This Aspiring Leaders Podcast honors the lived experience experts and survivors leading and serving in programs addressing gender-based violence. Macy Goodbear is a Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Program Specialist with over 20 years of experience working with survivors of government attempted genocide, survivors of intergenerational and historical trauma, along with survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence. Macy is a multi-cultural woman who is of Ho-Chunk, German and Norwegian descent, currently living in Wisconsin.
Macy shares lessons from lived experience, cultural strengths, and values that help build resiliency as an advocate and survivor. We learn about the healing that exists in stories. That we need to know and be aware of our own history; this can show up in the way that we lead. Macy considers herself an elder in training. She thinks it’s important to mentor and coach and support others, as we're also getting mentored, supported, and coached. Macy loves to live, she is an overthinker, passionate about life, especially her healing journey. She wants to improve herself, her life, and opportunities.
Learning Objectives:
Recognize cultural strengths, holistic approaches and values that help build resiliency as an advocate and survivor.
Recommendations for lived experience experts on leadership development, mentorship, and coaching.
This podcast is part of the Supporting Organizational Sustainability, SOS Institute, a project of Futures Without Violence. Learn more and explore resources and tools.
This project was supported by Grant No. 15JOVW-21-GK-02206-MUMU, awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibition are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.
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