Jalaja is a natural public speaker who enjoys connecting with the public as much as they enjoy connecting with her. With decades of experience as a speaker, she is comfortable with all kinds of people, be they academics, troubled inner-city youth, or members of the United Nations.
She's a delightful storyteller who believes that stories are the best way to make a message stick. Insightful, inspiring, and colorful, she leaves audiences feeling uplifted, hopeful, and empowered.
The following are examples of talks Jalaja has given.
Why Heartthinking is Better than Headthinking
Based on Jalaja Bonheim's forthcoming book, The Power of Heartthinking, this talk will explain what heart- and head-thinking are, how headthinking is making us all insane, why we're terrified of heartthinking, and how you can empower yourself to become an agent of sanity and healing in our world. Great anecdotes and great practical take-home insights!
Let Your Light Shine
Do you allow yourself to be as brilliant, powerful, and amazing as you can? Or do you dim your own light in order to avoid attracting envy or criticism? Most women do. Jalaja has trained hundreds of women leaders, and in this talk, she shares some of the best tools and techniques she uses to help leaders overcome the fears that hold them back.
Why Women Can Save the World
Whether women realize their potential is not just a matter of personal fulfillment-it's the key to global peace and planetary healing. Jalaja shows us where we stand in the big picture of human history and why right now, nothing could be more important than the empowerment of women. Sharing stories from her work with women in Israel and Palestine as well as America, she emphasizes the crucial importance of helping women claim their voices and cultivating a sense of global sisterhood.
From Tribal to Global Consciousness
Over the last few hundred years, just about everything in our world has changed. Yet internally, very little has changed; most of us still think, act, and relate as if we were living in a tribal world. This talk reveals how tribal conditioning affects us all, why it's so dangerous, and what we can do to transform it.
Myths of the Sacred Feminine
Jalaja is a riveting storyteller with 25 years of expertise in goddess mythology. This talk focuses on specific goddesses that are of special relevance to Western women today, such as Durga, the Hindu warrior goddess, who embodies female power and courage. Jalaja approaches these figures, not from a religious perspective, but rather as mirrors that reveal important aspects of every women's potential and can inspire women to own qualities often rejected as "unfeminine" or undesirable.
The Path of the Priestess
Jalaja spent ten years studying the traditions of the Indian temple dancers, also known as Devadasis, who were not only dancers but also priestesses. This talk affords a rare glimpse into a fascinating tradition that initially gave women tremendous economic, sexual and spiritual power, but gradually degenerated into an oppressive practice based on the exploitation of women's sexuality. Drawing on her bestselling book Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul, Jalaja reveals how relevant and important such traditions are for contemporary women today.
Empowering Women through Circle Gatherings
For over 25 years, Jalaja has been leading women's circles and training women around the world to do the same. Sharing stories from her circles for Jewish and Arab women in Israel, as well as her US circles, she explains why circles are such an effective tool for helping women to claim their voices and their power, as well as for awakening a strong sense of sisterhood between women of diverse religions, races, and cultures. Jalaja discusses the history of circle gatherings, the role they have played for women, and their importance in helping us build a just and sustainable global civilization.
The Other Kind of Courage
There are two kinds of courage, physical and emotional. Physical courage allows a warrior to pick up his arms and go to battle, risking his life in the process. Emotional courage, on the other hand, allows us to lay down our weapons, disarm, and reveal our vulnerability. In this talk, Jalaja explains why it's crucial that we cultivate emotional courage. With the help of great stories and anecdotes, she shares the most valuable and effective strategies she has found to strengthen emotional courage in ourselves and others.
An Introduction to Circlework
A must-hear for anyone interested in group process, group leadership, and collective healing and transformation! Jalaja defines Circlework, the unique method of working with circle gatherings that she developed and teaches, as "the art of using circle gatherings to create a field of love powerful enough to heal us and our communities." In this talk, she outlines the basic concepts that inform the practice of Circlework and make it such a potent experience that has changed thousands of lives.
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