A 14-Week Dive into the Divine Feminine with a Global Community of Spiritual Sisters
Course Facilitators
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Elayne Doughty
Devaa Haley Mitchell

Are you ready to:

  • Connect more deeply to your spiritual self to create greater depth and meaning?
  • Rediscover parts of yourself that have been dormant?
  • Align your life with your true purpose and offer your greatest gifts so you can transform the world?
  • Feel more alive, juicy, and empowered?
  • Connect to others, your "soul sisters," who understand what drives you and feeds your soul?

Then you’ve come to the right place!

Guest Faculty (click images for full bios)
Marci Shimoff
Marcia Wieder
Luisah Teish
Mama Gena
Sonia Choquette
Janet Attwood
Ariel Spilsbury
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Harnessing the Power of Archetypes
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Context

It’s clear that women like you have a central role to play in creating the changes that our planet and our people need. It’s our time to SHINE! Now more than ever we are all being called to stand in our soulful, authentic, femininity to help shift our culture towards balance, harmony and joy. You are an important part of this Shift.

You may be seeking to make a bigger contribution in your world, find meaning, or reconnect to your deepest passion. Right now you are likely yearning for ways to tap into your deepest feminine wisdom and juiciness to create a bigger, brighter life for yourself and those you love.

If you are anything like other smart, spiritually conscious women, you long to live an inspired life. You know this is your destiny, your gift, and the thing that will bring you peace and satisfaction. This is what will fulfill the calling that whispers to you at night. PLUS, the best part, is if you live your destiny, you'll help change the world too.

Yet this intention may sometimes seem unreachable. These feelings might sound familiar:

  • You know you want to make a big contribution and find meaning, but you feel disconnected from your true purpose and don’t know what steps to take. What if you could discover your purpose and take daily steps to live it?
  • You no longer savor your life and feel flat - you trudge through your daily tasks, but lack that passion that drives you toward success and fulfillment. Wouldn’t you love to know how to reconnect with your inner goddess so you feel alive and radiant?
  • You feel overwhelmed with too much to do and don’t know how to refuel and nourish yourself. What if you could develop daily practices that could have you feel rejuvenated, revitalized and refreshed- ready to create miracles in the world?
  • You feel alone, isolated. Your friends and family really don't understand that deep hunger inside of you calling you to make a difference. What if there was a community you could be a part of who not only understands your drive but lives it themselves?
  • You feel like the "to-dos" of daily living are interfering in your desire to live your passion and make a huge difference in the world. What if you could learn how to easily live your passion and also handle your daily life?

If this is what your soul is longing for, we're here to help.

You see, it's not your fault you've struggled. We’ve been raised in a more masculine culture where the external goals, timelines, and “bottom line” thinking regularly overshadow more caring, humanitarian values.

While more masculine qualities are indeed important, they have been out of balance-WAY out of balance! So out of balance that many of us are experiencing the strong adverse effects of stress from over- doing. (There IS a reason why heart attacks and cancer are on the rise for women, it's because too often we're living out of balance for who we are.)

The inner aspects of life--the focus on who we are BEING rather than what we are DOING-all too often takes a backseat. Or we simply put our spiritual practice on the backburner, waiting for “when we have time,” rather than integrating it into the fabric of our life in the world.

Perhaps more important, most of us women don’t yet have access to the fullness of our spiritual selves. We often only live out a few aspects of our full Self - a smaller version of ourselves rather than the full-spectrum. This spectrum includes a range of qualities, from the softer yin aspects of the Goddess of Compassion, the playful and creative energies of the Muse, the wisdom of the Crone, the no-bullshit-tell-it-like-it-is Fierce Feminine, the sensual pleasures of Aphrodite
-and MORE!

Yet there are few places where the full spectrum of spirit is explored, celebrated, and called forward into being.

Introducing the Soulful Women Program

Imagine how it would feel to recapture the authentic, juicy, soulful woman you ARE, and to share it with others. Imagine feeling filled up from the inside out - filled with abundance, clarity and self-acceptance. These are the fruits of the Soulful Women Course, which distills some of the most important teachings from our Women's Wisdom School, which represents a long lineage of initiated women.

Over a number of years of working with women from all walks of life and various countries, we’ve found that our fabulous, powerful and feminine radiance can be accessed through activating 13 different aspects, or archetypes, of the feminine.

For virtually all of us, we have more access to certain of these archetypes, while other aspects are areas for growth. For example, the Great Mother invites us to welcome the unknown, while the Goddess of Love invites us to open deeply to our own pleasure. The Initiator asks us to be willing to shatter illusions and speak our truths, while the Muse beckons to our magical child.

