International Red Tent Day

Name: International Red Tent Day
Start: 2025-11-08T11:00:00+1300
End: 2025-11-08T14:00:00+1300
Location: The Quaker Center

Sat, 8 Nov, 11am - 2pm NZDT

The Quaker Center

Christchurch, New Zealand

Jill Natalia

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Event description

You’re invited to International Red Tent Day
Saturday 8th November | 11am–2pm
The Quakers Centre, 217 Ferry Road, Ōtautahi
✨ A free community gathering for all who feel the call.

Whether you’ve been journeying with Red Tent Aotearoa for years, haven’t joined us in a while, or have been watching quietly from the sidelines—this is your moment to step in.

We're opening this event to all genders.

This year’s International Red Tent Day is themed around food, memory, and connection.
We invite you to bring a plate that holds a story — something that carries a memory, a tradition, or a feeling. It might be your grandmother’s recipe, a comfort food from childhood, or a dish that reminds you of a time when you felt deeply connected. Please don't stress about this, if you're not a cook bring something bought or foraged, it's all good.

During our time together, we’ll share our food and the stories behind them, weaving nourishment with storytelling, and remembering the ways women have always fed and nurtured each other — body and soul.

Our conversation will also explore finding your tribe and creating the world we want for our children’s children.

Please register via Humanitix (it’s free) so we can plan for your arrival.

Questions?

Email:
redtentaotearoa@gmail.com

About International Red Tent Day

The Red Tent Revolution is here — and growing!
Only a few decades ago, “Red Tent” meant nothing more than camping gear. Since the release of Anita Diamant’s The Red Tent in 1997, women all over the world have been reclaiming the ancient tradition of gathering in circle — to share stories, wisdom, and sisterhood.

Founded by DeAnna Lam in Mexico City, International Red Tent Day celebrates this global movement of women remembering what it means to sit in sacred space together. The film Things We Don’t Talk About: Women’s Stories from the Red Tent helped spread the vision worldwide — including to Jill Natalia, who birthed Red Tent Australia in 2013 and Red Tent Aotearoa in 2020.

About Red Tent Aotearoa

At the heart of Red Tent Aotearoa is connection — real, grounded, nourishing connection.
We exist to help women free themselves from isolation, find their tribe, and build community through shared stories and support.

Our gatherings are are non-religious, inclusive, and heart-centred.

Bring:
• A plate of food that holds a story — and be ready to share it

Curiosity to build community and an open heart 💗

Questions or registration:
📧 redtentaotearoa@gmail.com
🌏 www.jillnatalia.co.nz/membership-red-tent-aotearoa

Come sit with us.
Come share your stories and your food.
Come remember what it feels like to belong.

Tickets for good, not greed Humanitix dedicates 100% of profits from booking fees to charity

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Jill Natalia

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Founder of Conscious Consulting NZ, Red Tent Aotearoa, and Red Tent Australia, Jill Natalia is a vibrant, highly skilled facilitator.

She is a colourful Change-Maker, Community Impact Entrepreneur and Visionary, with over 20 years of experience in Counselling, Business, Project Management and running women's circles.

She has a strong passion for connecting women to make their dreams come true.

Jill has trained over 120 people from all walks of life and age groups to run their own businesses using Graceful Leadership, a training she wrote in 2015 Many of these people have gone on to lead Red Tents under the banner of Red Tent Australia, a Non-Profit Community Enterprise Movement that Jill began in 2013 and has opened 70+ Red Tents to date.

She has the numerology life path of the Spiritual Messenger and has taken on the role of gathering the tribe to make the necessary change needed at this time in our evolution.

With qualifications in Business and Project Management, Holistic Counselling, Compassionate Communication, Meditation, Mediation, Red Tent Facilitation & Yoga Teaching her goal is to educate, awaken and enlighten women to their power, strength and natural gifts.

Her mission is to support women in opening and running Red Tents in every neighbourhood, all over Australia and now having come home, in Aotearoa.

Jill says “The Red Tent movement is a worldwide one and is needed now more than ever as women awaken to their purpose and power.” She feels it is essential for the growth of our civilisation that women always have a circle of support around them to grow and strengthen them, for our culture and to nurture the future.

In our society today there is no formal acknowledgment or recognition of the Feminine Divinity. It is still thought to be an “underground” or “alternative” movement, and somewhat threatening to the mainstream. Jill wants to break down the falsehoods & illusions that are too often found in our culture to bring systemic healing into the light. She sees one way of doing this by training women in Non-Violent Communication/Compassionate Communication so that they will be able to experience the ripple effect on their families and humanity at large.

Jill wants everyone to know that belonging to a community should not be about conforming or giving away your power. It should be about becoming a purposeful being who is able to encourage and nurture others while receiving support and compassion yourself. Jill insists that diversity, equity and inclusion are the only ways forward for leadership and that competition is obsolete. She believes that we have to focus on collaboration to make the changes needed at this pivotal time.

Red Tent Aotearoa has been built on the model of Sacred Commerce; where the number of others you help succeed measures your success. Where asking for help and being open to receiving it are imperative, where shaming and blaming are not acceptable forms of communication. Where providing a holistic approach for women to ‘become’ is the main focus.

The biggest lessons Jill hopes to impart on women are that the possibilities are endless when you feel safe, supported, seen and heard along with a deep knowing that you are never alone!

She thinks that by remembering and harnessing our ancestral wisdom, re-introducing the 'old ways' of learning from nature and reconnecting to the land will heal us. Along with removing the self-imposed “masks” that are firmly in place in society, we can all start to work towards healing the earth via healing ourselves.

Jill moved home to Ōtautahi, Christchurch in 2020 and is excited to bring the Red Tent movement to Aotearoa. She has a consultancy business that offers Business Mentoring, Coaching, Holistic Counselling, Strategic Development and Implementation.

Her passion is Fearless Feminine Leadership Development and Assisted Therapies.

Contact Jill on 0272711808.