Gather the Women Celebrates International Women’s Day in March of every year

An invitation to create a celebration of International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day has been honored and celebrated around the world for many decades on March 8.  You are invited to join Gather the Women as we celebrate each International Women’s Day.

Gather the Women wants also to focus on all women’s inner qualities which inspire and sustain us.  We want to honor and to celebrate the spirit of women, the divine feminine within all, the innate qualities of women so urgently needed in the world today.

You are invited to gather women in your community during the month of March to celebrate International Women’s Day. The gathering can be of any size.  In the past there have been up to 500 individual gatherings from a small potluck in Alaska to 200 women gathered in the Congo. 

In order to deepen our energetic connection with one another around the world Gather the Women suggests the following: 

• Using the GTW common theme.  The theme for 2008 was:
  
  WOMAN TO WOMAN
  (With a subtitle created for each local gathering,
  e.g., WOMAN TO WOMAN: Being the change.)

• Reading the Gather the Women vision statement.

• Posting the gathering, regardless of size or whether it is a public or private event, on the Intl Women's Day Calendar on GTW's website.

• Acknowledging the other Gather the Women events being celebrated around the world to connect energetically.

At your event we also suggest you ask women, including any speakers, to share their own experience in depth, rather than promote their projects or visions. Some guiding questions could be: What motivates you? What sustains you? What is your passion to create? What qualities of your feminine or masculine side are called forth in your work? How have you changed as a result of following your passion?

To help you get started, you can download a GTW flyer here that briefly describes Gather the Women's invitation to come together. Additional ideas and suggestions for successful gatherings are posted below. And if you have questions, Marilyn Nyborg at Marilyn@gatherthewomen.org has years of experience gathering women into community and is ready to answer questions, offer ideas, and connect you into the existing network in any way she can.

The process of gathering women in your own community is very empowering and unifying. The culmination of the gathering itself is deeply rewarding.  When women come together wonderful things happen.  

You are invited to be a part of this growing movement.

Marilyn Nyborg

Creating a March Gathering: WHY, HOW AND WHAT International Women’s Day provides us all with an incredible opportunity to create an energetic field of women coming together around the world... [ more ]
	International Women's Day Calendar [ more ]
Press Releases and Promotional Tools [ more ]
	Themes and Intentions The theme for 2008 is WOMAN TO WOMAN . (Each gathering is invited to create its own subtitle.) [ more ]
History and Past Events One aspect of the Gather the Women Global MatrixSM is our focus on March 8 -- International Women's Day as declared by the United Nations. ... [ more ]
	One Community's Story When we first launched Gather the Women on a global level three years ago, my role was to encourage and support women around the world... [ more ]