Fall 2019
Am I Here? Waking Up to What Matters
Every Thursday from 19th September to 21st November expert speakers offer their insights into the some of the some of the things that really matter. In the world. In our lives.
Focus talk:
To set the issue a WomenExplore participant gives a short talk describing how the day's topic has intersected her life and affected her thinking.
Schedule of Events:
11:30 am
Focus talk
12 noon
Main Lecture and questions
1:00 pm
Participatory discussion
Note:
On 19th September, 10th October, and 7th November the first main talk begins at 11.30 am and the second around 12.15 pm.
See program for Fall 2019
Rivers of Life
11.30 am: Christina Gasbarro
member of the Charles River Association working to maintain the health of the river
Followed by a Water ritual, facilitated by Lindsa Vallee
SEP
19
Focus and Sound Healing: Comma Williams
Music as Healer
Annette Philip
vocalist, composer-arranger, recording artist, choir conductor, artistic director of Berklee India Exchange at Berklee College of Music
SEPT
26
Focus Talk: Sue Edwards
Cleaning Up Our Act
Mariama White-Hammond
pastor at New Roots AME Church, minister for Ecological Justice at Bethel AME Church, Boston, and fellow with the Green Justice Coalition, a partnership for environmental justice
OCT
3
Resources: How Many People Can the World Sustain?
11.30 am: Jonathan Harris
Tufts University Global Development and Environment Institute (GDAE)
12.15 am: Anne-MarieCodur
Tufts University Global Development and Environment Institute (GDAE), North American coordinator of Dialogues en Humanité
OCT
10
Focus lecture: Dorianne Low
Why is Life So Busy?
Pamela Kristan
and author of Awakening in Time: Practical Time Management for Those on a Spiritual Path, and The Sprit of Getting Organized
OCT
17
Focus lecture: Liz Wilson
Inflation and Poverty: Erosion of the Middle Class
Charles Derber
Boston College, sociologist focusing on today’s global social, economic and environmental crises
OCT
24
Focus: A panel of WomenExplore participants
Affordable Housing: Keeping Our Communnity
Larry Field
deputy director Massachusetts Smart Growth Alliance, promoting equitable, sustainable communities
OCT
31
Overcoming Our Internalized Patriarchy
11.30 am: Ukumbwa Sauti
creator of men's work initiative, educator, cultural studies facilitator, consultant
12.15 pm: Judith Jordan
director of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute at the Wellesley Centers for Women
NOV
7
Focus lecture: Mary Rose Muti
Autism Touches Us All
Dania Jekel
executive director of the Asperger/Autism Network, supporting those on the autism spectrum
NOV
14
Focus lecture: MaryMargaret Halsey
Mindfulness: Being Present to What Matters
Narayan Liebenson
Cambridge Insight Meditation guiding teacher, author of The Magnanimous Heart and Life as Meditation
NOV
21
Spring 2019
Struggles, Strengths and Strategies
Focus lecture: Muna Killingback
Advocating for Women's Rights
Nada Mustafa Ali
lecturer of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Human Rights at UMass, Boston, author of Gender, Race and Sudan Exile Politics
MAR
21
11.30 am: Film: The Immigrant
Filmed locally, this is the narrative story of a young Bosnian immigrant as she faces social, cultural and economic challenges in new surroundings.
12.45 pm: Discussion with Sanja Zdjelar, the award-winning filmmaker
MAR
28
Focus lecture: Maria Muti
Responding to the Challenges Facing Women Immigrants
Anita Sharma
executive director of Political Asylum/Immigration Representation (PAIR) Project which provides free legal services to asylum seekers & detained immigrants
APR
4
Focus lecture: Virginia Loftus, Susan Kains, Marcia Boehlke
Who Cares for the Caregivers?
Anne Keefe and Kris Wiitala
elder care advisors with the Family Caregiver Support Program at Somerville Cambridge Elder Services
APR
11
Focus lecture: A WomenExplore participant
Sex Trafficking in New England
Heather Thornburg
program director for Amirah, which uses individualized approaches to rebuild the lives of survivors of sex trafficking throughout New England
APR
18
Focus lecture: Luis Ramirez
Caring for Women Around the World
Elizebeth Tucker
principal of Philanthropy & Strategic Engagement for the Grameen Foundation which takes a broad approach to tackling the multiple dimensions of the complex problems of poverty
APR
25
Focus lecture: Susan Nulsen
Living with Our Global Sisters: Embracing and Resisting Change
Rosalyn Negrón
socio-cultural anthropologist at UMass Boston, author of Ethnic Identification among Urban Latinos: Language and Flexibility.
MAY
2
Focus lecture: Carol Goldman
Memory Loss: Coping and Caring
Julie Brody Magid
clinical director of the Mclean Memory Disorders Assessment Clinic, instructor in psychology at Harvard Medical School.
MAY
9
Focus lecture: Marcia Boehlke
Am I My Sister's Keeper?
Lyn Brakeman
retired Episcopal priest, author of two books and a memoir God Is Not a Boy’s Name. Becoming Woman. Becoming Priest, and a weekly blog.
MAY
16
How Do I Share My Money, Time And Love? — A Woman's Dilemma
11.30 am: A Story Quilt with contributions by everyone attending who wishes.
Bring your stories to share.
Facilitated by Lindsa Vallee
MAY
23