Sunday morning arrives more quietly. After the depth and immersion of the weekend, we come into the day with a gentler pace, gathering what has been stirred and allowing experience to settle. This session opens the closing arc of the Gathering, supporting integration, reflection and meaning-making as attention begins to turn toward return.

Morning sessions continue to run in concurrent blocks, inviting you to choose what feels supportive rather than demanding. The work here tends toward conversation, integration and gentle inquiry, offering space to weave together insight, relationship and embodied knowing. Some sessions are shared and conversational, others more contained and reflective, holding different ways of closing and collecting.

You don’t need to plan the morning ahead. Many women choose one session, others rest, walk or sit quietly with what has emerged. This rhythm of participation and pause remains intentional, allowing Sunday to support completion without rush or pressure.

Session length: 90 minutes

We turn our attention back toward the sun, reconsidering a relationship that has shifted from reverence to fear. Once honoured as life-giving, the sun is now often approached only through the lens of damage and risk. Together we explore a fuller understanding of this powerful presence, holding both respect and discernment.

We look at how skin responds to sun exposure, what contributes to skin damage and cancer, and how care, awareness and informed choice shape protection over time. Natural ingredients such as herbs, oils and butters are introduced as allies in tending the skin, offering nourishment alongside protection. As part of this shared exploration, we work with a sun-protective cream, learning how it is made and why each element matters.

Each woman leaves with a small sample to try and a simple recipe, carrying practical knowledge alongside a renewed relationship with the sun that is informed, respectful and grounded.

We gather in a small circle (12 people only) to slow the pace and return to making as a practice of presence. Working with natural fibres such as Bangalow Palm inflorescences, grasses and foraged materials, we explore weaving as an intuitive, meditative process that values curiosity over control and process over perfection. With only a limited number of places held, the space remains intimate, allowing attention to settle and hands to work at their own rhythm.

As we weave, touch, repetition and flow become a quiet conversation between body, material and inner state. There is no pattern to follow, only an invitation to listen and respond to what is in front of us. The act of making becomes a place of restoration, reflection and grounded awareness.

Together we remember the intelligence of the hands and the ancestral knowledge carried through fibre and form. Each woman leaves with a woven piece shaped by stillness, attention and her own unfolding story, and with a renewed sense of creativity as a source of healing and connection.

We turn toward leadership as a lived practice shaped by values, experience and relationship, rather than position or performance. Together we explore how systems long organised around narrow definitions of power can be influenced from the inside out through feminine ways of leading that are relational, ethical and sustainable.

We take time to reflect on core values and the strengths that arise from lived experience, recognising how these qualities inform authority, decision-making and influence. Attention is given to the role of financial empowerment, not as accumulation, but as a condition that allows women to lead with clarity, integrity and longevity rather than depletion.

This shared inquiry supports recognising personal leadership style and the forms of feminine wisdom already at work in our lives. We consider how these capacities can be applied across different contexts, from organisations and communities to wider cultural systems, inviting leadership that is grounded, resourced and capable of real change over time.

We enter the Four Seasons of Wholeness as a living, cyclical map drawn from ancient Mayan wisdom, offering guidance through the landscapes of body, soul, mind and spirit. Together we explore how these rhythms shape our lives, reminding us of our place within the wider web of life and revealing where movement may have slowed or become stuck.

The seasons become a mirror. We meet the embodied vitality of Summer and the wild pulse of the inner child, the rich emotional depths of Autumn and adolescence, the still discernment of Winter and the adult mind, and the tender mystery of Spring as spirit returns and renews. Each season offers insight into growth, challenge and balance.

Through shared reflection, experiential practice and circle, we explore how this map speaks to our own life journey and supports a return to flow and wholeness. Everything here is invitational. You’re encouraged to engage at a depth that feels right for you, allowing insight and movement to emerge in their own time.

“the great secret- that belonging is really a skill, a set of competencies which we must practice if we are to rise to the call of an aching heart and a fractured world” (Toko-pa Turner)

We come together to explore what belonging means at this point in our lives, travelling through the alchemy of the heroine’s journey as a shared inquiry.

We begin with the Call, listening for what is asking to change. From there we enter the Search, the cauldron of transformation, practising listening in the dark and staying with what is. The journey continues through the Ascent, retrieving the buried feminine and exploring creativity, womanhood and expression. We then turn toward restoring balance, creating greater harmony between masculine and feminine qualities within ourselves. Finally, we arrive at the Heroine’s Return, reflecting on what we carry back into the world, the qualities we offer, and the changes we are willing to commit to in order to create belonging where we live.

We share together through guided inquiry, with space for journaling, artwork and sacred drama.

We gather in nature to support emotional regulation and nervous system resilience through grounded, body-based practice. Drawing on principles from Dialectical Behaviour Therapy alongside the stabilising presence of the natural world, we slow the body, settle the mind and restore a felt sense of safety and connection.

