Rosie keynotes and offers workshops on a regular basis. Below are some of her upcoming events and topics. Feel free to contact her directly about any requests you have for your group.
UPCOMING WORKSHOPS
beautiful you BLAST: a workshop to bring you back to your brilliance
March 1, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Dowd YMCA in Charlotte, North Carolina
As a child, you felt comfortable in your skin. Your body was your instrument, an extension of your unique mind and soul. It took you where you were going, expressed what you felt, got things done. But then, somewhere on your way to adulthood, something shifted. Your sense of your brilliance faded.
In beautiful you BLAST, you will be introduced to a new way of thinking about beauty, bodies, the messages we’re sold, and your personal possibility. You’ll gain insight on how and why we are manipulated to buy into beauty ideals and clarity on how you can set yourself free from that thinking and begin to live a life that is designed with your true self and the gifts you have in mind. beautiful you BLAST will empower you to see beauty in a way that is true to who you are and not in the way the world hands it to you.
Equinox: a creativity experience
March 24, 8:30 am until 12:30 pm, Triple Play Farm in Davidson, North Carolina
Are you hungry for a moment of creating in the midst of all the doing and being that your life demands of you? Are you looking for a creative challenge that will gently stretch your abilities while opening you up to your possibilities? Do you just want time and permission to explore with horses, consider nature, paint, write, draw, or capture images without any expectation and without worrying about the set-up or clean-up? If so, then join us for Equinox, a retreat designed to feed your creativity and foster your awareness of your creative process. Combining equine facilitated learning activities with lightly guided, self-propelled creative time, Equinox participants will experience the sensory and intellectually stimulating process of working with and learning from horses and the absorbing and satisfying experience of creating.
Unbridled Authenticity
April 21, 8:30 am until 12 pm, Triple Play Farm in Davidson, North Carolina
Want to be deliberate about 2012? Want to intentionally create the life that you have imagined? Then this retreat is just the right experience for you. Joining equine assisted learning with reflection activities, six participants will playfully and thoughtfully consider what they bring into their lives through horse work and reflection. Only one spot remains in our April experience.
EVENTS YOU CAN BOOK
10 Truths for Your Self-Acceptance Journey
Everyday, we perpetuate non-inclusive body and beauty ideals that limit our possibilities. It is time for women of all colors, sizes, and ethnicities to confront the boxes they are placed in by themselves and others and create worldviews that are expansive and empowering. This powerful, interactive workshop reveals ten powerful lessons about journeying to self-acceptance and the tools that can help make anyone more self-accepting. Participants will be inspired to live with purpose, challenged to forego self-defeating tendencies, and encouraged to champion all women. Frank discussion about idealized beauty standards and our buy-in will help women build their media literacy and escape the stranglehold of idealized beauty so that we can concentrate our energies on using our skills and experiences to improve our world.
beautiful you. the celebration: A 90 minute to 2 hour workshop or salon party
Rooted in the fact that a poor self-concept and lack of confidence is often at the core of negative body image, the Beautiful You workshop focuses on empowering women to know their truth and reality and arriving at a self-mastery that allows for resilience, pro-activity, self-acceptance, and, ultimately, a positive self-esteem. The Beautiful You celebration introduces women to some of the tools used in Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self-Acceptance to empower women to see beauty in a way that is true to who they are and not in the way the world hands it to them. The celebration begins with a brief reading from and introduction to Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self-Acceptance and then continues with guided reflection, a review and signing of the Body Warrior Pledge, and activities chosen with the group that has gathered in mind. Perfect for book clubs, girls’ night out, church groups among others.
Media Matters
This interactive workshop reveals the extent of our use of media and its impact, exposes the amount of image alteration that occurs in the media, and challenges participants to be wiser consumers of media. Participants will leave with a powerful new understanding of how the media works, the way market forces motivate what we are shown, and what they can do about it.
Growing Up Latina
Rooted in the work and lessons from Hijas Americanas, this presentation reveals how Latinas coming of age in America reconcile the messages they receive in their homes with the messages they receive outside their homes in order to find themselves. Includes a reading, an explanation of the motivation for this book and the research process, and allows time for questions.
What We Must Do
A call to action for female leaders to stop critical conversations and start uplifting themselves and others. What can women do to change the negative circumstances that impact women’s self-perception on a daily basis? The presentation includes concrete suggestions for changing a community’s behavior and offers the audience an opportunity to address specific community needs.
Body and Soul Positive Parenting
Parents often feel as if their role in championing their daughters’ self-confidence is negated by the rush of images presented to them on television, in the movies, and in magazines. The truth is that parents are a daughter’s frontline of defense in the body image wars, and it’s never too late to champion your child. Parents will share their concerns and hear best practices for empowering rather than enabling their children while instilling confidence.
Writing Your Life
Self-reflection allows us a moment of inquiry, a moment to identify desire and potential. Generating awareness, and then moving to personal solutions, takes time and thought, brainstorming and checking in, enough repetition to want to change our choices and build a new habit, and the knowledge of why this habit will be good for us when we want to revert. Journaling predisposes us to a more successful embrace of our self and our choices, insulating and boosting our self-awareness which raises our self-esteem. Participants will engage in a range of journaling tools and practices.
I would like to know more about thisworkshop. We have a large group here in Austin and believe it’s an international group, Las Comadres. We could probably get a good number of women to attend a workshop like this. Is there a website?
Hi Maria! I am a member of Las Comadres, too! These workshops are courses that I can give around the country. For example, I am traveling to Nashville, College Park, Maryland, Warren, New Jersey, Fredonia, New York among other places this fall to give workshops. I am actually going to be a part of the Latino Book and Family Festival in Houston on September 30th. There, I will be giving a reading at 4 pm in Suite E of the Convention Center. I know it’s a bit of a drive from Austin but maybe you can make it. Otherwise, feel free to e-mail me at latinabookproject@adelphia.net and we can talk more about these workshops!
All the best, Rosie
Hello, I heard that you were in Atlanta in early August, but I missed you. I’m currently a student at GA Tech and my sorority along with the women’s resource center at our university are planning a Body Image Celebration month in February. We are really interested in having you come and do a workshop, book reading and signing, etc. Please contact me and let me know if this is something that interests you.
Thank you
I am almost done reading your book “Hijas Americanas” and
I must say, wow I finally feel like I am not alone. Your book has touched me in so many ways, and I wish that the affect it had on me could be shared with the rest of the girls here in my community. Is there anyway, that you can come to Lake Tahoe California for a workshop or perhaps a nearby city such as Reno Nevada or Sacramento California. I believe that the girls (and women) of our community would really benefit from the workshop. Please let me know if there is a chance and if there is anything that I can do to make it happen.
Gracias
AnaLiz, Thanks so much for stopping in and letting me know what the book has meant to you. I will send you an email to talk about the possiblity of going out to Tahoe. Abrazos, Rosie
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