all youniversity retreat

2022 ALL Woman Virtual Retreat

Jan 14, 2022 - Jan 16, 2022

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Can you feel the excitement of 2022 right around the corner?!

Get ready to upgrade to the best version of yourself at ALL YOU-niversity’s ALL WOMAN Virtual Retreat Experience, January 14-16, 2022.  The ALL YOU-niversity College of Re-Engineering cordially invites you to “UPGRADE!”

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Join us for an Internal Family Systems deep dive into your personal internal world.  That’s right!  Come face to face with your greatest advocate and your fearless foe – those inside parts that push you, pull you, manage and protect you!  Reawaken your Dreamer!  Calm your Inner Critic!  Reassess your regular routines and ultimately restore your soul!  Find out what’s really driving your choices, what’s ultimately hindering your progress, and what’s actually fueling your motivation. Most importantly, re-engineer a blueprint for a better you!  Perhaps as our world has changed, you realize that you could also benefit from making a change.  This is your opportunity to re-imagine, reinvent and recharge your SELF!.  Not satisfied with what you see in your life? Press “Reset” and let our team help you to:

Re-evaluate your vision

Re-envision your dreams

Re-imagine your life

Reinvent self

Reignite your passion

Re-calibrate your navigation

After surviving another year of the COVID pandemic, you deserve some much-needed self-care.

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Guest Presenters and Facilitators

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Rev. Sonja Williams

Rev. Sonja has been involved in the study and work of helping clients experience the abundant love and life offered in John 10:10 for over two decades.  Academically, her undergraduate degree focused on family studies and her Master of Divinity degree focused on pastoral counseling; she also completed a second Master of Science degree majoring in marriage and family therapy.  As a University of Maryland instructor, she supervised marriage and family therapy graduate students.  She also taught graduate level marriage and family therapy and couples therapy courses at Johns Hopkins University and worked at Johns Hopkins Hospital in the Outpatient Mental Health Clinic as a Psychiatric Therapist.

Rev. Sonja currently owns two businesses that are dedicated to improving marriage and family relationships and supporting spiritual development:  Sonja Williams and Associates, LLC, provides clinical services to clients who are working to overcome mental and emotional disorders.  LoveSavers International, Inc. is a non- profit entity that helps individuals, couples and families develop healthy relationships with God, themselves and others.  Rev. Sonja is also completing a coaching certification program offered by the College of Executive Coaching and approved by the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) in Wellness and Well-Being.  As such, she provides executive coaching services for pastors and leaders seeking to improve work-life-ministry performance while living satisfying and productive lives.  She is also a level I trained IFS therapist.

Rev. Sonja has also served in ministry for decades.  In 1994, after seminary, she began serving as the Founder and Director of the Singles Ministry at  Greater Mount Calvary Holy Church (GMCHC), in Washington, DC.  She relinquished her post as Singles Ministry Director when she married Dwight Williams, the Co-Director of the Singles Ministry.  The two soon after became the Directors of the Marriage Ministry at Hope Christian Church (HCC), serving together in ministry for over 15 years, prior to joining Reid Temple AME church.  As a member of Reid Temple AME Church, Sonja served in the Marriage Ministry and in the Intercessory Prayer Ministry. She entered ordained ministry in 2014 and served as Assistant to the Pastor at Bethel AME Church in Woodbridge, Virginia. She currently serves as Associate Minister at Kingdom Fellowship AME Church in Silver Spring, MD.

Sonja Williams

Rev. Sonja Williams

Carmita Myers

Carmita Myers has over 15 years of experience in the field of human resources and talent management. She has held leadership positions in health care administration, strategic planning, public relations, performance benchmarking and professional development and training for the federal government. As a seasoned executive in Human Resources, Carmita brings a wealth of practical experience to all her workshops.  She enjoys coaching, guiding, and training leaders to successfully navigate challenges and opportunities as they walk their career path.  Her blend of content expertise, natural teaching style as well as skills as a facilitator serve to ensure that her workshops will be informative as well as fun. Carmita holds a M.A. in Management (Human Resources) from the University of Maryland, University College, Adelphi, MD and is currently progressing towards completing her Professional level (PCC) certification from the International Coaching Federation (ICF). She is a former U.S. Army Medical Service Corps officer with a host of military awards and decorations highlighting her meritorious service and tenure in supporting the nation's defense.  

