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| 2003 GTW Congress Partners
Following are the organizations (in alphabetical order)
who partnered to co-create the 2003 Gather the Women
Congress: Weaving a World that Works.
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AYA Partners
Contact: Tesa Silvestre
Email: tesa@ayapartners.com
AYA is a company that champions the
creation of a conscious business world. Our purpose
is to nurture the creation, growth and success of companies
whose organizational cultures, services and products
raise global consciousness and contribute to the emergence
of a nurturing world. AYA offers a distinctly feminine
and spiritual approach to business consulting, conscious
connections, and a magnetic and inspiring voice to champion
businesses that make a difference. Our gift is to bring
feminine energy to projects and organizations and serve
as a source of inspiration, wisdom, creativity, and
serenity.
AYA's vision is a world where leading businesses:
- Create and offer inspiring and conscious products,
services and work environments;
- Value authenticity, integrity, relatedness and
fulfillment as highly as innovation, profitability
and expansion;
- Achieve extraordinary success and prosperity, demonstrating
that values add value;
- Contribute to the creation of a world that works
for all.
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TEN
Contact: Sarah Hartzell
Website: www.peacecircles.net
Circles of Ten is a grass roots peace
activism and leadership training movement which originated
in Boulder Colorado in 2001. Circles of Ten intends
to create personal, global and universal reality shifts.
We define these shifts as, simply, world peace. Circles
of Ten supports participants to experience themselves
as peacemakers on all levels. Women from every race,
religion, culture, sexual orientation, and national
origin utilize their unique gifts to influence and effect
immediate positive change.
Circles of Ten provides referrals and networking opportunities
to all who are touched, assuring financial sustainability
for both for the movement and for its members. Circles
of Ten connects, collaborates with, and supports other
organizations and individuals of our global family to
share resources and ideas. News media from around the
world are invited to respond with recognition, joy and
enthusiasm to these movements toward peace. Political
and spiritual leaders are invited to embrace the intention
and peacemaking efforts of Circles of Ten, as the concept
becomes a foundation for spiritual oneness. |
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CREATIVE
HEALTH NETWORK
Contact: Suzanne Keehn
Website UK: www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~pbc/
Creative Health Network serves an international community
of people from all walks of life, nationalities, races,
cultures, and ages that take an active interest in what
we call "creative health." We believe creative health
is a state of wholeness and well being among individuals,
groups, organizations, and communities, and that our
common experience is continuously being created by our
individual and collective choices.
Our motto is Agreement = Manifestation
CHN's main function has been to create forums for humanitarians
to meet, interact with each other, and share their visions.
In our experience cooperation, creativity and a sense
of community follow naturally when people come together
as equals. These outcomes occur both locally and globally.
These forums can be life changing major events such
as the Healing Summit conferences in California, Glastonbury
UK, Siberia, Australia, Israel or local meetings, retreats,
workshops and peace concerts.
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| Earth Luck
International Society
Contact: Donna Collins,
President
Website: earthluckinternational.com
Earth Luck International Society is
a non-profit organization dedicated to creating systems
of education and support to facilitate the spreading
of the ancient wisdom and principals of authentic, classical
feng shui. Based on the Chinese proverb,
"If there is harmony in the house,
there will be order in the nation,
if there is order in the nation,
there will be peace on earth",
We believe that harmony and world peace begin at home,
and have dedicated our lives to this principle. We work
one on one with students and consultants helping them
to understand and perfect their skills in feng shui
so that they can provide the public with the healthiest,
most harmonious environments possible." |
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Foundation
for a Healing Among Nations
Contact: Bonnie Mansdorf
Website: www.healingamongnations.org
The Foundation for A Healing Among Nations,
a not for profit organization, is a spiritually based
peace fellowship working collaboratively with organizations,
leaders and citizens of the world to develop creative
solutions which shape and enhance a higher quality of
life at the local, national and international level.
Our vision is to support multidisciplinary methods which
foster the power of love, evoking the highest potential
of individuals which may develop socially responsible
and compassionate human beings.
