At
58, Liz Perkins is coming to the end of her own menopausal transition.
She sees menopause as an opportunity for women to look at their lives
and reshape them if they choose, in the light of their own changes.
It often helps to have time away from normal life to do this. It
can also
be useful to acquire tools to carry on the process at home. Liz runs
workshops with a mix of the following themes: 
- Making midlife meaningful – what is it all for, and what is it about for you?
- Making sense of change – ways
of easing the
transitions and looking after yourself.
- Growing a sense of the future – finding
new ways to be.
- Tracing the path – what can you build on? What would you
like to do more, or less, of? What would you like to change?
Workshops are for women only. They will involve a mixture of ideas,
discussion, time out to think or just be, and simple creative activities
as an aid to self-discovery – no previous skills needed! It can be helpful to take stock in the company of a small group of women of the same age and stage of life. Why
not sign up for one of the weekends in the open programme?
Click here for Liz's working principles.
Alternatively, you could contact Liz if you would like something arranged for your group in
your own area. Liz has worked with a wide variety of groups of women, running workshops and giving talks in settings as diverse as the Women’s Institute, the Nottingham Women’s Centre, the Glastonbury Goddess Conference and Sheffield University’s Women’s Informed Childbearing and Health (WICH) Research Group. She is available for ‘taster’ sessions, short courses or day workshops – please get in touch if you think your group would like to explore midlife or menopause with an experienced, sympathetic and informed facilitator. Liz is a member of Health Promotion Associates and has experience of working
with women on their own issues as well as with health professionals.
Liz will be happy to discuss your group’s needs with you; for a couple of ideas for day events, click here. You can read more about Liz here.
Changing Bodies, Changing Lives: time out
for mid-life women
Weekend Workshops
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You can also use our offline form and pay by cheque, of course, for any of the Workshops.
Harvesting for the Future
26-28 September 2008
Venue: Morley Retreat and Conference House, Derbyshire
Cost: £160
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.
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Reclaiming our Womanly Heritage
November 7-9 2008
Venue: Morley Retreat and Conference House, Derbyshire
Cost: £160
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.
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The Venues
All venues set out to provide a quiet atmosphere in which relaxation and reflection is made easy, and all have their own grounds. They are all accessible by public transport, within 5 miles of a railway station with bus and taxi services. Weekends start with an evening meal on Friday night and finish after lunch on Sunday. Prices are for full board and single rooms; if you would like to come with a friend and share, this may make it slightly cheaper at some venues. Contact Liz for further details on this or non-residential rates.
Contact Liz for
more details on individual events, or apply online or on the booking
form (this opens in a separate window so you can check back more
easily).
