Transforming culture through conscious feminine
leadership, values, and practice
The Conscious Feminine Leadership Training program is a new kind of leadership program in Jacksonville for those who wish to take a transformative personal journey into deeper consciousness and evolved community leadership. Using writing as our primary tool of self-discovery, we will study what Conscious Feminine leadership means and how to apply it personally, professionally, and as a leaders in the community.
[We are] participating in the transformation of culture by creating, naming, and supporting leaders in the practice of conscious feminine values: truth-telling, empowerment, nurture-with-rigor, transparency, vulnerability, conscious collaboration, depth-orientation, hospitality, [and] the capacity to hold paradox, especially the paradox of fostering individual gifts alongside fostering planetary and community well-being.
—Mary Pierce Brosmer, who designed and led the original Conscious Feminine Leadership Program in Cincinnati
An Investment In Personal Transformation
Participation in CFLT is an investment in transformational learning and renewal for those who hold space for others, whether in personal relationships or in the public sector. This intensive commitment to learning together represents an investment in one’s own personal growth and an evolving understanding of leadership. The most important resource of this work is a community of leaders who embody emerging consciousness.
Aims of the Program
- The desire to expand and deepen diverse leadership for the future of WWf(a)C Jacksonville.
- Support conscious feminine leaders within their current vocations create a structure for those in transition from one phase of life or vocation to another.
- Participants in this program have included teachers, clergy, physicians, therapists, artists, activists, nurses, social workers, nonprofit and business executives, and entrepreneurs interested in integrating conscious feminine practices into their personal or professional lives.
Who Should Apply
- Those who want to incorporate WWf(a)C practices into social service, business, religious, or other settings.
- Those who want to wake up more fully to the conscious feminine, whether or not they have vocational aspirations for facilitating in the WWf(a)C community.
- Those who want to apply to teach WWf(a)C core and/ or specialty classes.
What Participants Will Gain
- Certification as a facilitator for Women Writing for (a) Change Jacksonville
- Immersion in a community of becoming conscious, creative individuals
- Learning within conscious feminine traditions and expanded awareness of intersections/ overlay regarding race and gender
- Seeking balance and understanding of the conscious masculine, and how feminine—and masculine—consciousness integrate in the 21st century
- Study of a spirituality of education, creating creative learning communities
- Tools to help build community through the use of writing and ritual
- Techniques for using writing as a practice of healing and innovation
- Practical problem-solving skills for personal and professional development
Facilitators
- Jennifer Wolfe (she/her), Founder and Executive Director of WWf(a)C Jacksonville. Jennifer is a 2013 and 2019 graduate of the Conscious Feminine Leadership Academy in Cincinnati, where Women Writing for (a) Change was founded in 1991 by Mary Pierce Brosmer.
- Tru Leverette Hall (she/her), WWf(a)C facilitator, UNF professor, Chair of the English Department, and Director of Africana Studies. Tru is a 2022 graduate of Jacksonville’s CFLT program.
Additional guest teachers will include former graduates and guest artists.
The gifts of this program were the terrific and absolute support and structure of our leaders and the wonderful souls in my cohort. It’s an amazing group of committed and courageous women who always amaze me with their consistent and gentle support. It now walks with me everywhere in my life.
—Juli Williams, CFLT 2023 Graduate
Format and Schedule
The 2025 Conscious Feminine Leadership Training Program offers a hybrid residential and virtual training program. We will build our community of practice in person at the Sisters of St. Joseph Retreat Center in St. Augustine, Florida; and we will use ZOOM technology for some of our meetings so we can bring in guest speakers from Cincinnati and beyond.
- February 21-24, 2025: Opening in-person retreat
- March 10, 2025: In-person circle
- March 17, 2025: Virtual circle
- March 24, 2025: In-person circle
- March 31, 2025: In-person circle
- April 7, 2025: In-person circle
- April 14, 2025: Virtual circle
- April 21, 2025: In-person circle
- April 28, 2025: In-person circle
- May 5, 2025: In-person circle
- May 12, 2025: In-person circle
- May 22-25, 2025: In-person retreat
- June-August: Practicum, paper development
- September-October: Practicum delivery
- November 9: Reflective paper, practicum portfolios due
- November 16: Graduation
What’s a Practicum Project?
Each participant will design and offer a practicum intended to embody the learnings of CFLT. In developing, planning, and holding writing circles from start to finish, each participant will gain valuable facilitation experience.
Practicums are to be completed in September and October of 2025, with practicum portfolios due November 9, 2025. Participants will also complete a reflective paper on a relevant topic of their choice, which is also due November 9, 2025.
Tuition
$3,800 / $3,040 / $2,470 Sliding Scale
Sliding scale is a pricing model that aims to increase accessibility of this program by asking those who can afford a full-priced experience to help subsidize the experience for those who can’t.
To help you decide what fee is the best fit for you, please refer to The Green Bottle graphic, designed by community healing practitioner Alexis J. Cunningfolk.
Certification Program Tuition includes room and board; program materials, planning, and instruction by facilitators; guest artist fees, and administrative staff support. Books not included. Copies of articles will be provided.
If you need scholarship support beyond the Sliding Scale, please complete a scholarship application. Limited scholarship funds are available through the Patricia Geiger Scholarship Fund, which honors a longtime member of our community. Requests will be considered in the order received.
The magical rhythm of circles moving us and our writing from the depths of pain to assurance that we are grounded and ‘can do this’ is truly amazing. Writing together in community does this in a deeper way than writing individually. I feel so honored to have been able to be a part of the journey of these women.
—Mary Moore, CFLT 2023 Graduate
Payment Plan
If not paying in full, choose a schedule of equal payments made over 2, 4, or 6 months. Depending on preferred schedule, payments begin on Feb. 1, 2025, and end on May 15, 2025. ($250 deposit due at time of application to program.) Please note: If professional development funds from an organization will be used to pay for tuition, the full price for tuition may be charged.
To Learn More About CFLT
We invite you to attend one or more CFLT Discernment Circles! These gatherings—which incorporate writing circle practices—are designed to help determine whether CFLT is right for you and you for it.
2025 CFLT Discernment Gatherings will be held on:
- Saturday, Oct. 26, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., in person
- Saturday, Nov. 9, from 10 to 12:30 p.m., in person
Gatherings will be held at WWf(a)C Jacksonville, 1610 Osceola Street, Jacksonville, FL 32204. These sessions are free of charge. Donations gratefully accepted to benefit CFLT scholarships. Register at womenwritingjax.org.
How To Apply
To be considered for acceptance in CFLT 2025, please:
- Attend at least one Discernment Circle (more than one encouraged).
- Complete the online application.
- Attach a 1–2-page resumé to your application.
- Submit a deposit of $250 by via the link in the Application form. (Deposit refunded only if application is not accepted.)
Class size limited to 10. Applications (and scholarship applications) will be considered in the order received.
Application Period
From October 15 to December 15, 2024. Applications will be reviewed as they are received. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis as application materials are received, but no later than January 15, 2025.
Questions
For questions, please contact jennifer@womenwritinjacksonville.com
I’ve been steeped in words, mining them and marveling in them and making my world with them, attending to them with gentleness these past months in Conscious Feminine Leadership Training. Taking this sea-flight, I’ve ridden the waves of words and listened to the heart-speak of my sea-flight sisters. There’s so much to know, as each of us allows our words to shift the sands of our lives and reveal the treasures kept dark and deep.
—Tru Leverette Hall, CFLT (Sea-Flight) 2023