THE WITCHES' REVIVAL
Wisewoman Calls us Home!
Talks and Workshops Programme
Initiating ourselves into the Wisewoman archetype invites us to journey deep within to discover parts of ourselves we might not even know were there! She offers us the opportunity to explore a number of themes such as ancestral connection, healing and herbal medicine, life and death, telling our stories, finding our voices, grief and loss, setting boundaries, the wisdom of experience, facing our shadows, and embracing our creativity.
Our talks and workshop schedule is designed to support you to explore these themes and more, in a safe and supportive environment, held by experienced facilitators and a circle of dedicated volunteers.
Using the framework of "initiation" and rites of passage, we invite you to journey through the three stages as you work to fully claim your inner Wisewoman.
1. Letting go of the old and what no longer serves
2. Exploring and discovering the new possibilities and potential
3. Homecoming - Being witnessed and supported by our community
Each morning, our opening ceremony will introduce the stage we are focusing on that day and help prepare you for the day ahead.
You will then get to choose a morning and an afternoon session to explore whatever and wherever you feel called to - both sessions are included in your ticket price.
All talks and workshop sessions are 2 hours long and you will be able to pre-book them at morning registration each day.
There are 5 diverse sessions on offer each morning and afternoon and something for everyone, regardless of where you are on your healing path.
We are thrilled to be welcoming back a number of our Speakers and Facilitators from last year, as well as welcoming a number of new ones, all of whom bring something unique to the Wisewoman theme.
Read on to see who is on each day (this may be subject to last minute unavoidable changes).
(Please note that on Sunday there will be a morning session of talks/workshops only. The afternoon will be a very special "Wisewoman's Homecoming Ceremony" for everyone to attend).
Friday's Morning Talks and Workshops...
Cali White
Wisewoman Calls us Home
Join Cali for a guided journey through the "Wisewoman Experience" and a deeper dive into Wisewoman's invitations.
Standing at the crossroads of life and death Wisewoman calls you to a deeper experience of life and urges you to cast off all that is holding you back.
Cali will guide you through the numerous themes of Wisewoman including Ancestral Connection, Death and Grief, Creativity, Life Stories, Responsibility and Sovereignty, Healing and Menopause, and support you to step into the power of your inner Wisewoman.
About Cali:
With a background in psychotherapy, shamanic healing and women's empowerment work, Cali is the founder of The Witches' House and creator of The Witches' Revival.
She is passionate about supporting women to heal ancestral wounds and inherited trauma and walk the path of authentic empowerment that brings meaning, purpose and positive contributions to our broken culture. Her work is born out of her own personal healing journey of many years.
She weaves ritual arts, creativity and psychology to create experiential courses and events that help women heal and grow through the magic and medicine that lies within.
Website:
www.loveisourpower.com
www.thewitcheshouse.org
Facebook:
@thewitcheshouseofhistoryandhealing
Instagram:
@witcheshouseofhistorynhealing
Lucy H. Pearce
Wisewoman Speaks: Wisewoman Writes
Lucy has dedicated her life to women and words, as the author of 12 life-changing non-fiction books for women, and editing and publishing the words of women through Womancraft Publishing.
Join her for this interactive talk in which you will learn to access your authentic voice and express it through writing. Make contact with the voice of the Wisewoman within and let her words spill out into the world through your pen.
Suitable for total beginners to experienced writers alike. Lucy is an experienced teacher of writing and renowned for creating safe spaces to write and share your words. Bring a pen and paper.
About Lucy:
Lucy H. Pearce is the author of multiple life-changing non-fiction books, including Nautilus Award silver winners Medicine Woman, Burning Woman, and Creatrix: she who makes. Her other titles include: Moon Time, Reaching for the Moon, Moods of Motherhood, The Rainbow Way, Full Circle Health, She of the Sea, Crow Moon and she is the co-author and illustrator of The Kitchen Witch Companion.
Her writing focuses on women’s healing through archetypal psychology, embodiment, historical awareness and creativity and she is a much in demand teacher of creativity.
Her e-courses include: Your Authentic Voice, Reclaim Your Creative Magic and Structuring the Soul of Writing.
An award-winning graduate in History of Ideas with English Literature from Kingston University, and a PGCE from Cambridge University in Drama and English, Lucy founded Womancraft Publishing, publishing paradigm-shifting books by women for women, in 2014.
The mother of three children, she lives in Ireland.
Find Lucy all weekend in The Witches' Emporium.
