Our Daughters, Ourselves...

How would our world be different if adolescent girls were witnessed, cherished, and celebrated as they transition into womanhood?

Most of us were never welcomed as teens. Our Inner Maiden is left inside hanging, often shamed, embarrasses, or afraid. As mothers we vow to create a different experience for our daughters only to find them rolling their eyes up and running away. What's wrong with this picture?

Reclaiming our Inner Maiden is a necessary stepping-stone to welcoming our daughters into womanhood.

Once our Inner Maiden is seen, validated, and embraced, our daughters, or other girls in our lives, respond to us with newfound receptivity and interest.

Below are a few events where you will:

• Learn about menstruation as a spiritual journey
• Find out about indigenous traditions that revered menstruation around the world
• Be invited to embrace your cyclicity to enhance physical, emotional and spiritual well-being
• Be inspired to welcome your daughter into womanhood with ease and authenticity.

UPCOMING EVENTS:

1) Red Tent training, Sebastopol, CA, starting April '09

2) Goddess is Alive! Series, Palo Alto, CA, Feb. 23

3) Summerfield Waldorf School talk, SAnta Rosa, CA, Feb. 24

4) Healing & Nurturing the Maiden Within workshop, Sacramento, CA, April 3-4

5) Waldorf Parenting Conference, Keynote address, Sacramento, CA, April 25-26

HERE ARE THE DETAILS:

1) Red Tent training

For women, who wish to develop a spiritual connection to their cycle, grow their ability to facilitate women & girls' circles, and spread the RED TENT vision.

Training includes:

• Spiritual, emotional and physical aspects of menstruation
• Healing the Maiden Within
• Elements of ceremony
• Planning and leading ceremonies
• Shamanic work
• Guiding women and girls
• Group facilitation
• Apprenticeship and mentoring

Trained women will be able to facilitate Red Tent events, plan and lead Coming of Age ceremonies

Duration- 13 lunar cycles: one Sunday per month, for 13 months

Starts: April 19, in Sebastopol, CA
TRAINING TAKES PLACE IN A RED TENT!

To receive a Registration Package:

please send an email to lam@sonic.net

2) Goddess is Alive! Series

February 23 - 7:00pm until 9:30pm
Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Great Sophia Room

1069 E. Meadow Circle, Palo Alto, CA

650- 493-4430 ~ itpinfo@itp.edu

Most of us were not welcomed into womanhood. Our Inner Maiden, the coming-of-age girl we once were, is left inside hanging, often shamed, embarrasses, or afraid. As a result, many women consider their periods “nuisance,” “bother,” or “the curse.” It’s time to re-think and let go of such negative emotions trapped in our body! In this informative and experiential evening you will learn about menstruation as a spiritual journey, find out about indigenous traditions that revered menstruation around the world, and be invited to embrace your own cyclicity to enhance physical, emotional and spiritual well-being.

$20 general admission, $15 students and seniors. No one turned away for lack of funds.

3) Summerfield Waldorf School

Tuesday, February 24th, 7:00 PM, at Sophia Hall,

655 Willowside Rd, Santa Rosa ~ (707) 575-7194
info@summerfieldwaldorf.org

The talk will focus on welcoming our children into adulthood as a community, with a particular emphasis on girls' rites of passage. Especially pertinent to parents of 5th-8th grade students, though all parents are welcome! Suggested donation: $5-$10

4) Healing & Nurturing the Maiden Within

Friday, April 3, 7-9 PM & Saturday, April 4, 10am-4 PM

Sacramento, CA

An opportunity for women to come together to re-member and re-story their own coming of age years. Mothers of young girls will benefit immensely and be ready when their daughters come of age. Mothers of older girls will find an opening to new depths in their relationship to their daughters. All women will find solace in this work, which may contain the last missing pieces of their inner puzzles.

To register, please contact Katie Baptist at:

916-996-5851 or passageway@sbcglobal.net

5) Waldorf Parenting Conference

“Educating Our Children—Changing the Future” will be the theme of the regional parenting conference April 25-26 at Sacramento Waldorf School. In response to the tremendous changes and challenges facing us today, there will be more than three dozen workshops on social change, sustainability, parenting and Waldorf education, which was founded out of an impulse for social change and cultural renewal.

The conference will bring together keynote speakers from various social impulses. DeAnna L'am will focus on “How our world would be different if adolescent children were witnessed, cherished and celebrated as they transitioned into adulthood.”

Join more than 250 like-minded parents for a weekend of inspiration and renewal.

A complete brochure and secure online registration are available at www.waldorfinthehome.com or by calling (303) 546-0070.

The conference is organized by Rahima Baldwin Dancy at Informed Family Life.