In September, 2003, in coordination with the United
Nations International Day of Peace, 12 women from war
torn countries & the a delegation from the U.S.
will tour America by bus to share their hope, their
love, their wisdom and their visions of peace. The first
group will be Iraqi, Afghani, Israeli and Palestinian
women. They will be attending the 2003 Gather the Women
Congress. Every two months a new region of the world
will tour America. They will meet with women from all
walks of life in cities across the United States to
listen and to be listened to; to heal and to be healed.
They will exchange and promote ideas which deepen understanding
of one another and the challenges of their country;
sit and stand and sing and dance in circles sharing
spiritual traditions of peacemaking opening their hearts
and mind to compassionate action. |
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for Conscious Evolution
Contact: Teresa Collins
Website: www.consciousevolution.net
At this time of rapid change in human society and
global ecology there is a need for the connecting, coordinating,
and integrating of individual and organizational initiatives
working on behalf of balanced, ethical, and life-enhancing
evolution for humanity and Earth. This is the vision
of the Center for Conscious Evolution-to serve as a
central resource hub for individuals and communities
worldwide that are choosing to embrace and apply the
emerging principles, tools, and templates of co-creative
self and social conscious evolution. |
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Fontaine
d'Espoir pour Filles et Femmes
(Fountain of Hope for Girls and Women)
Contact: Irène Martine
Ndaya Nabote, Executive Director
Website: pages.ivillage.com/ceffemmes
The woman occupy irrefutably a second role in the
society of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (former
Zaire). Indeed, the sort of Congolese women do not constitute
of the all a preoccupation for the government. Taken
between the fire of fights without thank-you to be able
it, the women of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
are abandoned to their sad sort. In this mood genocide
terror , the case of Congolese women can appear as a
detail facing the humanitarian disaster that result
in this very moment.
The lack of work beats his full, the famine has attains
his higher level, a family gives itself to eat rotary,
the girls that sell their body (prostitute themselves)
to win their daily bread, the families do not have means
to pay the studies to their children thus the rate illiteracy
do not stop is growing daily and criminality beats his
record. But for the Centre hope for Girls and Women,
that will not be never! For the respect of children
and women this region, pass also by the respect unconditional
of the one that give them birth! Seeming all what precedes,
we have decided the creation of the Non-Governmental
organization, for the Rights and the liberty of the
women, her Protection, her sexual Independence and her
self-sufficiency for her Future. Educate a woman this
is to educate the whole Nation! |
| Gathering
of Women
Contact: Betsy Cox
Website: www.gatheringofwomen.com
The unusual goal of this project is not to seek a
solution Palestinian conflict, but instead to create
an image that hopes for peace, and that might open our
imagination to new ways of living together. Therefore
we aim to:
1) Educate ourselves and others about the history
and complexity of the conflict between Israelis and
Palestinians
2) Keep our actions apolitical, not working for
or against any particular faction, but instead to
make our actions humanitarian
3) Seek the healing that interaction between peaceful
individuals can offer, and to offer this as a path
toward solution, if not the solution itself.
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Global
Meditations Network
Contact: Barbara Wolf
Website: www.globalmeditations.com
To stimulate a realization that all have similar hopes
and dreams, newsletters and the network's website help
link humanity around the world. Familiarity breeds tolerance,
then love and understanding, and this leads to peace.
By coming together in global meditation to help solve
problems both large and small, the act itself strengthens
global consciousness which also leads humanity toward
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| Madonna
Ministry
Contact: Mei Lan Willis
Website: www.whitewolfstar.net/ministry
The Madonna Ministry is a fast growing
worldwide ministry of over 600 ministers, representing
a vast diversity of expression and depth of experience
and wisdom. The Madonna Ministry is a "Church
without Walls" - meaning we have no dogma or a
codified or enforced way of being or doing.
