The Shona Project

🌟 Exciting Milestone Alert! 🌟 Tonight, we’re bringing all our incredible mentees together for our very first group workshop as part of our pilot mentorship programme! This evening is all about mindset — setting big dreams and learning how to make them a reality. ✨ We’ll kick things off with a fun activity: Imagining the future and the headline we’d each love to see in ten years. What story will they be proud to tell? 🔍 From there, we’ll dive deep into the power of a positive mindset, understanding our values, and working with our favourite life equation, E+R=O (it’s much more fun than any maths class!). Our goal is to help these brilliant young women leave with a clear plan for turning their ambitions into achievements. 💪 But it’s not all about what we need to work on — we’ll celebrate our strengths, too! We’ll explore the strengths they already have and how they’ve used them in their daily lives. By the end, we hope to see our girls feeling inspired, empowered, and ready to tackle anything! Stay tuned for more updates from our mentorship programme. We’re so proud of the progress our mentees are making every day. 💫 To learn more about our programme, head over to https://lnkd.in/em58A4Ve A big thank you to our fabulous partners Allianz, CBRE, Fitzgerald Power, Vhi, Salesforce, &Smyth | Creative Communications and McCann FitzGerald LLP. #MindsetMatters #MentorshipJourney #GirlsEmpowered #FutureLeaders #TheShonaProject

At the Shona Project, we feel it's important to amplify the voices of the girls and young people so that those who make decisions that impact us all can hear our stories. This is their opportunity to have their voices heard.⁠ ⁠ Our national survey helps us to tell our story together. ⁠So, if you have a girl or non-binary teen in your life who is aged 12-18, we'd love to hear from them and how they are REALLY doing. Teens can complete the survey here -> https://lnkd.in/ecaamxMd P.S. The survey will take 15 minutes, but, if they choose to, they will be entered into a draw to win 1 of 5 €100 vouchers from a store of their choice, once we get to 1000 responses! A big thank you to Beca Wistreich at The Outcome for supporting us in this research. Tammy Darcy | Ellen Conway | Natasha Thompson-Duggan | Alice Clifford | Lynetta Wang

Another huge win for team Shona Today 😍 The pilot of our Mentorship Programme has been made possible by Allianz, &Smyth | Creative Communications, Fitzgerald Power, CBRE, Vhi, Salesforce and McCann FitzGerald LLP - so a big thank you to each and every person involved ❤️

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📣 Calling Organisation Whizzes and Accounts Pros! 📣 The Shona Project is looking for 2 new people to join our team! ⚡️ The roles: ⭐️ Administrative Assistant (20 hours per week, based in our Waterford Office) ⭐️Accounts Technician (15 hours per week, Waterford/hybrid) If this has caught your eye, and you're dying to join our team at Shona HQ (honestly, who wouldn't want to be part of our dream team?!), head over to www.shona.ie or the link in our bio to learn more and apply! The deadline is 5 pm on Friday 25th of October 🌸 https://lnkd.in/eNJNH3rc

At The Shona Project, we believe in mentorship 👏 Across our entire organisation, from our CEO, and our team to our ambassadors, and the girls we work with, we have created a community of women and girls supporting women and girls ❤️ We are thrilled to launch our new school's mentorship programme, pairing girls in schools with exceptional role models from our partners 🎉 A big thank you to our partners for our pilot programme this year... Allianz, CBRE, Vhi, Salesforce, &Smyth | Creative Communications, Fitzgerald Power and McCann FitzGerald LLP To find out more, visit https://lnkd.in/eBmPTVuW or get in touch info@shona.ie 📩

📣📣 ANNOUNCING SHINE FESTIVAL 2024 📣📣 IN-PERSON 8th & 10th OF OCTOBER ✨ OR ONLINE WITH 8 STAGES ✨ 300 SPEAKERS ✨ THOUSANDS OF ATTENDEES AND GROWING 🔥🔥 Shona fans will know that we love nothing more than putting on a big event! Our Shine Festival is our pride and joy, and it’s even won a few snazzy awards ;) This year, we are bringing Shine Festival back to where it all began. It takes place on the 8th & 10th of October at SETU Arena, Waterford. Shine Festival is possibly the biggest gathering of inspirational Irish women ever. Over the years, we have gathered over 300 speakers (online and in-person) including, Kellie Harrington, Ellen Keane, Daisy Kelleher, Ailbhe Smyth, Louize Carroll, a special musical act from Sing Along Social and many, many more. Covering a wide range of topics such as mental health, mindset, career, diversity, individuality, the arts, sports, social issues, and sustainability to name but a few. We'll also have music, poetry, pledges, smiles and hugs. Kicking off in celebration of International Day of the Girl, Shine Festival is an empowering event for the women and girls of Ireland, bringing us together to interact in a safe and positive space, to celebrate and inspire each other to SHINE. Check out www.shinefestival.ie for more information and to sign up, there are a few tickets up for grabs! Or if your organisation is interested in finding out how to get involved for next year, why not drop Alice Clifford (alice@shona.ie) an email! Thanks to our partners at Sport Ireland, Her Moves, Sanofi, Plan International, Stryker, Eastgate Engineering, Custodian , Beat 102 103, SPIN1038, Parker Law, Enerpower powered by Greenvolt , Sun Life, Carten Controls Ltd., Waterford Insulation, Treacys Hotel Waterford - we can ensure that Shine is inclusive and available to everyone. So, you've no excuse! #ShineFestival

🚀 Meet Dominika, another incredible woman in STEM from Shorla Oncology! 🌍⁠ ⁠ This week, Dominika shares her inspiring journey from Poland to Ireland, where she now works as an Analytical Manager at Shorla Pharma. From her love of science to her passion for painting, Dominika’s story is all about embracing challenges and finding joy in both work and life. 🌟🔬⁠ ⁠ 🔗 Read her full story on the blog—linked below x⁠ https://lnkd.in/eZB475_Y

The world isn’t always the easiest place to be a girl: our brains are often hardwired to see each other as competition, instead of seeing each other as a cheerleader. The Shona Project (TSP) believes in the power of girls supporting girls and particularly established women supporting the younger generation.    Mentorship plays a huge part in every aspect of TSP. You don’t think we got to where we are today by just winging it? Nope, our whole team is mentored by an army of experienced people, who support and guide us on the things that we don’t know because newsflash… we don’t know everything, and we never will.    The tricky thing that we have come to notice is that our young women struggle to identify positive role models and find the opportunity to access and build a relationship with someone who they can call a mentor. Recognising that more support is needed, we at The Shona Project are delighted to have launched the first-year pilot of our National Mentorship Programme! Yesterday, we were joined by our mentees from 5 schools along with wonderful mentors and representatives from our partner organisations Allianz, Vhi, CBRE, Salesforce, Fitzgerald Power, McCann FitzGerald LLP and &Smyth | Creative Communications to officially kick off the programme! A massive thank you to the mammoth effort of our team Tammy Darcy, Ellen Conway, Natasha Thompson-Duggan, Alice Clifford, Stephanie Golds, Lynetta Wang and Erika Crawte for making the programme happen! Also, we'd like to extend a big thank you to the three incredible women who funded the development of the programme: Eva Pau, Oonagh O'Hagan, and Lucy Gaffney. Finally, a special thank you to Natalie Keogh and her team at Allianz for making the day so special in their offices! For more information on our programme, head over to https://lnkd.in/e8nJjx2D If you or your organisation would like to get involved next year, please reach out to our wonderful Alice at alice@shona.ie.

We're so thrilled that our Founder, Tammy Darcy has been chosen as a member of the Obama Foundation Leaders programme!