Our World will change as women voice their views, weave their values and lead the way.
Circles
Women gatherings create the space of listening, witnessing, role modeling, reacting, deepening, mirroring, laughing, crying, grieving, drawing upon experience, and sharing which draws forth the wisdom of experience.
Women in circles support each other and discover themselves, through talk. Circles are a great place for women to begin to take back their mission.
Circles are nonhierarchical. Circles are a great example of how a culture can behave when it listens and learns from everyone in it.
From the beginning, women gathered in circles every month during their menses times.
The Value of Circles
Until women take back their mission to act as stewardships of this planet, the greed agenda holds sway.
The commitment to recognize and remove all forms of usury agenda and to release the immense pain from the witch hunts and burning times, with the courage to discovery individual voice and vision is the mission for a woman, for You.
The change for women that I have seen happen in simple circle gatherings is magic. Many come with a feeling that they are all alone and are powerless in a world gone mad.
Then, they sit in a circle that is safe for sharing. It may be that they may only listen to others at first. Then, they may speak of their own pain and fear. From these simple sharings and listening, magic happens inside.
In today's world, such gatherings are often seen as a waste of time, superficial and a luxury that a family cannot afford. Is it any wonder that so many women feel burdened, alone, struggling, misunderstood and longing for community?
"Painting completed my life."
Frida Kahlo
"One cannot consent to creep when one has an impulse to soar."
Helen Keller
"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. "
Maya Angelou
"The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball -- the further I am rolled the more I gain. "
Susan B. Anthony
You can download this 23 minute recording made at the Gather the Women event in 2010. You will hear Barbara Belnep explain principles of Circle conversations and one example of opening a circle using dirctional energies.
Example of Opening a Circle
They were apart from their regular routine, and the conversations, singing, sharing, creating that naturally occurred during these monthly times lifted their hearts, enhanced their families, inspired new visions and energized their villages.
Many have experienced neglect, abuse or violence. The trauma ripples and has scarred many lives. Family patterns of abuse or violence trap each generation until violence seems normal.
Violence against women and children did not begin recently. It began generations ago.
An old saying is, “If you don’t remember the past you are doomed to repeat it.”
Actually, you must remember it in a way that gives you the power to erase the patterns and reclaim what is vibrantly You .
Like a tree, human beings need healthy, vibrant roots. They form a system that allows us to take in nourishment, to anchor ourselves in our lives, to support our presence. Every act of violence, injures the most tender part of ourselves. Deep inside, our roots are constricted.
In this workshop, we will speak of this violence, honor its pain, delete its voice and reclaim our power as women which is the power that will shift the world!
This workshop is designed to Heal the Roots in order to Free Your Life.
