Leadership is not just strategic — it is physiological. Campaigning places intense and continuous demands on the body and nervous system, especially for women navigating visibility, scrutiny, and high-stakes environments.
Seyi Akiwowo will facilitate this session providing a bespoke somatic workshop, creating a grounded, confidential space for you to pause, reset, and build the internal resilience needed to sustain leadership.
Blending trauma-informed practice with practical tools, participants will:
Understand how stress and threat show up in the body
Learn simple grounding techniques to use in high-pressure moments
Build a personal aftercare and recovery plan
Reconnect to clarity, energy, and a sense of steadiness
Participants will leave with tools they can return to throughout their campaign and beyond.
This session will not be recorded.
About Seyi
Seyi Akiwowo is a digital governance leader and infrastructure architect designing systems that embed duty of care into technology, institutions, and democratic life. After serving as East London’s youngest Black woman Councillor at 23, Seyi experienced severe coordinated online abuse following a speech at the European Parliament. That moment exposed a critical gap: existing governance systems were not designed to protect people, particularly Black women, from digital harm. In response, she founded Glitch, a UK-based nonprofit that produced pioneering research on misogynoir and influenced policy development, including contributions to the UK’s Online Safety Act. She is the author of How to Stay Safe Online and the creator of the Ctrl + Systems + Heal™ Programme, which equips leaders to navigate digital pressure while building sustainable, resilient systems of care.
The event is available for all women standing for selection and elections - if you are not signed up as a candidate in our community, please do so below.
Elect Her is committed to hosting inclusive, accessible support that enable all women to engage fully in our conversations. We will make reasonable adjustments throughout the sessions, so there is universal access. Throughout our programme of support, we anticipate what is needed in advance and respond to needs as they emerge.