Our ministers come from every flavor of spiritual
expression to create a sacred circle of truth, integrity,
support, love, creativity and expression of the Divine
Mother and Divine Will & Purpose. The Madonna Ministry,
in radiating the Divine Mother's Love, Compassion
and Healing into the world, is fulfilling the Divine
Plan as individually and collectively we lend our energies,
vibrations and frequencies, our talents and knowledge,
our hands and hearts to the overall mission of the Divine
Mother – to Heal the World. |
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Mama na Dada
International
Contact: Joyce Oneko
Website: www.mamadada.org
Mama Na Dada International is a non-governmental
organisation working towards securing a better future
for the African girl/child through provision of culturally
appropriate support and education. The organisation
is registered in the UK with offices in Kenya. |
| Millionth
Circle
Contact: Jean Shinoda Bolen
website: www.millionthcircle.org
Intention Statement:
Circles encourage connection and cooperation among
their members and inspire compassionate solutions to
individual, community and world problems. We believe
that circles support each member to find her or his
own voice and to live more courageously, and intend:
- to seed and nurture circles, wherever possible,
in order to cultivate equality, sustainable livelihoods,
preservation of the earth and peace for all.
- to bring the circle process into United Nations
accredited non-governmental organizations and the
5th UN World Conference on Women in 2005.
- to connect circles so they may know themselves
as a part of a larger movement to shift consciousness
in the world.
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Pathways
To Peace
website: www.PathwaysToPeace.org
Pathways To Peace (PTP) is an international
not-for-profit peace building, educational, and consulting
organization. The mission of Pathways To Peace is threefold:
- to expand the comprehension and substantive expression
of "PEACE" and peace building practices
at all levels;
- to build Cultures of Peace by uniting and enhancing
the strengths of existing organizations and programs
along eight paths to Peace;
- to contribute, through consultation and direct
participation, to the evolving mission of the United
Nations and to citizens' worldwide participation
in the International Day of Peace (Hear The Children
Day)
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X Peace
Contact: Patricia Smith Melton
Website: www.PeaceXPeace.org
PEACE X PEACE is an international
nonprofit organization that supports, educates and most
importantly, connects women locally and globally, empowering
them to build the conditions necessary for substantive
peace. In order to achieve our goals, PEACE X PEACE
has three independent, yet mutually supportive programs.
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The Global Network - a worldwide democratic network
connecting United States-based women's groups, one-on-one
through the Internet, with women's groups around
the world, for dialogue, support, cultural and professional
exchange and empowerment.
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The Documentary: PEACE BY PEACE: Women on the Frontlines
a feature-length documentary filmed in Afghanistan,
Burundi, Argentina, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the
United States, revealing the critical work women
are doing globally to build peace on all levels
of society. This film will premiere at the United
Nations on October 30, 2003 and will tour the US
and key international cities throughout 2004.
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The International Educational Outreach Program
a forum offering educational resources in all
aspects of substantive cultural harmony and peace,
including a resource-rich website, e-Newsletter
and expert Peace Papers.
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The
Red Web Foundation
Contact: Anna Yang
Website: www.theredweb.org
Today, hundreds of women worldwide devote countless
resources toward educating women and girls about the
positive aspects of menarche, menstruation and menopause.
They do this in a myriad of beautiful ways within the
academic, artistic, medical, mental health, social,
business, spiritual and alternative educational fields.
Yet, quite often they do this in isolation with little
societal or financial support. At the same time, many
more women and girls are seeking information and guidance
about their bodies and their place in this world as
women and are unable to access the help they need.
The Red Web Project was created to address these
needs.
1. To provide a central repository
for information written and compiled on the subject
of positive menarche, menstruation and menopause.
This will be done through a website that will become
a link for menstrual educators worldwide to share
resources and ideas. Additionally it will be a comprehensive
resource center for public education as well as a
way for anyone to find the services of a menstrual
educator in their area.
2. To become a generously funded
Foundation which will support widespread free educational
programs for women and girls of all economic and cultural
backgrounds and
3. To sponsor yearly conferences
on the subject of menarche, menstruation and menopause
for greater public education and awareness.
