In the spirit of mutual collaboration we are delighted to offer you links to websites that we feel are valuable educational and informational resources for women.
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The Crones Counsel
http://www.cronescounsel.org/
The vision of CronesCounsel is to reclaim the Crone archetype through the creation of gatherings of women which model processes that:promote equality, encourage diversity, support personal empowerment, and honor the value to society of older women’s wisdom and accomplishments.
Evolutionary Women
http://www.evolutionarywomen.org/
Evolutionary Women is committed to our the evolution and the creation of new models of living and relating that assist the individual, the collective, and the planet to move successfully through the current transition into a world that works for all of us.
Facing the Future
http://www.facingthefuture.org
Facing the Future offers positive, solutions-based programming that is designed by and for teachers, and effectively brings critical thinking about global issues to students in every walk of life.
Gather the Women
http://www.gatherthewomen.com/
A gathering place for women and women’s organizations who share a belief that the time is now to activate the incredible power of women’s wisdom on a planetary scale.
http://www.gatherthewomen.com/
The Global Family
http://globalfamily.net/
Founded in 1986, Global Family is a non-profit international network of individuals and groups who choose to experience themselves as members of one human family and who desire to actualize their true life purpose through joining with others in compassionate action for the benefit of all.
The Global Footprint Network
http://www.globalfootprint.org
The Global Footprint Network is committed to fostering a world where all people have the opportunity to live satisfying lives within the means of Earth’s ecological capacity. We are dedicated to advancing the scientific rigor and practical application of the Ecological Footprint, a tool that quantifies human demand on nature, and nature’s capacity to meet these demands.
Happehatchee Center
http://www.happehatcheecenter.org
Happehatchee Center, a part of the beautiful “old” Florida landscape, is an Eco-Spirituality center located in a serene Southwest Florida oasis. Stepping onto this land is like entering a lost, secret world of natural beauty, enveloping body, mind and spirit.
Lifetracks
http://www.lifetracks.org
Nanci Hartland began Lifetracks as a California based research, education and corporate training firm in the late 80’s. While volunteering for an international organization and attending UN Conferences on International Development and the Environment, she got a glimpse of what was next when she saw a gap in the direction of international aid that usually offered only crisis intervention. Her quest became; “How do we prevent the crisis in the first place?”
Little Animation for Kids
www.littleanimation4kids.com
This is enriched play! Little Animation is for kids aged 4-8, animation and music rich, with voice-guides for preliterate children.
The Little Earth Charter
http://www.littleearthcharter.org
The Little Earth Charter was created to help integrate ethical environmental values into the consciousness of children, our emerging society. It is an audio-visual educational program now in development at Little Animation, with the collaboration of the Earth Charter Initiative.
The Millionth Circle
http://www.millionthcircle.org/
The intention of the Millionth Circle is to seed and nurture circles, wherever possible, in order to cultivate equality, sustainable livelihoods, preservation of the earth and peace for all. It works to bring the circle process into United Nations accredited NGOs and the 5th UN World Conference on Women and connect circles so they may know themselves as a part of a larger movement to shift consciousness in the world.
Offerings Publications
http://www.offeringspublications.com/
Offerings is a co-creative field for evolving women that works from an emergent and colaborative design and calls forth through images, art, poetry, short stories, essays and the conversations of women and expanded way of being authentic with one another. These Offerings are presented to the world in a way that engages readers and contributors alike in reflection, inquiry and dialogue.
Peace X Peace
http://www.peacexpeace.org/
The mission of Peace X Peace is to improve the status of women and build sustainable peace. We assist women in reaching their full potential as leaders and decision-makers alongside men by providing women with an innovative tool: our Internet-based Global Network, which facilitates direct online communications between women-led groups (“Circles”) across the United States and Sister Circles around the world.
Peer Spirit
http://www.peerspirit.com/
An education and service company that believes council, or circle, to be the common root of all cultures, a tradition that can take us from the campfire to the future. Council facilitates a level of conversation that allows groups of people to accomplish goals through an integrated experience of heart and mind.
