This workshop will be presented virtually, live from jona's home in New Mexico. This powerful session will encourage women to examine the harmful impact of a lifetime of sexist messages that can cause competent women to doubt their own judgment, competence and leadership capacity as well as that of other women. Self-confidence is a requirement for success in fire/emergency service. Most female responders have overcome many of the sexist comments, behaviours and policies that challenged them in reaching their current positions, but their own internalized sexism may still be holding them back from reaching their full potential. Participants will confront the internal doubts that undermine performance and their support of other female firefighters, while exploring practical strategies to overcome those doubts and build unshakeable confidence. This session offers a safe space to address the unique challenges women face in our industry and develop tools to silence that inner critic once and for all.
NOTE: This session is open to women only.
Please register by emailing: fswomembership@gmail.com
You will be sent a zoom link closer to the date.
Speaker Bio: jona olsson
jona is the director of cultural bridges to justice, offering cultural diversity programs for non-profit groups. She is the Fire & EMS Chief of the Latir Volunteer Fire Department in northern New Mexico, having served as Chief for 16 years. Joining her two passions – emergency service and social justice – jona offers programs to individual departments, brigades, and fire conferences in the U. S., the UK, Canada and Australia. jona lives in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in northern New Mexico, with her wife, Jane, and several rescued, 4-footed friends.