Wise Women Gathering Place

Join us for the LJS workshop Transformational Communication: Tools for Cross-Cultural Understanding and Alliance Building in Green Bay, WI on October 31 and November 1, 2013. Nanci Luna Jiménez and Lillian Roybal Rose will be leading this highly experiential and interactive training where we will begin to identify blind spots that can hinder our capacity to consistently apply our best thinking while valuing every person and perspective. Join us for this transformational workshop as we gain radical insights, practice powerful skills and build a profound trust on our journey toward increased capacity!

 

We will be hosted by the Wise Women Gathering Place. The Wise Women Gathering Place is committed to peace, respect, and belonging through skill building, sharing of knowledge and caring support or our community.

 

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The Statewide Conference,  Transform the Conversation: Explore. Expand. Create. will be held on November 5th and 6th at the Kalahari Resort in the Wisconsin Dells.

End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault, and American Indians Against Abuse are thrilled to present Nanci as the opening keynote speaker. Luna Jiménez's presentation, entitled "Transforming the Conversation, Transform Our Community, Transform Ourselves," will help us in understanding the root causes of male domination that perpetuate emotional, physical, sexual and economic violence in an environment of fear.  It will offer a transformation of our language from using words such as "victims," "survivors," and "advocacy" to a narrative of empowerment, dignity, ally-partnerships, and human liberation. Nanci's goal is to inspire us to transform ourselves and our movement, to end domination.

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Oregon Latin@ Leaders

Latino Network's Unid@s for Oregon, strives to build a leadership framework that fosters cohesion, trust and relationships among leading individuals and organizations. The program links existing leadership initiatives, and builds capacity among local communities for a cohesive change movement. The goal is to advance the wellbeing of Latinos through a unified statewide voice and presence in all levels of leadership.

This Friday, September 20, Luna Jiménez Seminars will join in the welcoming of the incoming Unid@s for Oregon Class II.  We are excited and looking forward to meeting the incoming members and continuing our partnership with Latino Network.

National Laboratory Continues to

Strengthen Focus on Diversity & Inclusion 

Nanci and Associate, Kathleen Rice, continue working with a national laboratory to strengthen their Diversity & Inclusion initiatives. In early February, they facilitated a Division-wide D&I action plan that all members of the workforce were invited to be a part of. Almost 10% of the workforce showed up to be part of this historic planning process! Task Forces now meet regularly to determine necessary action to achieve group-identified milestones.

 

In an effort to increase awareness of the importance of D&I, the Division sent their fifth group of employees to participate in a three-day Transformational Communication off-site training. While strengthening their relationship with one another, they

learned of new 

theory and tools to help in healing from oppressions.

 

In May, Nanci and Kathleen facilitated an experiential training and dialogue, Women with Women, for 40 women at the lab. The group explored personal challenges, as well as barriers in being true allies, advocates, mentors and champions for each other.

 

Nanci Presents at IAF Jamaica

Nanci traveled to Jamaica for the first IAF Jamaica Conference in Kingston, Jamaica. She presented a short workshop session, What's Power Got to Do with It? Understanding the Impact of Dominance in Group Facilitation.

The interactive session introduced a framework for understanding the dynamics

of institutional and interpersonal dominance and its internalized affects and impacts. The group learned tools to interrupt dominance and identified the ways in which

they could apply them as facilitators. 

  

In April, LJS had

We were graciously welcomed and hosted by CAPACES Leadership Institute and Silverton Health.