Staffing

Staffing a Training Weekend is a special and sacred experience.  Through staffing, you have the opportunity to give to other women and gain more gold for yourself.   

*These are dates of Training Weekends sponsored by Woman To Woman Midwest.  Additional dates and locations where Training Weekends are held are available here.

Requirements for staffing a Woman Within® Training Weekend are:

1. Completion of Woman Within® Training Weekend.

2. Completion of the Empowerment Circle Manual Training in an 8-10 week or intensive format. (This requirement is waived if training is not available in your area).

3. Completion of Women Empowering Women (WEW).  The staffing committee may select a woman to staff if she has not completed this workshop if she commits to participate in WEW within one year of the Training Weekend she staffs.

4. Commitment to work on your own issues in some way.  It is very important that each woman commits to do her individual work apart from staffing Training Weekends, so that she contains her own issues while staffing and is fully present physically, intellectually, emotionally and spiritually.

5. Payment of staffing fees - $85 US for the first 3 staffings and $50 for staffing thereafter.  This fee covers, in part, the food and lodging costs for staff.

6. Attendance at the Celebration following the Training Weekend.  Staff who do not live in the area where the Training Weekend was held are exempt from this requirement.

Staffing Application Process:

1. Complete a Woman to Woman Midwest 2002 staffing application, which can be found on the Midwest website as of 2002 or obtained by the Director of Staff Coordination for Woman to Woman Midwest (contact information appears below). Mail or email your completed staffing application so that it is received at least 60 days prior to the Training Weekend you wish to staff. When your application is received, your name will be placed on the list of potential staff for the Training Weekend requested. (As part of your personal accountability, it is important that you keep a copy of your staffing application so you can notify the Staff Coordinator if your availability to staff the Training Weekend (s) you requested changes.)

2. Staff selection will be made approximately 60 days prior to each Training Weekend by the Woman to Woman Midwest Staffing Committee.

3. Approximately 30 days prior to a Training Weekend, a letter will be mailed to each woman requesting to staff that Training Weekend notifying her that she is 1) confirmed to staff, 2) placed on an alternate list in the event of cancellations by confirmed staff, or 3) not likely to be called to staff due to the number of women applying to staff that Training Weekend.

4. You will be informed by the Director of Staff Coordination if you need to complete additional preparation prior to staffing.

5. Staff requests received after staff has been selected will be considered on an as-needed basis.

Contact the Director of Staff Coordination  if you choose to apply to staff Training Weekends in addition to those checked on your staffing application filed with the Administrative Office. It is not necessary for you to complete a new staffing application to add requests during the same year.

Contact Information:

Click to get a staffing application (in MS Word) or staffing application (Acrobat PDF file).

Send completed applications to, or request additional information from:

Woman to Woman Midwest
C/O Mary Ann Armour
Director of Staff Coordination
P.O. Box 797
Ballwin, MO 63011-1097
614.954.3822