PATRICIA FONTANA's Page

What issues are most important to you?

WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT; FEMININE SPIRITUALITY; WOMEN & GIRLS ISSUES; PERSONAL SPIRITUAL GROWTH

What kind of social activism do you engage in?

POLITICAL; CHARITABLE DONATIONS

What organizations do you love or work with?

WESTMINSTER UNITARIAN CHURCH, BIG SISTERS OF RI

What books, music, films, etc. do you think educate and empower women?

EAT, PRAY, LOVE - ELIZABETH GILBERT; BOOK OF SHADOWS - PHYLLIS CUROTT; THE HOLY BOOK OF WOMEN'S MYSTERIES - Z BUDAPEST; MARIJA GAMBUTAS, MERLIN STONE; THE GODDESS ORACLE - MARASHINSKY & JANTO; THE SPIRAL DANCE - STARHAWK; WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES - CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES; THE FOUR AGREEMENTS; THE MAGIC LAMP; THE RED TENT - ANITA DIAMANT

Career: what do you do or want to do?

customer service manager in manufacturing, I would like to be in travel/tourism field

What skills and interests to do you have to offer to others in the Red Tent Women's Project communty? This is your chance, so sell yourself!

I am a Reconnective Healer; good office/organizational skills; herbalism; arts & culture including women's art; Goddess spirituality & priestessing; Red Tent Temple organizer; good networking skills

What would you like other members of this community to know? About yourself, about the world...anything (try not to be profane, though)!

I've been a Big Sisters Mentor to the same girl for 8 years; active in my Unitarian Universalist church; was an organizer of a Red Tent Temple in Providence for little over 1 year (now dormant); 2 years of ALisa Starkweather's Priestess Path Apprenticeship; interested in visiting the Goddess Conference in Glastonbury in July 2010.

What was your "women really matter and I'm going to do something about it" moment?

Divorce.