April Tenet: “We live and promote a life-culture within the womb, the home, and our ecological environment. As women, we have the wonderful inborn capacity to create and therefore protect human life. We have the instinctive understanding that ALL life is unique and intrinsically valuable. This is our maternal power! Our simple yet refined model…
The womb is the first environment every human experiences. When we were carried by our mothers, their bodies were our shelter. And when they breathed, they imparted to us the breath of life. During pregnancy mother and child exist together in a liminal space where they are simultaneously one and two. This is an exalting…
Carla Machado is the President of the World Organization of Prenatal Education Association in Brazil. Her organization carries the message throughout the world of the importance of the very beginning of life: conception, gestation, birth, breast feeding and taking care of children in the early period of life. In this video she discusses the gestation or…
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The U.N. Commission on the Status of Women had a record number of registrants this year at over 9000. Big Ocean represented a small drop in that number, but I firmly believe that we were able to gather important information at the events we attended, make valuable connections with the women and men we met,…
Last night I finished reading a memoir that left me reeling. I lay in bed for several hours afterward pondering my place in the world. I evaluated the way I spend my time, my abilities (or my perception of my abilities), my dreams, my circumstances, and I prayed solemn prayers for direction. My mind felt…
https://youtu.be/HNE3PRA5dxg Big Ocean Founder Carolina Allen discusses the tenet, “We work in partnership with our global sisters to create generative solutions.”
Peace within the Paradox By Carolina Sagebin Allen This month’s tenet, “We are each unique and innately worthy of respect,” can present a paradox of seeing each person as unique, yet feeling knit together in unity as we appreciate one another’s uniqueness. We feel that each individual is part of a single mortal family. We…
THE MODEL OF POWERFUL IMPACT “Be the change you wish to see in the world,” said Mahatma Gandhi. He understood The Model of Powerful Impact. Change starts from within. When we recognize that we have the power to change our circumstances, we inadvertently enact a change on our community and the world. I’ve recently been…
The Ultimate Protection System I have been thinking a lot about this year’s United Nations Commission on the Status of Women’s priority theme. It’s about social protection systems and special systems and infrastructure that can empower women and girls. From all my lived experiences, I have found no greater social protection system that empowers young…