¡Invitando a mujeres líderes, emprendedoras y estudiantes de la comunidad a un impactante e inspirador evento por el Día Internacional de la Mujer!
WE Evolution presenta la Sexta Edición de sus Caminatas de Mentoreo Globales de Vital Voices, esta vez en su versión VIRTUAL.
Miami, Florida, Febrero, 2021 – WE Evolution anunció la presentación de la sexta versión de las Caminatas de Mentoreo de Vital Voices el día 6 de marzo de 2021 en su nuevo formato virtual. La edición del año anterior, llevada a cabo en Tierra Santa Healing House – Faena Hotel Miami Beach, reunió a más de 150 mujeres y recibió a Geraldine Laybourne, Presidente de la Junta y Madrina de las Caminatas de Mentoreo Globales de Vital Voices.
La edición de este año se llevará a cabo mediante una plataforma virtual, por lo que en vez de caminar, ¡usaremos todo nuestro tiempo para hablar! La actividad de 60 minutos consiste en un diálogo entre mentoras y aprendices que discutirán y compartirán sus experiencias. Vital Voices motiva a todas las participantes a construir una conexión a largo plazo, en la cual la mentora apoya y aconseja a su aprendiz mientras ésta continúa creciendo y prosperando.
Seas una mujer exitosa con experiencia profesional y conocimiento para compartir, o una emprendedora, profesional o estudiante (de cualquier edad) con potencial de liderazgo y lista para expandir su red de contactos, ¡queremos que te unas a nosotras este año!
Futuras mentoras, queremos invitarlas a aprovechar esta oportunidad de contribuir a la “cadena de favores” en su comunidad, donando su tiempo y energía e invirtiéndolos en la próxima generación de mujeres líderes.
Futuras aprendices, las invitamos a participar y aprender de estas líderes establecidas que van a guiarlas, inspirarlas y aconsejarlas para lograr todos sus objetivos, tanto personales como profesionales. Si estás dispuesta a crecer como líder y abrir tus posibilidades, este es tú programa.
Quienes adquieran acceso al evento (NOTA: todas las estudiantes acceden gratuitamente) podrán disfrutar también de nuestro PROGRAMA ANUAL VITAL VOICES MIAMI – WE EVOLUTION 2021. Esto significa iniciar tu año activamente con este evento y continuarlo así mientras generas nuevos contactos e inviertes en tu crecimiento personal y profesional. Todo esto a la vez que participas en nuestro programa exclusivo de desarrollo personal y actividades de empoderamiento y mentoreo.
Maria Gabriela Hoch, Fundadora y Directora Ejecutiva de WE Evolution, “Las mentorías son como una vela. Una puede encender muchas otras luces sin perder la intensidad de la suya, y así crear más calidez y mejor luz para toda la comunidad”.
Claudia Rostagno, Directora de Marketing y Comunicación en FedEx, “Creo que todas las mujeres somos, en cierta forma, hermanas, y que estamos aquí para guiarnos y apoyarnos entre nosotras, mientras que aprendemos las unas de las otras”.
Las Caminatas de Mentoreo se llevarán a cabo el sábado, 6 de marzo de 2021, desde las 10 a.m. hasta las 12 p.m. ET a través de una plataforma virtual. La fecha límite para aplicar al programa es el 22 de febrero de 2021 – o cuando se acaben las plazas disponibles.
WE Evolution proudly brings to you our latest creation: The Mentoring Space. Hosted by Maria Gabriela Hoch, the Mentoring Space is a unique opportunity to enrich your personal and professional growth through targeted mentoring. The group sessions feature diverse guest mentors that offer exclusive advice and coaching on various areas. By signing up, you will be able to shed light on topics our mentors specialize in that are beneficial to you. This virtual event is open to everyone interested in bolstering their knowledge and network.
Free for Members.
Bilingual (Spanish & English) virtual event.
Zoom link opens at 12:00 pm ET (half an hour prior to the start of the event) for thirty minutes of open conversation. We invite you to join early to connect and engage with other attendees!
Our first session of The Mentoring Space on June 16th 2020 was a raging success. WE spotted a widespread need for personal branding and digitalization of businesses. Therefore, women of our network specialized in these topics were guests during the session.
Attendees eagerly asked each other questions about the world of digitization and mentors were able to provide key insights about the digital transitions of businesses, especially regarding post-covid times. The women leaders and entrepreneurs explored digital areas relevant to their businesses and gained new connections to advance in these.
