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This FINAL encore experience will be unlike any other. Because like everything we do, it's been "reimagined" from beginning to end. It's not a virtual or hybrid event. It's not a conference. It's not a seminar, a workshop, a meeting, or a symposium. And it's not your typical run-of-the-mill everyday event crammed with stages, keynote speeches, team-building exercises, PowerPoint presentations, and all the other conventional humdrum. Because it's up close & personal by design. Where conversation trumps presentation. And where authentic connection runs deep.

Sacred Stories – Making Waves with Emma Sykes

Words made to be spoken!

Meet Emma Sykes, author of the spoken word poetry book Making Waves. Emma shares as a young person navigating her way in this complex world, that her journey has brought her to realize that the labels put on her weren’t real. The box that society was trying to direct her into doesn’t fit. “I don’t think anyone can or should fit into a box.” shares Emma. She realizes she can be anything or anyone she wants to be and so can everyone else.

Making Waves is a beautiful expression of thoughts, experiences, and emotions felt by Emma and we believe many others. An inspirational book to share with a young person in your life.

EMMA SYKES is a young woman, a poet, a spoken word artist, photographer, and performer. Most of all Emma is a beautiful soul and a representative of our youth – intelligent, passionate, young people who have something important to say in the shaping of the future of our world. Find out more about Emma, her creative expression, and spoken word poetry book Making Waves at emmajsykes.co.uk

Ariel Patricia
Ariel Patriciahttps://sacredstories.com/
Ariel Patricia is CEO and Founder of Sacred Stories Media, a conscious online media network. Sacred Stories Media includes Sacred Stories Publishing, an award-winning book publishing, and marketing company, Garnet Press a self-publishing and marketing division, Sacred U an online course division, podcasting, and The Owl magazine. As an ordained interfaith, interspiritual minister and a sacred storyteller Ariel Patricia believes it is time to raise the vibration of our planet to one of respect and honor for the sacred nature of ourselves and for all living beings. The sharing of our hearts and wisdom through our works is a powerful beginning. Ariel Patricia is ordained from One Spirit Interfaith Seminary in New York and she has earned her Masters of Arts in Education and her Bachelors of Science in Business. She worked in the corporate and educational worlds for many years and proudly served six years as a sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. On a more personal note, she is a mom, an obsessive coffee drinker – Ariel Patricia drinks it black like any good former Marine does and is the best friend of her little dog Bear. She is a contributing author to the inspiring books; Chaos to Clarity: Sacred Stories of Transformational Change and Crappy to Happy: Sacred Stories of Transformational Joy

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