Carmita has served on the retreat committee for six years, and, combined with her work experience, is committed to helping men, women and children spiritual fulfillment and to fulfill their God-given purposes.  She uses the best of professional HR experience, coaching expertise, and biblical principles to help others create change, envision new possibilities and chart a course to life fulfillment.

Carmita Myers

Carmita Myers

Crystal Jones

Crystal is a proud graduate of Howard University and member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.  You will often see her sporting a HU or Delta shirt to show her pride. She has over 17 years of clinical experience working as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with families, children, and adults. She is a certified Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapist and Consultant and is the founder of the group private practice, Life Source Counseling Center, Inc in Fredericksburg, VA.

Crystal works compassionately and collaboratively with women from all walks of life to create healing from trauma, identify healthy coping strategies, and increase self-compassion. She is also passionate about creating safe spaces for BIPOC women to feel connected, heard, seen, and valued.

Crystal notes that her greatest gifts and accomplishments are her three children, husband of almost 20 years, and her family.  In her spare time, she enjoys her large plant collection, traveling, reading, and spending time with her friends and family.

She is honored to join the ALL YOUniversity team of instructors and looks forward to leading participants on a safe and exploratory IFS journey into their often-unknown inner worlds. Through IFS, Crystal helps clients to gain greater clarity about their hopes and dreams as well as to find unique and personal strategies that can be maintained over time.

Crystal Jones

Crystal Jones

Elzora Watkins

Elzora Watkins (The Equation Coach), is strategic at helping clients connect ideas to the big picture.  She combines a warm and engaging approach with assisting organizations in ‘breaking it down like a fraction’ and achieving goals that are congruent to their mission.  Bringing volume, Elzora has twenty-eight years’ of experience teaching, coaching,  training and delivering over 3,000+ presentations, workshops/playshops to schools, churches, small businesses, colleges, universities, and entrepreneurs worldwide.  She combines educational and entrepreneurial experience to advance leadership, personal and professional development, and to help organizations leverage their strengths.

Elzora’s engaging, “hands-on” and “minds-on” approach supports clients in understanding key concepts to building capacity, providing workshops/playshops in team building, setting systemic goals, transitioning to a leadership growth mindset, and creating a culture for workability.  Elzora is the author of “Play Your Game Now: 15 Points to Hitting the Winning Shot in Life”. She speaks to groups ranging from 20-20,000 creating an environment where work and fun coexist.  She achieved National Board Certification in 2006 and 2016 and is a Certified John Maxwell Team International Speaker, Trainer and StrengthFinders Coach, and she is currently a doctoral candidate at Morgan State University.  She is married to Christopher Watkins and they have two children Chris and Niya Watkins. In her pastime, Elzora enjoys helping people learn how to trade in the Foreign Exchange market.

Elzora Watkins

Elzora Watkins

Kimberly Dailey

Kimberly combines expertise in counseling, business and drama to bring a fresh and insightful approach to personal and professional growth for all ages. As a certified psychodramatist she has traveled extensively using action based techniques nationally and internationally in over 27 countries and 3 continents. She is currently Co-CEO of Dailey Innovations, INC with her husband Andrew where they serve clients like Washingtonpost.com, Capital One, Smithsonian,  Panera Bread, Habitat for Humanity and others.  Her book Purposeful Creativity Methods: Creating Insight and Connections in Organizations and Communities is soon to be published.

Kimberly Dailey

Kimberly Dailey

Mocha Lee

Mocha Lee is one of the country’s top fitness professionals with over twenty years of experience.  She is the first African-American to win the Ms. Galaxy title.  Mocha is also the first fitness host of “Heart & Soul”, Black Entertainment Television (BET)’s exclusive health, beauty and fitness show, which aired from 1998 – 2001.  A trailblazer in the industry, Mocha inspires other to strive towards achieving overall wellness, and her mission is to encourage and educate on how to build a strong mind, body and spirit.

