Our Fall ‘23 Group is full!
an 8-week experiential in-person small mentorship and training
Wednesday evenings 6:30 - 9pm, October 11th - December 6th (we will skip Weds 11/22)
Across the world, throughout nearly all human culture, females have been (and still are) the singular focus of the largest organized campaign of oppression and domestication in the history of our species. This oppression – and the commodification of our wise, wild, generative female capacity – extends to all life, including the Earth upon which we rely for our survival and thriving. As much as we might like to believe this campaign is coming to an end, it is more powerful, subversive and intact than ever before. If we are to shift our course as humans it is probable that the only true antidote to this campaign of violence against Life is the resurrection of healthy, sovereign women’s culture and community. Only then will we be able to create a world in which all Life is sacred.
This group mentorship is an opportunity to be deeply held and guided while immersed in the container of a facilitated women’s circle. I strongly recommend each participant be actively weaving the web of women’s community – in some way – while participating in this mentorship. Ideally, this means you are prepared to start your own women’s group while actively participating with us, or you will bring what you’re learning to your existing women’s circle. Your learning will be immeasurably richer if you’re able to take what we’re learning and put it to good use in the days and weeks between our gatherings. And, equally important, the group will have a better capacity to track, witness and reflect your particular woman’s voice, medicine and power back to you, so you grow a deeper intimacy with your ‘woman’s way’.
The Reweaving Women’s Community Mentorship & Training is a unique and effective deep dive into experiential learning.
No more than 6 participants total, just large enough to stir up some fertile terrain with each other and small enough that everyone will have time to be well and intimately held!
THIS PROGRAM IS FOR YOU IF:
You are eager to participate in or lead a women’s circle and would like to start with a basket full of skills and wisdom rather than learn the hard way!
You are already participating in a women’s group and your group would like to learn greater skills, develop deeper intimacy and have more nourishing fun
You are already in a woman’s group and your group is struggling – from lack of cohesion or intimacy, unexplored shadow terrain or any of the other issues women’s community tends to get mired in (if this is the case, I encourage participation to be shared by the whole group including funding your tuition in this course and watching recorded calls as a group, exploring all provided written and recorded material together)…OR…you are already in a women’s group and it’s wonderful and you’d like it to keep being wonderful!
You are longing for a forum to explore the re-invention of women’s community, to learn more about your own style and offering in this realm and to meet other women who are exploring this terrain relationship with women’s community
Investment:
$649 | $549
(refund policy: refunds will be offered up to September 27th, minus a $75 registration fee. After that, no refunds will be given.)
Your guide: Christiane Pelmas
I’m a (reformed, repentant) psychotherapist, mentor, guide, writer and teacher. I’ve been a participant and facilitator in women’s groups since 1984 when, at 18 years old, I had the opportunity to participate in my first women’s group as a newly trained rape crisis volunteer. My own women’s group, which came together in 2010, has been gathering multiple times a month since then. In addition to regular council gatherings, we also now go on extended annual retreats together and do daylong and half-day immersions. We are committed to mentoring women’s groups and community wherever possible. Most of us in this group are therapists, healers and guides and still…..STILL (!)….. with all our experience, we have our ups and downs, gritty places, shadow terrain, and outright ruptures which require repair, or more, require our capacity to trust in the wisdom of the warp and weft, even when the rupture seems irreparable. As with all relationships, we are learning (and learning some more) that the wellness and growth of our group depends on our willingness and capacity to repair far more than on our avoidance of ruptures. It is one of my favorite things to do to teach and guide processes of intelligent conflict navigation and repair among women. The world we love and care for is depending upon us to remember our power here….
…. the power of fierce, compassionate and intimate women’s community to heal a majority of the silencing, devaluing and disempowerment of the feminine and all things related to the feminine body including the Earth and Life itself; those precious things upon which we all rely for our survival, that are being assaulted to the point of extinction.