BOUNTIFUL PRESENTATIONS and Presenters
Friday - October 23
- Opening Circle: Shiloh Sophia McCloud and Mary MacDonald
- Christine Ayrlo: SuperPowers for the 21st Century Woman
- Mary MacDonald: Workin' It for the Modern Day Visionary
- Ali Weiss: DIY Media
Friday Evening : Divalicious: The Dinner Party hosted by Ali Weiss, Susan Estes & Angela Blessing *
Saturday October 24
- Shiloh Sophia McCloud: Visionary Woman - Create A Visionary Self Altar
- Shakti Gawain: Womanifest: Creative Visualization and Practices
Saturday Evening: Circle: Tonantzin Geurra Rennick: Native American Talking Circle
Sunday October 25
- Lavender Grace: Rhythm Church
- Alice Walker: A Conversation at the Raven Theater
Sunday Evening: Electric Rose Cake and Champagne Afterparty with Alice Walker
PRESENTERS and their offerings for BOUNTIFUL
About Shiloh Sophia McCloud and Her Workshop:
VISIONARY WOMAN: Create A Painted Altar: Your Inner Visionary Woman
Shiloh works with right-brain left-brain techniques, active imagination and creative practices to guide women in accessing their inner wisdom. Her Visionary Woman workshop will take you through the process of creating a full color painting in acrylic on paper. This painting includes the use of words, image, glitter, and is an altar for you to take home to honor your Visionary Bountiful Self. No painting experience is needed, this is a promise!
Shiloh is an accomplished artist, author and teacher famous for the healing power of her illustrated journals and her vibrant woman-centric paintings. Shiloh has published six journal/workbooks which are widely used by tens of thousands of women as a tool for transformation through creativity. Originally conceived as tools for therapists, they are being used by cancer survivor groups (Toledo Hospital), in women’s recovery programs (Pine Grove), as curriculum in school programs (Institute For Transpersonal Psychology and California Institute of Integral Studies and Mt. St. Mary’s), Aids Survivor Circles (Foothills Aids Foundation), and Native American Circles), in women’s prisons, and girl’s educational programs. Sheis the founder of Cosmic Cowgirls Ink., a woman and girl member-owned production and publishing company. Thousands of women have deepened their creative practice through her journals and the workshops she teaches around the country. She has taught at New College of California in San Francisco for five years and now teaches at ITP in Palo Alto. Her paintings are internationally collected and her product line is represented in galleries and fine shops throughout the United States.
SHILOH SOPHIA
TESTIMONIALS for Shiloh's work and workshops, and last year's conference
About Christine Arylo and Her Workshop:
SUPER POWERS for the 21st Century Woman
Have less stress and more success without having to 'do' anything
Hooray! As a 21st century woman we now have the power to do anything! The problem is that now, we feel pressured to do EVERYTHING... perfectly, right now and all at the same time. We’ve liberated ourselves into a new jail cell. From super career woman to super mom to the fittest body and the best wife/ friend/daughter... we have access to so much more than previous generations, but nothing has moved off our plate, there’s just a heck of lot more to do and be.
Unless we want to go down in history as “Generation Exhaustion” we MUST develop new skills and strategies-- super powers -- so that we can thrive instead of just survive. The good news is, the super powers are already inside us, activation is all that’s required.
Christine Arylo, inspirational catalyst and recovering achievement junkie and doing addict, teaches women to turn on their super powers and turn off their achievement junkie. A recovering "doing" addict herself, she knows the secrets to get beyond chasing balance, finding time, and doing it all for everyone else, to creating harmony, finding happiness, and taking care of ourselves.
Christine Arylo is a smart, sassy and soulful speaker who engages audiences with her wit, humor and her personal and frank stories, perspectives and insights. Born to inspire, Christine brings both truth and heart to her talks and workshops, bringing forward conversations and topics that shift people inside so that they can create the lives that they really want on the outside.
About Mary MacDonald and Her Workshop:
Workin' It For the Visionary Woman
Workin' It specialist Mary MacDonald will lead you in a writing workshop and visionary process based on a book she co-authored, Heart of the Visionary. With interactive exercises, practices, a gratitude meditation and journaling, Mary inspires you to make an Affirmation Declaration.
Assisted by Shiloh McCloud, the process includes painting, glitter and a chance to share our visions.
Mary is the Director of Cosmic Cowgirls Ink, LLC and has worked with the organization in planning and development for almost three years. Mary MacDonald has worked in the corporate, non-profit, and retail business worlds as a communications, marketing, public relations, editing and fundraising professional for the past 25 years. One of Mary’s passions is to support women and young girls to be cognizant of their innate value and how their contributions make a difference in the world. "I feel strongly in the power of storytelling as a way to affect positive change and the need to preserve these stories in order to grow, heal and understand the world." Mary is one of the contributing authors of Heart of the Visionary and is presently working on a fiction book titled "The Bad Boy Blues". She is eternally grateful for her “community of women who hold her up with their love, laughter and wisdom.