In welcoming the fullness of our feminine spirit as represented by these archetypes, we develop a powerful set of tools to create radiant, magical lives and step into our true destiny path. We are resourced with a full palette of colors to paint the canvas of our lives and make our unique contribution to the planet. And we have a great time doing it!

In this course, we are weaving together ancient, mystical teachings about the feminine with some very modern-day wisdom from some of today’s brightest lights. Guest faculty include Ariel Spilsbury, author of the 13 Moon Oracle whose work deeply inspired the content of this course. Marci Shimoff, best-selling author will share the secrets to her personal success and happiness. And dream-manifestation guru Marcia Wieder will be holding a mini-workshop on designing and creating an inspired life. An amazing lineup, not to be missed!

This program is put together in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step program so you can effortlessly integrate it into your life.

And while there’s a lot of personal growth material out there, there’s NOT many in-depth, systematic programs for women that are designed to reconnect you with the bright spark of your own spirit and sustain it over time.

Isn't it time to finally live into your full potential? To make the big difference in the world you yearn to make? To stop the stressful cycle of dis-ease and live healthier and happier lives? To honor your body and your soul's purpose? To feel a part of a community that’s dedicated to standing in feminine power and transforming the world?

A Video Message from Devaa and Elayne about this Course

Our Global Community

In our most recent courses many women they told us that they had felt somewhat alone in this journey of finding and expressing their radiant, soulful, spiritual selves. Over and over, women have shared their yearning to be fully supported by a community of Sisters who are walking this path together.

That’s why we’re creating a global community of amazing women ready to go for it. Together. It’s time to blend the inner and the outer aspects of self, and to activate ourselves as wildly alive, passionately feminine, deeply inspiring women--women who others will want to emulate.

As women, we will connect through time and space across the planet through live VIDEO and the PHONE. We will weave our intentions and dreams together through our ongoing, private community site. In short, we will make magic together!

We would venture to say, if you're still reading, that you know YOU are part of our community. This is YOUR tribe and YOUR destiny, and we're here to help you stand fully in your soulful, feminine self.

Benefits of Participating in this Program

  • Enjoy a sense of deep meaning and renewal by establishing and sustaining a direct connection to spirit.
  • Uncover 13 key facets of your feminine spirit to step into the bigger story of your life.
  • Cultivate a community of sisters that will offer friendship, feedback and support through both good and hard times.
  • Learn tools of manifestation so you can offer your deepest gifts to the world and create the life of your dreams.
  • Explore 13 different archetypes or faces of the Divine Feminine to understand the places where you already SHINE and also those places where you could grow and stretch into new aspects of yourself.
  • Practice reading the symbolic world and how to “know” from deep inside what direction to take, which decision to make, or the solution to a problem.
  • Expand your ability to show-up as a sensual being in the world (yes, this is a part of being an inspiring woman!)
  • Enliven your hearts by noticing and creating beauty all around us
  • Heal core wounds that keep you living small and instead step into your radiance as an empowered goddess leader!
  • Gain the ability to track and shift group energy in leading your own meetings, so you are more tuned-in to dynamics that could otherwise sabotage groups.
  • Take time to slow down & de-stress, so you can enjoy the many fruits of your life.
  • Unleash your unlimited creativity and apply it to your projects.
  • Learn to follow your joy! Practice spending more time cultivating those things that make you smile-just because it feels GREAT!

What People Are Saying!

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~ Christine Arylo, author of Choosing ME Before WE, Every Woman’s Guide to Life and Love

"Devaa is a living example of the Evolutionary Woman arising in our midst. Combining brilliant intellect, business experience, spiritual development and now a major outreach into the world to assist is all in our evolution, she is a loving and inspiring woman leading us forward in the 21st century."

~ Barbara Marx Hubbard, Foundation for Conscious Evolution

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~ Mary Anne Adams, loving wife, mother, grandmother, educational consultant and friend

"Elayne has enriched and empowered women from all walks of life reclaim their innate wisdom, develop their own spiritual path and embody feminine qualities such as compassion, healing and personal responsibility, wisdom and respect.”

~ Linda Carlson - Executive Director - Women's Recovery Association

"I've met a lot of teachers, healers, and leaders in my years on the speaking circuit. When I wanted to dive deeper with my work and share from a new level of vulnerability, I turned to Devaa. She helped me lead from my authenticity, connect with my depth, and open in ways that proved energizing and effective. Her support enabled me to go to a whole new level in my public presentation and bring new qualities to my leadership. She helped me in a million ways that I cannot even describe. I am blessed by her presence. Thank you Devaa!”

~ Marci Shimoff, Best-Selling author with over 14 million books sold, including Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul and Happy for No Reason

Course Curriculum:
Each class is built around one cross-cultural feminine archetype, from which we draw insights, healings, learnings, and power.

