Feminine Intelligence for a Regenerative Future

THE TIME IS NOW… to apply FEMMEQ to solve the greatest challenges of our time

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Date

July 24-31, 2021

Location

Blue Spirit, Nosara, Costa Rica

Guests

25 in-person & 150 online

Speakers

30

A Christmas gift of Inspiration...

The Costa Rica FemmeQ Summit: Feminine Intelligence for a Regenerative Future

To close out the year we would like to offer you a boost of hope and inspiration.

You might choose this gift for yourself to spend time over the festive season or for a friend as a guiding light to take us into 2022.

The full FemmeQ vimeo programme recordings at the special reduced price from £45.00 to £20.00: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/femmeq2021

 

Costa Rica July 2021 full schedule

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Our Featured Speakers & Workshop Leaders

CO-CREATE THE FUTURE WITH CURRENT AND EMERGING LEADERS

Meet the people who are forging a new frontier across all sectors of society by applying Feminine Intelligence in their field of expertise. Due to the current challenges with worldwide travel, some of our speakers will be joining us in person and other will be on Zoom.


Topic:
Feminine Intelligence – Why this Why now

Co-Founder FemmeQ. Karen has worked for over three decades as a social entrepreneur, activist for systemic change, and business consultant. She has designed and led development programmes for leaders and their teams, across all sectors of society, applying the feminine principle.

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Topic:
The Mighty Heart

Founder The Business Plan for Peace, The Mighty Heart & Co-founder FemmeQ. Scilla is a three times Nobel Peace Prize nominee for her work with Oxford Research Group to develop effective dialogue between nuclear weapons policymakers worldwide and their critics.

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Topic:
THE SUPPRESSION OF THE FEMININE AND CLIMATE CRISIS

Ancient prophecies that have foretold the emergence of the feminine in the 21st century. Lynne will share how the suppression of the feminine is directly related to our climate crisis and how the transformation of the patriarchy and the emergence of the feminine will be a key factor in having us take the next evolutionary leap as the human family.

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Topic:
TAPPING INTO OUR NATURAL INTELLIGENCE

With thirty years of exploration, Annette is seasoned guide in the realm of consciousness. As a meditation teacher, somatic counsellor and shamanic practitioner she teaches online workshops and in-person retreats , mentoring people from all over the world in their unique journeys of awakening, healing and transformation.

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Topic:
HONOURING MOTHER EARTH & FEMININE WISDOM FOR REGENERATIVE ACTION

Eduard is an environmentalist, scientist, activist. He is the founder and rector of the University for International Cooperation. Its mission is to educate professionals to lead the changes required in economic, environmental, socio-cultural and political development in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Topic:
ENDING EXISTENTIAL POVERTY - PRACTICES TO LIVE THE WAY

Jan Hurwitch, of the Visionary Ethics Foundation, Costa Rica, dialogues on ending our existential poverty as a dimension of the search for sustainability. The focus is on mastering need and eliminating greed.

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Topic:
From Goddess to Slave: The Paradox of Womanhood in India

Aekta Kapoor is the founder and editor of eShe magazine, and the founder of the nonprofit peacebuilding initiative South Asia Union. After a long career as an award-winning lifestyle and fashion journalist heading prestigious publications and websites, Aekta now focuses on gender equality, social justice and peacebuilding through her writing and initiatives.

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Topic:
Women as Weavers of Ecosystem Restoration

My vision is to consolidate these two experiences, Adapta Sertao and Sinal do Vale which are grounded in a new relationship with the earth, and transform them in references of integral development in which people and environment can work together in a balance and harmonious way .

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Topic:
PRESENCING THE DIVINE FEMININE: A SECRET SO SACRED IT CANNOT EVEN BE WHISPERED

Will is a mathematical physicist and co-founder (with Cynthia Brix) of the Gender Equity and Reconciliation International (GERI) project, which has organized over 280 intensive trainings since 1992 on six continents for healing and reconciliation between women and men, and was officially endorsed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu in 2013.

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Topic:
WOMEN, WATER, WISDOM

Erin is the co-founder of The Waterbearers, an organization that empowers women around the world through access to clean water. She is also a certified trainer for HeartMath and shares heart coherence techniques within rural villages as well as corporate boardrooms. Her mission in life is to is to connect more and more in the heart, while expanding the consciousness and compassion in the world for which she has found water to be the purest conduit.

