Would you like support to nurture and nourish your relationship with your daughter as she walks through the threshold of puberty, leaving girlhood behind to begin her journey of becoming a young woman?

Would you like to spend quality time with your daughter to strengthen your relationship and connection with her?

Would you like to explore positive personal growth in a community of like-minded women?

Does the change in each Earth season inspire change within yourself?

Would you like a guiding map to help you navigate the vast territory of womanhood and life?

If you answered yes to any of the above, we welcome you to Seeding Wisdom, a transformational journey for Mothers and Daughters (aged 9-12).

Between the ages of 9-12 our children experience the early stages and onset of puberty. Pre-pubescence and puberty are times of great change. Personal identity begins to shift, widening to encompass more influence from peers and other significant adults.

Creating safety, strength, courage, sovereignty, connection, and resilience within yourself and encouraging these attributes to grow within your daughter will naturally strengthen the bonds of trust and communication between you both during this time of great change. When we gather in community to explore personal growth, we become both teacher and student to one another, learning and growing together in a field of potential and transformation.

What is Seeding Wisdom?

Seeding Wisdom is a series of workshops over four seasons of the year with a clear focus on:

Cultivating ‘seeds’ of positive personal growth
Weaving deeper connections with the natural world
Honouring mother and daughter relationships
Fostering emotional intelligence
Nurturing creative expression
Practicing authentic relating
Growing body wisdom and intelligence

Each workshop aligns with the seasonal calendar and encompasses other cycles such as the menstrual, moon, sabbaths, circadian rhythm and the Native American medicine wheel. This mapping system offers you an experiential understanding of how these rhythms live within us and by coming into right relationship with them, we can bring more harmony and flow to our lives.

What happens at a Seeding Wisdom workshop?

Each workshop has the quality of experiential learning and honours the varying learning styles of all participants. We practice the following:

The Circle Way - this primal way encourages us to sit in circle with our community and share stories and teachings. The Circle Way teaches valuable life skills and tools of how to listen with compassion and curiosity, how to hold personal stories in confidence, how to take radical self-responsibility and practice asking for what we need and offering what we can.

Movement/Stillness - sharing simple and fun ways to move the body. Taking quiet time and rest, honouring the natural rhythms and flow of the 'inbreath' and 'outbreath'.

Sacred Crafting - every session will have an art therapy component including weaving, collage, clay work, doll making, and drawing, all of which are based in ancient practises that women have been doing for millennia.

Story Telling - sharing the age-old tradition of storytelling as a way of teaching and gaining insight.

Guided Meditations - activating imaginal states of being through meditation and journey work.

SEEDING WISDOM PROGRAM FOR 2021-2022:

OPEN DAY: SAT 7 AUGUST 2021 10am - 1pm
CYCLICAL WISDOM (FOR MOTHERS ONLY) - THIS FREE TEACHING CIRCLE SHARES THE FOUNDATIONAL MAP WE JOURNEY WITH IN OUR SEEDING WISDOM COURSE. For free registration click here:

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How can we know ourselves more deeply by tuning in to nature's cycles? This teaching circle explores the wisdom of the cycles.

We can observe the cyclic pattern of birth, growth, full bloom, harvest, decay, death, rebirth, growth, full bloom and so on as it happens all around us, as within so without.

Together we will create an invaluable map. This map helps remind us how the Earth's seasons, our life seasons, the lunar cycle and menstrual cycle and Medicine Wheel are all inter-connected.

This map can teach us to:
* Notice the connection between where we are in our menstrual cycle, our energy levels, emotions arising and our state of mind.
* Simply be with what is happening, and go with the flow, not against it.
* Get creative in how we use our time and energy.
* Celebrate all aspects of ourselves coming into wholeness.

Session 1: New Beginnings (IMBOLC)

SUNDAY 22 AUGUST 2021

This workshop offers an opportunity to create a value-based practice of setting ‘Intention’ where we discern what seeds we would like to nourish for the wellbeing of our mind, body and spirit.

Through the power of narrative, we will share our birth and creativity stories, honouring the blood mystery of birth and new life in a wholehearted and safe way.

Session 2: Menstruation & Puberty (OSTARA – SPRING EQUINOX)

SUNDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 2021

Do you remember having the 'coming of age' talk with your mum/carer?
This workshop offers a safe place to come together and explore the ‘rites of menstruation’. We will learn about the rhythm of the menstrual cycle and how we are deeply connected to the cycles in Nature.

Mums will learn ways to support and affirm this transitional time for their daughters. Girls will be supported to create an empowering connection with their changing bodies. This can initiate a positive, loving relationship with the changes they experience through puberty.

Session 3: Healthy Communication (BELTANE)

SUNDAY 7 NOVEMBER 2021

Contemporary girl psychology can view other girls and woman as competition. We explore how to build healthy, resilient relationships and grow strong friendships. Where other females are seen as supportive. This requires developing sound communication skills. This workshop introduces the practise of non-violent communication, conflict resolution and boundaries in a non-threatening, fun way.

Session 4: Body Wisdom & Care (LITHA – SUMMER SOLSTICE)

SUNDAY 5 DECEMBER 2021

The changes in our body from puberty, motherhood and menopause require different care at different times, through positive body literacy we invite the wisdom of the circle to share insights and methods for their personal care. We explore practises involving breath and body movement. Each mother and daughter spend special one on one time together in a luscious body care ritual.

Session 5: Creating Circles of Support (LAMMAS)

SUNDAY 13 FEBRUARY 2022

Research has shown that having a strong support system has many positive benefits, such as higher levels of well-being, better coping skills, and can often help reduce stress.

This workshop explores how we support ourselves and each other, how we experience nature as a healing modality and how to find your personal healing symbol that can be a touchstone for your own support.

Session 6: Intuitive Body (MABON – AUTUMN EQUINOX)

SUNDAY 27 MARCH 2022

Exploring our intuitive body, we discuss how to sense it somatically, how to initiate its growth and understand what happens when we are not guided versus when we listen to our intuitive self.

Session 7: Ancestral Wisdom Healing (SAMHAIN)

SUNDAY 22 MAY 2022

Samhain is a time when the veil between worlds is at its thinnest and it is here that we look to the wisdom of our ancestors. We have an opportunity to understand more deeply the ancestral world, connect with our personal lineages and honour them in a beautiful ancient practise.

Session 8: Celebration (YULE – WINTER SOLSTICE)

SUNDAY 19 JUNE 2022

Our year long journey closes with a “Day of Celebration” acknowledging our daughters and their journey of becoming young women. We create a ceremony to honour each Maiden in the Seeding Wisdom program. We walk the labyrinth on the land, inviting insight, balance, and harmony.

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 yearlong rites of passage 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. These lands always were and always will be, Aboriginal land.

arahni.lion@gmail.com

Reach out if you have any questions via email. Please share this work if you feel another mum and her daughter would benefit from coming along.