Dear Fellow Woman, We would like to invite you to share your power with us. We would like to invite you to share how you know your power, what it looks like in your life, what form it takes, how it breathes, times you may have forgotten it and those moments when you have lived it freely! We are producing a project, a compilation of visions and voices. It’s a compilation of our stories, our stories of power. It began quite spontaneously. . . About 3 years ago my sister, Uzuri, and I started a local women’s circle. The women in our circle met monthly at a celebration called ‘Luna’. Its purpose was to honor each other and celebration ourselves. That’s what we did! About 1 year into the celebrations we began a segment called ‘Stories of Power’. One woman each month would share her story, her story of power. She would share what power was to her, how she knew it, what it meant to her, times when she forgot it, how it lived in her life today. Each woman got creative with how she shared it. This segment quickly became not only the most beloved by the women in the circle, but also the most powerful and impactful. Women in the circle began to see in those moments, not only the vulnerability in the women speaking, but also in themselves. They began to see more than just the faces, titles, roles, the businesses and professions of those women they had been sitting in circle with for an entire year. They began to know them as women. Women just like themselves. They began to feel a kinship with their stories; stories that they too could relate to. Moreover, they began to see their own stories in a new light. A light of compassion, acceptance, love and even joy where there might once have been pain. And through the stories, month after month, a through line emerged. Every woman could connect with one, or more, aspect of each woman’s story. Night after night, more than tears where shed, so too were the layers, as the veils came down. And not just in that circle. In the end we all began to know, at a depth that could not be orchestrated, that we are all integrated in a web of inclusion so deep and intense no words could give witness to. In a circle, that threads more than just ours, an intimacy emerged in each of us, that showed herself in the soul of our circle, through the intimate expressions of our stories, and rippled further into our lives, touching our families, our relationships, our professions and businesses, our spirits, and every touch point of society we reached. Those nights inspired this series. Those nights, those women, inspired: HerStory, Our Stories of Power. This series is dedicated to Her. The Her that lives in each of us. The power of our stories, the power of its shared message, the power of Ourselves and the through line that emerges when we share those stories, when we share ourselves with the world around us by simply being Who We Already Are. ‘You are all you need to be, right where you are’. Share it. Share it with us. Let us share it with the world. Let Her inspire in us the power that lives in us all, through a story that begins to look a lot a like when we listen to Her. Please download the questionnaire to guide you through the sharing process. Most importantly though, simply share what comes to you, the memories that are inspired in you, the feelings that arise, the visions in front of you, the smell of it, the taste of it, the inquiry of it. . . Listen to your power. Let Her speak to you. Open your self up to its truth, and simply share what comes. Trust that what is guided is meant to be shared and will serve its purpose. Submit the completed questionnaire via the email link provided when ready. Click Here To Download the Questionnaire   ~  Please email completed questionnaires to: alvarez@nethere.com Finally, thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you for being you. Thank you for sharing it with us. Simple acts do have grand impacts. Sincerely, Shannon Shannon Alvarez Writer, Producer, Director and Creator of. . . . HerStory Stories of Power