“I had a Red Tent shaped hole in me and I didn’t even know it” were the words that struck me when I was on the phone coaching a woman called Zoe about starting a Red Tent. When I asked her about her experience of Red Tents, she said, “It felt like coming home.” This got me thinking […]
What the rapture of silence can give to you
Ssshhhhh!!!! No, this isn’t an endorsement of the divine women’s erotic emporium, it’s an urge to silence. Our theme this month is golden and can be as rare as a crack in the glass ceiling, but oh so important. Paul Goodman wrote in his book “Speaking and Language: Defence of Poetry” about the different qualities […]
Sitting in Circle with Jill, Brighton Red Tent
What does Red Tent mean for me? In 2013 I went to my first red tent. I felt so emboldened and full of passion after an experience of initiation with Women in Power that despite feeling very nervous a friend and I led that first tent. Perhaps it wasn’t the most typical first experience, but […]
Co-creating Red Tents
We often get asked about our policy of only listing free and donation based tents, so we thought that this month we would share where we are at with that question and why. As you will see below our policy has always been to only list ‘free and donation-based’ tents and when women submit listings we do […]
Sitting in Circle in response to political crisis – two women’s experiences
Julie: When one of my local red tent sisters called a wise women council in response to Brexit, I knew immediately that I had to be there. I wasn’t sure why. In fact, I doubted how sitting in circle, with women I perhaps didn’t know, sharing our personal responses to the collective experience of […]