World Women Summit

Karen Downes
Transformation Catalyst, Social Entrepreneur, Co-Founder FemmeQ, Founder of The Flourish Initiative
Nurturing Feminine Energy – A Path to Global Healing

Highlights from this session:

Karen Downes emphasizes the importance of strengthening feminine energy, addressing disconnection caused by the distortion of femininity, and promoting gender inclusivity and care. She shares personal practices using for inner peace, discusses the need for collaboration in the global healing movement, and highlights the impact of patriarchal systems on women's perceptions of abundance. She also explores transgender themes.

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Karen Downes

Over her 40-year career, she’s built successful companies, facilitated workshops in civil society organizations, designed and led leadership programmes around the world. With all of her career transitions, she’s been guided by intuition, and driven by passion to catalyse transformation and illuminate feminine soft power.

At 28 as a single mother, she founded an Aromatherapy company with a mission to return natural healing to the healers of the home; women.  Using feminine principled leadership, they grew from a kitchen tabletop start-up to a multi-million-dollar enterprise.  Concurrently, she worked to end women's subjugation in the global south, merging her role as a business leader with social activism.

After moving to London, she focused on systems change and executive training, navigating across diverse industries. Bridging the chasm between genders, she’s amassed expertise in healing trauma and restoring wholeness. In 2012, she launched The Flourish Initiative, to catalyse a transformation in corporate cultures. In 2015, as co-founder of FemmeQ, her focus was championing a future rooted in feminine intelligence, redefining life, leadership and business paradigms.

Aleksandra Hirszfeld
Aleksandra Hirszfeld
Anna Hints
Anna Hints
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Day 1: Live Event
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Day 3: Live Event
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Day 4: Live Event
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Day 5: Live Event
Deb Dana
Deb Dana
Dileen Sardar Zuhdi Al-Noori
Dileen Sardar Zuhdi Al-Noori
Euphrasia Nyaki
Euphrasia Nyaki
Farzana Elham Kochai
Farzana Elham Kochai
Favianna Rodriguez
Favianna Rodriguez
Feride Rushiti
Feride Rushiti
Ginny Whitelaw
Ginny Whitelaw
Ibu Robin Lim
Ibu Robin Lim
Janessa Gans Wilder
Janessa Gans Wilder
Jen Libby
Jen Libby
Joana Breidenbach
Joana Breidenbach
Jude Currivan
Jude Currivan
Judith Herman
Judith Herman
Karen Downes
Karen Downes
Kelsey Blackwell
Kelsey Blackwell
Kosha Joubert
Kosha Joubert
Laura Calderón de la Barca
Laura Calderón de la Barca
Laurie Ellis Young
Laurie Ellis Young
Laurie Ellis Young
Laurie Ellis Young
Layla Alsheikh
Layla Alsheikh
Louise Marra
Louise Marra
Madelaine VanDerHeyden
Madelaine VanDerHeyden
Maria Leister
Maria Leister
Mary Inglis
Mary Inglis
Music by Tim Martina Schäffer
Music by Tim Martina Schäffer
Natasha Sell
Natasha Sell
Nitya Patrycja Pruchnik
Nitya Patrycja Pruchnik
Nora Bateson
Nora Bateson
Oleksandra Matviichuk
Oleksandra Matviichuk
Ouyporn Khuankaew
Ouyporn Khuankaew
Pat McCabe
Pat McCabe
Paulina Bownik
Paulina Bownik
Raewyn Mutch
Raewyn Mutch
Rayhan Asat
Rayhan Asat
Robi Damelin
Robi Damelin
Rola Hallam
Rola Hallam
Sami Awad
Sami Awad
Sayé Yabandeh
Sayé Yabandeh
Scilla Elworthy
Scilla Elworthy
Sonita Mbah
Sonita Mbah
Suzanne Anderson
Suzanne Anderson
Tammarrian Rogers
Tammarrian Rogers
Thomas Hübl
Thomas Hübl
Visolela Rosa Namises
Visolela Rosa Namises
Aleksandra Hirszfeld
Aleksandra Hirszfeld