Across Friday, after Opening Ceremony, sessions are offered in concurrent blocks, with shared meals and pauses woven through the day.

Morning sessions tend toward orientation and inquiry, while the afternoon opens into embodiment, voice and creative practice. Evening brings the community back together in shared movement and celebration.

You don’t need to plan your day in advance.

Many women choose one session per block, others rest, walk or spend time in the marketplace or by the river. This flexibility is part of the design.

Friday Morning Sessions offer opening, settling and Deep Inquiry

90minutes

The morning sessions invite reflection, listening and orientation into the themes of belonging, clarity, plant wisdom and inner order.

We break for lunch at the end of this session; 12noon.

“the great secret- that belonging is really a skill, a set of competencies which we must practice if we are to rise to the call of an aching heart and a fractured world” (Toko-pa Turner)

We come together to explore what belonging means at this point in our lives, travelling through the alchemy of the heroine’s journey as a shared inquiry.

We begin with the Call, listening for what is asking to change. From there we enter the Search, the cauldron of transformation, practising listening in the dark and staying with what is. The journey continues through the Ascent, retrieving the buried feminine and exploring creativity, womanhood and expression. We then turn toward restoring balance, creating greater harmony between masculine and feminine qualities within ourselves. Finally, we arrive at the Heroine’s Return, reflecting on what we carry back into the world, the qualities we offer, and the changes we are willing to commit to in order to create belonging where we live.

We share together through guided inquiry, with space for journaling, artwork and sacred drama.

We gather in circle to honour the drum as an ancient women’s instrument and a powerful ally for shifting energy, emotional states and consciousness. Together we open sacred space, grounding into body, breath and rhythm, and acknowledging the land, lineage and living traditions that hold this work.

As a group, we reconnect with the drum as heartbeat, as mother rhythm, and as a carrier of transformation. Through shared drumming we move into cycles of release, clearing what no longer serves, softening stagnation and loosening what has been held. From there, we turn toward calling in what wishes to take form, allowing new energy, intention and possibility to settle into the body and field. The circle also offers a collective prayer round, sounding rhythm in service to community, connection and the reweaving of social fabric.

Throughout the session there is space for rest, breath and listening, with time to notice what shifts, what emerges and what may continue to be tended beyond the circle.

We gather in circle to enter direct relationship with plants, exploring how communication, attention and presence shape our encounters with the more-than-human world. Together we ground into shared space and begin with a brief exploration of ancient understandings of plant intelligence alongside contemporary insights into plant communication.

From here, we move into practical ways of listening, sensing and attuning, offering simple approaches for beginning or deepening relationship. We then sit with a living plant, allowing time for observation, felt sense and quiet exchange. This may involve sitting with plants growing in place, working with potted plants brought into the circle, or meeting fresh plant material through careful presence.

The circle is held as an interactive, shared experience, with space for reflection and exchange as time allows. We close by tasting and witnessing plant medicine through tea, noticing how relationship continues to unfold through the body, senses and memory beyond the circle.

We gather to work with Internal Feng Shui, turning the Ba Gua, the nine-sector map of Feng Shui, into an introspective landscape of the self. Together, we explore each of the nine sectors as an inner room, a facet of stance, clarity, presence and relationship. Rather than arranging external spaces, we turn our attention inward to the energetic layout we live and work from.

We learn to read our internal Ba Gua, noticing how each area is functioning and where imbalance, congestion or absence may be shaping our boundaries, perception or discernment. Through guided inquiry and contemplative questions, we identify what needs tending, strengthening or releasing.

This shared exploration supports those working with people, bodies, space and community, as well as anyone on an inquiring path. We leave with a personal Internal Feng Shui map and practical tools for maintaining inner organisation and energetic hygiene, so we can see clearly, hold cleanly and work consciously, both in our own lives and in service to others.

We gather for an earth-centred, heart-led exploration of seven wise herbs that guide us back to the body’s innate healing intelligence and grounded inner knowing. Together we slow the pace and listen for how plants speak when attention and presence are restored.

Moving in the spirit of collaboration and shared learning, we journey with seven plant allies that support rooting and centredness, clarity of mind and purpose, strong boundaries and self-trust, heart-opening, truth and compassion, and authentic self-expression. Each plant is met through its traditional uses alongside its energetic qualities, inviting connection through touch, taste, scent, sight and felt sense.