Website:
www.lucyhpearce.com womancraftpublishing.com
Facebook:
@lucyhpearce @womancraftpublishing
Instagram:
@lucyhpearce @womancraft¬_publishing
Barbara Meiklejohn-Free
Wise Women Rising: Sacred Pathways to Empowerment and Freedom.
Join Barbara for a magical journey through the ancient ways of the Wisewoman beginning with a sharing circle, and chanting ritual that empowers your birth name.
Barbara will share her personal experiences from Siberia, the Curanderas of Latin America, the Cunning Women of Scottish traditions, and the Native American elders.
She will talk about healing ceremonies, rites of passage, ancestral worship, divination methods, and the passing on of oral traditions of wise women.
You will then be guided through a drum journey to the womb of the Great Mother to connect with your inner Wisewoman.
Finally the workshop will conclude with an Elder initiation ritual, using Crone stones.
About Barbara:
Barbara is well-known as The Highland Seer from Inverness, Scotland and is an Elder, Seer and High Priestess.
She is a bestselling and award-winning Author of 13 oracle decks, Witches diary & 6 books. She is a hereditary witch and was initiated into the Craft when she was just 16 years old.
She has taught psychic, mediumship, trans-mediumship, past life regression, hypothesis, psychological and shamanism at Arthur Findlay College London, Edinburgh College and the College of Psychic Studies, London.
Barbara draws on her extensive work with indigenous cultures worldwide and weaves this together in her Craft of the Wise retreats. She hosts rites, rituals and ceremonies worldwide. She is a sweat lodge leader, fire walk instructor and veteran sun dancer.
Find Barbara all weekend in The Witches' Emporium.
Website:
www.spirit-visions.co.uk
Facebook:
@barbarameiklejohn-free
Instagram:
@barbarameiklejohnfree
Rachel Hawthorn
Wisewoman's Grief Circle
Join Rachel for a sacred grief circle, a dedicated time to gather and make space for our sorrow and our grief.
Grief comes in many forms - the personal and the collective, bereavement, the deaths of our loved ones, the loss of safety or innocence, the devastation we feel in response to war, crime, tragedy, climate chaos and species degradation that we see unfolding in our world.
Our grief may be ancient, ancestral, or unknown. All grief is welcome in our circle. Together we will lament and mourn, tending to our grief, held in Love, reaching for healing, the Wisewoman guiding us home.
About Rachel:
Rachel is an artist, death doula and shroud maker. Guided by her own experiences of loss, Rachel has found a calling to work with grief, supporting dying people and their families, and using creativity and embodied practice to transform suffering into healing.
Rachel holds space in a simple, effective way, knowing ceremony to be a deeply human practice of connecting with others, connecting with the wider context of our world, and finding ourselves in relationship to the mystery within and all around us.
She offers regular grief-tending spaces in Hebden Bridge.
Website:
www.rachelhawthorn.co.uk
Facebook:
@rachhawthorn
Instagram:
@rachhawthorn
Nuala Poe
Create your Wisewoman Spirit Doll
Tap into your Wisewoman essence and join Nuala to create a Magical Spirit Doll using found and
personal objects, born our of an ancient practice familiar to many cultures around the world.
A folk
magic craft of our grandmothers, your Spirit Doll will embody your energy and intentions, using gifts from nature, familiar
and personal objects that have meaning to you, weaving life, and love into your creation.
No special skills required, materials provided, although you may want to bring some
personal objects or materials to incorporate into your spirit doll.
The doll could be either a personification of yourself as Wisewoman, or a representation
of an ancestor.
Please check out Nuala's Facebook page for images for ideas inspiration if you know you'd like to take part in the workshop at The Witches' Revival weekend.
About Nuala:
Nuala is an artist, a mother, a grandmother, an energy healer, a bone collector and a lover of nature,
animals, and magic.
Facebook:
@nualapoe
Instagram:
@poenuala
Friday's Afternoon Talks and Workshops...
Tammy Brett
Deep Feminine Breathwork Ceremony
Join Tammy in a powerful journey of sound, drums, ceremonial magic and conscious connected breathwork to call in the Wisewoman and allowing her to hold you whilst you release your deepest fears.
She is the Crone, the Grandmother, the Hag within us all, the archetype of liberation and wisdom, the longing for the ground beneath us, the dark, for home, for true safety.
Breathing into the lower chakras, you will be guided to ignite your personal power, cleansing your womb energy and deepening your connection to your roots.