Week One - The Great Mother: Feed the Feminine First

  • Discover how to source yourself from an overflowing well of nurturance that will feed your life and all your projects.
  • Create daily practices to connect to your feminine nature and sustain it.
  • Connect more deeply with your body through a deeper exploration of menstrual and lunar cycles—and how we can align with them for greater grace & ease of manifestation
  • Learn to get comfortable with the unknown and allow the new and unexpected to emerge.

Week Two - The Compassionate One: Cultivate Self-Acceptance

  • Learn how to lead from a compassionate heart and still get things done!
  • Recognize ways that you undermine yourself, damaging our own power in the world.
  • Awaken practices of forgiveness and self-acceptance and open to an increased sense of worthiness.
  • Release yourself from the bonds of perfection, judgment and criticism, so that you can be free to offer your gifts more fully in the world.

Week Three - The Mystic: Develop Your Intuition - Sonia Choquette

  • Hone the skill of attuning to your inner guidance for external life issues.
  • Develop the four skills of Inner Listening and tune your inner ear to hear at different levels of subtle communication.
  • Practice reading the symbolic world and how to “know” from deep inside what direction to take, which decision to make, or the solution to a problem.

Week Four - The Liberator: Free Yourself from Limitation

  • Identify your self-imposed limitations, beliefs and behaviors that stop you from stepping-into your radiant fullness.
  • Participate in a freedom ceremony to liberate yourself from those limitations and obstacles that are blocking your evolution.
  • Get comfortable with cutting away the “dead wood” in your life—including habits, relationships, or ways of being that are not aligned with your greatest expression.
  • Develop practices to de-clutter your life every week so that you can become the most effective leader.

Week Five - The Creatrix: Deepen your Magnetic Power

  • Align your inner masculine and inner feminine to create a potent alchemical force of creation and manifestation in the world.
  • Generate a clear sense of what it is that you REALLY want to create that is connected to your true purpose.
  • Learn the 6 steps to creating effective, magnetic intentions.
  • Learn to manifest through personal magnetism , taking the struggle and strife out of it once and for all!

Week Six - The Muse: Unleash your Creativity

  • Wake-up your creative genius! Learn to access to your spontaneity, imagination and creativity as a foundational skill of inspired leadership.
  • Learn how to create out of thin air and use the Magic IF wand to serve all your creations in the world.
  • Embrace your ability to turn everything on its head and see things from new perspectives.
  • Lead from a place of joy and light-heartedness, and enlivening your projects and life with humor.

Week Seven - Goddess of Love: Immerse in Your Abundance - Mama Gena

  • Unleash the feminine rampage of joy and pleasure as a way to juice up every aspect of your life!
  • Enliven ALL of your senses as a way to increase your personal power of attraction.
  • Revel in the beauty of all life and experience that what you appreciate, appreciates!
  • Develop the art of living in overflowing abundance and magnetize wealth and prosperity on all levels to your life and leadership.
  • Immerse yourself in the spirit of generosity and learn how to shower it on all of your projects. Immerse yourself in the spirit of generosity and learn how to develop a strategy of generosity in your life to be the lifeblood for all your projects.

Week Eight - The Wild Woman: Free Your Instinctual Passion

  • Wild women don’t sit at the table and play nice! Give yourself permission to get of the box! Learn when to break the rules and when to play by your own rules.
  • Get into your body, shake it all out, cry, laugh, growl and let your energy run in creative leaps and bounds. You will be surprised how much this can fuel your life and your leadership!
  • Let go of being so concerned with what anyone else thinks of you – embrace being bold and unconventional. Color outside the lines. Release energy so that your projects and life can be vitalized, impassioned, and freed up.
  • Make way for the unpredictable to enter in.

Week Nine - The Initiator: Wise use of Power

  • Claim the feminine super power of speaking your truth in a clear, direct, clean and clarifying way.
  • Feel what it is like to be in your fierce feminine, speaking up when it would be more comfortable to stay silent. Find your courage to speak up in support of other women so no woman ever has to stand alone
  • Practice being able to call others into authentic being through your astute clarity- use this skill to free yourself and others to be more potent, powerful and embodied.
  • Hone your ability to see your project and life with a clear discerning eye for any adjustments that may need to be made.

Week Ten - The Wise Woman: Listen to your Heart Wisdom - Luisah Teish

  • Access your mentorship ability and develop your skills to guide, love, appreciate and support others in their journey.
  • Learn how to navigate your doubting mind by accessing the center of your heart knowing.
  • Embrace the wisdom of laughter as a way to shift your consciousness out of places of rigidity.
  • Step back and see the big picture, let go of what is not important, simplify and become more coherent. Be able to distill what is most important and essential in the moment, your life and your projects.