Through sensory exploration, reflection and conversation, we experience each herb as a teacher, offering insight into how plant allies support balance, clarity and connection across all levels of being. The circle honours reciprocity between women and the plant folk, grounded in respect, gratitude and shared earth wisdom.

We gather in nature to support emotional regulation and nervous system resilience through grounded, body-based practice. Drawing on principles from Dialectical Behaviour Therapy alongside the stabilising presence of the natural world, we slow the body, settle the mind and restore a felt sense of safety and connection.

Together we engage the senses, work with breath, movement and touch, and explore simple ways of regulating intensity, soothing the nervous system and strengthening inner boundaries. Attention is given to recognising emotional states as they arise, meeting them with compassion and flexibility rather than force. The land itself becomes an ally, offering cues for grounding, rhythm and resilience.

This shared exploration offers practical tools that can be carried into daily life, supporting ongoing regulation, clarity and self-trust. Space is held for reflection and gentle exchange as we notice what shifts, what steadies and what can continue to be tended beyond the circle.

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After lunch, the day opens into applied practice and lived experience. The body is more present, attention has settled and the work moves from orientation into doing, sensing and integrating.

These early afternoon sessions invite engagement through movement, land connection, creative process and relational inquiry. Some are held outdoors or in active spaces, others offer contained focus and guided reflection. Together they support translating insight into felt experience, and exploring how knowledge lives in the body, relationships and daily life.

Sessions continue to run concurrently, and you’re invited to choose what draws you rather than following a plan. Many women attend one session, while others rest, walk, or spend time in quiet connection. This rhythm of participation and pause is intentional.

Session length: 90 minutes

We gather to explore Altar Consciousness as a living practice of sacred space and devotion. For centuries, the altar has been held within organised religion. In this time of remembering, we are called to reclaim our own direct relationship with spirituality, meaning and inner authority. Surrounded by the demands of the over-culture, it is easy to lose connection with the wild self, the artistic self and the holy self.

Together we turn toward the altar as a bridge between worlds, a place where intention, presence and devotion shape how we live and perceive. We explore how sacred space can be created and activated, and how altar consciousness has the capacity to alter our way of being, restoring depth, purpose and meaning through conscious attention.

As a collective act, we co-create an altar that holds vision beyond the personal, activating intention for seven generations into the future. This shared creation invites us to remember how tending sacred space shapes destiny, orientation and the way we walk in the world.

We gather in a small circle (12 people only) to slow the pace and return to making as a practice of presence. Working with natural fibres such as Bangalow Palm inflorescences, grasses and foraged materials, we explore weaving as an intuitive, meditative process that values curiosity over control and process over perfection. With only a limited number of places held, the space remains intimate, allowing attention to settle and hands to work at their own rhythm.

As we weave, touch, repetition and flow become a quiet conversation between body, material and inner state. There is no pattern to follow, only an invitation to listen and respond to what is in front of us. The act of making becomes a place of restoration, reflection and grounded awareness.

Together we remember the intelligence of the hands and the ancestral knowledge carried through fibre and form. Each woman leaves with a woven piece shaped by stillness, attention and her own unfolding story, and with a renewed sense of creativity as a source of healing and connection.

We gather to walk Country in a way that honours the old people and the living presence of land, water, sky and stars. Guided by Boorroo Spirit, a proud Walbunja Wawarrawarri woman of the Dhurga and Dharug language groups, with Wiradjuri and Darkinjung bloodlines, we move slowly and attentively, learning what it means to listen rather than interpret.

Together we practise walking with respect, awareness and restraint, noticing how Country speaks through place, pattern and relationship. Attention is given to how we orient ourselves on this continent, how we hold story, and how responsibility and belonging are shaped through presence rather than possession.

This is not a lesson in information, but an invitation into deep listening. Through walking, pausing and shared reflection, we are asked to soften certainty and allow Country to lead. The experience invites humility, gratitude and a renewed sense of relationship with the land we move upon and are held by.

