Day for Dads - A father's guide to supporting your daughter through puberty

Dear Dads/Caregivers,

As a father,/caregiver your influence is pivotal in guiding your daughter through the transformative journey of puberty. 

Join us for a unique and empowering workshop designed exclusively for fathers/caregivers with daughters aged 8-14.

Date: Saturday 23 Feb 2025

Time: 10AM - 3:00PM

Location:  Guwara, The Yurt, Austinmer

A Father's Guide to supporting your Daughter through Puberty

Puberty is more than just a phase; it's a profound stage of growth and self-discovery for your daughter. 

Our workshop aims to equip you with the knowledge and skills to navigate this journey together, fostering a deeper connection and understanding.

Event Highlights:

1. Mapping the Path:
   • Gain insights into the wisdom and cyclical intelligence embodied during puberty.
   • Learn a fundamental map to navigate this transformative period with confidence.
2. Comprehensive Understanding:
   • Master the nuances of physical, emotional, social, and psychological changes your daughter experiences.
   • Acquire tools to support her through these changes positively.
3. Effective Communication:
   • Develop simple yet powerful communication skills.
   • Engage in ongoing, meaningful conversations with your daughter about puberty, building trust and understanding.
4. Reflecting on Your Role:
   • Explore the significance of your role as a father/caregiver during this crucial time.
   • Understand how your influence shapes her self-esteem, core values, and relationships.
5. Self-Exploration:
   • Reflect on your own attitudes and beliefs.
   • Understand how your personal perspective influences your role in guiding your daughter through pubescence.

Why Attend?

• Strengthen your bond with your daughter during this transformative phase.
• Equip yourself with the knowledge and tools to support her journey positively.
• Connect with other fathers facing similar experiences.

We look forward to empowering you as you guide your daughter through this significant chapter of her life.

About Jo:

Jo has training as an art therapist and transpersonal counsellor.  She has facilitated group workshops for adults and children for over 20 years and utilises creative techniques to enhance the therapeutic relationship.

Jo lives on the South Coast of New South Wales and has found the natural world to be her greatest friend and teacher.  As a young girl she had a special connection to nature and to the land and spent hours "just being" in the natural environment. This love of the natural world deepened as an adult and she discovered as a therapist the value of working restoratively with the land and with earth-based practises.

Through Jo's involvement with ‘Rites of Passage’ work she has found a special joy guiding individuals and groups as they move through life’s transitions and assisting them to find their full potential and true essence.  Jo has come to believe that when someone has a need to understand themselves at a deeper level, they can achieve this through a weaving of the arts such as body movement, stories, archetypes, writing, collage and with earth-base medicine.   In this way a person's psyche strengthens and resolves and reflects back inner wisdom, guidance and healing.

Dip SocSc, Advanced Dip Transpersonal Counselling and Advanced Diploma Art Therapy, Cert Movement Based Therapy, Cert IV Train the Trainer, Cert Group Leadership Skills (educator, facilitator and author of Eco OOSH in action: a whole-of-centre approach to sustainable living.

www.cantadora.com.au

jorockendorfer@gmail.com

About Arahni:

Arahni began her journey with the School of Shamanic Womancraft in 2013 and is a graduate Teacher of the Four Seasons Journey. Arahni consciously walks her own shamanic path of healing and transformation and serves to re-awaken the innate healing wisdom and soul essence within others.

For 20 years Arahni worked in trauma informed family support centres, refuges, schools and outreach street work with young people and families in therapeutic case work and educational roles. Designing and facilitating peer education programs in sexual assault prevention, domestic violence, alcohol and other drugs and sexual health was a great passion of hers. Over a period of 8 years, she had a specialised support role working closely with women and children with lived experiences of domestic violence.

Practising the healing arts of wholistic counselling, shamanic woman-crafting, intuitive body work and compassionate enquiry, she now walks alongside women who seek guidance to orient themselves through change and transformation, from birth to death and other significant life events in between.

In her community and beyond, she offers 1:1 shamanic healing, initiation rites, healing rituals, reclaiming ceremonies, sacred women and mixed gender circles and Seeding Wisdom, a year-long coming of age journey for mothers & daughters aged 9-12. She facilitates positive menstrual education, offering a new narrative to young girls as they walk through the threshold of Menarche and beyond.

Arahni lives with her daughter in a place between the escarpment and wild cliffs by the sea in the Illawarra, held by the lands of the Five Islands Dreaming, the Wodi Wodi people of the Dharawal Nation and acknowledges that sovereignty has never been ceded.

arahni.lion@gmail.com