Thank you for an incredible 2024 conference.
SAVE THE DATE for 2025! Join us April 4-6, 2025 in Ishpeming, MI for the next Empower Women's Conference.
Check out the 2024 program below.
~ One Spark Lights a Fire ~
This is the conference's first year and we are building as we fly! Watch this page for more detailed schedule and programming information as it becomes available. Are you a presenter or interested in partnering? Email your idea to [email protected] with CONFERENCE in the subject line!
Salon Style Discussion Forums
All Salon Talks take place in the Gossard Building 2nd Floor Ballroom
Join interactive salon style discussions with community leaders about topics relevant to women today.
10:00 a.m. Conference Hub Opens ~ The Hub is located inside of Doozers, Gossard Building 1st Floor ~ Tickets | Info | Swag
10:30 a.m. Salon Talk | Publish! A Journey of Authorship with Conference Panel
11:30 a.m. Salon Talk | The Art of Intimacy with Jennifer Gorton
12:30 p.m. Break
1:00 p.m. Salon Talk | Season's Greetings - Introducing Wheel of the Year, An Ancient, Non-Commercial Way of Moving Through the Seasons in Alignment with the Earth with Cindy Whitehouse
2:00 p.m. Salon Talk | Ch-ch-changes...Everyone Says Don't Change, But I'm Not Who I Used To Be with Katie Fink and Esther Ruggles
Ribbon Cutting!
Gossard Building 1st Floor
3:30 p.m. Ribbon Cutting | Open to the public. Join our dedication ceremony! Commemorate the expansion of Apiary Life Studio programs as we kick off the conference.
Community Art Exhibit* + Opening Social
Gossard Building 1st Floor
Theme ~ E M P O W E R
4:00 p.m. Art + Social | Meet the organizers and other conference goers + expand your awareness and insights through engaged observations with community art.
*The exhibit will be present throughout the conference.
Cookies + Coffee Welcome Social
Gossard Building First Floor
9:30 a.m. Welcome Social | Enjoy local treats + roasts from local purveyors as we gear up for a great day of inspiration (included with All Access Pass + Saturday Main Stage Pass).
Passholders will be ushered across the street to the Conference Main Stage when doors open at 9:55 a.m.
Conference Main Stage
W.C. Peterson Auditorium (Inside Ishpeming High School, Pearl Street Entrance)
Immerse yourself in a day of inspirational Keynotes + Panels + Expressive Performance
10:30 a.m. Morning Program | Passholders please take your seats by 10:25 a.m.
Main Stage | I Am Learning to be a Flower
Main Stage | Beauty Through the Ages, More Than Skin Deep with Kim Kee
Main Stage | Generational Trauma + Somatics with Christina Codd
Main Stage | Courage, Power & Peace, A Path to Resilience with Amy Turner and Alumni Panel
Main Stage | A Call to Action with Conference Organizers
12:45 p.m. Lunch Break
2:20 p.m. Afternoon Program | Passholders please take your seats by 2:15 p.m.
Main Stage | Fail Forward, An Evolution of Legacy with Nicole Parks
Main Stage | Money Matters of the Heart & Mind with Conference Panel
Main Stage | A Forward Facing Vision for Women in the U.P. with TV 6's Tia Trudgeon & Mandy Koskela, Keynote Duo w/ Q & A
Note ~ Return to Gossard Building 1st Floor after Main Stage Presentations for Holistic Happy Hour
Holistic Happy Hour
Gossard Building First Floor
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Meet the Presenters + Resource Networking
Yoga Nidra + Sound Bath Immersion
10:00 a.m. | Guided Relaxation Experience With Sound Bath, Gossard Second Floor Ballroom
Workshops
Register For A Hands On Experience, Gossard Building, Various Meeting Rooms
11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. | Re-Shaping Your Relationship with Money: An Inner & Outer Journey to Increase Your Prosperity with Roslyn McGrath
11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. | Feminine-Masculine Wholeness with Kim Kee and Cindy Whitehouse
2:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. | Generational Trauma & Somatic Sound Healing with Christina Codd and Katie Fink
2:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. | Bringing Sexy Back, An Intimacy Workshop for Couples* with Jennifer Gorton
*For Bringing Sexy Back, An Intimacy Workshop for Couples: Hetero and all shades of LGBTQ+ couples are welcome. One couple requires one ticket (All Access Passholders and individual workshop Passholders to this workshop get to bring their significant other for free!).
