This month we find the exotic hot weather, gorgeous sunshine and happy buzzing of bees sparking a thought of the circle of life. Mirrored in the red tent by the menstrual cycle, which in these uncertain times seems to roll around with reassuring regularity. We thought we’d explore this theme with you by comparing the […]
Coming home
“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 […]