainable, satisfying patterns into the movement of our lives, and of the world.


Katja Biesanz, MA, has taught transformative movement and dance internationally for over 30 years. She practices psychotherapy and healing in Portland, Oregon. Katja guides clients in uniting their souls with their bodies using traditional mental health counseling, shamanic processing, creative expression, and movement healing.




Debrena Jackson Gandy

Sunday, February 15th
6:30 - 9:30 PM


Debrena Jackson Gandy
The Art of Becoming a Juicy Woman


A Juicy Woman is bold, bodacious, succulent and FREE! She has six Core Commitments: clarity, self-expression, truth-telling, sexual expression, joy and self-care. Becoming a Juicy Woman isn't about evolving into someone new; it's about removing the layers of 'who you aren't,' that are keeping you and blocking you from being who you really are already, by design, and who you are naturally, in your uninhibited, free state. Learn how to move out of 'being a girl,' into 'being a woman' - in our love relationships, in our emotions, in our bodies, spiritually, sexually, and with our finances. Join us as we release, unleash, GROW UP, and set ourselves free!!! 50 cent material fee paid to presenter.


African-American Juicy Woman, Debrena Jackson Gandy, is the best-selling author of two national best-selling books, Sacred Pampering Principles, and All the Joy You Can Stand. She travels internationally helping to awaken, inspire and empower women to WAKE UP, and live the lives they desire and deserve. She has been featured in magazines such as Oprah's O, Essence, Black Enterprise, Heart & Soul, Woman's Day, Empowering Women, Family Digest, Ebony, and Today's Black Woman. She owns a training and consultant firm, a self-care and wellness business, and guest hosts a radio show.




Shoshana Avree

Sunday, February 15th
6:30 - 9:30 PM


Shoshana Avree
Persephone's Alchemical Journeys for
Transforming Local and Global Consciousness


Using the Shamanic journey to work with Persephone and your personal darkness as well as the global darkness, learning alchemy to transform the dark to light and appreciating the beauty of darkness. We'll be getting tools and information for transforming global and local consciousness, illuminating the darkness for healing and creating community alchemy.


Shoshana has been practicing and teaching Shamanism for over 20 years. She uses the Harner method of Journeying and recently studied with Tibetan shamans in Nepal. Her passion is opening people to this method and witnessing huge growth and magic. Shoshana has a private practice encompassing most realms of Shamanism as well as an apprenticeship program and a varied teaching schedule.