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| SpiralMuse
Contact: Marcella
Eversole
Website:
www.spiralmuse.org
Welcome to the canvas we call SpiralMuse, an organization
to connect and inspire women as community, manifesting
their visions and living their dreams. We celebrate
depth and partnership, health and healing, and each
woman's full expression for all to see, feel and experience.
We honor wisdom, tradition and legacy through women
sharing stories, revealing each other's essence and
acknowledging our gifts.
We invite you to connect with other women and add your
unique vision to the evolving canvas of dreams. Together,
we are creating a masterpiece of possibilities. We are
an expression of woman as muse, as flowing, untamed
energy, spiraling into a feminine community, a community
we call SpiralMuse. |
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Women
as New Global Leaders
Contact: Soleira Green
Website: www.soulutions.co.uk
The world is on a pinnacle, ready for a huge leap
into change and evolution. Given women's natural relationship
to creation and their proclivity to inclusion and connection,
they are some of the best change agents to actualize
this leap. This network of women will go beyond current
leadership thinking to inspire leaderfulness in others
and to work together within a new paradigm of collective
and creative power.
Our goal and our approach is to
stand as whole women, in partnership with whole men,
to:
- source a new global leadership,
- evolve a new essence of power and
- bring together people of all races and beliefs to
find a way to work together to forge the future that
we truly know is ours to build now.
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of Vision and Action
Contact: Carol Hansen Grey,
Executive Director
Website: www.wova.org
Women of Vision & Action, a 501c3
organization, is a worldwide network of emerging and
established women leaders from all backgrounds who are
dedicated to a vision of positive change and who are
actively involved in making their visions real in the
world. Our intention is to ensure that women's voices
and values are more fully represented in all arenas.
We gather at conferences, in local circles and through
the Internet to:
- envision the society we wish to co-create
- map plans of action, and
- work together to bring it into being
As women of vision we integrate vision and action,
spiritual values and social ideals. WOVA members and
their projects seek innovative solutions to challenges
in local, national and world communities. We support
and demonstrate co-creative models of women working
together to address the needs facing all societies at
this time of global transition. We encourage women to
join in mind, heart and spirit to bring their visions
into being. |
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Women
of Wisdom Foundation
Contact: Kris Steinnes
Website: www.womenofwisdom.org
The Women of Wisdom Foundation is
an internationally recognized organization created to
provide diverse and innovative programs that offer women
opportunities for personal growth and transformation.
We are committed to creating a safe and supportive environment
where all will feel welcome to pursue their healing.
By deepening spiritual awareness, Women of Wisdom serves
to empower the lives of others. |
Women Rise
for Global Peace
Contact: Corrina McFarlane
Website: www.womenrise.org
The qualities of nurturing, kindness, caring, dignity,
integrity, and loving one another are innate in both
women and men. Our cultures have ignored the value of
these qualities and have attributed them primarily to
women. Therefore it is time for women to come forward
with these qualities that they know and live so well.
Women contribute fully 2/3 of the work in the world.
Women constitute over 51% of the population. What an
impact we can have if we all think peace together, be
peace together and act peace together on the same day!
As women we have been led to believe we were powerless,
therefore we were powerless. We are powerful; our work
output and numbers can demand and create the changes
that are desperately needed. As women, we have to do
many things in our lives when we don't know how to do
them. Yet we know they have to be done, so we set our
intentions and accomplish our goals.
As women we also know we can work together - we jump
to immediate action in a crisis for our family, friends
and neighbors during illness, natural disaster or direct
attack. Our world is in extreme crisis with all the
wars and the philosophy of greed as a virtue. Let us
consciously invest our power in that which will bring
joy, peace, and prosperity to all. |
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Women's
Perspective
Contact: Rosemary Williams
Website: www.womensperspective.org
Women's Perspective is a nonprofit organization
based in Fairfield, CT. It is committed to educating
women about money in a new and freeing way. The goal
of Women's Perspective is to enable women to experience
the significant transformation that comes from integrating
their economic power with their spiritual power.
Our programs help women:
- to discover their own power
- to control and use money more effectively
- to connect their economic and spiritual power
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