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Topic:
FEMININST FOREIGN POLICY FOR A LIFE SUSTAINING FUTURE

Kristina Lunz is the Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy (CFFP). From January 2019 to January 2020 Kristina worked as an advisor to the German Federal Foreign Office where she conceptualised and built the feminist network Unidas initiated by the German Foreign Minister, Heiko Maas.

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Topic:
The Feminisation of Politics

Indra Adnan is a life-long student of power and agency. As a political entrepreneur she has Co-initiated The Alternative UK which publishes The Daily Alternative, convenes new system actors and builds and engages with cosmolocal community agency networks (CANs) all over the world.

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Topic:
SAYING YES TO LIFE

Jim is president of the Institute for Strategic Clarity, affiliated with Harvard, Univ Politec Madrid, and TEC EGADE, co-author of Ecosynomics (2014), Managing from Clarity (2001), many chapters and articles.

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Topic:
REGENERATIVE BUSINESS MODELS

Carolina is a regenerative business strategist and Biomimic who supports companies and their leaders transition their business models towards Regeneration and Thrivability. 

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Topic:
THE ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES THAT GIVE LIFE

Sandra is the Galligan Chair of Strategy, Carroll School Scholar of Corporate Responsibility, Professor of Management at Boston College.  She has published 15 books and more than 170 papers and chapters in a wide variety of journals and books.

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Topic:
RADICAL ATTENTION: OPENING OUR SENSES TO THE LIVING EARTH

Alessandra is an anthropologist and a documentary photographer/filmmaker. She is the co-founder of Wimblu, a creative documentary studio telling stories that reconnect ecology and culture in order to restore our sense of belonging and connection to the planet.

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Topic:
DE-COLONIZING PRACTICES AND THE STORIES WE TELL

Anne is a sociologist and manager of research and evaluation. She has worked for the Queensland and Victorian governments as well as for Australian and International NGOs as an evaluation consultant.

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Topic:
MEN, #METOO, AND HEALING THE ARCHETYPAL FEMININE

Award-winning filmmaker & media activist, Facilitator Sector: Film Making, Activism, uncovering and amplifying stories of the emerging paradigm, Crowdfunding (Vancouver)

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Topic:
LIVING AND REGENERATIVE SYSTEMS

As a theoretical and evolutionary biologist, Melina understands evolution in contexts of community and complexity, she has been asking nature, as a biomimetic, about regeneration and evolution at different scales, from individuals to ecosystems, to be applied on human systems.

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Topic:
LONGEVITY BEYOND SELF - ALIGNING HEALTH PRACTICES FOR HUMAN AND MOTHER EARTH

Stephan is a co-founder of one of the very first institutions that initiated training in consciousness and alternative systems thinking, the renowned Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY and continues to facilitate their Longevity and Wellbeing programmes in Blue Spirit.

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Topic:
UNDERSTANDING THE GIFTS OF THE INSTINCTUAL: EMBRACING THE BODY, TRAUMA AND HEALING

Patti Elledge is a trauma healing specialist who has served as a somatic mentor for hundreds of therapists and healers over the past 20 years.  Her background is in Somatic Experiencing and she teaches Diane Poole Heller’s groundbreaking adult attachment work, DARe, as well as her own blend of instinctual wisdom in her 3-month long online trainings.

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Topic:
Evaluation for transformation

Zenda Ofir is a South African scientist and evaluation specialist. With a PhD in (Ecological) Chemistry, she was a grants portfolio manager at a South African national science council and Director of Research at Pretoria University before turning to evaluation

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Topic:
INCLUSIVE SYSTEMIC THINKING – BEYOND EXISTENTIALISM

Ellen Lewis (MA, PhD) is a systems thinker who works globally, specializing in organizational change, group dynamics, gender equality and evaluation.

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Topic:
RECALIBRATING OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH OURSELVES AND THE LARGER LIVING WORLD

Mirian has worked with the Earth Charter International Initiative since the beginning of 1996. Since 2005, she has been teaching courses on Sustainable Development, Education for Sustainable Development and Environmental Governance at the University for Peace. 

