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Sept 12-13: Young Women Social Entrepreneurs 2009 Retreat

Rejuvenate, Relearn and Reclaim at our 2009 Leadership Retreat, September 12-13th! Enjoy 7 interactive workshops led by experienced and engaging professionals; plus, overnight accommodations, beach access, hike and campfire, and 4 delicious meals.

Our Inspiration for the Retreat Theme: Over the past year, for many of us, challenging situations have distracted us from our desire to “be the change.” We’re ready to identify a new approach toward these difficult challenges ... with practical skills and a vision for the way forward.

Come alone or bring someone along! Either way you’ll experience a warm, friendly environment with great women. You’ll leave with more contacts, support, energy and resources to help you leverage the inevitable challenges while accomplishing the positive change you desire.

It’s Clearly Time to Retreat! Let’s take time for ourselves so that we can strengthen our impact. Let’s make time to relax, eat well and relish the California coast’s beauty. Let’s come together for empowering dialogue and training around change and challenge. Treat yourself to this not-to-miss weekend of R&R…and R!

We’ve kept our generous rates low and at the same rate as last year. Member’s enjoy optimum rates. If you are not a member, now would be a great time to join! We have less than 10 spots available, and we always sell out early.

**Our Stellar Workshops offer Multiple Paths to Learning, and we’ll have an Open Space Workshop so you can Share Your Ideas and Interests with the group**

Vision
How to Work From Within: Skills for Cultivating Calm, Clarity and Confidence, From the Inside Out
Susan Bernstein, MBA PhD, Career Management Coach, Speaker & Author
Learn to trust your intuition to embrace and navigate change. Use your Embodied Intelligence—the inner wisdom of your body—as your inner compass to help you find your direction and to navigate to what you reallwant.

Community & Consciousness
Mentors for Life/Being a Great Mentee!
Dr. Mariam Ghazvini, Ed.D, Professional Mentor at XCEO, Inc.
Can having a mentor boost your career? Are you inspired to improve and propel your life and career to the next level? How are you preparing yourself for the positive changes you desire? Are you demonstrating the type of leadership necessary for the next step? Learn how mentors can help you achieve your goals!

Life Balance
Saturday Night Social
Downtime and fun is a necessary good of life, and it’s definitely part of the YWSE-SF Retreat experience. In addition to the good times that will organically arise during workshops, mealtime, etc., we designate Saturday night for organized fun and connecting.

Business & Branding
Leading Teams, Leading Change: Creating a Positive Environment at Work
Sylvia Warren, MBA, Consciousness Coach, Simply The Best Coaching
Take steps toward being the change! Learn and develop applicable team leadership skills and assess personal capabilities and strengths for being a great leader.

Life Balance
Improv for Business
Diane Rachel, BATS Improv
Improve live balance through improv skills

Business & Branding/Community & Consciousness
The Scrappy Entrepreneur
Panel of inspiring local social enterprise founders

Business & Branding
Design Thinking: Innovation for Today’s Challenges
Tina Seelig, Ph.D., Executive Director, Stanford Technology Ventures Program (invited)
An introduction to a powerful approach to innovation—a method/process that can be used to tackle complex challenges, especially those that require a multi-disciplinary approach (i.e. The Innovator’s Toolbox).

Starts	September 12 2009
Ends / Deadline	September 13 2009
Homepage	http://www.ywse.org/ywsesf/2009/07/ywsesf-annual-retreat-embracing-change-leveraging-challenge.html
Contact	info@ywse.org
Issues	Gender/Women, Youth