You will explore the depth of your relationship with the Great Mother, your ancestors, your grief and raw instinct.
Calling in that fierce collective energy, her loyal power, her fire, her magic.
Accessing your deep ancestral voices and guttural expression, to cry, howl, scream, shriek and cackle in sisterhood if needed.
About Tammy:
Tammy is a qualified trauma therapist with 17yrs experience with women who have experienced physical, emotional and sexual trauma.
She holds a safe space in the most loving and sacred way and will have carefully chosen assistants with experience of holding space with unshakable strength and love.
Flavia Kate Peters
Dark Goddess Initiation
It’s the Dark Goddess who offers powers of extremity and her gift of transformation as the Crone beckons you in. First she will strip you bare of all that you have known, and then quietly waits for you as you sink deeply into an abyss.
Hers is a journey through the Dark Night of the Soul as you face your crone-hood. But what she offers in return is beyond measure and you will emerge from the darkness as a strong wise woman and more powerful than you could ever imagine.
Join Flavia, best selling author of ‘Reclaim Your Dark Goddess’, to meet your shadow influencers from Baba Yaga, Hel, Sheela Na Gig and Cerridwen to Queen Maeve, The Morrighan and The Cailleach and discover which Dark Goddess is pulling your strings. Time to embrace your shadow-side, reclaim your sovereignty and step into your personal power as a Wise Woman!
About Flavia Kate:
Flavia Kate is a Celebrity Witch, High Priestess and best selling author of 11 oracle decks & 7 books. Recognised as the UK’s leading elemental expert she is a teacher of natural & ancient magick.
Flavia Kate trains others through her magickal professional certification courses at the College of Psychic Studies, London, and is a regular Presenter on the Mind Body Spirit & Pagan circuits. She is both a Scent and Moon Priestess, working medium and clairvoyant, whose television appearances include Celebrity Haunted Hotel, Lightworker's Guide to the Galaxy, along with various guest slots for BBC Radio. She regularly graces the pages of Witchcraft & Wicca and has a magickal column in FAE magazine.
Her authentic approach and authentic expertise makes her a most sought-after wisdom keeper. Her mission is to keep the magick of the Old Ways alive!
Find Flavia all weekend in The Witches' Emporium.
Website:
www.flaviakatepeters.com
www.spirit-visions.co.uk
Liz Rothschild
Outside the Box - Stories of Death, Bereavement and Life
Death is inextricably bound up with life even though our culture tries to hide this from us. Death has so much wisdom to teach us about relationships, honesty and the preciousness of each moment. Come and share in this glorious feast of stories as we allow death to be our life coach, and maybe share one of your own.
Using words, meditation, and ritual Liz will take you on a journey to explore your responses to death and take time to notice and appreciate your aliveness. There will be stories and silence, talking and very likely tears and laughter as we accept Wisewoman's invitation to create a space for death in the midst of life.
Liz will share stories from her uplifting and informative book Outside the Box – Everyday Stories of Death, Bereavement and Life and offer an opportunity for reflection and discussion.
She will share with you what death has taught her over her many decades of working in the field.
Getting closer to death makes life sweeter. Talking about death makes us all less lonely and frightened. It's a topic that brings depth and richness to all of our lives.
All mortals welcome! Tears and laughter guaranteed.
About Liz:
Liz works with the dying and the bereaved. She did not plan that. Life just took her that
way. It has taught her to appreciate the value of every human being and kept her reminded
of the extraordinariness of being alive.
She has worked as a celebrant and run a green burial
ground for many decades, and edited two books of stories of death and life. She founded the
Kicking the Bucket festival and tours her one person show Outside the Box – A Live show
about Death. She passionately believes in the importance of including children and other
excluded groups in the conversation.
Website:
www.woodlandburialwestmill.co.uk www.fullcircleproductions.org.uk
www.kickingthebucketfestival.co.uk
Chryssie Burgess
Hand-felt Your Own Wisewoman's Medicine bag, Empowerment Pouch or Remembrance Purse
Create from your centre of wisdom a personalised felt pouch, hand-made by you from start
to finish. Reflect on what you need to support, nurture and empower you on your unique
Wisewoman path.
Join Chryssie and learn how to:
• wet-felt a flat felt piece in neutral tones or vibrant colours
• hand sew it into a 3D pouch
• decorate with emblems and tokens that hold power or meaning for you
Fibres, beads, buttons, threads and yarns provided.
