By Colleen Eschenburg | Project Leader
Mírame sends loving Happy New Year (and new decade!) wishes to all of our amazing donors and supporters. Thanks to you, over 130 different people experienced GREAT moments of personal transformation, holistic health education and financial empowerment in 2019 in our two programs: one week long education & awareness series on respected childbirth in May, and our daylong workshop event for women held in November, “Machi Küyén”.
Since you last heard from us in October, Mírame hosted a wonderfully successful women-helping-women micro-enterprise & living workshop event Machi Küyén (meaning “moon healer” in the Andean Mapuche language) on Saturday, November 30th 2019.
In this pilot event, seven women solopreneurs were brought together to share their professional knowledge in holistic women’s health with a new community of women seeking to transform their personal challenges into opportunities for healing and growth.
In this day long event, each leader directed a workshop focused on a theme of personal development through modern applications of ancestral feminine archetypes and traditional understandings of women’s physiological cyclicity.
Machi Küyén also hosted a mini-exposition of holistic health products and services made from Ecuadorian women at the grassroots level, which included naturally-sourced reusable menstrual pads, ecological body care and beauty products, and organic ancestral remedies for common ailments of the female body.
In all, 21 women from various life stages participated in Machi Küyén, and explored safe and harmonious spaces of reflection, connection, sharing and modern applications of traditional wisdom and holistic health techniques.
For every $20 donated, Mírame was able to leverage an average of $60 in additional income for each woman leader, and was able to invite a new woman into the fold of a growing women's community, centered on personal empowerment and a revival of ancestral knowledge in our fast-paced modern world.
In Machi Küyén’s follow-up survey, over 2/3rds of respondents rated the event a 10 out of 10. In the words of Gabi, one of the newest women to participate in Mírame:
“Everything was excellent, and it was such a liberating experience to confirm and recognize from the space of empathy how to change old patterns and seek self-understanding from each identity presented. It was amazing, including being able to share such magic with my daughter. Infinite thanks for the effort and commitment to create such spaces of exchange and learning ♥”.
Thank you so much for directly sponsoring such a miraculous women-supporting-women event of deep exploration, community growth and micro-enterprise for women leading the charge in revolutionizing how women relate and connect to the world they inhabit.
Again, many thanks for your past contributions and continued support for more workshops and events to empower Ecuadorian women. Machi Küyén was a great success because of you, and we look forward to continuing the mission to serve the personal and financial empowerment of more Ecuadorian women in 2020!
Saludos y Abrazos,
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