Grandma’s March 2022

Reminding us it’s time to play, connect and celebrate!!

Featuring video

Agenda

Sessions will be broadcasted to Rosita & Pepa Facebook page and YouTube channel simultaneously!!

Missed a session? Don’t worry, all sessions are being recorded!!

March 28, 2022

Opening LIVE Session

(conversation in English)

March 29, 2022

Playing, Connecting and Celebrating with Natalya Duque from Colombia

(conversation in Spanish)

March 29, 2022

Playing, Connecting and Celebrating with Leonor Gallardo from Argentina

(conversation in Spanish)

March 29, 2022

Playing, Connecting and Celebrating with Caroline Sousa from Brazil

(conversation in Portuguese)

March 30, 2022

Playing, Connecting and Celebrating with Rebecca Sanford from USA

(conversation in English)

March 30, 2022

Playing, Connecting and Celebrating with Cheryl Shartle from USA

(conversation in English)

March 30, 2022

Playing, Connecting and Celebrating with Anabella Valencia from Argentina

(conversation in Spanish)

March 30, 2022

Playing, Connecting and Celebrating with Miriam Willard McKenney from USA

(conversation in English)

March 30, 2022

Playing, Connecting and Celebrating with Ingrid Harb from USA

(conversation in English)

March 31, 2022

Playing, Connecting and Celebrating with Irena Ateljevic from Croatia

(conversation in English)

March 31, 2022

Playing, Connecting and Celebrating with Aldana Loiseau from Argentina

(conversation in Spanish)

Ou special guests

Learn more about this incredible people!!

Keiko Isushi
(Japan)

It was Keiko’s dream as a child to create a world without hunger so that no child goes to bed hungry. After serving in the United Nations World Food Programme for almost 27 years, Keiko is embarking on a new adventure with the publication of the book “What Grandma Taught Me: A Worldwide Tribute to Grandmothers and Their Legacies” which made her and the co-author Paula Henstridge, international best-selling authors.

Ngozichukwu Etuk
(Nigeria)

She is an Experienced Consultant with expertise in Human Resources management, strategic planning and business management. A NLP Practitioner, Life, Career and Business Coach and Trainer. Ngozichukwu is the Managing Director and CEO of Otiz Keepers, a professional human resources company in Nigeria that seeks to provide a competent and dedicated pool of bespoke workforce of domestic staff including nannies, housekeepers, chefs and drivers and other domestic services for their clients.

Heather Price
(Australia)

She is a guide for people from all walks, and is passionate about supporting a number of women’s circles for the communities she lives in. She aspires to inspire into spirited living, loving and leading, stepping into their True-Heart Nature, holding respect for their environment, their ancestors, future generations, community, and the earth.

Margery Bray
(Scotland)

Author and Singer from Scotland. Her work is to spread the ancestral chants and oral traditions, and she is recording a collection of funeral chants , croons, and soul transition sounds from her ancient tradition in Scotland to serve in the processing of grief.

Natalya Duque
(Colombia)

Founder of “Humana Soy” Community. She is curious, passionate about human beings, and since she was a kid has been wondering about how we can turn our experience in this planet into something more beautiful and peaceful, focusing on mental peace, she has been ever since on a spiritual searching path that wants to share with the world.

Leonor Gallardo
(Argentina)

Founder of Chula Civil Association, and the social and solidarity economic initiative called Chula Recircula, contributing, and offering gender violence victims with psychological, emotional, legal, labor support and away to recirculate their lives. Long trajectory of social work with vulnerable communities, focusing on Educational Inclusion, Human rights and Gender Equity.

Caroline Sousa
(Brazil)

Founder of Orun Integrative Therapies. She brings all her experiences from the world of senses, studies in diverse therapies, and as black woman after attending the call of her ancestors and connecting to her maternal lineage wisdom, supports people and women in her community to reconnect through feminine ancestral wisdom, using Herbs, aromatherapy, chromotherapy, tarot reading and more.

Rebecca Sanford
(USA)

She grew up in a small town in New York and fell in love with language and culture at an early age. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Writing + French from Loyola University in Maryland and a master’s degree in International Affairs from the New School University in New York City. Her debut novel, currently on submission, is inspired by the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and actual events of Argentina’s ‘dirty war,’ and was the recipient of the Women’s Fiction Writers Association’s 2020 Rising Star Award for unpublished fiction.