Bring any small token items special to you to pop inside; small feathers, shells, crystals,
herbs. Decorative stitching/straps may need to be completed at home.
About Chryssie:
During the 1980s Chryssie woke up to her own sensing and
knowing through severe ill health and the inability of the medical world to offer her anything
but body/mind numbing drugs.
She carved her own path back to health, on the way embracing
meditation, healing, reiki, aromatherapy, yoga, alexander technique, environmental and
personal balancing.
Felt-making has become her "balance" and in a busy life supporting and training others it allows her to step into a tactile world of colour, shape, form and texture, and express how she feels in
THAT moment.
Chryssie is a felt-making artist with a studio in The Storey, Lancaster.
Saturday Morning Talks and Workshops...
Cali White
Wisewoman Calls us Home
Join Cali for a guided journey through the "Wisewoman Experience" and a deeper dive into Wisewoman's invitations.
Standing at the crossroads of life and death Wisewoman calls you to a deeper experience of life and urges you to cast off all that holds you back.
Cali will guide you through the numerous themes of Wisewoman including Ancestral Connection, Death and Grief, Creativity, Life Stories, Responsibility and Sovereignty, Healing and Menopause, and support you to step into the power of your inner Wisewoman.
About Cali:
With a background in psychotherapy, shamanic healing and women's empowerment work, Cali is the founder of The Witches' House and creator of The Witches' Revival.
She is passionate about supporting women to heal ancestral wounds and inherited trauma and walk the path of authentic empowerment that brings meaning, purpose and positive contributions to our broken culture. Her work is born out of her own personal healing journey of many years.
She weaves ritual arts, creativity and psychology to create experiential courses and events that help women heal and grow through the magic and medicine that lies within.
Website:
www.loveisourpower.com
www.thewitcheshouse.org
Facebook:
@thewitcheshouseofhistoryandhealing
Instagram:
@witcheshouseofhistorynhealing
Carly Mountain
Standing in the Fire of Your Wisdom - Embodying Your Authenticity
Join Carly as she invites you to stand in the fire of the wisdom inherently embodied within you. That is, to dare to be all that you are - unedited.
Patriarchy has given women an impossible task, to not be “too much” and to be everything to everyone. This creates a split within, that thwarts our freedom to fully embody and share our wisdom – both it’s shadow and it’s light.
Using movement, voice, poetry and the ceremonial practice of standing in the presence, Carly will facilitate you to explore your authenticity and move with it.
Can you risk being fully seen, not just as you want to be, or don’t want to be, but as you are?
About Carly:
Carly is a psychotherapist, a psychosexual somatic therapist, breathworker and the author of Descent & Rising: Women’s Stories & the Embodiment of the Inanna Myth.
Her work has evolved over twenty years of working with sacred practice and space holding. She is passionate about facilitating women, at all ages and stages of life to remember, reclaim and reconnect to their inherent erotic aliveness, power and pleasure.
She lives in Sheffield, England with her husband and two daughters.
Find Carly all weekend at the Womancraft stall in The Witches' Emporium.
Website:
www.carlymountain.com
Facebook:
@Carly-Mountain
Instagram:
@carly_mountain
Filo Ianni
Finding Voice, Giving Form
Wisewoman holds the key to our creative energy! Join Filo for this experiential session which draws from movement and the sensory portals, to find and give form to your quietened, forgotten or blocked voice and inspiration, whether for writing, for visioning a project, for opening creative flow or for accessing dormant resources.
Inspired by somatic movement and embodied imagination practices and by CAP (Creative Articulation Process, by Jane Bacon and Vida Midgelow), Filo offers a beautiful approach to creating from our sensory body’s guidance.
Please bring a journal and pen. Other art materials are provided.
About Filo:
Filo is an ISMETA registered Somatic Movement Educator & Therapist and a community rhythm facilitator, with a background in embodied psychotherapy. She trusts in the imaginative and restorative capacities of our body and soul and is especially interested in authentic and developmental movement.
She works with individuals, groups and organisations and is currently deepening into somatic movement work with illness and recovery in studios, care homes and hospitals.
Website:
www.allthingflow.co.uk
Facebook:
@RhythmCalls
Instagram:
@allthingsflow_movementnrhythm
Debbie Collins
Death Cafe
Wisewoman invites us to face the cycle of life and death and yet in our death averse culture, it's a topic which often feels like a taboo subject.