Week 11 - The Visionary: 12 ways to be a 21st century leader - Marcia Wieder

  • Find out what it means to be a visionary and why it's critical at this time.
  • Remember who you are, why you are here and how to live in integrity with your Soul.
  • Understand a new way to dream and learn a profound and proven method for finding and accomplishing any dream.
  • Trust at a deeper level, take greater risks and understand how to remove fear, doubt and other obstacles.

Week Twelve - The Queen of Death: The Art of Letting Go

  • Tune into the rhythm of your cyclical nature. Be able to navigate and see where you are in the cycle of your own life and of the projects you are involved in.
  • Receive your lifetime achievement award for “failure” and see all failure as a part of success. This skill is at the core of our resiliency as leaders.
  • Learn to trust that all is well.
  • Champion the quiet time when nothing seems to be happening. Allow time for things to be metabolized and digested before engaging on the next project. Embrace and take a stand for the inevitable cycle of birth/death/rebirth in our life and projects.

Week Thirteeen - The Alchemist: Embody Yourself as a Potent, Integrated Leader!

  • Hold the full spectrum of all our experiences, wounds, gifts, and challenges.
  • Forge an internal sacred marriage of opposites.
  • Bring our projects/life into a full spectrum of living, finding the nuggets of gold and the gems from the alchemical process.
  • Learn to turn any challenge into opportunity.

Week Fourteen – Celebrate Our Success!

  • Review the journey that we've taken together over our 14 weeks with the highlights along the way.
  • Reflect on the progress you've personally made since our program began, and receive loving reflection from your peers.
  • Participate in our graduation ceremony

Free Bonuses

Happy For No Reason - Marci Shimoff

Having things and circumstances - money, success, relationships, health - brings a certain kind of happiness, but this temporary experience of satisfaction or joy soon fades and we have to hurry up and fulfill the next desire to feel happy again. To experience true and lasting happiness, we can learn to access the deep state of peace and well-being that already exists within us-beyond the reach of external circumstances. Then, no matter what is happening in life we are Happy for No Reason.

In this powerful presentation you will hear moving, real-life stories of people who are Happy for No Reason, as well as the latest scientific findings about how to raise your happiness set point . This program will inspire and motivate you to create a life that is full of genuine happiness every day.

Topics We'll Explore:

  • A new definition of happy
  • Raising your current happiness set point
  • Keys to cultivating happiness in your life right now
  • How to create good Happiness Habits
  • A 7-step holistic program to building your Home for Happiness

Benefits

Expand your ability to experience happiness in all aspects of your life:

  • Own your life-taking responsibility puts you in the driver's seat
  • Discover how to make your thoughts your allies
  • Make your cells happy
  • Plug Yourself into Spirit
  • Live a life inspired by purpose
  • Let love lead in your life
  • Grow a nourishing network

This dynamic and interactive presentation includes practical exercises that inspire and motivate audiences to experience happiness every day of their lives, no matter what the circumstance!

The Passion Test - Maximizing Your Gifts for a Passionate Life - Janet Attwood

A Harris Poll Survey found that 80% of working Americans wake up every morning, not happy, not fulfilled, and not passionate about what they do. It’s no wonder that the U.S. is facing one of the worst financial crises in its history. In Janet Attwood’s heartwarming and knowledge filled presentation, she will share with you valuable tips, tools and techniques along with incredibly inspiring stories of others who have used The Passion Test to turn their lives around and monetize their passions. Learn why Jack Canfield, one of the stars of the movie, The Secret and co-author of The Chicken Soup Series said The Passion Test changed the way he lived his life. Janet will also share with you an incredible secret which will enable you to make passion based decisions to create an abundantly joyful balanced life, no matter what your present life situation. With fun, heart, and lots of passion, Janet will effortlessly guide you on how to be a master of your life so that you wake up every morning with the knowledge that every moment is a gift.

What Janet will be sharing:

  • How to take The Passion Test - the only test you can never fail
  • How to undue any limiting beliefs that keep you stuck
  • The Formula for living a passionate life
  • Using “natures guidance system” to navigate your life with grace
  • The 7 keys for living a passionate life

Benefits

Learn how to get crystal clear on what your passions are so that you can:

  • Know without a doubt what you’re really passionate about
  • Be the teacher who is living their teaching
  • Say “yes” to your passions without guilt
  • Monetize your passions
  • Inspire other’s greatness to come out
  • Be a “passionate magnet”

Working with Archetypes and Stepping into The Bigger Story of Your Life - Ariel Spilsbury

The archetypal world is rich beyond measure - We all have access to many different faces of our divine feminine essence: from the Mystic to Aphrodite; The Great Mother to The Compassionate One. Every face of the divine feminine holds within her crucial keys for each one of us. Learning about these larger than life archetypal forces reveals to us ways to live a bigger, richer and more spectacular life. When we tap into the collective power of these faces of the divine feminine we can recognize ourselves within them. In this profound presentation you will her from Ariel Spilsbury who is the grandmother of the 13 Moon Mystery School of the Divine Feminine. She will transmit her deep soulful understanding of the faces of the feminine and how you can be deeply nourished, supported and fuelled by accessing into your own archetypal self.