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Topic:
Collaboration as an Evolutionary Act

Dr. Marilyn Hamilton is the Founder of Integral City Meshworks Inc. and TDG Holdings Inc. Marilyn leads a practice community using Integral City frameworks and practical tools to support multi-stakeholder groups in transforming their whole city and eco-region into habitats that are as sustainable and resilient for humans as the beehive is for bees.

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Topic:
CREATING HEART COHERENCE TO ENABLE THE FULL INTEGRATION OF THE FEMININE

Robert Browning, PhD (h.c.) is Co-Director, HeartMath Healthcare and Master Trainer. For over 25 years, he’s trained 21,000 individuals in heart-based living, co-leading programs at: Kaiser, Stanford, Harvard, Ascension, Dignity, the VA and more

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Topic:
WE HEAL TOGETHER: THE POWER OF GENDER EQUITY AND RECONCILIATION

Cynthia Brix is an ordained interfaith minister and co-founder (with Will Keepin) of the Gender Equity and Reconciliation International (GERI) project, which has organized training programs on gender healing and reconciliation for more than ten thousand people in 12 countries, for which she received an honorary doctorate from the California Institute of Integral Studies in 2015.

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Topic:
SAFEGUARDING LIFE ON EARTH – FEMININE INTELLIGENCE IN ACTION

Dr. Cristiana Pasca-Palmer is a recognized global leader and practitioner of transformative actions implementing economic and social development in harmony with nature. As Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations, she used her diplomatic acumen and multi-disciplinary expertise to implement a fresh vision for nature.

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Topic:
LEAD MULAN QUAN TAI CHI CLASSES

Alexia will be facilitating morning Tai Chi style sessions. Mulan Quan is a graceful meditation in motion, the embodiment of feminine strength through graceful movement.

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Topic:
WORKSHOP FACILITATOR

Irene was born and raised in Costa Rica.  Like any other country one of its flaws, is the lack of sex education. There came a time when everything became very clear to her: sexual education, female sexual empowerment, and the possibility of creating a more positive society on sexuality issues was my path.

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Topic:
WORKSHOP FACILITATOR

Josefa has practiced integrative medicine since 2005. Witnessing patients poorly respond to external medical treatments and her own deep resonance with the body’s innate capacity to heal, led her to establish the Innate Medicine Clinic in 2014 in Northern California.

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Topic:
INCLUSIVE SYSTEMIC THINKING – BEYOND ESSENTIALISM

Lucy is a passionate human rights defender, planner and catalyst for transformational change to the most vulnerable groups.

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Topic:
INCLUSIVE SYSTEMIC THINKING – BEYOND ESSENTIALISM

Nathalia is a sociologist specializing in social transformation processes, and master’s student of public policy.

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  • This FemmeQ Summit was the best event I have ever been to. It has truly been life changing.

    Diana Jaffé

    Gender Maketing Expert &Author, Germany

  • FemmeQ feels like a much needed software update!

    Stefan Schurig

    Director Climate Energy & Cities World Future Council, Germany

  • There was so much intelligence in that room – it was just mind-blowing!

    Stephanie Kelly

    Coach & Author, A Quiet Revolution,

  • After these 2 days, I am blown away, inspired and energized! Ready to change the world.

    Sue Liderth

    Head of IT - Emerging Markets at ADIDAS

  • Every single person I met and spoke to was beyond inspiring and I am still talking about this event to everyone around me.

    Federica Ferro

    Entrepreneur, Author, Social Influencer

  • It was a great pleasure to be part of such a remarkable and impressive group of women experiencing FemmeQ London 2018. The conference is a unique opportunity to develop awareness, understanding and self-knowledge so that each participant can enhance their talents and abilities in order to flourish.

    Judy Piatkus

    Independent Consultant, Founder of ConsciousCafe, Entrepreneur, Female Keynote Speaker

  • FemmeQ felt like coming HOME. Actualy felt something for the first time deep within me,…and funny enough it’s best to discribe it like this…now i know what it means to be a woman.

    Masja Ottenheim

What you will learn from your retreat experience

Stand tall

Shifting from a reactive approach to crisis - to taking responsibility by bringing vision, inspiration and purpose to every endeavour.

Full potential

Shifting from “toughening up” - to using our full human potential of the feminine and the masculine qualities in service to human and planetary flourishing.

