Modern Matriarch Member Circle

This is a free and open community of supportive women seeking a new path forward that embraces what it means to be a Modern Matriarch. We encourage women of any place and age to join this online community of leaders and matriarchs-in-the-making.

Some of you have already expressed an interest in spending less time on social media, and we hope you’ll consider spending more time with us in the safe online space. It is our mission to focus on sharing wisdom and supporting one another on a new path toward modern leadership. Please join us with an open heart and mind.

When you click the link below to join, you will be asked to create an account that will be used to access the community. Once you’ve joined, please post a quick hello in the discussion board so that we may welcome you.

It is okay if you have not read the Matriarch Makeover book before joining.

Open Online Community of Modern Matriarchs

This free online community is open to anyone who is seeking a new way forward and supports what it means to be a Modern Matriarch. This open group is a place for you to meet other passionate women, share our thoughts, discuss upcoming events, and so much more.

Read the Book

If you plan on reading the Matriarch Makeover book and committing to the daily journaling exercises, there might be other women in this Member Circle ready to do the same. Once you’ve created an account and joined the community, please mention if you’ve read the book, are in the middle of reading it, or plan to begin.

Before we lead with the courage to speak our truth, we need to establish a foundation of support, and the ability to resource. We also need to be able to navigate the challenges of a structural system that was designed to keep a diversity of perspectives out of positions of power, and to maintain and reinforce a dominant culture meant to keep producing in a way that is unsustainable for humans, other living things, and the Earth’s natural resources. We have an inkling of what needs to be done. But without listening to our own truth and having the resources needed to speak it, the systems continue to cause harm while we stand by, feeling helpless.  

The good news is that you can be part of the change. It starts with remembering who you really are and by designing a leadership map that is sustainable to your well-being and circumstance.

Testimonials

  • “Maija has undergone her own transformation as a professional, a woman who is living with her spirit connection from a place of reverence. Her humility and commitment to community is held in high regard. This book is perfect for any woman ready to know herself and harness her personal power, from 18-50 years old and beyond. For any woman ready to know and love herself, or wanting it and willing to keep her word to herself. This book teaches women to spend some personal time daily, identifies for each woman that her personal power lies in her choices, brings spirit into conversation that freely allows each woman to define it for herself; and brings culture, ancestors and the mother earth into the lives of women to help the remembering process of what being on purpose is, for each one of us.”

    — Eli PaintedCrow, Indigenous ceremonialist, Iraq War Veteran, author of Why You Matter, and co-founder of Turtle Women Rising (https://www.turtlewomenrising.live/).

  • “I didn’t know that the conversation about lineage was for me (as a white woman) before this experience.”

    —Carol Tisson, Management consultant and executive coach with nearly 30 years of experience in organizational effectiveness, leadership development, and culture change

  • “You need to be ready. Not a book to just pick up. This book makes you do the work, and therefore you must be prepared to delve into yourself.”

    — Plasha Fielding Will, CEO, PFW Consulting & Political FrameWorks

  • “Any woman who desires to dig deeper into her soul, to rise up and let her light shine, could benefit from Maija's wisdom and daily practices of self-reflection. This guide is a compilation from years of Maija's embodied practices that she's gathered from her professional work, commitment to social and racial justice through healing and reconciliation, reconnecting with her lineage, Indigenous wisdom, and her own inner ways of knowing. It's been such a joy to witness her evolution over the years that has culminated in this generous offering to women around the world.”

     — Louellyn White, Assistant Professor in the First Peoples Studies Program at Concordia University in Montreal, and author of Free to Be Mohawk: Indigenous Education at the Akwesasne Freedom School

  • “This book lays out a clear path for self-reflection and growth that is doable but also very bold in its invitation to rise into our most rooted feminine strength and virtues. To help bring balance to the patriarchy, we must be grounded in our most authentic expression of feminine power and wholeness as individuals and in the collective.”

    — Jessica Dune, Artist, author and licensed landscape architect in present day Carmel, CA - Rumsen homeland

  • “Why read this book? Because it's FUN, educational, expanding. I have already recommended this book to several friends.”

    — Jacquie Cordova, Retired public school art teacher, community organizer, elder and supporter of many

  • “What I appreciated most in this process: We are pulling together all of these resources to pass down to the next generation.”

    — Safira Vinci, Owner of Vinci Digital Marketing

Meet The Author

Maija Danilova West is a business consultant, advisor, and peacemaker, drawing on 15 years of practice as a former attorney and strategist. As the founder and managing partner of Maija West Consulting, she combines leadership training with a fierce commitment to elevate and support women’s voices during this time of great change.  

Maija’s leadership vision is guided by the cultural practices of her Latvian heritage—she was raised to honor and support relationships, traditions, and life’s many transitions. Professionally, she has been advising nonprofits, foundations, businesses, Tribes, and government agencies for over 25 years. Maija uses reconciliation, peacemaking, and other forms of conflict resolution to support advanced communication and leadership in diverse communities. She is also the co-founder of the Healing and Reconciliation Institute.

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