Topics we will explore:

  • Discover what archetypes are and how to recognize which ones you are playing out in your life.
  • Connect with the power and wisdom of the archetypal world and learn how this can energize and super charge your every day life.
  • Find out how you can step into playing a bigger game in the world with the support of the archetypal realm!
  • Learn about why it is so important for you to embrace your true power NOW and to show up more fully in your world.

Benefits:

  • Connect into your divine feminine self
  • Be supported to show up more fully in you world- standing bigger, brighter and bolder than ever before.
  • Access the support within your self to step into your soul purpose and passion
  • Nourish your own connection to your intuition and wisdom.

What You’ll Receive:

  • Fourteen 90-minute class sessions, including interactive exercises on the phone plus question and answer time
  • Three Bonus Classes with Guest Faculty.
  • Fourteen 30-minute small group sessions to connect with and empower each other, after the main class sessions (optional)
  • Unlimited access to recordings of all class sessions (listen online or download the mp3 file to your iPod or audio player)
  • PDF transcripts for each class session
  • Participation in a private online community with other course members

Title:

The Inspiring Women Leadership Program: Leading from Within

Dates:

Fourteen Week Course, with Wednesday night class sessions on November 3, 10, 17, 23. December: 1, 8, 15. NOTE HOLIDAY BREAK. Course resumes: January 12, 19, 26. February 2, 9, 16, 23.
Saturday Bonus sessions: Ariel Spilsbury November 7th, January 22 (Marci Shimoff), February 5th (Janet Attwood)

Price:

2 Installments of $248.50
-OR-
$447 if paid in one payment ($50 discount)

IMPORTANT NOTE: These processes are all intended for spiritual growth. They are not intended to be used as therapy. Many of the processes in the Soulful Women Program involve visualization. It is not recommended for those who have had difficulty discerning reality from non-reality. Please do not participate in these visualization processes if you have had hallucinations or have been diagnosed with schizophrenia or any other delusionary disorder. If you are under the care of a therapist, do not participate in the visualization processes without your therapist's prior approval.

What People Are Saying!

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~ Janice Craig, Yoga instructor, massage therapist, workshop leader, singer & healer

"Working with Devaa and Elayne has been one of the more poignant, fulfilling and empowering of my life experiences to date. Both of these women are extremely gifted in identifying and bringing out the strengths, skills and beauty of each individual that they come into contact with. In my own work with them, I have felt continuously seen, heard and held by their unique feminine presence, which is sometimes amazingly gentle and compassionate and at other times fierce and full of fire-- igniting my own inner flame. Always, they come from love. I highly recommend Devaa and Elayne to any woman who desires to blossom into her full potential."

~ Suraya Susana Keating, MFT, Registered Drama Therapist

"After working with Devaa & Elayne, I feel so much more connected to my heart, purpose, passion, and a deep sense of my personal spirit. The authenticity practiced in the gatherings has brought me closer to my true essence."

~ Joan Ivazes, Singer/Songwriter/Sound Healing Practitioner

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~ Tarra Christoff, MA, Leadership Coach, www.tarrachristoff.com

"A lot has shifted in my life since working with Devaa and Elayne. I feel clearer, more free, and have more energy. It's also been deeply healing for my heart. I feel a growing empowerment to step into my calling as a healer, guide and musician!"

~ Kendra Faye, Musician, Healer, Yoga Instructor, Raw Food Chef

"Elayne is masterful and dynamic. She is committed, clear and compassionate. She builds bridges and takes women places they dream of going. She knows how to help you become your own champion. Take the hand she offers to you, and you will find yourself on the journey of a lifetime."

~ Tanya Wiser MSW MFT Alcohol and Chemcial Dependency Therapist - Kaiser.

"When I met Devaa, I was trying to figure out my next steps, I wasn't clear on my direction, and I was scared. Together we explored my professional and personal strengths and my connection to Source. Devaa’s guidance supported me to find my confidence and authentic power. Her deep wisdom, patient listening, and reflecting were instrumental in my personal process. The work we did has encouraged my heart to stay open and fearless, beginning afresh, every day. I am very grateful. Thank you Devaa!!"