Even after hosting numerous networking programs and activities, the willingness to help and learn between women and the eagerness to support and watch fellow leaders succeed left us astounded and joy-filled. We can confidently say that The Mentoring Space provided our community members a chance to use their power to empower.
Our three inspiring guest speakers on June 16 were marketing and communications professionals experienced in the digitization of businesses and offered exclusive advice and mentoring on these topics.
We encourage you to spend a nourishing hour with us by joining in on one or more of the scheduled session dates! Bring your questions ready so that we may make the most out of The Mentoring Space!
“You want a revolution, I want a revelation. So listen to my declaration.” Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton
These times of global turmoil demand personal and professional reinvention. With many others you will feel the urge of reinventing yourself. This article is a mosaic of personal experiences, as well as valuable insights gathered from conversations with coaching clients. It is aimed to spark a reflective pathway to start a journey of reinvention.
Many of us (mostly those with careers in corporate America) usually reach a point (prompted by stage of life, stage of the business, or stage of circumstance), in which we ask ourselves why and how to move forward with our lives -personally and professionally. We have forged a reputation backed by solid and successful careers based on 3 or 4 tricks that we do very well and which have permitted us to score some serious successes. So why change? And why now?
The current COVID-19 new-normal is providing a state-of-the-art springboard for personal reinvention. It metamorphosed the world as we knew it in a few days, tearing down “the way things were” into a new norm. The nudge to reinvent ourselves is self-evident. Many of us don’t have places to go back to, or careers to resume, or business opportunities to realize. As Eric McNulty (Harvard University) says, resilience is not the ability to bounce back, but to bounce forward.
So here we are, without a world to go back to, and unsure where to bounce forward.
Prof. Carol Dweck (Stanford University and author) has laid the invaluable concepts of fixed and growth mindset. In my appreciation a fixed mindset is “the world is as it is. I am as I am. And that is that.”. Growth mindset as I see it deals with the concept of “things transform. There are many possible futures, and I can change.”
This second framework constitutes a venue for exploration, a radical necessary activity to realize personal reinvention. As Satya Nadella (Microsoft CEO) states, moving from a place of experts to a mindset of learners permits breakthroughs in technology… personally and professionally. When we are in the learner mindset, we are curious and ask questions; we allow ourselves to laugh at the incongruencies; we seek the company of others (and listen to them!); and we crowdsource our way forward.
Learning is about expanding what is known (the cozy, comfortable, predictable, “and who I am”), to allow ourselves some discomfort by trying and testing what we have never done. It’s about allowing revolution, revelation, declaration… or the three of them at the same time! It is moving from “this is who I am” to “this is what I am becoming” and opening endless possibilities. This is a state-of-mind that practitioners in design thinking and futures thinking leverage systematically. It can yield surprising, expanded and inclusive results.
In my personal experience, the practice of yoga constituted a “via regia”. It has taught me to explore flexibility, find inner space, stretch where it seems I couldn’t, and see things from different perspectives as I do upside-down poses. Finding a nurturing conversation between body and mind relays in four pillars: balance, strength, flexibility and opening. And most importantly, transitioning in and out of poses, finding and letting go in the flow.
Let me share 5 suggested-to-do strategies, certainly not new, that I “bundled” around the journey of personal reinvention, to prompt action for those that are ready to try:
1. Be aware of the company you keep: the motivational speaker Jim Rohn states that you are (at least in part) a result of the 5 people you more frequently and extensively interact with. Design who you will pick as partners for your journey, make sure your buddies embody curiosity, exploration, and a good sense of humor..
2. Design your day-to-day for exploration: if you want to lose weight, don’t leave a cake on your kitchen counter! Give yourself space and time to try new things, such as brushing your teeth with “the other hand”. That will start to create “memories” of “things done differently”.
3. Exercise!: whatever you do, use your full lung capacity, raise your metabolism, elevate your cellular vibration. It is easier to change when your body is prepared and willing to. Convert your body into your ally for reinvention.
4. Use frequently the “what if” mind frame, as in “what if I can respond differently?”, “what if she didn’t mean what I thought?”, “what if there is another way to solve this?” Unstuck your brain from “there is only one possible way”, and start entertaining other possibilities.
5. Keep a diary: collect your thoughts, and see your new self revealing in the pages. Articulating in handwriting your thoughts will reduce anxiety and create some distance with emotions, and will prompt reflection and subsequent action.
Last but not least, when in doubt, revert to Ralph Waldo Emerson words: “Every wall is a door”.