Join Debbie for this compassionate circle that provides a safe enough space to talk about death, our own and those we love, and eat cake!
About Debbie:
Debbie has been working with death and bereavement her whole life; training initially as an acupuncturist and then as a counsellor, she has been co-facilitating Death Cafes for several years now and loves the enlivening effect that talking about death brings.
Website:
www.debbiecollins.co.uk
Amy Gunawan
Weave Your Own Willow Star
Join professional willow-weaver, Amy as she takes you through each stage of the magical process to create your very own willow star.
Learn how this wonderful material behaves and how to work with it. Using traditional craft techniques practiced for hundreds of years by our Wisewomen ancestors you'll leave with flat weave star perfect to decorate your home or garden.
About Amy:
Amy is a local willow weaver based in Lancaster. She started her basket weaving journey in January of 2021 with some hand tools, a book and 15 free nursery hours a week.
She started to teach herself the basics of basketmaking and is on a continuing journey of learning. She loves sharing what she knows and teaches regular willow-weaving workshops across the North West.
She loves the rustic textures, the earthy smell and sound of the willow rustling together as she weave.
Find Amy all weekend in The Witches' Emporium.
Website:
www.amygunawanwillowweaving.com
Facebook:
@AmyGunawanWillowWeaving
Instagram:
@amygunawan_willowweaving
Saturday Afternoon Talks and Workshops...
The Seed SistAs (Fi and Kaz)
Magical Herbalism – Scrying, intuiting and Divination with Plants
Whether you're a seasoned psychic or just starting to explore your intuitive side, come join The Seed Sistas in their lively talk and discover how herbs can guide you in your quest for deeper connections.
There are many herbs that aid in foretelling the future and gift us with powers of insight. In this talk, we'll look into specific herbs and their unique properties, as well as the mysteries surrounding their special powers.
Come meet two wacky witches (who love a bit o’ dress up and play) and explore:
• The history of herbs in enhancing spiritual practices
• Which herbs can protect you against negative energies
• The trusted herbs that can heighten your psychic senses
• Favourite Magical potions for scrying and divination
We are all on the spectrum when it comes to our special powers, it's just how much we choose to nurture them. Nature and specific plants can certainly support your development!
About The Seed Sistas:
Fi and Kaz, the renowned Seed Sistas, combine scientific herbal plant research with magical experience to layer the understanding of plant exploration.
They hold BScs in phytotherapy and health sciences and many years of teaching connection to plants through retreats, conferences and online events.
Come and hear more and be welcomed into a wild, creative and sometimes edgy world of magical, medicinal, sensual herbalism.
Find The Seed Sistas all weekend in The Witches' Emporium.
Website:
www.seedsistas.co.uk
Facebook:
@SeedSistAs
Instagram:
@seed_sistas
Edwina Hodkinson & Danielle Kay
The Wisewoman Initiation
Join Edwina and Danielle in a transformational exploration of peri/menopause as an important rite of passage that
takes a woman from her reproductive years to her Wisewoman years.
During
this time we enter a liminal space of challenges and deconstruction of who we
once were as we step into the role of an apprentice Wisewoman.
Working with
shamanic journeywork, initiatory goddesses, ceremony, herbal allies and
sharing you will be guided to reclaim peri/menopause as a major female midlife initiation.
About Edwina:
Edwina is 9 years post menopausal and has been working with women journeying though
the menopausal transition for the last 14 years running Wisewoman workshops all over the
northwest. She is an ex-nurse and has worked
as a complementary practitioner in cancer care and palliative care in the past. She is often
seen walking the land foraging for medicines and food as well as helping communities to
reconnect with the land in a deeper way.
Website:
www.edwinahodkinsonherbalist.co.uk
Facebook:
@EdwinaHodkinsonherbalist
About Danielle:
Danielle BSc (hons) MNIMH is a medical herbalist, forager, herbal tea blender, member of
Association of Naturopathic Practitioners and the Association of Foragers.
She has been in practice as a medical herbalist for 13 years and runs a busy herbal clinic
in Pendle, East Lancashire. Women’s health is her passion, and she loves supporting women
through the peri-menopausal transition, helping them navigate this important rite of
passage to become an empowered and strong Wisewoman.
Find Danielle all weekend in The Witches' Emporium.