~ Annabella Roig, MS, MPH

"Devaa could be called a spiritual midwife, assisting people in the birthing their inner-selves. She empowers you, assists you, gently encourages you, and honors you for your efforts. With Devaa's impeccable assistance, I was able to go through what is so far the most powerful experience of my life. I am extremely grateful!"

~ Nathalie Daneau, Intuitive Coach and Counselor

"Elayne is exceptional with people and has tremendous insight into their very core. She intuitively knows what’s needed and where to begin working with them. She engages you, becomes electrified with what she’s learned about you, and radiates this nugget of energy and information that she’s revealed. You’ll not only feel yourself healing but you’ll wonder how it can be so fast and so fun!!”

~ Rebecca Kore, MFT Nesting Ground C

Learn more about our wonderful Guest Teachers:

Marci Shimoff is the author of the instant runaway bestseller, Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out, which offers a revolutionary approach to experiencing deep and lasting happiness. It immediately soared to #1 on many national bestseller lists including Amazon and Barnes and Noble.com, and debuted at #2 on The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. Fedex/Kinkos selected Happy for No Reason as their featured book for April, May and June of 2008. In addition, she's a featured teacher in the international film and book sensation, The Secret. Marci has also hosted a national PBS special called Happy for No Reason.

Marci is also the woman's face of the biggest self-help book phenomenon in history, Chicken Soup for the Soul. Her six bestselling titles in the series, including Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul and Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul, have met with stunning success. Her books have sold more than 14 million copies worldwide in 33 languages and have been on the New York Times bestseller list for a total of 108 weeks. Marci is one of the bestselling female nonfiction authors of all time.

A celebrated transformational leader and one of the nation's leading experts on happiness, success, and the law of attraction, Marci has inspired millions of people around the world, sharing her breakthrough methods for personal fulfillment and professional success. President and co-founder of the Esteem Group, she delivers keynote addresses and seminars on self-esteem, self-empowerment, and peak performance to corporations, professional and non-profit organizations, and women's associations. She has been a top-rated trainer for numerous Fortune 500 companies, including AT&T, GM, Sears, Kaiser Permanente, and Bristol-Myers Squibb.

As an acclaimed authority on success and happiness, Marci is often approached by media for her insights and advice. She has been on more than 500 national and regional television and radio shows including The Today Show, The Big Idea with Donny Deutch, Montel Williams Show, MSNBC, PBS and NPR. She's been interviewed for more than 200 newspaper articles. Her writing has appeared in national women's magazines, including Ladies Home Journal, SELF, Body and Soul and Woman's World.

Marci earned her MBA from UCLA and holds an advanced certificate as a stress management consultant. She is a founding member and on the board of directors of the Transformational Leadership Council, a group of 100 top leaders serving over ten million people in the self-development market.Through her books and her presentations, Marci's message has touched the hearts and rekindled the spirits of millions of people throughout the world. She is dedicated to fulfilling her life's purpose of helping people live more empowered and joy-filled lives.

Marcia Wieder, CEO/ Founder of Dream University is leading a Dream Movement. She's been coaching, training and speaking for 20 years. Her inspiring message has touched audiences from 50-5000 at companies like AT&T and American Express.

The author of 14 books and a thought leader on vision, she has appeared on Oprah often and Today. Whether teaching at the Stanford Business School, speaking to executives in China, or at Girl Scout Camp, her riveting style impacts audiences world-wide. She is the personal Dream Coach to Jack Canfield, stars in Beyond the Secret with Bob Proctor and is a member of the Transformational Leadership Council with Lynne Twist and Marianne Williamson.

As past president of the National Association of Women Business Owners she assisted former U.S. presidents, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter and George Bush Sr. As a columnist for The San Francisco Chronicle, she urged readers to take "The Great Dream Challenge."

Luisah Teish is a writer, performer and ritual priestess. She is the author of several books on African and African American Spiritual Culture and Feminist Myth. They include Jambalaya: The Natural Woman's Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals a women's spirituality classic, Carnival of the Spirit: Seasonal Celebrations and Rites of Passage, Jump Up: Good Times Throughout the Seasons with Celebrations from Around the World, and What Don't Kill Is Fattening Revisited: Twenty Years of Poetry, Prose, and Myth.

Other writing credits include contributions to thirteen anthologies and published articles in magazines such as Essence, Ms., Shaman's Drum, and the Yoga Journal.