We wanted to give our Monthly Mentor News newsletters an everlasting life so that you may enjoy them well after they are released! Below, you can find all of the newsletters that have been released since June 2020. Feel free to browse through them to explore the major events and resources of each edition.
We are proud to share that WE Evolution had the pleasure to align and participate in IGNITE, an amazing pro bono coaching initiative of the ICF South Florida Chapter in Miami. In partnership with ICF we were able to launch an wonderful program, proving our active commitment to form lasting partnerships fruitful and beneficial to our community. 10 of our members were gifted a once-in-a-lifetime experience, where they received 200 hours of pro bono coaching in 10 coaching sessions, an equivalent of up to $15,000. This coaching opportunity gave us more co-power between our leaders and allowed us to see further on how to continue providing great service and generating growth and community in South Florida.
WE members that attended experienced significant improvement and transformation in diverse areas. According to the extremely successful results that ICF shared with us, each coachee was very positive about their experience and reported significant growth of up to 60%. The most common themes were increased confidence +50% and improved job performance/productivity by +43%. Other achievements included better relationships, up to 60% improvement on work/life balance, website launch, increased energy +60% and improved consciousness.
Our founder and CEO, Maria Gabriela Hoch, accurately depicted the impact that the program had on our community:
“IGNITE allowed us to connect with women who are committed to “using their power to empower,” which is precisely our mantra at We Evolution and Vital Voices Miami. It was wonderful gift to have been able to make this partnership with ICF, an organization that gave us the possibility to look at ourselves from the inside out, to connect with our inner voice, to take the time to deep dive in our what our lives really look like, and to grow more cohesively and more connected as a team”.
We are determined to keep telling more successful partnership stories with you. Hence, we will ensure that our relationship with ICF continues to be one that helps our local and global community through need-meeting-and-exceeding programs.
Here are some of the wonderful things that several coachees, including WE Member Wendy Ruis Cofino, have to say about Ignite:
” Today I want to share with you how wonderful is to incorporate a professional coach to work with and make the most out of your career and life. Working withe Clare Merlo has been amazing to say the least. After all the sessions I leave with a sense of organization and clarity that allows me to feel empowered and trust that I can make the things I need in my life happen. One thing I always feel is: I have my house with everything I need but this house is not organized at all and it is difficult to live happy in it… after the sessions I felt like my house was clean, organized and that I can live and thrive in it with the very same things I already had but this time taking advantage of them. I am so grateful for all the learning about myself and what I can accomplish. I cannot say thank you enough to Maria Gabriela Hoch and WEvolution for allowing me to be a part of the Ignite Coaching Program” – Wendy Ruiz Cofino
“It was a pleasure working with [coach] Charlene. She guided me through a meaningful process by asking the right questions and giving me space to think, act and react. I appreciate every single one of the sessions we had together because I left with at least one new tool from each one. Charlene has a very encouraging way of listening and is very attentive to all the details.” – Anonymous Coachee
“[Coach] Yolanda is a great professional, close, kind and understanding. She is helping me organize my ideas at work, as well as organizing my day-to-day tasks. From the first session we connected very well, and she earned my trust. She has a great ability to follow up our work exhaustively. She is patient and flexible and has adapted to my needs, considering that my work has no pre-established schedule, which many times implies some improvisation. Working with her has been a learning experience of what a coach can do, as she helps me organize my ideas and prioritize my work to realize maximum benefits. I am very grateful.” – Anonymous Coachee
“I love the process. This is the first time I have this framework. My experience so far is that I always set the same goals year after year. I found it very helpful to break the goals down and measure them. (I have even shared this with friends). I like the concept of SMART goals that we used in coaching. I only thought about goal setting for business and now I realize I can use SMART goals for personal development and life. This has changed my mindset.” – Anonymous Coachee
Estamos felices de poder compartir este articulo de Chicas Guapas TV y la entrevista con Maria Gabriela Hotch, mentora en Empoderamiento de Mujeres para el Liderazgo Profesional, Espiritual y Energético, escritora y creadora de WE Evolution.
“El proceso de descubrirnos y encontrar nuestro lugar en los diferentes aspectos que componen nuestra vida es una herramienta increíblemente poderosa. Esa armonía y balance que optimice nuestra capacidad de desarrollar el liderazgo espiritual, requiere de un gran compromiso para encontrarlo y nada mejor que hacerlo trabajando en equipo con una comunidad que te brinde su apoyo.“
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