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www.inourrightminds.com In Our Right Minds has been igniting audiences at universities, conferences, executive women’s meetings, healing centers and theaters since it’s premier in 2005. This passionate message guides women to their strength as leaders, and restores in men and women, the validity of right-brain, “feminine” strengths. This dynamic, multi media 1 hour 15 minute performance piece features history, myth, original songs, art, artifacts, characters and comedy. Dale Allen, a 15-year veteran of corporate and commercial communications, gives voice to a brilliant, long-forgotten intelligence that is within each of us – the intelligence of the right hemisphere of the brain, the “feminine gatherer-nurturer” side. In Our Right Mindsä, explores the goddess archetype as a metaphor for our right-brain wisdom. Without an understanding of this archetype, women have been left with no clear model to guide them to their strength and wholeness, and men have been forced to suppress vast parts of their own intuitive, emotional and nurturing natures. The piece uncovers the roots of our left-brain dominant culture, looking at the emergence of alphabetic literacy across the world and the correlating subjugation of women and all things “female.” Returning to a time before written history, In Our Right Minds™ retrieves ancient definitions of “woman” and the associated valuing of female power, creativity, nurturance, connection to nature, embodiment of the divine and diverse beauty. Physical beauty is redefined to include all shapes, sizes, colors and ages. In Our Right Minds is enlightening, inspirational and fun. Ms. Allen takes us to "Someday Isle" where we forever postpone our dreams, and dances with Barbie dolls as she shakes off our culture's narrow standards for body image, beauty and age. With the ancient myth of the Selkie Woman, she restores our sealskins, our authentic selves. She frees the goddess archetype within our psyches so that we may harness Her energy as leaders in the co-creation of a new paradigm. Leadership for a new era will be based on the integration of the feminine, as expressed through both women and men. The restoration of the sacred feminine has profound implications for every sphere of leadership within families, communities, businesses, health, education, governments and the global economy. The United Nations’ World Conference on Women affirms that the advancement of women is central to every dimension of global development. A sustainable world cannot be built using the old, out-of-balance model; In Our Right Minds™ illuminates an alternative. “The Mother has left a memory in us all.”