Cheryl Shartle
(USA)

Founder of Venus Rising Coaching and Consulting, is devoted to helping women launch into their next level of greatness in the areas of sensuality, spirituality, health, vitality, relationships and leadership, assisting them in shifting old patterns that are holding them back, so they can access the divine feminine power that is already within them. Team leading and entrepreneurship are in her blood. For over 30 years, until September of last year, she was at the helm of a human resource team, nurturing 300-plus employees in her family’s company for 35 years. She has balanced her corporate career with her passion for training and coaching women. Now, her deepest desire is to accompany woman as they discover their Spiritual Sovereignty.

Anabella Valencia
(Argentina)

Started her career as an actress in 1995, since then has worked in diverse plays, where her participation is highlighted. As a teacher in private institutions, she specialized in children and teenagers, and has worked with vulnerable children and socially vulnerable populations programs sponsored by UNICEF. Today is member of “Theater in Schools” program where she is an actress and coordinator of debates with elementary and high school children about violence, identity, and disability. Artistic Director of EL Popular Theater that has the purpose to diffuse, promote and produce contemporary and classic theater in Argentina. Famous for the creation of Theater for Identity (Teatro x la Identidad). Writer and director of the famous play My name is “Mi nombre es”, that has participated in international festivals around the world, and it’s inspired in all the babies taken away from people that disappeared during the last dictatorship in Argentina, and it’s related to the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, an international well known human rights organization.

Miriam Willard McKenney
(USA)

A child of God who finds extreme joy parenting her three girls: Nia, 26; Kaia, 22 and Jaiya, 18. with her husband, David. Miriam was a children’s librarian and school media specialist for 20 years before joining Forward Movement’s staff. She now works as Forward Movement’s Director of Development and Mission Engagement. She loves nature and outdoor fitness in extreme temperatures, as there is no bad weather, just incorrect clothing choices.

Ingrid Harb
(USA)

Throughout her upbringing, neither country accepted her wholeheartedly, deciding she was always “too much” of one culture and not enough of the other. This limiting belief didn’t stop Ingrid, and she relays the message that it shouldn’t stop you either. At only 27 Ingrid has raised 500k+ funds, partnered with over 50 Fortune 500 Companies and created over 40+ global forums and local forums that have reached women from over 135 countries. On a personal level, Ingrid is on a spiritual journey to create safe, profound and loving containers for women to awaken the depth and light within themselves. The wisdom she is sharing and learning from is rooted in Native American rituals and ceremonies, helping women connect to their truth.

Irena Ateljevic
(Croatia)

She is an acclaimed academic and researcher in the fields of sustainable development through community and individual empowerment. Irena firmly believes in connecting theory with practice and her 20 years of experience has led her to express her passion for social justice and human development in numerous projects on economic and social transformation that have taken her all around the world, from Croatia, her home, to New Zealand and the South Pacific, to China and India. ​ Her writings on the transmodern paradigm shift have inspired making of a documentary movie about change-makers, called Transmodernity in which she also features (together with her daughter) as one of change-makers. Before reconnecting back with her roots in Croatia, she worked as a professor at the Environmental Sciences department of Wageningen University in the Netherlands, where she gained a reputation as passionate and soulful teacher and colleague. Currently, she collaborates with various institutions, universities and NGOs on the sustainable development of islands and coastal areas in Dalmatia.

Aldana Loiseau
(Argentina)

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1978. She began studying photography at the age of 15 and worked in this field independently. She exhibited her photographs in several countries. She is a Film and Video Director graduated from the CIEVYC Film School. She worked several years in the production of the TV program dedicated to the animation of author “Caloi en sutinta”. At age 22, she decides to live at 3,000 (OSL) meters high in the Andes, and moves to Humahuaca, Jujuy. There she develops a task of strong social commitment with an NGO, installs a Fixed and Mobile Cinema Room and provides Film and expression workshops for children and young people developing a personal pedagogical method that mixes different artistic disciplines. She develops all her filmography in the north of the country, where you can see: Videoclips, Documentaries, Animations, TV Shows and her latest productions in a new technique of Animation with mud «Pacha, mud we are».

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