Website:
www.daniellekay.co.uk
Facebook:
@DanielleKayMedicalHerbalist
@PendleWitchTeaCompany
Instagram:
@Daniellekayherbalist
Edwina and Danielle have worked together for the last 9 years facilitating their wonderful
herbal course Weeds and Wild Medicine face-to-face in Lancashire and online. This year
they have created Wild Medicine Tribe to take people even deeper into the knowledge and
wisdom of the plants, to help them reconnect with the Earth and the ancestors so we can all
heal and grow together.
Website:
www.weedsandwildmedicine.co.uk
Coco Oya Cienna-Rey
Reclaiming our Deep Ancestral Wisdom
There was a time when the wisdom of WOMAN was revered and her essence held Sacred. She was safe to own her power, embody her gifts and express her gnosis out in the world. This remembrance sits deep in your bones and is linked through your ancestral lineage.
Join Coco for this experiential workshop and journey to summon the aspects of yourself connected to the cellular memory of your innate ancestral wisdom passed down the bloodline waiting to be reclaimed.
This is a HOMECOMING to the truth of who you are. Are you ready to embrace your inner Wisewoman?
About Coco:
Coco is a deeply sensitive UK-based Creative, Mystic, soul guide and writer. She assists women to reclaim their true authentic nature and is a devotee of the Tantric path (an embodied path of self-liberation). As a Voice for the Deep Feminine she is published in several anthologies and her latest book ‘Digging for our Mothers’ Bones’ - a guide to reclaiming our Deep Feminine Wisdom is due for release in 2025.
Often thought provoking, yet always heartfelt her work speaks of the sacred wisdom stored in the body, the non-linear nature of trauma and the embodiment of soul.
Find Coco all weekend at the Womancraft Publishing stall in The Witches' Emporium.
Website:
www.creativelycoco.com
Facebook:
@cocooyaciennarey
Instagram:
@creativelycoco
Jessica Aldred
‘Wisewoman’ Hand Embroidery Workshop
Inspired by the "Wisewoman Calls us Home" theme, join Jessica and learn the traditional art of hand embroidery. Using cotton and golden
threads weave the magic of wisdom and create your own version of art embroidery
depicting the beauty and grace of the archetypal Wisewoman.
Embroidery and creativity are proven to support
inner peace and wellbeing. Slow down, connect with yourself and allow yourself to escape
through this wonderful workshop.
About Jessica:
Jessica is a graduate of the Royal School of
Needlework who has dedicated her life and work to helping others through art and
creativity.
She is a witch, artist, maker, author and facilitator who works on commission
and teaches embroidery and nature journalling through her business House of Heyday.
She also works for a charity providing creative education to learning disabled and autistic
adults and is a proud single mother to a wonderful little girl.
Website:
www.houseofheyday.co.uk
Facebook:
@HouseofHeyday
Instagram:
@houseofheydayjessica
Macy Doris
Teen Workshop: Maiden, Crone, Hollow Bone!
A special workshop for teen attendees, join Macy on a journey to channel your inner crone in your maidenhood and explore your relationship with the crones in your life - grandmothers, great grandmothers, aunties.
Not all of us have Elders still here in this realm, earthside, however by connecting with our inner crone & future crone we can bring through their innate wisdom.
The Maiden brings the light, she is spring, abundance, joy!
She is wild & free, strong & determined. The crone brings the dark, she is winter, warmth, and wisdom!
She is keeper & speaker of truth.
Come and explore how we can embody the Wisewoman during our Maidenhood to bring forward the threads of love & wisdom and unite our inner light & dark energy.
About Macy:
Macy is Maiden, Earth Keeper, Medicine Woman, and Shamanic student. The last few years have taken her on a magical journey of healing & self discovery.
Now her life’s path is to share this magic with other teen girls.
Having birthed “The Maiden Journey” in her 13th year she now holds a safe sacred space for young women to learn about the inner journey, Empowering them to stand in their power. Her work is centred around the four powerful female archetypes of
Maiden, Mother, Maga, Crone & bringing them all home.
Facebook:
@PineTreeCircles
Instagram:
@Pinetreecircles
Sunday Morning Talks and Workshops...
Dr. Sharon Blackie
Wise Woman: reimagining the second half of life
Wise women are ubiquitous in European myth and folklore, but they’re largely unknown – and the Wisewoman, symbolising the essence of mature female wisdom, is no longer a prominent archetype in our culture.
Come join Sharon for this inspiring talk in which she brings the stories and characters to life, re-membering the beautiful, lost fragments of our native traditions.
Be inspired with ideas for reweaving them into the fabric of a more meaningful everyday.
