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KNOWING ONE'S CENTER AND HOW TO CONNECT TO IT
Our entire western culture is oriented from the outside. How do we look? What do others think of us? Are we liked? Are we disliked? Are we rich? Are we popular? Are we sexy? Sadly this conditioning towards the outside often happens already in the very first few months of our earthly existence. We have unlearned how to first feel what’s inside. Know what is dear to us, know what our heart wants, know what our body needs, know the center of our will. When it comes to love and relationships this inner programming is highly ineffective. If we want to love openly, and honestly, if we want to LOVE – we need to know our center. We need to know who we are and how to connect to our true source of love and self. Only then we’ll be able to meet others in a fruitful way.
THE POWER AND PRACTICE OF WOMEN'S SOLIDARITY
What does “women’s solidarity” even mean? I chose to say solidarity instead of terms like “friendship” or “sisterhood” because I have a very positive connection to that word as a verb- as a living practice in action. To me it means a commitment to supporting each other, wanting the best for the other, standing up together against any life suppressing forces DESPITE the question of whether I personally like you very much or not. I am in solidarity with you because you are a woman. Because I know how deep your historic and societal wounds are. Because I know how much we need each other’s warmth and care to feel safe and calm within the intensity of this world. And because I know, to support collective healing, women are needed to stand together to protect life. That’s the power that runs in our veins.
This tends to run smoothly until we approach the topic of love and partnership and until we fall in love with the same person or want the same thing but can’t have both in the same moment. Suddenly comparison, jealousy, distrust, sometimes even hate can take over. And then what of Women’s Solidarity? Where does it go? Didn’t we just stand up against war together? I’ve experienced and witnessed this phenomenon so many times in myself and my own healing journey that I believe it’s crucial to tackle this layer, as women, in community together. Can I still see the other woman as a companion, as a sister, as part of me, when all my fears and pains are triggered?
Maybe not in the moment, but it is possible to eventually find space for solidarity even in those delicate and often tight spots within us. When we choose to remember and understand the larger context of the history of love, of women, of society and of our own emotional and mental wiring better. I believe it’s crucial for life to thrive on this planet that we women get together, not just superficially but as deeply as possible. I am happy to offer everything I know and have experienced to support that to happen in the circle we create together. It will be a space for this living practice to unfold.
SPACES OF TRUTH AND TRUST
Two life qualities that touch my heart maybe the deepest and that I had the privilege to get to know in complexity and depth are TRUTH and TRUST.
It's not easy to find words to describe what I mean by these terms, as these are transformative life qualities that have to be experienced more than explained. Truth and trust sound so nice and can be adopted easily as something we want to have in our lives but often we actually have never experienced what it means to speak, show, live our truth, or to sense truth at our core and to have our truth be seen and heard by others. There is a “magic of love” that can arise when we truly see each other and also discover ourselves in others perception, independent of our personal likes and dislikes.
When such moments of trust among people are able to grow stronger and when truth can be shared continuously, a strong fabric is created that can carry us through many day-to-day challenges.
I dream of a culture where that’s what holds us together.
It’s a lived experience for me at times, and at others it is a dream more than reality. It’s a long journey through the jungle of trauma, fear and separation, but it’s possible if we have the tools to create carefully held spaces in which we allow ourselves to be vulnerable. And if we chose to open up, again and again and again.
Our time together will be an exploration of these two concepts and a practice space to cultivate them together.
CONCRETELY:
I offer a 6 weeks program with 2h sessions each week. The content of the course will be set out like this:
session 1 – Who are we as women in this world? What’s our societal role? Gifts and challenges of being a woman. Getting to know each other
session 2 – Knowing ones Center and how to connect to it. Practices and concepts of re-connection with our own power and confidence
session 3 – Women’s solidarity. How to relate positively and creatively to other women? How can we work with challenges like comparison, competition, fear of loss?
session 4 – Part Two of Women’s Solidarity. Why do we need each other? Archetypes. Qualities that unite and differentiate us from one another
session 5 – Spaces of Truth And Trust. How can we actively create save spaces for truth and trust to unfold? Practices and Tools
session 6 – FAQ and closing circle
