SHAKTI RISING INC
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Mission Statement
Shakti Rising is a social change organization transforming the lives of women, girls, and the larger community. Our work actively promotes community well-being by creating woman and child friendly societies that are safe, healthy, vibrant, diverse, sustainable, and culturally alive. Our mission is to empower women to uncover, rediscover, and reclaim their whole selves.
About This Cause
Shakti Rising cultivates the health and emerging leadership of women and girls, ultimately empowering them to use their personal transformation as a catalyst for positive change in their families and communities. This creates gradual cultural change that supports sustainable, cooperative, healthy societies. OUR (HER)STORY Shakti Rising informally began in 1997 when the Founder and Visionary Director, Shannon Thompson, began providing mentoring and informal individual and group counseling to young women with histories of addiction, abuse, depression, and self-destructive behaviors. From having worked in traditional recovery settings, Shannon saw that these women were being misrepresented and underserved through conventional programs. She went on to develop Shakti Rising’s woman-centered model to fill this gap in treatment by creating a recovery program that addresses the complex layers of problems that result from childhood abuse, trauma, and dysfunctional family structures. Shakti officially became a non profit in 1999 in San Diego CA, and now has five formal regions across California, New Mexico, Oregon, Tennessee and Kauai that encompass the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of healing, leadership, and community change that address the complex intertwining of core issues. Shakti’s services are offered through three primary programs: Alchemical Leadership, Shakti Feminine University, and Transformational Recovery Program. Shakti Rising has supported, mentored, and fostered thousands of women, girls and women-led organizations with feminine practices, approaches and systems, alchemical transformation and leadership development. Alchemical Leadership: A wise & wild approach to leadership out of bounds. Cultivating 21st century community leaders who are responsive, nimble, visionary, and creative to the issues we face today. We have three key areas to develop these skills, our Transformation Through Service program that is a leadership program in the guise of a volunteer program. Feral Visionary Coaching, giving women the tools to implement vision and inspiration into action, revealing paths to mastery that may not have been considered, identifying blocks, and building skill in intuitive strategy and emergent design. Wolves and Waterways, One month and three month residential leadership immersions. Going beyond game changing we’re all about habitat restoration of our communities. In 1995, the grey wolf was reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park, and this reintroduction had a profoundly positive cascading effect on the entire ecosystem of the park. Through the wolves following their natural, instinctual, wild behaviors, the flora and fauna of the park restored, the waterways returned and stabilized, and life bloomed in places where it had been eroded and missing for years. AT SHAKTI RISING WE BELIEVE THAT WOMEN ARE THE WOLVES OF OUR TIME Shakti Feminine University: Shakti Rising is fostering social change by offering innovative education and leadership programs through Shakti Feminine University (SFU). SFU programs are built on an educational foundation that cultivates self-aware and socially conscious women leaders who wholeheartedly accept the responsibility and power of being agents of transformation. SFU believes that making real impact depends on the proliferation of heart-centered, risk-taking, integrous women leaders who live their lives and do business radically differently. Further, SFU exists to forward the vision that these women leaders are meant to occupy significant leadership positions spanning all fields, disciplines and spheres of influence. Transformational Recovery: The Transformational Recovery program is a dynamic, evidence based program for women that comprehensively addresses co-existing issues such as: disordered eating, physical, emotional or sexual trauma, grief or loss, depression and low self-esteem, substance abuse, codependency, anxiety Shakti Rising’s unique and effective empowerment-based model of service delivery displaces orthodox methods by being: woman-centered, holistic, trauma-informed, expressive arts based, community led, sustainable and leadership-oriented. The Shakti Rising Apprenticeship (what we refer to the women in the recovery program) is a sisterhood that provides the support and tools for young women ages 15-30 to tap into their own wisdom, power and resiliency, ultimately reclaiming their whole selves and becoming leaders within their families, social networks, and communities. Women work with an integrated team addressing their mind, body, and spirit through various healing modalities. Our one page mission and vision: The Heart of Shakti lies within each of us. We are a vibrant, eclectic community of individuals who recognize interconnectedness, believe in goodness, choose love first. Our purpose for existence is simple: transformation as a way of life. Together, we sing the songs that call our spirits back- to remember and reclaim our true essence. This compels us to make a real difference in the world. We commit to and are inspired by our vision of global villages that integrate beauty, infinite possibilities, heart & spirit. Our way is to walk our talk, organically closing the gap between principle and practice. We do this by welcoming change, valuing friendships, taking risks, and creating lives with fun, passion and laughter. We practice presence, gratitude and forgiveness. We delight in relationships that are long term and mutually beneficial. We are woven together by what we value. authenticity, faith, courage, integrity, commitment and service. We believe in the power of our real life choices, knowing that mundane actions can have the most far-reaching implications. We are dedicated to sustainability and the pursuit of social and environmental change. Our lifestyle embraces the needs of the present and the legacy of the future. Shakti Rising is an alchemical journey wherein one’s own inner healing and service to the world join together. Our work actively promotes community well being, creating woman & child friendly societies that are safe, healthy, vibrant, diverse, sustainable and culturally alive. Our mission is to create social change by invoking transformation that empowers young women to uncover, rediscover and reclaim their whole selves. OUR INVITATION FOR YOU IS TO JOIN US.