About Dr. Sharon:
Dr. Sharon Blackie is an award-winning author and psychologist with a background in mythology and folklore. Her highly acclaimed books and teaching focuses on reimagining women’s stories, and the relevance of myth, fairy tales and folk traditions to the personal and cultural problems we face today.
She has written five books of fiction and nonfiction, including the bestselling If Women Rose Rooted; her writing has appeared in international media outlets and she has been interviewed by the BBC and other broadcasters on her areas of expertise.
Her next book, Wise Women: a new mythology of older women will be published by Virago in October.
Website:
www.sharonblackie.net
Substack:
www.sharonblackie.substack.com
Instagram:
@sharonblackiemythmakings
Mae Bird
Reclaiming your Natural Wisewoman Voice
Join Mae in this powerful and transformational session using the power of your natural voice. You'll begin by co-creating a safe space in which to explore your voice using guided listening, breathing and toning practices.
Tuning into your body and your feelings, you'll then be taken on a journey into remembering the healing power of your living instrument and allow yourself to release stored emotions in the body to create space to sing your soul song, open your throat and connect your voice to your heart.
By reclaiming your voice as a sacred instrument of manifestation you assist your embodiment into the Wisewoman that you already are!
About Mae:
Mae is a singer, song-channeller, ceremonial musician and creator of natural-voice work. She has been studying and teaching voice and song for over 15 years, and is passionate about facilitating women to feel safe to open their throats and sing their truth out into the world.
She believes that through connecting our voice to our hearts we can harness the power of our living instrument, sing into the water of our bodies and create new patterns healing, transformation and the cocreation of new earth.
Facebook:
@maebirdsings
Instagram:
@maebirdsings
Ursula Holden Gill
Stories & A Sense of Place - Harking the Call to Home
According to the Aborigine, there are three layers of dreaming that represent aspects of what they term Dreamtime (a sense of belonging);
Personal, Historical and Myth.
Every culture has its own Dreamtime, and stories, down the centuries, both in the oral and literary traditions, have provided popular means of retaining it.
Join Ursula in this powerful session as she invites you to consider your own sense of belonging. How does our relationship with place connect us now and with the past? And beyond that, with which version of it? The one that we've been fed by the systems that surround us? Or, the one that we carry in the fibres of our being?
Bring your journal and pen and prepare to come home like never before.
About Ursula:
Ursula is a Drama therapist, currently specializing in Early Intervention Psychosis, who’s fascinated and frequently heartbroken by the age-old relationship between mental health, poverty and complex trauma.
With a background in Storytelling she has spent many a happy hour researching, walking the terrain and tale telling on the good folk of her beloved West Yorkshire and native Lancashire border lands who long ago learned how to survive and even thrive there.
Though she tries to dodge performing at all costs in every aspect of her life these days, storytelling continues to inform much of her practice and she loves messing with music, movement and real-life observation (or ‘history, mystery and washing’ to quote Lewis Carroll), to connect people of all GGRRAAACCEEESSS with their creativity.
Website:
www.ursulaholdengill.com
Rachel Castagne
Wisewoman Perfume-making Cauldron
Join Rachel in exploring your own alchemical process and the art of creative blending using scents to inspire the imagination and free the spirit.
Rachel will guide you to connect with your inner Wisewomb’an, supporting you to work with your intuition to see where your sensing leads you.
From those first 'inklings' you follow your nose, bypass the rational brain, using your feminine intuition and ‘inner sense’ of smell to create the medicine you need.
Lean into your Creatrix and Intuitive Archetypes; learn to ‘listen through the nose’ trusting the wisdom within to make your own unique Wisewoman Perfume to take home.
About Rachel:
Rachel is a multi-passionate artist offering organic potions, flower essences, and aromatherapy perfumes for emotional healing.
Her business, Charlton Botanicals, is ethically sourced and inspired by real, raw radiant women who are tired of compromise. The products harness nature's power whilst honouring Mother Earth.
Embracing the archetypes of the Creatrix, Mystic, and Medicine Keeper, with over 30 years of expertise across various healing modalities, working with her intuitive methodology, Rachel embraces the cyclical essence of life, empowering individuals to embark on their own self-healing journeys through harmonious collaboration with nature.
Find Rachel all weekend in The Witches' Emporium.
Website:
CharltonBotanicals
Facebook:
@charltonbotanicals
Instagram:
@charltonbotanicals
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