Together We Rise: The 42nd Women and Spirituality Conference with Dawn Morningstar and Jo Abbott

Forty-two years. Thousands of women. One sacred gathering that has never stopped calling women home to themselves. In this luminous episode of Voices of Wisdom, New World Women co-founder Dawn Morningstar sits down with Jo Abbott — Reiki Master Teacher, Certified Shamanic Reiki and Breathwork Practitioner, Transformational Integration Coach, and Steward of the remarkable 42nd Women and Spirituality Conference — to explore what happens when women gather not just to learn, but to remember. Jo brings a rare and beautiful combination of gifts to her role: two decades as a social worker and firefighter, a deep personal journey of trauma healing through energy medicine and plant medicine, and a heart wide open to the truth that everyone deserves to be healed in a way that feels safe. She holds the lineage of this 42-year-old conference with both reverence for those who came before and electric excitement for where it is going. This year's theme — Together We Rise — arrives at precisely the moment it is most needed. In a world where division and pain can create powerlessness and despair, the Women and Spirituality Conference creates a living, breathing experience of a different way of being: where every woman who walks through the doors on opening ceremony morning knows within moments — these are my people. Where the newest seeker and the most seasoned practitioner each carry a gift the other needs. Where the feminine rises — not over anyone, not instead of anyone — but in a way that lovingly, deliberately brings everyone along. Jo and Dawn also explore the numerology of 42 — reducing to the number six, the symbol of unconditional love, harmony, and the cosmic mother — and why this particular gathering feels like a significant threshold in the conference's long and sacred history. The 42nd Women and Spirituality Conference takes place September 19–20 at Saint Mary's University in Rochester, Minnesota. Space is limited to 180 attendees. Early bird tickets are available now — for women, men, and all gender identities who are open to hearing and honoring the wisdom of the feminine. Visit womenandspirituality.org to register and learn more. We honor the divine feminine, rooted in lived experience, by amplifying women's wisdom and cultivating our sacred community.

 

Women and Spirituality Conference’s website: WomenandSpirituality.org

Dawn Morningstar’s websites: NewWorldWomen.com and RadiantFace18.com

 

Produced by New World Women

New World Women co-founders Dawn Morningstar (founder of Venerable Women) and Shawn Vougeot (founder of Empowering Women) have created a loving and respectful haven for spiritually-embodied women to remember their power, reclaim their worth and rise together.

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