Teish is an initiated elder (Iyanifa) in the Ifa/Orisha tradition of the West African Diaspora, and she holds a chieftaincy title (Yeye'woro) from the Fatunmise Compound in Ile Ife, Nigeria. Presently she is the Chair of the World Orisha Congress Committee on Women's Issues. She is also a devotee of Damballah Hwedo, the Haitian Rainbow Serpent, under the guidance of Moma Lola.

She was awarded a Ph.D. in Spiritual Therapeutics from Open International University's School of Complementary Medicine in Colombo Sri Lanka in 1993.

She holds an Inter-Faith minister's license from the International Institute of Integral Human Sciences.

Teish designs and conducts weddings, naming ceremonies, memorials, and a host of seasonal celebrations. Teish designed a Rites of Passage program for the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and is the director of the Full Faze Passage Council, a multi-racial, multi-cultural network of artists, consultants, and spiritual advisors experienced in events design and production.

She is the Olori (director) of Ile Orunmila Oshun (The House of Destiny and Love- www.ileorunmilaoshun.org) and the School of Ancient Mysteries/Sacred Arts Center in Oakland, Ca. She has taught at the University of Creation Spirituality- Naropa Oakland, John F. Kennedy University, The Institute for Transpersonal Psychology and New College of California.

Mama Gena (Regena Thomashauer) is one of a handful of pioneers on the planet researching the nature of pleasure. An expert in the field of female sensuality, she uses more than 15 years of research to give today's women a context in which to maximize their power, passion, enthusiasm and creativity. Regena is the author of three books: Mama Gena's School of Womanly Arts: Using the Power of Pleasure to Have Your Way with the World; Mama Gena's Owner's & Operator's Guide to Men; and Mama Gena's Marriage Manual.

She partnered with Mag Rack to create the sexy, TV on-demand, self-empowerment series, Mama Gena's School of Womanly Arts. She has been a frequent guest on NBC-TV's Today show and has appeared on 20/20 (where one of her segments garnered a 20/20 record of more than one million website hits), the Rachael Ray Show, Lifetime Live, The Other Half and has been interviewed on a multitude of national and regional broadcasts including NPR's The Next Big Thing. Regena has also hosted Starz Encore's Love Stories channel.

Regena's programs at the School of Womanly Arts have been profiled in The New York Times, Elle and New York magazine. Her views on personal development and the power of women have been featured and quoted in several national publications including Glamour, Newsweek, Marie Claire, Allure, Self, InStyle and The Washington Post.

For more information go to www.mamagenas.com.

Sonia Choquette: A third generation intuitive and prolific writer, Sonia Choquette's books have sold over a million copies worldwide including her NY Times Bestseller The Answer Is Simple.... Love Yourself, Live Your Spirit.

In working with people for more than 32 years, Sonia insists that the sixth sense is natural to us all. Whether it's those "hunches" or "feelings" or "vibes," everyone has them, but unfortunately most people dismiss or ignore them and sadly miss the benefits. With the onset of the changing world we now live in, Sonia emphasizes that using our intuition is "no longer optional. Working with and strengthening our intuition is becoming more and more fundamental to our ability to live harmoniously with ourselves and others in the new world order."

Paying attention to the sixth sense, learning to listen, to trust it, to train oneself to call on its guidance, these are the challenges facing six-sensory people trapped in a five-sensory culture.

Janet Attwood is the co-author of the New York Times Bestseller, The Passion Test- The Effortless Path To Discovering Your Destiny, and co-author of From Sad to Glad: 7 Steps to Facing Change with Love and Power. As an expert on what it takes to live a passionate life, she has shared the stage with, The Dalai Lama, Sir Richard Branson, Jack Canfield, Lisa Nichols, and other top transformational leaders.

Janet has personally trained over 550+ Passion Test Facilitators and over 60 Passion Test for Business facilitators from around the world. Janet's other programs include, The Passion Test for Coaches, (accredited by the ICF) The Passion Test for Teens, The Passion Test for Kids, The Passion Test Reclaim Your Power Program for the homeless, and, The Passion Test Empowered Youth Program, for kids in lockdown detention centers.

For her ongoing work with homeless women and youth in detention centers, Janet received the highest award for volunteer service in the U.S. from the President of the United States, The Presidents Volunteer Service Award. Janet is President of an organization in India, called, "The World United" whose sole purpose is to promote conscious, healthy and sustainable choices for a better world. She is also a founding member of the Transformational Leadership Council, that Jack Canfield, the co-author of the Chicken Soup Series, put together after taking Janet's Passion Test.

You can learn more about Janet by going to: http://www.thepassiontest.com

Ariel Spilsbury is a planetary mystic, and she has devoted her life to the conscious awakening of all beings. This takes the form of traveling to share the wisdom of the Divine Feminine around the globe, which she has done for over thirty years.  She has offered this work through writing, teaching, sacred theater presentations, creating a metaphysical store, conferences, consciousness events, lectures, seminars, starting a metaphysical newspaper, moon circles for women, spiritual counseling and maintaining a temple for the Goddess for twenty five years. 

