Join us to celebrate International Women's day 2025, with informative and empowering sessions, networking, panel discussion and prizes.
This is set to be another incredible event with attendees from across the county.
With a range of activities tailored to women in business, the event promises to be an uplifting and empowering day!
Macarena Vergara, Coach, Leader-Connect
Freeing our capacities to lead
Macarena Vergara is an international executive coach and leadership trainer who is passionate about developing women in leadership. She has designed, facilitated and coached in a number of learning programmes geared at giving women the tools to take charge of their minds and take action to follow their purpose. It is not easy being a woman leader in many organisations, and Macarena knows a few things about what helps women around the world be the best they can be.
In this workshop you will get to hear about some of the key barriers and opportunities that women leaders face and you will get to experience at a deeper, interactive level a couple of key neuroplasticity tools that help us liberate our capacities to do the work we came here to do. Because the freer we are from what makes us small, the freer and more impactful we can all be. Just bring your open mind and your willingness to share!
Lina Mookerjee, Director, Praxis PPD
Re-framing Menopause In The Workplace: From Challenge To Opportunity
Often phrased as 'The Change', this workshop's aim is to enable participants to change and consider menopause differently.
Together, in this interactive workshop, we will explore the impact of disparaging menopause myths, beliefs and stereotypes that undermine and challenge women and their abilities. I will offer a new paradigm that presents menopause as a healthy change process towards enabling empowerment, growth and wisdom integration. I will offer ideas, concepts and practices that I have developed during my 25 years in psychotherapy practice and teaching - and it works!
Kelly Cornwell, Jim Cox Prize winner
Kelly was the recipient of the Jim Cox Prize (a special award for the ‘most inspirational student’) when she graduated from the University of Cumbria in November 2023. Selected by academics within our Institute of Health, Kelly was chosen after she completed her degree while facing a year like no other. Her husband Kevin, a humanitarian aid worker, was taken captive by the Taliban in January 2023 whilst working in Afghanistan. Two weeks later, Kelly had to undergo emergency surgery, spending five weeks at home in Lancashire recovering from her operation. Once well enough, Kelly began clawing back the 170 placement hours she had missed in addition to the five hundred hours of a final professional placement she had to do to complete her degree. Kevin was released on 10 October 2023, and just weeks after his return to the UK, he was able to see Kelly graduate at Carlisle Cathedral.
Read more about Kelly here
The Villa Levens
Brettarght Holt
Levens
Kendal
Cumbria
LA8 8EA