Despite the busy schedule of her multi-faceted career, Mocha is involved with numerous other projects.  She is the founder and CEO of “Mocha Lee Fitness”, a personal training and fitness consulting company based in the Washington DC area.  She organizes community “Family Fun Runs”, in an effort to combat childhood obesity.  As the mother of two girls:  ages thirteen and nine years old, Mocha has placed special emphasis on supporting kids and their parents, who need encouragement and direction to maintain a healthy lifestyle, while balancing the hectic pace of their lives.  Mocha is a certified personal trainer, part-time TV personality, group fitness instructor and an active member of her local church.  Mocha has become known as a national authority in the world of fitness, who gives “tried and true” practical advice and consultation and has not stopped due to the COVID19 pandemic.  In 2020 and 2021, Mocha’s virtual fitness sessions are a great way to stay connected and committed to self-care!

@mochaleefitness

Mocha Lee

Mocha Lee

Pam Love Manning

Pam Love Manning (aka “Dr. Pam Love”) is the founder of DP Love Enterprises and founder of the Finishers Network. She is also an inspirational speaker, leadership and training consultant, coach, and an expert on the Science of Finishing. In addition to leadership consulting, Pam’s company offers workforce development training, board development, and personal/professional development coaching services and products. Pam has served as an advisor and coach to senior executives and leaders at many levels across the U.S. She has conducted workshops and empowerment sessions nationally and coached women nationally and internationally. She is most known for her work with women who have a complex trauma history, but also has done work with at-risk youth/young adults, returning citizens, violence interrupters, and people at different levels in public defense. Pam taught undergraduate courses for a number of universities in Maryland and graduate courses for the University of Maryland Baltimore and the University of Southern California. As the author of 5 self-help books, one of which was turned into a highly acclaimed stage play, Pam teaches a course on how to write and self- publish a book.

Pam has a bachelor’s in Applied Psychology from Coppin State University, an MSW and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland Baltimore, and an MBA from Morgan State University. She is an Emeritus Director of the University System of Maryland Foundation Board, a member of Executive Alliance, CEO Space International, National Association for the Self-Employed, and the former Chair of CSU’s Development Foundation Board where she recently served on the search committee for Coppin’s current President. Pam has received numerous awards and recognitions from Maryland legislators and organizations. Pam is a licensed minister at The Shepherds House International Christian Church in Maryland, a wife, proud mother, grandmother and pawma to her grand-dog. She can be contacted at drpamlove@gmail.com.

Pam Love Manning

Pam Love Manning

2022 ALL WOMAN Retreat Experience Schedule

Scheduled events are subject to change

Friday

1:30pm

Reflection: 2021 in Your Rear-View Mirror: Annual Assessment Discussion

Facilitator: Carmita Myers, M.S.

Retreat guests will review their personal responses to the ALL Woman Annual Assessment survey to reveal the real impact of their choices, decisions, actions and inaction on their progress towards their dreams and goals casted at the start of 2021. These moments of personal reflection and introspection will allow a chance to harvest life lessons and hidden treasures that will jumpstart our courageous launch into 2022.

  • Review your 2021 goals and dreams and your own report card
  • Evaluate the meaning of your most powerful lessons learned
  • Discover keys to identifying your true purpose, dreams and calling
3:00pm - 5:00pm

Re-Calibrate Your Dreams, Goals, and Calling

Facilitator: Sonja Williams, LMFT, M.Div.

Based on the amazing promise in John 10:10 that the enemy comes to steal, kill, and destroy but our Creator who loves us comes that we might have life and have it more abundantly. The question is…” how do we access abundant love and life?”. This workshop helps participants to survey the quality of their lives on a micro level across 10 major life dimensions and to identify SMART goals for change in each area. Retreat guests are introduced to the powerful GROOVE Well Wheel and will discuss new ways to plug up life leaks and sow seeds that produce a new and abundant harvest.

5:00pm - 6:30pm

Break (Prepare for Programmed Evening Activities)

6:30pm - 7:00pm

Re-Connect: Back to School Night—Introductions & Ice Breakers

Retreat guests get up, close and personal in their introductions developing an interactive, fun and engaging atmosphere.

