highly sensitive power

Event Planner and Founder of Chicks Who Click

Denise thrives in her work as a professional communitarian (she’s inspired me to invent a new word), fostering connections as an event planner for Metzger Associates and the founder of ChicksWhoClick.net – a system of one-day networking conferences in different cities, to help people “Create. Connect. Collaborate.” on the topics of social networking, technology, and empowerment.

For information, including upcoming conference details, see the Chicks Who Click website. For inspiration and profiles, see the Chicks Who Click blog.

In what way are you most successfully sensitive?

With this current project – Chicks Who Click, being successfully sensitive has to do with being open-minded, inclusive, and energized. I’m enjoying building and facilitating an online community of like-minded women. Through our conferences we’re empowering, educating, and facilitating an important and lively conversation. It is hugely rewarding to watch an idea take shape just as I had envisioned it would. To witness a community collaborating and connecting in this space is completely encouraging and stimulating.

What or who has inspired you to embrace your sensitivity?

Becoming a mother and raising a son is a big contributor to me embracing my sensitivity. The caring and compassion that emerges with my children is like no other experience. When I have to stop and realize that I’m not the number one priority anymore and that someone is counting on me to be present and to be a role model, that definitely forces me to take a step back and think about putting my best foot forward.

What are your eternal fascinations?

Exploring the world through the colors, the people, and the cultures. It completely energizes me to see how other people live and to be able to contrast that with my life. Being able to incorporate customs, flavors, and aesthetics from other regions of the world is enthralling to me.

What quest currently captivates you?

Being whole and balanced, feeling comfortable in my skin, embracing my chronological progression, staying young at heart, constantly striving for intellectual challenge, opening my heart and giving back to my community.

What is your favourite kind of help to give?

I am a connector of people. I love to network and bring people together either through common interests or from complete opposite walks of life. It’s amazing how much we can all learn from each other.

Photo from Chicks Who Click site.

Related reading: Successfully Sensitive | Samantha Reynolds, WORK Is Not a Four-Letter Word