Community Red Tent Gatherings
These are monthly Red Tent Community Gatherings for women AFAB people. It's a professionally facilitated talking circle designed to experience connection, presence & gentle learning. It is for the sake of regular gathering!
We gather for tea and open conversations held gently. We learn to understand what Red Thread Healing is and actually do it as we sit together. We connect the dots by receiving teachings that are being dreamed, and practiced just in time to heal a fractured and broken world.
Red Tent Community Gatherings offer both vibrancy and stillness. Some ritual, some practices, short guided meditation and talks about things we don't usually talk about other spaces.
We emerge supported and content each time we gather.
Red Tents
The Red Tent movement has been a life changing experience for many women around the globe. Increasingly, women’s circles gathering named their communities Red Tent based on Anita Diamant’s book “The Red Tent”-(1997). The retelling of the biblical story of Dinah (daughter of Leah - who’s mother’s name is not mentioned in the bible).
Red Tent Gatherings indicate a time, before electricity, when women cycles were synchronized with the moon. Thus, communities followed a the cyclical pace and utilized the super-powers of physical senses, mental and emotional acuity and intuition for guidance.
The pattern now forming around the globe follows an interesting path: Imagine these convoluted shifts…From first wave feminism cracking uncontested realities —> to second wave feminism with women gathering in consciousness raising groups learning about each others concerns and needs on to the third wave much informed by postmodernism to the current fourth spiritually informed wave of feminism - where women benefit from the cumulative benefits not always knowing the complexities and intricacies, the definitions and the multiplicities of feminist identities -
Like all definitions offered to us today, on websites such as this one or other platforms on the internet - recognize the subjectivity and perspective of the writers. It is not about a truth, or precision, or academic plagiarism. Rather, this is the sum of an experience and a body of knowledge.
This is Sacred Psychology’s definition:
Spiritual feminism is a movement of people who long understood the systemic hierarchies of the social order of patriarchy that consistently favor men. It is irrelevant to emphasize what it doesn’t mean, as that of course all that it not in the definition that is a reality based situation. It is the social order we’ve been submerged in for thousands of years. Thus, the unpicking of all forms of internalization of it is a process. It is probably going to be a shorter process than the couple thousand years it took for it to fully develop.
This wave of feminism is spiritually informed in that, almost spontaneously, intuitively, includes swirls of indigenous practices of song, dance, movement, prayer, drumming, purifying, ritual and ceremony. It - perhaps unconsciously - identifies an element of loss that occurred overtime with patriarchal religions.
This is quite a mature, aged and wise wave of feminism: it includes women who are granddaughters of generations that weren’t labelled… daughter’s of ‘baby boomers’ - oft labelled the silenced generation- but we can get into that another time. This population of women is said to grow to 1.1 billion by 2025 - so, a good force of women.
