City Expedition - Women Emerging

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Your City, Your Expedition

Expeditions run by women, in and for their cities

Why a City Expedition

Women around the world are looking to lead expeditions in their cities. Many want to reduce the isolation women feel and believe that, in doing so, women will counterbalance the increasing forces of fragmentation within their city. Others simply see the expedition as a powerful way to bring the Women Emerging movement to life in their city. They want to uncover and share an approach to leading that will work for them in their culture and use the expedition to pave the way so that more women lead in the city.

Explorers on the city expedition work together to uncover the approach to leading that will work for them in their culture. At the end of the expedition, they share their learning with women across the city and pave the way so that more women lead in the city.

How it Works

A woman, a network of women, or an organisation in the city partner with Women Emerging to set up, run, share the learning of the expedition and then empower MORE women to lead in the city.

24 women are identified who live or work in the city. They are a diverse group in geography, generations, abilities, aspirations, sectors, specialisms, backgrounds and beliefs. One woman––usually a volunteer––takes on the role of Expedition Leader and another takes on the role of a Community Manager.

The expedition sets off, shaped by the 4Es expedition methodology that was discovered during the first Women Emerging expedition and has been perfected on expeditions ever since. As with every Women Emerging expedition, Explorers commit to four hours each month: two hours exploring individually and digesting the learning and two hours as a group sharing reflections, pooling the insights, pushing each other's thinking, and moving forward.

After seven months, as the expedition draws to a close, the Explorers

Capture their insights and share them widely with women in the city, in other cities and in the WE community on the WE Hub.

Decide what they will do to pave the way so that more women lead in the city.

What it Costs

The core cost of running a city expedition is $5000.

For this amount, Women Emerging will support your city expedition all the way through, providing everything you need, including:

Detailed Expedition Leader and Community Manager manuals
Explorer learning materials including an extensive series of films, detailed handouts, worked up scenarios
and exercises
Access to the community of expedition Guides

A dedicated section on the online expedition platform for explorers to source materials and share insights
Quarterly workshops for Expedition Leaders to brief, prepare and support them
An expedition hotline for Community Managers ensuring that expeditions run smoothly.

This amount can increase if your expedition’s Leader and Community Managers are not volunteers. If it is helpful, the Community Manager can be an experienced member of the WE team, for which we will charge a modest fee. Women Emerging is committed to supporting women in cities across the world, so the financial contribution level is kept at an accessible level for the women and cities involved.

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Our Aspiration

As the Women Emerging movement expands, women will be launching city expeditions across the globe. In this way

Women will connect far and wide learning from each other and from each other’s cities.
More women will lead in their cities.

First City Expedition: Brussels

24 women who lead in Brussels have joined forces to find an approach to leading that resonates with women in the city.

They will then share this approach widely by working with the WE team to create a themed solo expedition designed specifically for women leading in Brussels.

In Brussels, they will pave the way to more women leading in the city by

Some explorers twinning with leaders in Brussels to assist them in opening doors and deepening the engagement of women in city.
Other explorers launching initiatives that connect its diverse communities––evidence that when more women are leading, bridges are built across Brussels.

This first city expedition is run in partnership with Belgium’s 40 under 40 and TheMerode. TheMerode provides a venue for many of the sessions so that explorers can meet face-to-face as well as online.