{"id":5117,"date":"2019-11-19T19:23:31","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T19:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/v2.mappyhour.org\/blog\/?p=5117"},"modified":"2019-11-19T21:38:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T21:38:19","slug":"sf-womxn-leadership-in-the-outdoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mappyhour.org\/blog\/2019\/11\/sf-womxn-leadership-in-the-outdoors\/","title":{"rendered":"SF: Womxn Leadership in the Outdoors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Tuesday night, we gathered at The North Face on Union Street<\/a> for a San Francisco Pop-up Mappy Hour. The night was full of meeting new friendly faces, recruiting mentors and learning from local leaders.<\/p>\n

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Our panel was moderated by Mappy Hour founder Sarah Knapp and featured:<\/p>\n

Qayyuma Didomenico,<\/strong>\u00a0a course director for GirlVentures<\/a>, which aims to empower adolescent girls to lead through outdoor adventure, inner discovery, and collective action.<\/p>\n

Narinda Heng, <\/strong>a course director and instructor at GirlVentures and a board member of Banteay Srei<\/a> an Oakland-based organization dedicated to supporting young Southeast Asian women and girls.<\/p>\n

Vera Arias, <\/strong>a certified bicycle mechanic, instructor and the leader of Good Karma Bikes<\/a> (based in San Jose) women\u2019s night!<\/p>\n

April Webster,<\/strong>\u00a0a software engineer by day and a SheJumps<\/a> ambassador by night. SheJumps is a national non profit that motivates women and girls to step out of their comfort zone in the great outdoors.<\/p>\n

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A few discussion highlights include:<\/p>\n

What\/who is a leader?<\/strong><\/p>\n

You don’t need to be loud or the center of attention to be a leader. Leadership is stepping up as your authentic self. Introverts can be leaders too. – Vera<\/p>\n

Anyone can be a leader, if you see something you want to change… step up. – April<\/p>\n

What are best practices for creating leaders?<\/strong><\/p>\n

At GirlVentures we use a community agreement process to facilitate establishing shared goals & values which help us trust one another’s leadership.- Narinda<\/p>\n

Being able to step back to give space for leadership (while still acknowledging that you’re there to help and support) – Qayyuma on GirlVentures programs<\/p>\n

We also learned that there are quite a few ways we can all help support our panelists and their organizations including:<\/p>\n

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  1. Follow each organization on social media:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/good_karma_bikes\/<\/a><\/p>\n

    https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/girlventures\/<\/a><\/p>\n

    https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/shejumps\/<\/a><\/p>\n

    2) If you can, donate to their amazing programs!<\/p>\n

    3) Joining in the fun! GirlVentures is looking for mentors for their climbing program and Good Karma Bikes Women’s Clinics<\/a> and SheJumps<\/a> are open to all who’d like to attend.<\/p>\n

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    As always, thank you to The North Face for hosting us and Sierra Nevada for providing brews!<\/p>\n

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