We turn toward women’s friendship as a living field of transformation. Across our lives, these bonds have held the power to witness, steady, challenge and shape us. Yet many of us arrive in midlife carrying old friendship wounds, the ache of exclusion, the sting of comparison, the quiet grief of connections that faded or ended without ceremony. Contemporary understandings of attachment remind us that these early imprints often continue to shape how we trust, repair and belong with other women.

Together we enter this inner terrain through the lens of archetypal psychology and women’s midlife development. We explore the Maiden’s longing, the Mother’s loyalty, the Maga’s boundaries and the Crone’s clarity, noticing how these forces move through our friendships and influence how we show up. Through reflection and symbolic practice, we consider what is ready to be released, what asks to be honoured and what may be called in as we step into a new chapter of relationship.

This shared inquiry invites insight, softening and renewal, offering a way to reawaken sisterhood with intention, courage and belonging.

We gather to explore herbal medicine as both clinical support for mental health and medicine of the soul. Drawing on lived clinical practice, teaching and earth-based wisdom, we consider how emotional distress may arise not only through biological, genetic and environmental factors, but also through spiritual unrest, loss of meaning and disconnection from self and nature.

Together we examine how liquid herbal extracts interact with the nervous system, endocrine system and emotional body, and why this form of medicine offers particular support during acute distress, long-term recovery and constitutional care. Attention is given to key herbal allies for low vitality and depression, anxiety and hypervigilance, hormonal mental health across life stages, grief and shock, and nervous system depletion following burnout and chronic stress.

Rather than approaching mental health as something to be fixed, we listen for what it is communicating. Herbs are met as wise companions, supporting integration, grounding and remembrance of wholeness across physical, emotional and subtle realms.

We gather to explore menopause as a natural transition that can be supported with wisdom, skill and respect for the body’s own intelligence. Drawing on naturopathic science alongside Wise Woman teachings, we consider why many women choose not to use hormone replacement therapy and how to tend this life stage through other means.

Together we look at how endocrine, liver and nervous system health shape the menopausal experience, and how nourishment, herbal support and rhythm can restore balance and resilience through change. Attention is given to the physical, emotional and symbolic dimensions of menopause, recognising it not as a problem to be fixed, but as a profound rite of passage.

This shared inquiry offers both practical understanding and a wider lens on midlife transformation. We are invited to reframe menopause as a time of power, clarity and renewal, supported by natural medicine, inner authority and the deep wisdom carried in women’s bodies across generations.

We turn toward mental health through the lens of cyclical wisdom, questioning approaches that frame distress as individual pathology rather than meaningful response. Together we explore how people are often shaped not by brokenness, but by adaptation to inner life, relationship and the wider conditions of the times we live in.

This shared inquiry invites a psychospiritual and holistic understanding of mental health, where symptoms are met as signals and strategies rather than failures. While acknowledging that mainstream approaches have their place, we ask how psychological experience might be recontextualised in ways that restore hope, purpose and strength.

Working practically with our own mental health cycles, we notice patterns, thresholds and rhythms, and explore how cyclical awareness can support greater self-understanding and care. Rather than seeking linear solutions, we learn to move dynamically with fluctuation, change and return, cultivating a more responsive and compassionate relationship with our inner worlds.

After lunch, the day moves into a shorter, more contained rhythm. This final session block is held as a space for integration, expression and focused inquiry as energy begins to turn toward evening.

These sessions are offered concurrently and run for a shorter period, inviting presence without over-extension. With no Kids Camp available during this time, children are welcome to attend sessions alongside their carers. All offerings in this block are appropriate for shared attendance, including Boobalicious, which will not be child-friendly in tomorrow’s session.

This session block holds the same lineup on both Friday and Saturday, allowing continuity and choice across days. Some women choose to revisit work, others follow a different thread, and some simply arrive where they are drawn. You’re invited to trust your capacity and choose accordingly, knowing the weekend is designed to meet you through rhythm rather than completion.

Session length: 60 minutes

We gather in ceremony to awaken voice as a living expression of truth, presence and power. Through sound, breath and embodied attention, we enter a grounded and resourced state, gently unwinding the tension and contraction often held in the throat, chest and body. Together we soften patterns of silence, people-pleasing and ancestral memory, allowing space for what has been held back to loosen and release.