Ariel offers spiritual counseling service and various workshops with the intention of planetary awakening. She offers Initiation into the Mysteries of the Divine Feminine, Mayan Initiations, Divine Child Workshops and a sound and light technology called crystal singing. Ariel magnetizes sacred circles of light around the planet to bring people together in divine communion, love and remembrance. The present focus of her awareness is grounding a Living Mystery School, priestess training and sound and light temple on Earth called The Sanctuary of the Open Heart www.sanctuaryoftheopenheart.org

Ariel is a also the author of the 13 Moon Oracle and the co-author of the Mayan Oracle.  The Soulful Women program is based on the 13 Moon Oracle, which can be ordered online for those who want to deepen their understanding of the material. Go to http://www.holographicgoddess.com/Oracles.html

Facilitator Bios

Rev. Devaa Haley Mitchell is the Founder of the Inspiring Women Summit. She is a core part of the teaching faculty at the Shift Network, and is an expert in women's awakening and leadership. She also works as a spiritual guide with ongoing programs through the organization she founded, Radiant Essence Services (www.radiantessence.com).

Devaa was ordained as an interfaith minister by the Chaplaincy Institute and also received a BA in Anthropology with Honors and an MA in International Development from Stanford University. She was awarded a fellowship from the Fulbright Foundation and was also one of 26 contributors to a book called Radical Spirit, which focuses on Gen-X spiritual perspectives. A core part of Devaa's path includes sacred music. Her debut album of songs honoring 13 aspects of the divine feminine is due out in the Fall of 2010. See www.devaa.com for downloads of her music.

Devaa also served as the Director of Member Engagement at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), an organization bridging science and spirituality. Previously, she was the Founder and Executive Director of the Full Circle Fund, dedicated to building a new generation of civic leaders. Devaa also worked as an Associate Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group where she offered management advice to Fortune 500 Companies.

Elayne Kalila Doughty MA, MFT, founder of Planet Breathe and The Soul Spa, is a Psychotherapist, Coach, Spiritual Guide, Speaker, and Women's Empowerment expert. With her extensive background in addictions, recovery, trauma, mental health and spiritual guidance she has over 20 years experience of supporting and guiding women from all walks of life in their deep healing work.

Elayne designs and implements global programs that promote trauma healing, empowerment, and actively seed the vision of a world where women are respected, adored and revered. Her work is profoundly informed by the knowing that healing women and girls is paramount to the survival and evolution of our communities, our humanity, and our planet. Currently Elayne is working with Eve Ensler (the Vagina Monologues) and her foundation, www.VDay.org , on co-creating the design and implementation of The Trauma Healing and Leadership Empowerment Program at the City of Joy in Bukavu, Congo. This transformational program will seed women leaders at a grass roots level throughout the Congo. Visit Elayne's website at www.planetbreathe.com.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Can you tell me more about the audio recordings and transcripts?
A: We will post these on the Course Media site for you to download and keep.

Q: Can you tell me about the Community Site?
A: We will have a private community for all the participants in this Course, which will support you in making connections between each other, sharing insights, engaging discussions, and exchanging information about events and other activities. You'll have the ability to blog about your experiences, projects, and growth throughout the Course. We strongly encourage you to post a photo and some things about yourself.

Q: What is your refund policy?
A: As part of this purchase, you understand there is a 100% refund policy, up through the end of the 7th class (December 15th). After December 15th, there will be no refunds.

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Q: Can I use Skype to dial in to the sessions?
A: Yes, you can use SkypeOut from anywhere in the world to dial in to the MaestroConference line we will use. You'll need to use the Skype keypad to enter your PIN and to respond to questions posed that require raising your hand. Just go to www.skype.com We'll provide more detailed instructions for those in the course.

Q: Can I invite others to participate with me after I register?
A: Each registration is for one person to be part of the Course. You will have just one registration, one account on the Community Site, etc. If others would like to participate, please encourage them to register separately.

Q: If I need to miss a class, how can I make it up?
A: Each class will be both recorded and transcribed, so you can easily make-up any content that you missed live. The recordings will generally be available within 48 hours, with transcriptions available within a week. That said, you won't be able to make up the break-out sessions and group dialogue. This is a critical piece, where the course participants are able to support each other in our leadership and in manifesting our projects in the world. So we really encourage you to attend LIVE so you can participate in all of the interactive portions.

Q: Can I share audios with others?
A: We ask that you respect that everyone is paying for this valuable Course and not to share the media products with other people.