“For the past three centuries, our culture has consistently favored the yang over the yin energies, and that our economic, social and political structures reflect and reinforce this imbalance,” writes Barbara Spraker in “Women Hold Up Half the Sky,” accepted free great reading for celebrating today’s Chinese New Year.
Women’s Business Center Leader Named to Council
Sandy Bartow, Executive Director of the Jacksonville Women’s Business Center (JWBC) in Jacksonville, FL, has been appointed to a three-year term on the National Women’s Business Council. The JWBC, a program of the Jacksonville Chamber Foundation, delivers mentoring, training, networking and consulting programs and services to over 1,000 clients. Previously, …
Chapter 1: How do You Find a Paradigm for an Emergent?
Barbara Marx Hubbard: So let’s begin, then, at the beginning. We’re all here right now because of some things that Jean had said to me the last time we talked, which has been several months now. You were talking, Jean, about feminine consciousness, and the fact that it has gone …
Barbara Boxer of Women Angels Connects the Dots for Yin Entrepreneurs
Barbara Boxer, founder of Women Angels, LLC, a group of women investors in Milwaukee, Miami and Chicago, will be speaking at the Women’s Congress equity financing panel for entrepreneurs on Thursday, Jan. 24, and critiquing women entrepreneurs’ 5-minute investor presentations on Friday, Jan. 25. The former business owner and lawyer …
Diane Bowers: An Investor With A Yin Perspective
Diane Bowers is co-founder of consulting firm Paladin Global Partners, which works with entrepreneurial companies with rapid growth, capital management, and various other financial services. She is also the vice president of the Gold Coast Venture Capital Association download naqoyqatsi life as war , a 24-year-old non-profit organization that provides …
Letter from the Director of Communications
On June 16, 2007, I visited Hazel Henderson in St. Augustine. I told Hazel about Miami, the city I had been living in for the past four years, where women are still caught in a 1970s battle for civil rights. It is so different from San Francisco, Denver, Ann Arbor, …
The Power of Yin Series: Women in Business
Celebrating Female Consciousness A book by Hazel Henderson, Jean Houston and Barbara Marx Hubbard This monthly newsletter will feature excerpts from “The Power of Yin,” plus short Q&As with women investors making a difference. Your logo in 1 issue: $250. Sponsor all 12 issues for $2,400. Contact Kemila Velan, director …
Introduction: The convergence of three remarkable female minds
Buy the book.Subscribe to the monthly newsletter This book is the outcome of an extraordinary convergence of three remarkable female minds: Hazel Henderson — world-renowned futurist, evolutionary economist and consultant on sustainable development; Jean Houston — advisor to UNICEF in human and cultural development; Barbara Marx Hubbard — president of …
The View from 2006 by Hazel Henderson
August 2006 I found the thirty-year-old manuscript of this book in one of my overlooked files in 2005. Somehow it had survived my move from Princeton, New Jersey, in the late 1970s to Gainesville, Florida, home of the University of Florida, and finally to St. Augustine, where I have lived …
Jean Houston's Statement – 30 Years Later
When Hazel Henderson informed me that the manuscript of The Power of Yin would be published, I could only laugh. For laughter is largely what I remember from those golden autumn days of 1977 when Barbara Marx Hubbard and I sat together with Hazel in her lovely Princeton home and …