7:00pm - 9:00pm

Re-Orient: Introducing the Pieces of Your Dreams & Your Many Parts

Facilitator: Kimberly Daily

Join renown Psychodramatist, Kimberly Rattly-Daily, as she takes participants on a psychodrama journey through their own inner consciousness. Using active listening, role play and spontaneous dramatization, retreat guests will discover ways that their individual parts-- and their subpersonalities, impact their choices about life, love, work, play and their dreams. If you are overdue for a good belly-laugh, come and enjoy this fun way to allow to reconnect with yourself and with others. If you have been holding anything in during this pandemic, this is a good way to allow what’s on the inside to take center stage on the outside.

9:00pm - 10:00pm

Rejuvenation: Late Night Fun & Party

Special Guest Host: Valencia “DJ VBABE” Crawford

Saturday

8:00am - 8:45am

Re-Energize: Morning Moves with Mocha

Facilitator: Mocha Lee, Personal Trainer

Join us for an hour of kinetic movement and flow that will re-energize your entire body, opening energy pathways, stimulating the nervous system, increasing range of motion, and creating functional strength through rhythmic, flowing movement sequences. (Basic fitness instruction, with modifications available to increase and decrease degree of difficulty.)

9:00am

Re-Discover: The Mechanics of the Parts Perspective

Facilitator: Crystal Jones, LCSW

Retreat guests will continue their inner expedition with a deep dive into the mechanics of Internal Family Systems. Certified IFS Therapist, Crystal Jones, LCSW, will help participants come face to face with their parts that dream, uncover parts that hinder them from achieving their dreams, and they will sharpen their vision of their future. Need clarity, focus and motivation? Then you don’t want to miss this signature workshop!

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Lunch (Retreat guests delight in their own time of refreshments & relaxation)

1:00pm - 3:00pm

Re-Group: Celebrating Sister Wit

Facilitator: Elzora Bellamy Watkins

Sisters are a girl’s best friend! At AW we know that a real friend will stick closer than any brother. We love and celebrate the collective wisdom of Sisterhood. Using a small groups format, retreat guests will participate in powerful sister circles where they process revelations, present questions, and receive sage feedback with sisterly support. Two are better than one, and iron sharpens iron when we are our sister’s keepers.

5:00pm - 7:00pm

Break

7:00pm - 9:00pm

Re-Craft: Imagining Your Vision in 3D—An Interactive Fun Exercise (ALL WOMAN Virtual Art & Crafts Studio)

Facilitator: Sonja Williams/Pam Love Manning

On Saturday evening we invite you to play! Let your imagination elevate you to a new realm of thinking. Enter into the AW Virtual Arts & Craft Studio to indulge your creativity with affirming messages, positive vibes and amazing energy that will provide the motivation and inspiration to spring forward into 2022.

Sunday

9:00am

Remember: Prayer and Meditation

9:30am

Re-Fuel: Praise and Worship

10:00am

Re-Center: Sunday Morning Message

11:00am

Re-Affirm: Declarations and Affirmations

Participants share reflections and set intentions for the journey ahead.

1:00pm

Announcements: Upcoming Events & Take-Away Notes

1:15pm - 1:30pm

Prayer and Benediction

Important Note: Several pre-retreat virtual courses and assessment tools will be offered in December 2021 and January 2022 in the weeks preceding the Jan 14-16, 2022, retreat weekend. Instructions on how to access these pre-retreat courses and assessment tools will be emailed to all registrants beginning in December 2021. Access to these materials is included in the participant’s registration fee. Completion of the pre-retreat materials before the retreat weekend will prepare each attendee to have the most meaningful experience. during the Retreat weekend.

Pre-Retreat Workshops and Assessments Coming Soon! Check your email for the workshop links after Christmas!
Bonus Swag Bags available while supplies last!

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registration fee

$149.97

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ALL Woman is a faith-based women’s group that is committed to achieving and promoting the abundant love and life that Jesus Christ offers in John 10:10. We value: unity in Christ, sisterly support, dream exploration, faith development, group accountability, consistent self-care and service to ALL.

The annual ALL Woman retreat provides women with an opportunity to withdraw from the multitude, experience godly sisterhood, and share our hopes and dreams, successes and failures, and the privilege of being called by God.