“ Safe, harmonious, such good fun.”
Liz ran a programme of weekends for five years - here are some examples (in the side boxes are comments from previous workshop participants - what they most enjoyed about the various events).
Coming Home to Your Own Centre
“Time out with sympathetic and caring people to stand back from my life and think hard about priorities.”
This stage of life brings a lot of different demands – work, family, community – and it is easy to feel we are pulled many different ways, not necessarily of our own choosing. This weekend offers the opportunity to let go of the cords which tug at us, and explore ways of connecting with our personal centres, finding our own balance and developing a renewed sense of direction.
“ Being able to be me with a group of people I didn’t know, but got to know in the course of the weekend.”
Making Space for Change
If your life were a plant, what would it need? Feeding, watering, weeding to give it space to flourish, pruning? This weekend will link the sense of space in the outside world with our need for space in our own lives, and provide a safe place from which to contemplate our future journeys.
Harvesting for the Future
Autumn can be a time of abundance, or it may bring awareness of shortages. At this stage of our lives we have a lot of experience to harvest, some of it good and positive, some of it painful and hard won. Like farmers, we need to sort out what we can use or give away, what is seed-corn for the future, and what we should plough back in. It is easy to undervalue what we have learnt, so together we will support one another in identifying our personal harvest and its implications, both in caring for others and in looking after ourselves better in the future.
“ The space to reflect on life’s issues in a safe and friendly environment. Peace and quiet was a help – no phones ringing, fresh air and scenery all contributed.”
“ The creative parts were not threatening to those of us who label ourselves non-creative – you gave us the confidence and ingredients to bake our own individual ‘cake’.”
Reclaiming our Womanly Heritage
Some of us have easy links with older women in our families. Some of us don’t. Either way, choosing our spiritual foremothers gives us a sense of continuity with earlier generations which can support and ground us. This is a chance for all of us to deepen our connection with women who trod a similar path before us, whether in story or history, myth or fact.