About Shakti Gawain and Her Workshop:
Womanifest: Interactive workshop facilitating women through their process of manifesting, utilizing the tools and techniques she has found most powerful in her own process including Creative Visualization.
Shakti Gawain is a pioneer in the field of personal development. For over twenty-five years, she has been a best-selling author and internationally renowned teacher of consciousness. Shakti has facilitated thousands of individuals in developing greater awareness, balance and wholeness in their lives.
Shakti has written numerous books considered classics in her field. Her distinguished publishing history includes best sellers Creative Visualization, Living in the Light, The Path of Transformation, Four Levels of Healing, Creating True Prosperity, and Developing Intuition. Her books have sold over 10 million copies and have been translated into more than thirty languages. She is the co-founder, with Marc Allen, of New World Library Publishing Company.
She has appeared on such nationally syndicated programs as The Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning America, Sonya Live, The Larry King Show, The Leeza Show, America’s Talking and New Dimensions Radio, and has been featured in New Woman, New Age Journal, and Time Magazine.
SHAKTI GAWAIN
About Ali Weiss and Her Workshop:
DIY Media, Women Are Doing it For Themselves!
Join Ali for a power packed conversation about women creating our own media - and not accepting the traditional media's presentation on women and girls. Ali shows you some tools and tricks for taking on personal meda: DIY: Do It Yourself.
Ali is in charge of Member Services and Video production for Cosmic Cowgirls. If you have met her even once, you know her boundless energy and enthusiasm for the earth and humanity. Her adventurous nature and inquisitive mind have led her on many journeys. After graduating Healdsburg High School, Ali went on to UC Santa Cruz, where she majored in Community Studies- an interdisciplinary major known as the "social change major". Her focus was in "Social Documentation", where she studied and participated in the relation between social issues/movements and the importance of documenting those events. As a "field study" for Community Studies, Ali lived in the wild city of Manhattan, documenting resistance to free-trade policy, rallies upholding women's right to choose, and a protest against the unjust conditions at Guantanamo Bay. Since graduating UCSC, Ali has been living in the Bay Area, discovering ways to connect with friends and strangers over environmental, community, and human issues.
Ali is also the hostess of a Divalicious Dinner Party! So please join us for a Cosmic Cowgirls Culinary Celebration!
After a wonderful first day of our Bountiful Conference, enjoy some hearty gourmet Cowgirl Food, prepared by our very own... Angela Blessing, Susan Estes, and Ali Weiss get serious in the kitchen as they prepare a dinner to knock your hats off!
We'll be gathering around the table and breaking bread Cowgirl-Family-Style! So come prepared to delight in a bountiful meal, sumptuous conversation, and legendary boot-stomping fun! For legal reasons, we can't give y'all any moonshine, so bring a bottle of wine or two to share to gain entrance!
This event requires a separate fee of $30.
Lavender Grace: Rhythm Church
About Lavender Grace and Her Workshop:
RHYTHM CHURCH
Together we will drum, stomp, hoot and sing our hearts.Rhythm Church offers an opportunity to help us remember what has been lost by reactivating a sense of well-being and connection through a tradition of community drumming and chanting. Rhythm Church allow us to reconnect with an ancient process whose tradition is steeped in love, nourishment and belonging. Guided by Lavender Grace an artist and musician whose experience of over 3 decades has culminated into a Sustainable Community Arts enterprise.
Born at home into the loving arms of her family in Santa Cruz, Califroina in 1971, Lavender has been surrounded by abundant creativity from birth. Guided by the cultural arts of music, poetry and dance, Lavender explores these art forms as a tool for deeper understanding into the human condition as a journey full of amazing stories to be shared.
Lavender Grace has studied and worked in NYC as a professional sound engineer, and musician. She has traveled extensively in the US, South America, and Europe, where she continues to study and perform. For over 3 decades she has been moving audiences with the sincerity of her voice and scope of her talents.
About Alice Walker and her event:
PALM of HER Hand Presents:
A Conversation with Alice Walker
Join us for a delightful afternoon conversation with Author, Activist and Visionary, Alice Walker in Sonoma County.
Starting with a tea party and silent auction opening at 1:30, followed by live music and Alice Walker at 3pm. Hear from Kwamboka Okari, the founder of Margaret Okari Children's Foundation about her work in Kenya. Followed by dancing in the aisles listening to the music of Lavender Grace. Sound like a good time!? ! And if you would like, there are limited number of openings to an afterparty at Electric Rose Gallery, where you can meet Alice and Kwamboka.
Ticket price of 3:00 event included in your Bountiful ticket price.
Alice Walker is an American novelist, short-story writer, poet,
essayist, and activist. Her most famous novel, The Color Purple, was
awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1983. Alice
Walker's creative vision is rooted in the economic hardship, racial
terrorism, and folk wisdom of African American life and culture,
particularly in the rural South. Her writing explores multidimensional
kinships among women, among men and women, among humans and animals,
and embraces the redemptive power of social, spiritual and political revolution.
ALICE WALKER