Empower

Shifting from despair and resignation - to empowered engagement and conscious leadership.

Restore

Healing from relentless challenges. Shifting from burnout and overwhelm - to mindfully addressing systemic dysfunctions.

Engage

Co-create a compassionate community that will support you to feel empowered in your agency and sovereignty.

Connect

Connect with diverse groups from around the world; across genders, cultures and countries, to create an exponential shift in consciousness and transformation in the systems and structures of our world.

Summit Schedule

Who should attend this conference

EARLY BIRD TICKETS EXPIRE MAY 13th- SAVE $100 WHEN YOU RESERVE YOUR SPOT TODAY!

Change
Makers

Corporate
Leaders

Positive
Activists

Social
Entrepreneurs

Wonder
Woman

Retreat Tickets

Retreat package rates depend on the choice of accommodation & include all taxes, the retreat tuition, your 7-night stay and 3 daily buffet style meals (gourmet ovo-lacto vegetarian and vegan cuisine, plus fish being served 3 times during your stay. Food allergies can be accommodated.)

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Please note: because we want all attendees to have the opportunity to interact with our speakers, there are only 40 places available at this retreat.

$1,745 - $2,245 per person

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RATES & REGISTRATION

Retreat package rates depend on the choice of accommodation & include all taxes, the retreat tuition, your 7-night stay and 3 daily buffet style meals (gourmet ovo-lacto vegetarian and vegan cuisine, plus fish being served 3 times during your stay. Food allergies can be accommodated.)

    • ECO COTTAGE: Sgl Occupancy $1,745 /  Dbl $1,500 per person
    • HERMITAGE ROOM/AC: Sgl Occupancy $2,045 / Dbl  $1,825 per person
    • NATURE SUITE/AC: Sgl Occupancy $2,445 / Dbl $1,945 per person
    • OCEAN VIEW: Sgl Occupancy $2,795 / Dbl $2,245 per person

More information & photos on accommodations here:  https://bluespiritcostarica.com/rooms/

To register, please fill out our booking form here with your preferred choice of accommodation. If you have any questions please send an email to rebecca@femmeq.org.  Once your accommodation is confirmed, you are asked to pay a deposit of US$500 immediately to hold your space. The remaining balance of your total retreat rate will be due by July 1st, 2021.

CANCELLATION  POLICY

As travel plans can change unexpectedly and you might need to cancel, we highly recommend you purchase a travel insurance. Should you need to cancel before June 24th, 2021, you’ll receive a full refund minus a $75 administrative fee. No refunds can be given after June 24th, 2021 – except you are contracting Covid or air travel between your country and Costa Rica has been closed.

TRAVEL LOGISTICS

Arrival day is Saturday, July 24th, 2021. Your first meal will be dinner (buffet is open 6:00 – 7:30 pm); should you arrive later in the evening the Blue Spirit staff will save you a dinner plate. Departure day is Saturday, July 31st, 2021. Breakfast on Saturday will be your last meal.

More information on how Blue Spirit protects its guests and staff against Covid: https://bluespiritcostarica.com/retreats/covid-19-protocols/

Please check also updates on Covid Travel Entry Requirements to Costa Rica before booking your ticket: https://www.visitcostarica.com/en/costa-rica/planning-your-trip/entry-requirements

 

How do I book tickets for the online event?

You can book tickets for the online event via our Eventbrite page.

How do I get in touch?

Email us on Rebecca@femmeq.org

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The Venue

Blue Spirit, Nosara, Costa Rica

BLUE SPIRIT

Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica
https://bluespiritcostarica.com/

Blue Spirit Costa Rica provides an extraordinary setting to all who are dedicated to spiritual transformation, personal development, and environmental sustainability. Perched on a hilltop that overlooks the Pacific Ocean and a three-mile long white sand beach that is protected as a turtle refuge – Blue Spirit offers an extraordinarily beautiful and natural setting on one of Costa Rica’s renowned white sand beaches, supporting your retreats, workshops, and trainings to be a deeply nurturing and unforgettable experience.

Blue Spirit is located in one of the world’s blue zones which inspired the name Blue Spirit. While visiting Blue Spirit, you will feel the resonance of a vibrant, inspiring, and healing energy, because of the rich subtropical environment, and the cultural lifestyle.