Marrakech (Morocco)
04 & 05 June, 2022
Join us for an unforgettable two-day experience at the Rodamon Riad in Marrakech.
Bringing together inspirational and entrepreneurial women in a series of keynotes and workshops to discuss the issues that matter most to you and to build the skills and confidence needed to empower a generation of female change-makers.
Just like you, I was brought up as a girl to be perfect, follow the rules, and be diligent. Many of us were also told to find a man, get married and have children. But what if that’s not what you want or in that order? We spend so many years giving others the power to tell us who we are that it becomes difficult to live the life we deserve on our terms. The key to business growth and getting more of what you want starts with you and how you communicate. So, who are you and what do you want?
Imagine living a life with feelings of expansion rather than constriction. Imagine moving through moments with effortless action rather than effortful inaction. What would that look like? How would that feel? This workshop aims to show you how to recognize your feelings of “stuckness” and—in addition to raising your awareness of these patterns—use these feelings to activate your flow-state for work, leisure, and love.
Do you feel passion for your job? Are you feeling blessed every day? Do you feel that your actions contribute to a better world? How can you make everyday feel like a Friday?
If you have ever asked yourself any of these questions, it may be a good time for you to discover Ikigai, a tool which can help you find worth, meaning and purpose to your life.
Imagine investing the same amount of time, money, and energy you do in your business with your relationships. What would those relationships look like, and how would you communicate with each other? The way we speak up, show up and connect with others impacts our professional growth. Speaking confidently while giving interviews, presentations and speeches are crucial if you want your business to grow. In this workshop for women, we will go on a journey together to analyze what you do well, what you can improve, and how to communicate, so you grow personally and professionally. Let’s go!
Have you ever thought, “I’d love to do that but I’m not fit/young/old/clever enough to?” Or “I really want to do that but I am too busy/old/unfit/shy?” In this workshop, Alice Morrison who has cycled across Africa and walked Morocco and the Sahara with her 6 camels, works with you to banish those voices forever. Join her and unleash your inner adventurer. Together let’s learn how to be brave.
The process of achieving what we call “success” is often quite irregular—or maybe a better word is ”messy.” Far from being pejorative, the concept of messy may look disorderly or chaotic but can, in fact, give you insight into your own creative process. And no two journeys are the same.
So, yallah (let’s go)!
Imagine investing the same amount of time, money, and energy you do in your business with your relationships. What would those relationships look like, and how would you communicate with each other? The way we speak up, show up and connect with others impacts our professional growth. Speaking confidently while giving interviews, presentations and speeches are crucial if you want your business to grow. In this workshop for women, we will go on a journey together to analyze what you do well, what you can improve, and how to communicate, so you grow personally and professionally. Let’s go!
Do you feel passion for your job? Are you feeling blessed every day? Do you feel that your actions contribute to a better world? How can you make everyday feel like a Friday?
If you have ever asked yourself any of these questions, it may be a good time for you to discover Ikigai, a tool which can help you find worth, meaning and purpose to your life.
Imagine living a life with feelings of expansion rather than constriction. Imagine moving through moments with effortless action rather than effortful inaction. What would that look like? How would that feel? This workshop aims to show you how to recognize your feelings of “stuckness” and—in addition to raising your awareness of these patterns—use these feelings to activate your flow-state for work, leisure, and love.
Have you ever thought, “I’d love to do that but I’m not fit/young/old/clever enough to?” Or “I really want to do that but I am too busy/old/unfit/shy?” In this workshop, Alice Morrison who has cycled across Africa and walked Morocco and the Sahara with her 6 camels, works with you to banish those voices forever. Join her and unleash your inner adventurer. Together let’s learn how to be brave.
Kyoko helps female entrepreneurs communicate confidently for business growth. Made in New York by Japanese parents and currently living in Barcelona, Kyoko has spent her life deciphering messages in English, Japanese, and Spanish to find that communication is more than speaking aloud. Most professionals have difficulty speaking publicly about their expertise. She shows them how to emotionally and intellectually connect with their audiences to get more of what they want. She has a B.A. and M.A in communications and collaborates with top business schools in Barcelona as a public speaking coach for leaders. When Kyoko isn’t giving speeches, workshops, and coaching, she sings and goes running. So let’s connect on LinkedIn and talk about you!
Dana was born and bred in the American heartlands – Independence, Missouri, famous as the starting off point of the Western expansion of the United States. But in her early teens, she asked herself why no one from the Midwest was moving around anymore. She also began to question the fact that she might not be entirely in sync with life in America. After completing undergraduate and graduate studies including an internship at the University of Tehran during Iran’s Islamic revolution, she began to follow a thought that had become more and more insistent – “You need to go to Morocco”. But she didn’t know why. The answer to that would become apparent some years later.
