Her Tribe Gathering - 12th April

Her Tribe is women's space that runs monthly events in Belgrave, Berwick and surrounding areas.

Essentially, we hold women’s circles without the "woo woo”… monthly interactive and engaging events that are fun, structured and connecting, and aimed to appeal even to women that don’t usually go to women’s circles. Our event’s are welcoming, inclusive and collaborative and promote connection, growth, learning and friendship.

This is a space for women to come together to witness each other in our greatness and our fragility, a place to cry and laugh together, to be real and authentic and vulnerable and to support each other through all the gritty bits of life.

What to expect: Our circles are a structured 3.5 hour container which will include:

Welcome & group rules, a short meditation to drop in, a fun icebreaker, a deep check in round to share and be witnessed, and a break for tea and snacks and building friendships. Then a hour space that is unique to each circle: either a guest presenter, an art/craft activity or a topic we explore as group and finally, a checkout process.

What to bring: An open mind, unfiltered YOU exactly as you are on the day, kindness and curiosity and clothing that's comfy to sit on the floor in.

We’d love to have you in our tribe xx

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www.hertribe.com.au

FACILITATOR BIO:

Shani Connard is the founder of Her Tribe. She is a well-being and relationship coach based in south east Melbourne and a solo Mumma to a wise and sensitive eleven year old.

She thrives on supporting women to create more joy and connection in their lives and is passionate about ditching the outdated expectation that women should put everyone else first and themselves last.

With over ten years of experience in both mixed-gender and women's circles, she has cultivated a profound appreciation for the transformative power of being seen and loved in all facets of ourselves—embracing our humanness, imperfections, and unique beauty.

Guest presenter: Anna from Nurturing parenthood

Nurturing Parenthood is all about supporting parents and carers of children aged 0-18. Whether you’re navigating newborn parenting, toddler meltdowns, tween/teen attitudes, I’m here to offer down-to-earth guidance, practical tools, and a whole lot of compassion.

During our time together, I’ll be focusing on self-compassion as a parent — because let’s face it, we are often our own harshest critics. I will introduce a simple tool to help you understand better what’s really going on beneath your child’s behavior, and how we can meet them with empathy while still holding boundaries.

I can’t wait to meet you all, share some stories, and explore ways we can nurture ourselves while nurturing our kids."

GROUP RULES

1. Be real, be vulnerable be YOU.
Her Tribe is a place to be real, messy, vulnerable, brilliant and everything else in between. This is a space we leave our masks at the door and show up EXACTLY as we are that day.

2. This is a judgement free zone.
Listen, hold space and perhaps offer your perspective if you have relevant life experience. Don’t judge other’s decisions or actions, we all do the best we can with the information and tools we have at that time.

3. Self-responsibility.
Her Tribe is an inclusive and welcoming space for women to come together to grow, share their life experiences, and build lasting friendships. We are not a support group or group therapy space. Participants need to be responsible for their own mental and emotional well-being while participating and access appropriate support outside of tribe meetups.

4. Be KIND.
You never know what is going on in other people’s lives and kindness is FREE.

5. Respect confidentiality.
Authentic, raw and expressive discussions make groups great, but may also contain information that is sensitive and confidential. You may talk about your own experiences, but do not share other’s work, conversations or experiences without permission.

6. Listen and hold space when someone is speaking.
It’s so easy to interject with our advice or experiences (and there’s time for that too) But let the person speaking have the space and attention to share fully first.

7. Have each other’s backs.
In tribe we come together to witness each other in our greatness and our fragility, to be vulnerable and real and support each other. No criticizing, backstabbing or gossiping will be tolerated.

8. Support, not tribalism.
When we jump straight defend the person sharing, we rob that person of the opportunity to reflect and gain insight from their experiences. We want  to create an environment to support and witness each other, rather than just making the other people in the story wrong and bad.

9. No labels.
This is not a space to diagnose each other or put other people in a box. Humans are wonderfully complex creatures and we’re not qualified to decide other people’s labels.