Dr. Doris Wesley is an award-winning university communication and conflict pracademic—an academic and a practitioner, a global peacebuilder, and a social impact entrepreneur, who founded The GEM Daughters Network. She equips individuals, organizations, institutions, and communities with the necessary skills to transform conflict at any level using proprietary methodologies and proven multimodal communication strategies.

As an academic, her research and teaching employ communication and peacebuilding approaches to transform multi-dimensional conflict-related contexts in Africa and the United States. As a practitioner, she works with several international and local communities and populations, including brave women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa who use traditional indigenous intelligence and leverage digital tools to build resilience in their communities in challenging times. As a social entrepreneur, she focuses on supporting women and girls who have experienced (or are experiencing) an absent, disconnected, unattached, unavailable, and flawed father-to-daughter relationship.

The synergy of these three interconnected expressions is directly related to my experience and deeper understanding of how the effects, impacts, symptoms, and archetypes can shape the minds and hearts of daughters.

I understand the challenges women and girls who grew up or are growing up without fathers face. I, too, grew up without a father-to-daughter relationship. I understand the conflicting effects that come with such experience: the multiplicity of narratives, the shame, the rage, the anger, the fears, the labels, the lies, the low self-image, the overarching feelings and needs, the challenges with trust and commitment, the secrets deep inside of the past, the abuse, the difficulties in sustaining healthy lasting relationships and intimacy, the cravings, the independent drive for success, the issues around money and men, the unanswered questions, the numerous conclusions, the identity crisis, the soul searching, and the unending patterns. I can see these impacts from afar. This is why my heart is with YOU.

Join me on an intense 2 Days of Total Transformation on Father’s Day Weekend as I, alongside other brave women from around the world, hold space to help YOU metamorphosize into a priceless GEM. I hope to see you in the room!