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 […]
Starting my Red Tent: Womens Circle of Wisdom, Berkhamsted
It feels like a long time since I woke up one morning in July 2014 and heard my inner voice saying “Start a women circle!”. A the time numerous fears came up. There was fear of rejection, of being vulnerable, of failure, fear of the financial commitment, fear of wasting my time, of inadequacy and […]