CHANGE4JOY Podcast

The Story of Karen Downes

June 08, 2021 Nienke van Bezooijen Season 1 Episode 11
The Story of Karen Downes
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CHANGE4JOY Podcast
The Story of Karen Downes
Jun 08, 2021 Season 1 Episode 11
Nienke van Bezooijen

Back in March 2020, at the beginning of lockdown, a life-altering questioning began to bother Karen. ‘who would I be if I wasn’t me?’ By September, she decided to follow her intuition, she packed up her belongings, rented her flat and moved to Costa Rica, to work with a major re-generation project and at the same time launched the FemmeQ retreat event. The future was calling her. 

Bringing together her entrepreneurial skills, systems transformation training and on the ground experience in working with social change organisations, she is committed to transforming the old systems that no longer serve us or our planet.  

For the past four decades, Karen has worked with global business leaders to achieve breakthrough results and designed and led culture change and development programmes worldwide. Starting her career as a trained healer and practitioner, she has translated spiritual practices, healing principles, and systemic change into everyday life and business.  Her methodology bridges the divide between spirituality and commercial reality, a wholistic approach to developing more conscious and compassionate leaders through her programmes and retreats. Her hands-on experience of building a business in alternative health care, from kitchen table-top to a multi-million dollar enterprise, afforded her the credentials of an MBA. She is the founder of The Flourish Initiative www.theflourishinitiative.com, a consulting and advisory service on how to build a flourishing enterprise from the inside out. 

She is the founder of The Flourish Initiative - consultancy  | co-founder of FemmeQ: Feminine Intelligence www.femmeq.org  and a core member of Bounce Beyond www.bouncebeyond.global 

Her commitment is to catalyse the necessary shift from the current system of domination to partnership, to re-awaken and integrate the feminine principles into our human psyche, to create a flourishing future for all.

She is currently developing a FemmeQ: Feminine Intelligence for a Regenerative Future retreat in Nosara, Costa Rica - July 24th - 31st.
Retreat registration https://femmeq.org/costa-rica-july-2021/
Register for Online programme
Websites
www.femmeq.org
Instagram
www.theflourishinitative.com
Instagram
Project in Costa Rica https://www.costaricaregenerativa.org

Show Notes

Back in March 2020, at the beginning of lockdown, a life-altering questioning began to bother Karen. ‘who would I be if I wasn’t me?’ By September, she decided to follow her intuition, she packed up her belongings, rented her flat and moved to Costa Rica, to work with a major re-generation project and at the same time launched the FemmeQ retreat event. The future was calling her. 

Bringing together her entrepreneurial skills, systems transformation training and on the ground experience in working with social change organisations, she is committed to transforming the old systems that no longer serve us or our planet.  

For the past four decades, Karen has worked with global business leaders to achieve breakthrough results and designed and led culture change and development programmes worldwide. Starting her career as a trained healer and practitioner, she has translated spiritual practices, healing principles, and systemic change into everyday life and business.  Her methodology bridges the divide between spirituality and commercial reality, a wholistic approach to developing more conscious and compassionate leaders through her programmes and retreats. Her hands-on experience of building a business in alternative health care, from kitchen table-top to a multi-million dollar enterprise, afforded her the credentials of an MBA. She is the founder of The Flourish Initiative www.theflourishinitiative.com, a consulting and advisory service on how to build a flourishing enterprise from the inside out. 

She is the founder of The Flourish Initiative - consultancy  | co-founder of FemmeQ: Feminine Intelligence www.femmeq.org  and a core member of Bounce Beyond www.bouncebeyond.global 

Her commitment is to catalyse the necessary shift from the current system of domination to partnership, to re-awaken and integrate the feminine principles into our human psyche, to create a flourishing future for all.

She is currently developing a FemmeQ: Feminine Intelligence for a Regenerative Future retreat in Nosara, Costa Rica - July 24th - 31st.
Retreat registration https://femmeq.org/costa-rica-july-2021/
Register for Online programme
Websites
www.femmeq.org
Instagram
www.theflourishinitative.com
Instagram
Project in Costa Rica https://www.costaricaregenerativa.org