THE EMERGENT ROLE OF WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP FOR A BETTER WORLD

 

 

AN INVITATION:

 

We invite you to join us May 16 and 17 to explore "The Emergent Role of Women in Leadership for a Better World."  We will self-organize around what is most meaningful to each of us, creating an environment that is completely open to whatever emerges.

 

We seem to have become accustomed to a distinction between what we know about women and the visible role that women so often play in our culture.

 

We know that women are wise, original, dynamic and at work on something more sweeping than we can fully grasp.  And we see that women are conspicuously absent or underrepresented in high places in our culture: in boardrooms, CEO's offices, the inner circle of most religions, the highest political offices. 

 

Women seem to be engaged in work different from that done in "high places."  Much of our work has meant creating different sorts of systems, inventing other ways to get things done, creating new ways to lead.  We find women in record numbers starting businesses, nonprofit initiatives, alternative schools, etc -- not excluding men, but sharing leadership in new ways.

 

We think its high time to pay attention to what is emerging in our culture through women's efforts.  We are convening this Open Space event for that purpose.

 

Place:     Pathfinder Elementary School

5012 SW Genesee St.

Seattle, WA

               Pathfinder elementary is an expeditionary learning public school which uses Open Space as a means of growing its learning community.  Bus #56 from downtown.

 

Dates:    May 16^th and 17^th, from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM

 

Cost:      We will share costs: including lunches, day care, plus costs of printing and mailing a record of the event.  (Probably about $20.00 a day.)  Please send a registration fee of $25 (applied to costs), payable to the Open Space Institute.

 

RSVP:    To the person who extended you this invitation.