She first set foot in Tangier in December, 1979, moving permanently to Marrakech in 1980. Initially, she was a university teacher, but after observing artisans in the Marrakech souq and women making things in their homes, she made a radical decision and, totally untrained, plunged into the world of design. 1991 presented her with a golden opportunity, and she embarked on a career in cinema, working in costume design on numerous international productions shot in Morocco: “Kundun”, “The Mummy Returns”, “Black Hawk Down”, “Alexander”, “Babel”; “Syriana”, “Hidalgo”, “Noah”, etc. She has also been an executive producer and production designer for several Moroccan feature films.
Dana is currently launching her passion project, caravan786, a line of clothing for women and children as well as textiles for the home, which features hand-dyed fabric co-created with women’s dyeing cooperatives in Mauritania.
Pat Ward Williams is an African-American photographer whose work often engages with the complexities of race, gender, and history. In addition to her smaller-scale photographs and installations, she has designed three public artworks in Los Angeles.
One of Williams’ best known works is Accused/Blowtorch/Padlock (1986), which consists of an image of a black man tied to a tree (originally published in Life magazine in 1937 and not attributed to a specific photographer), surrounded by text expressing the artist's reaction to this image.
Accused/Blowtorch/Padlock has been included in exhibitions such as The Decade Show, a large-scale collaborative exhibition by the New Museum, Studio Museum in Harlem, and The Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, as well as in Art, Women, California 1950–2000: Parallels and Intersections at the San Jose Museum of Art.[4][5]
Williams was part of the Photo-Active Feminist Visiting Artists 1998–99 Series, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the University of Michigan School of Art and Design and Women's Studies Program. The group of artists, which also included Paula Allen, Barbara Kruger, Susan Meiselas, Connie Samaras, Kathy Constantinides, Wendy Ewald, and Marilyn Zimmerman, were chosen for their engagement with social and political issues in their work and traveled to the University of Michigan to present their work to students and the community.
Licensed Existential Psychotherapist
Founder, The Unbound Collective LLC
Kelly is originally from South Louisiana, USA. Steeped in her Cajun roots for over two decades and in a large family whose first language was French, she understood from an early age that connection and communication extended far beyond her grandparents’ mother tongue and could also be found in their cultural traditions. From the foods they consumed to the rhythms to which they moved, Kelly discovered that her ancestral traditions told a story of collective belonging.
Kelly’s dynamic cultural heritage primed her for work and world experiences born and bred by curiosity, a curiosity fueled by what it means to belong, namely, to one’s self. This quest for belonging motivated her to first study abroad in France and to inevitably live abroad in Morocco, completing her graduate studies and working as a licensed psychotherapist in the US in the time between. Having worked as an existential psychotherapist for over a decade now, Kelly remains committed to helping individuals and couples discover their unique sense of belonging by unlearning their self-sabotaging stories and embracing their self-mobilizing truth through curiosity and compassion.
Gender equality & multicultural specialist.
Estel was born in Spain, in a little village near by the French border. Always fascinated by the ephemeral backpackers coming from around the world, she started learning languages as a way of communication and understanding other's cultural identity. She studied translation and international studies.
She fell in love with Morocco since her first trip in 2010, when she discovered the country as a backpacker.
Though, she faced some complicated situations related to women, she said to herself: one day, I wanna come back and be part of a positive change. And so she came back in 2018, and since then, she's been working with local NGOs for women rights and empowerment. She's now studying a master on Gender in multicultural contexts.
In parallel to her passion for her job, her other passion is music. She started composing songs in 2016 and performing in Barcelona, and now she's singing jazz and Bossa Nova in Marrakech.
Alice Morrison is a Scottish Adventurer based in Morocco. She is the presenter of the BBC2 Series Morocco to Timbuktu: An Arabian Adventure. She has undertaken some tough, physical and mental challenges including: The Tour D’Afrique, cycling from Cairo to Cape Town; running round Everest; and the Marathon des Sables, the toughest footrace on earth; She has just completed a 4000km exploration on foot of Morocco from the Mediterranean Sea to the Mauritanian with her six camels when she found dinosaur footprints and a lost city and investigated the space ships of the desert.
She speaks fluent Arabic and French and 20 words of lots of different languages. “Everyone has an inner Adventurer in them, let yours out!” is her mantra.
Her latest book, Walking with Nomads (tbc) is published on 17th March 2022. She is the author of Adventures in Morocco, Dodging Elephants and Morocco to Timbuktu, all available on Amazon in paperback or on kindle/ebook: alicemorrison.co.uk/books/.
FULL BIO HERE: alicemorrison.co.uk/about.
Amanda Mouttaki is the writer behind the popular website MarocMama, a travel writer and entrepreneur that has called Marrakech home for the last 10 years.