As the body settles and the field clears, we reconnect with the clarity and strength that naturally lives within the voice. We move into vocal activation through breath, vibration and resonance, inviting sound to rise without force or performance. Ceremony songs, received through healing work, are shared as vibrational medicine, and voices are woven together in shared rhythm and remembrance.

This is a collective space of liberation, embodiment and sisterhood. We leave more connected to our own sound, more at home in expression, and with a renewed sense of voice as something sacred, relational and alive.

We come together in midlife to turn toward longing for love, intimacy and joyful play as vital forces, rather than indulgences. We gather in a held circle, opening shared space through ritual and attentive listening, allowing honesty and presence to shape the field.

Together we take time to name what is stirring, giving language to emerging desires while gently noticing the emotional, relational or practical edges that may be present. Attention is also given to recognising the resources, capacities and support already within reach. From this grounded place, we draw on collective wisdom, sharing insight and imagination to explore how more lightness, pleasure and connection might be consciously invited into daily life.

This shared inquiry supports clarity, courage and movement, without urgency or performance. We leave feeling seen and resourced, carrying practical ideas and renewed permission to pursue joy, intimacy and play in ways that feel true, relational and alive.

We turn toward the voice as an ancient instrument of comfort, connection and care. Across cultures and centuries, women have carried the practice of singing to those who are dying, unwell or vulnerable, using simple song to ease pain, express love and accompany moments of transition. This lineage speaks to both the social role of women as caregivers and the deeper, mystical power of the voice to hold tenderness and presence.

Together we enter an embodied exploration of this form of singing. Through gentle voice practices, visualisation and shared sound, we connect with our own ancestral female lines and archetypal images of the Mother. The music is simple and soothing, offered not as performance but as devotion. We sing together in community, blending voices in an act of care, remembrance and love. Some sacred lullabies learned here may be shared in the Saturday evening concert.

We turn toward the perimenopausal transition as a time of profound physical, mental and emotional change. Rather than something to endure or override, this phase asks for attentive support and long-term care. Together we explore how herbal medicines can act as steady companions through this transformation, easing symptoms while laying foundations for the post-menopausal years ahead.

We consider key herbal allies that can be woven into daily life to support bone, brain, heart and hormonal health, not only in response to change, but in service of future resilience and vitality. Attention is given to how these plants work gently and cumulatively, strengthening systems over time rather than forcing short-term fixes.

This shared exploration offers practical understanding alongside a wider view of perimenopause as a meaningful threshold. We leave with clearer insight into how herbal medicine can support continuity, stability and wellbeing through this important life stage and beyond.

We turn toward menopause as a journey into wholeness, a spiralling passage of reflection, trusting, allowing and surrender. It is a time of undoing and re-patterning, where what has been gathered, missed or learned is brought into view, and a deeper wisdom begins to crystallise. Together we explore menopause not as loss, but as ripening, a pause before dawn where beauty, clarity and lightness of being quietly emerge.

Drawing on Ayurvedic wisdom, we consider practical and natural ways to support balance of body, mind and soul through this transition, tending wellbeing, nourishment and lifestyle in service of the decades ahead. Menopause is held as a human pause, not only a women’s process, inviting union of self and a return to inner authority.

As this threshold unfolds, we are invited to come out on our own side, receiving the crown of wisdom that belongs to this life stage. This is menopause’s deeper mission: the remembering of self in full and unapologetic bloom.

We gather in Sacred Space to reconnect with the sensuality, wisdom and aliveness of the breasts as a source of pleasure, nourishment and embodied knowing. Many women discover that cultivating a conscious relationship with this part of the body can support breast health, sensitivity, confidence and heart-centred pleasure. All breasts are welcome here, regardless of size, shape, sensitivity, or whether one or both breasts have been removed. Sensation, connection and pleasure remain available in many forms.

Together we explore gentle, empowering somatic practices using awareness, breath, movement and touch to deepen relationship with the body. We also reflect on breast anatomy, wellbeing and the understanding held in ancient cultures about breast energy and its role in vitality and self-love. As pleasure ripples through the body, we notice how embodiment supports emotional connection and self-trust.

This session is explicitly clothes-on, with no nudity. Children are welcome to attend with carers. You’re invited to bring cushions, a shawl or sarong, and a willingness to meet your body with curiosity, tenderness and care.