MOTHER WIT CONFERENCE "VISIONARY AND PRODUCER"
Shawnee Benton Gibson, LMSW / FDLC, is the Co-Founder and CoPresident of Spirit of A Woman (S.O.W.) Leadership Development Institute an organization established in 2002 and designed to educate, elevate and effect positive and sustainable transformation in the lives of individuals, groups, families and communities. She is also the Founder & CEO of The Griots' Healing Circle, a boutique consulting firm offering innovative coaching, counseling, workshop and training experiences to individuals, groups and organizations seeking to expand their power, purpose and impact in the world. Ms. Benton-Gibson is a graduate of New York University’s Silver School of Social work and is a licensed practitioner with over 23 years of professional experience in the areas of substance abuse prevention, treatment and recovery, adolescent development, individual, family and group counseling, women’s reproductive health, grief loss and bereavement and trauma.
Ms. Benton-Gibson has devoted her life to supporting individuals, families and groups with elevating the outcomes in their personal and professional lives and utilizes her professional training as well as her spiritual and artistic abilities to provide holistic and nourishing healing experiences to the persons that she is charged to serve and support. In addition to her clinical training, Ms. Benton-Gibson has utilized her spiritual and artistic gifts and abilities to provide holistic and nourishing healing experiences for the community. Shawnee is a master teacher, healer, vision coach, performance artist, inspirational speaker, mother and friend. Her principle teaching and healing tools consist of spiritual counseling, coaching, writing, sacred rituals, psychodrama, sociometry, energy work, the performing arts and storytelling as mediums to ignite transformation and initiate catharsis. Some of her credits include: “The Red Thread Movement”, “Mother Wit: Echoes From The Womb”, “The Mother Wit Conference”, “The Rooftop Visionary Group” and the “Be The Tree Rites of Passage Collective for Women” and “The Walk In the Light With Me 21-Day Ritual”. Shawnee is also an author of a book on healing and transformation entitled, "Walk In The Light With Me"; an autobiographical piece offering tools to those seeking to overcome the shadows of life to activate their purpose on the planet. According to Shawnee, healing work is "a labor of love and liberation".
Shawnee Benton Gibson, LMSW / FDLC, is the Co-Founder and CoPresident of Spirit of A Woman (S.O.W.) Leadership Development Institute an organization established in 2002 and designed to educate, elevate and effect positive and sustainable transformation in the lives of individuals, groups, families and communities. She is also the Founder & CEO of The Griots' Healing Circle, a boutique consulting firm offering innovative coaching, counseling, workshop and training experiences to individuals, groups and organizations seeking to expand their power, purpose and impact in the world. Ms. Benton-Gibson is a graduate of New York University’s Silver School of Social work and is a licensed practitioner with over 23 years of professional experience in the areas of substance abuse prevention, treatment and recovery, adolescent development, individual, family and group counseling, women’s reproductive health, grief loss and bereavement and trauma.
Ms. Benton-Gibson has devoted her life to supporting individuals, families and groups with elevating the outcomes in their personal and professional lives and utilizes her professional training as well as her spiritual and artistic abilities to provide holistic and nourishing healing experiences to the persons that she is charged to serve and support. In addition to her clinical training, Ms. Benton-Gibson has utilized her spiritual and artistic gifts and abilities to provide holistic and nourishing healing experiences for the community. Shawnee is a master teacher, healer, vision coach, performance artist, inspirational speaker, mother and friend. Her principle teaching and healing tools consist of spiritual counseling, coaching, writing, sacred rituals, psychodrama, sociometry, energy work, the performing arts and storytelling as mediums to ignite transformation and initiate catharsis. Some of her credits include: “The Red Thread Movement”, “Mother Wit: Echoes From The Womb”, “The Mother Wit Conference”, “The Rooftop Visionary Group” and the “Be The Tree Rites of Passage Collective for Women” and “The Walk In the Light With Me 21-Day Ritual”. Shawnee is also an author of a book on healing and transformation entitled, "Walk In The Light With Me"; an autobiographical piece offering tools to those seeking to overcome the shadows of life to activate their purpose on the planet. According to Shawnee, healing work is "a labor of love and liberation".