Positive News
http://www.positivenews.org.uk/
Positive News reports on issues rarely covered by the mainstream media and promotes the many enterprises that are working for a sustainable future.
THE SOPHIA INSTITUTE
http://www.thesophiainstitute.org/
The Sophia Institute provides leading edge programs taught by the world’s foremost thinkers and teachers that foster Wisdom, Wholeness, Oneness, Sustainability, Peace and the Integration of the Sacred Feminine and Masculine for the transformation of Self and Society.
Spheres Women Circles
http://www.sphereswomenscircles.com/
This bi-monthly magazine is a connecting tool that serves as an expanding
resource and forum for the expression of the feminine heart.
Spiral Muse
http://www.spiralmuse.com/
SpiralMuse is 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 are an expression of woman as muse, authentic femininity weaving itself into a powerful community, a community we call SpiralMuse.
The Story of Stuff
http://www.storyofstuff.com
A 20-minute animation of the consumerist society, narrated by Anne Leonard, to view online or download.
United States Social Forum
https://www.ussf2007.org/
Under the banner of ‘Another World is Possible,’ tens of thousands of community organizers, trade unionists, students/youth, NGO representatives, elected officials and social movements gather for a weeklong conference filled with dialogues, workshops, debates, marches, rallies, and cultural events. The World Social Forum (WSF) was created to provide an open platform to discuss alternatives to the economic plans created by multi-national corporations and the governments at the World Economic Forum that often result in strategies that suppress workers and human rights, and undermine national and Indigenous sovereignty. The USSF has since become an annual event, hosting up to 100,000 people each year.
United States Women Connect
http://www.uswc.org/
The mission of US Women Connect is to connect all US women for a larger, louder, more powerful and collective voice in polices critical to women and our families. Building bridges from the ground up, USWC is linking state coalitions and alliances across county lines into state networks for support of a US women’s agenda and the Beijing+10 Platform for Action for equality, development and peace.
With Forgiveness
http://www.withforgiveness.com/
WITH Forgiveness is an inter-active community where we share, learn, support and celebrate one another as we free our hearts and minds from fear, anger, resentment, suffering and pain. Forgiveness is the way! Our intent is to embody, express, and experience unconditional love, compassion, kindness and peace for ourselves and our world. Now’s the time to say YES to “being the change we wish to see in the world.”
Women’s United Nations Network
http://www.wunrn.com/
The Women’s United Nations Report Program & Network (WUNRN) is a non-governmental organization to implement the conclusions and recommendations of a United Nations Study on Freedom of Religion of Belief and the Status of Women From the Viewpoint of Religion and Traditions.
5th Women’s World Conference
http://5wwc.org
The purpose of this interactive website is to create groundswell support for a 5th United Nations International Conference on Women that, in turn, will be an influence on the decision-makers at the United Nations.
The Red Web Foundation
http://www.redwebfoundation.org/
The Red Web Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to supporting a positive societal view of girls’ and women’s bodies and menstrual cycles from first menstruation (called menarche) through menopause.
4GGL – 4Girls G-Local Leadership
http://4ggl.org/
4GGL ignites, develops, and promotes girls’ leadership, glocally, so that girls lead the change within themselves, their families and communities to advance gender equality around the world.
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MEMBER LINKS
Colleen Perry, M.F.T.
http://www.colleenperry.com
Colleen Perry, M.F.T., is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the state of California (MFC38937). Her mission is to care for, nurture, and enhance the self worth of women. She focuses on inspiring and encouraging them to meet their needs in order to live in their higher self, based in courage, purpose, and joy versus fear, duty and obligation.
Suzanne Rock-Stierle
http://www.suzannerockstierle.com/
For the past 15 years, Suzanne Rock-Stierle’s passion has focused on the study of women’s and girl’s development, both personal and professional. Through this study she has organized, produced and facilitated over 30 events, workshops and retreats.