Triennial Workshops – 6/25/2024
Dancing with the Spirit: Healing through Music in Alaskan Native Communities
Presenters: The Rev. Belle Mickelson, along with The Rev. Catherine Amy Kropp
Come experience hands-on music instruction that you can take home and use in your community. Learn about the award-winning outreach to 57 Alaskan Native villages. This project is modeled on a 4H Bluegrass and Old-time Music and Dance Camp where students sing, dance and learn to play fiddle and guitar that has been held in Cordova, Alaska for the past 28 summers.
Their staff lives and works on the lands of dAXunhyuu, the Eyak People, the Sugpiaq People, the Gwich’in People, the Koyukon People, the Inupiaq People, the Deg Hit’an People, the Yupik People, the Aleut People, the Tlingit People, the Haida People, and the Tsimpsian People.
Church Women United – Social Justice
Presenter: Mira Washington, MSL, Church Women United National President
“If I can help somebody as I pass along, then my living was not in vain.”
Since 1941, the Women of the Church Women United movement have held a vision of Christian unity and prayerful action. CWU was founded as a racially, culturally, theologically, inclusive Christian women’s movement to celebrate unity and diversity and work for peace in the world
Church Women United realize that for the Church to be (and represent) the House of God – it must not collude with social systems which create and protect injustice.
Leading with Heart: Circular Leadership
Presenter: Evita Krislock along with, Winifrid Follett, Christine Budzowski, Barbara Schafer
Using the Leading with Heart Leadership model, we invite you to explore the benefits and possibilities of using Leading with Heart to transform and reignite your ministries. This is a transformational shift from command and control to a relational based circular model.
Evita Krislock, a former Youth Minister and Camp Director, has led workshops on the Sacred Art of Listening and completed the former Women of Vision training, while serving on the National Episcopal Church Women 2015-2018. After revisiting the Women of Vision program, she committed a group of women from across the wider church and began developing Leading With Heart. Province VIII has adopted this model and continues to demonstrate using it to lift up the ministries and people of The Episcopal Church. Evita is an active member of the Diocese of Spokane, environmental and social justice activist.
Winnie Follett has served on the Provincial ECW board as Sec/Treasury 2006-2009, becoming President 2012. In 2015 she received her certificate as a member of the Verger’s Guild of the Episcopal Church. She currently serves as the Verger for St. Andrews in Sedona and Altar Guild director and leader of the Taize’ service. Winifrid is the Arizona ECW/Women’s Ministries contact person and Province VIII ECW Sec/Treasury 2022-2024.
Christine Budzowski was baptized in the Church of England and was confirmed in the Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Los Angeles. She has served as the local ECW President and on the Vestry of St. Mary’s Church, Provo, UT. In 2009, Christine was elected to both the National Board of Episcopal Church Women (2009 – 2015) and the National Council of the Daughters of the King (2009 – 2018), where her passion for communications and digital technology led to her involvement in developing training and leadership programs. She serves as ECW President of the Diocese of Los Angeles and as Communications Chair and Secretary/Treasurer-elect of Province VIII ECW.
Barbara Schafer is a management consultant with experience in helping companies achieves business objectives through executive, internal, and external communications and coaching. She is a dedicated servant of the Episcopal Church: ECW President, CA. & Nevada, Province VIII Synod, ECW Board 2012-2018, Province VIII Synod, Cluster 3 Leader 2015-2018, Diocesan ECW V.P. Southern NV 2017-2019, UTO National Board President and Vice President, 2012-2018, UTO National Board Province VIII Representative 2012-2018, TEC United Nations Delegate, Commission on Status of Women 2015, Province VIII Cluster 3 Leader 2015-2018, Leading with Heart Circle Leadership 2020-2024.
The Episcopal Women’s History Project is for All of Us
Presenters: The Rev. Dr. Jo Ann Barker, Joan Gunderson Ph.D., and Robin Sumners Ph.D.
The women of the Church are always active. EWHP collects, sorts, and tells the stories the women create. Join EWHP as they discuss the importance of storytelling. The workshop will give you an overview of what motivated its founders, provide a short history of the organization, highlight its projects past and present, and inform you of opportunities to recognize outstanding women and get grants for projects. It will conclude with suggestions of ways that you can help us find, record, and tell the stories of the amazing ministries of women in the church and of your own ECW branches.
Rev. Barker has served on the EWHP board for ten years, three as secretary, seven as president. She was elected President at General Convention 2017. She is an Episcopal priest who served as Rector for twenty years to three churches: St. John’s Harrison, AR; St. Mark’s Jonesboro, AR, and St. Anne’s in Middletown, DE.
Joan Gundersen has degrees from Monmouth College (B.A.), William and Mary (M.A.) and Notre Dame (Ph.D.). Her academic career included tenured faculty positions at St. Olaf College and California State University San Marcos. She served as Dean of Social Sciences at Elon College and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Chatham College. She has been on the EWHP Board several times and has served in the past as its president and webmaster.
Robin Sumners flourishes in the role of communications for EWHP. She creates the EWHP newsletter, as well as schedules pending organizational news and keeps the website up to date. Creating specific items is to tell the amazing stories of the Episcopal Women’s History Projects—there is always an EWHP project because EWHP many to tell stories to be sure that women learn of what EWHP needs to know.
