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Move Women's Day From Symbolic to Structural
A listening-based intervention that builds trust, surfaces insight, and shifts culture — not just for a day, but beyond it.
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Most Women's Day initiatives are well-intentioned.
But inside organisations, many women experience them as:
Necessary
Visible
And insufficient
The banners change. The messaging changes. The underlying experience often doesn't.

What's missing isn't recognition. It's structured listening.
THE REAL PROBLEM
Research across India, Southeast Asia, and the UK shows:
72%
Necessary but insufficient
describe Women's Day as necessary but insufficient
14%
Recall an initiative
recall an initiative unless it led to a felt shift
63%
Performing a "safer" version
report performing a "safer" version of themselves during Women's Day events
The dominant emotion is resignation — not resistance.
Symbolic recognition without listening creates disengagement, not empowerment. For HR leaders, this becomes a credibility issue.
THE SHIFT
From Recognition to Reflection
Most initiatives celebrate achievement.
This intervention creates reflection.
Not reflection as analysis. But reflection as being witnessed — without advice, fixing, or performance pressure.
When women are listened to with care and structure:
  • Meaning emerges organically
  • Organisational undercurrents become visible
  • Trust builds across hierarchy
This is not a DEI event. It is a culture intervention.
THE METHODOLOGY
Embodied Listening
Grounded in embodied listening and feminine ways of knowing:
Voice
Presence
Attention
Reflection
The space is structured, not loose. Facilitated, not performative.
Insight is not extracted. It is allowed to emerge.
The result:
Depth without intensity
Honesty without harm
Reflection without breakdown
THE OFFERING
Three Structured Formats
Paths based on group readiness and organisational depth.
1
Improvising Presence
90 mins | Light & Playful | Junior to Early–Mid Career
Low-risk experiential exercises focused on everyday work moments.
Outcome:
  • Builds comfort with speaking
  • Introduces reflective listening
  • Strengthens connection without vulnerability pressure
Ideal for teams new to experiential formats.
1
Inner Dialogues
120 mins | Reflective | Mid-Level Professionals
Participants explore internal tensions (expectation vs. reality, outer role vs. inner voice) within a structured, held space.
Outcome:
  • Surfaces unspoken narratives
  • Deepens peer listening
  • Builds clarity without emotional overload
Well-suited for managers navigating complexity.
2
Stories on the Floor
150 mins | Deep Witnessing | Senior Leaders & Mixed Groups
Significant lived stories around leadership, identity, or transition are offered and witnessed — not debated.
Outcome:
  • Builds trust across hierarchy
  • Surfaces cultural undercurrents
  • Enables collective insight without defensiveness
Designed for groups ready for depth and honesty.
WHAT ORGANISATIONS GAIN
This is not:
A celebration
A motivational session
Therapy
Or training
It is a listening-based Women's Day intervention that creates:
Trust without performance
Reflection without fixing
Insight that lasts beyond the day
Women's Day can remain a ritual. Or it can become a moment of genuine listening.
ABOUT EMPURPLE
Founded by Preeti Birla Nair
Areas of Practice
  • HR and organisational context
  • Playback Theatre
  • Creative movement
  • Human process work
  • Embodied facilitation
The work is informed by training at:
  • Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS)
  • Coach Training Institute (CTI)
  • Centre of Playback Theatre, New York
  • Creative Movement Therapy Association of India
  • Sumedhas Academy for Human Context
Empurple
Phone
9702656742
Empurple designs spaces where spontaneity, reflection, and inner wisdom are not abstract ideas — but lived experiences.

If you want Women's Day to build credibility — not just visibility — Let's design the right format for your group.
Available for Women's Day engagements.