WHOA (Women Helping Others Advance) are teams of powerful women who use the creative and healing modalities to bring transformative programs and services to diverse communities. These collaborations take place among and between Carolyn Renée Morris, founder and visionary of WHOA and other women led organizations to address unique needs of communities. The conscious and awake groups of women and men who support them, activates change based on respect for all people—particularly the women who seed change and help bring more peace.
Collaborators
Living Your Art, an artistic and career development company, was created in 1995 by Hilda Willis, the Producing Artistic Director and Lead Coach. Living Your Art (LYA) offers opportunities that include workshops and seminars as well as individual coaching to support its clients in achieving their goals. Living Your Art goes beyond the fundamental question of “How To” and seeks to uncover “What is in the way?” Under the brand of Living Your Art, Hilda has and continues to coach, cultivate and produce in many artistic disciplines. Collaborate with Hilda Willis https://www.hildawillis.com/
Dr. Akua, the founder of A Life Of Peace Wellness Education Institute, Inc., is a world-renowned educator in holistic health and wellness, and is a Certified Doctor of Naturopathy. Akua Gray is the author of fourteen books on holistic health, alternative therapies and vegan nutrition. She is recognized among her peers and students as a leader in educating, promoting and developing the future community wellness providers for the next generation. Akua has worked in wellness education for the last decade and has been a healer in the USA and Ghana for more than 20 years. Her philosophy in wellness is to be so in alignment with right living that perfect health is a daily occurrence and she has as a personal wellness goal to teach what is best about health and wellness until there is a healer in every home. Visit Dr. Akua online at www.drakuagray.com
Jennifer Denning, MSW, Social Worker, Expressive Arts Facilitator, Community Builder and Strengths-based practitioner who is committed to partnering with individuals and communities for equitable outcomes. She served more than four years as a financial social worker at On the Rise Community Development Center providing financial coaching, workshop facilitation, program evaluation, and community partnership development. A highly-skilled community-builder using expressive arts techniques to develop community connection, joy, and capacity for social change. Has worked as director of improvisational, community-based performances that elevate social issues and inspire action for change. Embodied racial justice facilitator working with white anti-racist and multiracial groups to build just communities. Former co-president of InterPlay’s international board of directors. Founding member of InterPlay’s Racial Equity & Transformation committee.
Wisdom On Wings Coaching – Christine Gautreaux MSW is dedicated to the pursuit of play, joy, art & social justice. Her superpowers include connecting people, helping folks manifest their dreams, standing up against injustice & using art to make a difference in the world. She currently uses the somatic body wisdom tools of Interplay to address issues of oppression, racial justice, self-care, and grief and loss with individuals. She works in community with people living with severe and persistent mental illness, homelessness, women refugees and women who are incarcerated, and also works with professional caregivers, activists and artists to maintain balance and self-care during these intense times we find ourselves living. She is a professional speaker, coach, author and entrepreneur, and the co-author of Stillpoint: A Caregivers Playbook to find ease and to take a deep breath and reclaim joy, Women Connected in Wisdom V. I & II.