The Next Step
Dear Readers,
As we move more surely into this transition, there are a few things I wish to say about the experiences we have been through together. I've had my challenges and struggles to arrive at this point in the journey. There is no denying that my challenges often seemed overwhelming. Even during the most discouraging times, however, I continued to follow what I have cared most passionately about--women and our ability to communicate as women. As challenged as I have been this whole past year, I still was able to write a book about women and woman's voice. Now on our journey together I would like to take you with me into this deeper work.
Last November together we saw a real revolution take place in this country. We women voters, for the first time, significantly impacted the outcome of federal elections. That was a form of women giving voice to our demand for a change. Women turned out for the vote in record numbers and we were a force that created real change. Now it's predicted that women will become 60% of the voting public in '08. We will not be just a significant block of votes, we will be the majority.
In 1999, approaching the millennium, we were told that we were entering an age where we women, each one of us, would become a change agent. Never before in history have women lived as long and as productively as women do now--thanks to advances in women's health care. We women have simply never been present in society past the age of menopause until now. Every woman today knows that she is creating the life she is living. Every women is creating a new model of engaged womanhood and, in this sense, every women in her own life becomes a leader.
Yet, none of us have received training as communicators, and few of us have been trained to leadership. Men have been trained as public communicators and leaders since ancient times. However, women were never expected to participate in public life and, so, we never received comparable educations.
Today all of us women have the opportunity to benefit from communication and leadership training created specifically for women. That is the work I've created and developed out of the journey I've taken to find my voice. I care so deeply about what I have learned and what I've been so thoughtfully taught over the years. All along it has been my goal to share this knowledge with other women--to create a safe space where we can really access and explore our voices and expressing our truth--where we can practice communication and leadership skills.
So, I invite you, dear readers, to continue along with me as I renew my commitment to share my passion with you.
And, as always, I thank you all for that which you have given to me, especially my helpers, and for showing up here in this space we share. I thank you.
As we move more surely into this transition, there are a few things I wish to say about the experiences we have been through together. I've had my challenges and struggles to arrive at this point in the journey. There is no denying that my challenges often seemed overwhelming. Even during the most discouraging times, however, I continued to follow what I have cared most passionately about--women and our ability to communicate as women. As challenged as I have been this whole past year, I still was able to write a book about women and woman's voice. Now on our journey together I would like to take you with me into this deeper work.
Last November together we saw a real revolution take place in this country. We women voters, for the first time, significantly impacted the outcome of federal elections. That was a form of women giving voice to our demand for a change. Women turned out for the vote in record numbers and we were a force that created real change. Now it's predicted that women will become 60% of the voting public in '08. We will not be just a significant block of votes, we will be the majority.
In 1999, approaching the millennium, we were told that we were entering an age where we women, each one of us, would become a change agent. Never before in history have women lived as long and as productively as women do now--thanks to advances in women's health care. We women have simply never been present in society past the age of menopause until now. Every woman today knows that she is creating the life she is living. Every women is creating a new model of engaged womanhood and, in this sense, every women in her own life becomes a leader.
Yet, none of us have received training as communicators, and few of us have been trained to leadership. Men have been trained as public communicators and leaders since ancient times. However, women were never expected to participate in public life and, so, we never received comparable educations.
Today all of us women have the opportunity to benefit from communication and leadership training created specifically for women. That is the work I've created and developed out of the journey I've taken to find my voice. I care so deeply about what I have learned and what I've been so thoughtfully taught over the years. All along it has been my goal to share this knowledge with other women--to create a safe space where we can really access and explore our voices and expressing our truth--where we can practice communication and leadership skills.
So, I invite you, dear readers, to continue along with me as I renew my commitment to share my passion with you.
And, as always, I thank you all for that which you have given to me, especially my helpers, and for showing up here in this space we share. I thank you.
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