Together we engage the senses, work with breath, movement and touch, and explore simple ways of regulating intensity, soothing the nervous system and strengthening inner boundaries. Attention is given to recognising emotional states as they arise, meeting them with compassion and flexibility rather than force. The land itself becomes an ally, offering cues for grounding, rhythm and resilience.

This shared exploration offers practical tools that can be carried into daily life, supporting ongoing regulation, clarity and self-trust. Space is held for reflection and gentle exchange as we notice what shifts, what steadies and what can continue to be tended beyond the circle.

We gather in a warm, carefully held space to reconnect with the vulva as a site of sensation, wisdom and self-relationship. This is a space for people with vulvas who wish to better understand their anatomy, soften shame and cultivate a more nourishing connection to pleasure on their own terms.

Together we explore anatomy awareness alongside gentle somatic practices using breath, movement and guided self-attention. By slowing down and listening to sensation as it arises, we support self-acceptance, curiosity and the possibility of pleasure or neutrality without pressure. This is not about striving, performance or pushing experience, but about meeting the body with care and honesty.

As relationship with the body deepens, many women notice increased ease, confidence and capacity for authentic connection. This work is held gently and fully guided throughout. Nudity is not required. You’re invited to bring a sarong or shawl to lie on and to engage only to the depth that feels right for you. You are welcome exactly as you are.

After lunch, we enter the final sessions of the Conference. This is a time for drawing threads together, allowing what has been touched over the weekend to settle, organise and find its place. Energy begins to turn toward completion, not through effort, but through attention and presence.

These sessions offer space for integration, meaning-making and gentle consolidation. Some invite reflection and conversation, others support embodied closing or quiet insight. Together they help gather experience into something that can be carried forward, rather than left behind.

Sessions continue to run concurrently, and you’re invited to choose what feels most supportive as the weekend comes toward its close. Many women attend one final session, others rest, walk or take time in quiet connection. This slowing and choosing is part of the design.

These sessions prepare the ground for Closing Ceremony, offering a bridge between shared experience and return, and supporting a leaving that is conscious, connected and complete.

Session length: 90 minutes

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We gather in circle to honour the drum as an ancient women’s instrument and a powerful ally for shifting energy, emotional states and consciousness. Together we open sacred space, grounding into body, breath and rhythm, and acknowledging the land, lineage and living traditions that hold this work.

As a group, we reconnect with the drum as heartbeat, as mother rhythm, and as a carrier of transformation. Through shared drumming we move into cycles of release, clearing what no longer serves, softening stagnation and loosening what has been held. From there, we turn toward calling in what wishes to take form, allowing new energy, intention and possibility to settle into the body and field. The circle also offers a collective prayer round, sounding rhythm in service to community, connection and the reweaving of social fabric.

Throughout the session there is space for rest, breath and listening, with time to notice what shifts, what emerges and what may continue to be tended beyond the circle.

We gather to walk Country in a way that honours the old people and the living presence of land, water, sky and stars. Guided by Boorroo Spirit, a proud Walbunja Wawarrawarri woman of the Dhurga and Dharug language groups, with Wiradjuri and Darkinjung bloodlines, we move slowly and attentively, learning what it means to listen rather than interpret.

Together we practise walking with respect, awareness and restraint, noticing how Country speaks through place, pattern and relationship. Attention is given to how we orient ourselves on this continent, how we hold story, and how responsibility and belonging are shaped through presence rather than possession.

This is not a lesson in information, but an invitation into deep listening. Through walking, pausing and shared reflection, we are asked to soften certainty and allow Country to lead. The experience invites humility, gratitude and a renewed sense of relationship with the land we move upon and are held by.

We gather to explore the art of making fermented medicinal soda through relationship with the plants growing around us. Together we turn attention to the local landscape, learning how to observe, approach and interact with plants found in gardens, streets and nearby wild edges. This work invites a slower way of knowing, grounded in place and season.

Through shared practice, we explore how herbal medicine, fermentation and ecotherapy weave together to create nourishing, living beverages that reflect the land that holds us. Attention is given to building relationship rather than extraction, noticing how plants respond to care, timing and intention.

This session offers a way of reconnecting with everyday plant allies and simple fermentation as acts of presence and reciprocity. We leave with a deeper sense of how local plants can support wellbeing, creativity and connection, and how tending these relationships can become part of daily life through flavour, ritual and care.

We gather under the new moon in Taurus, a time that invites inward turning, rest and gentle retreat. This is a potent threshold for creating spaciousness, calling in protection and allowing healing to deepen at its own pace. Together we slow the body and settle the nervous system, entering a somatic integration that reconnects us with creative flow and inner rhythm.

From this embodied place, we allow movement to emerge as it wishes, letting the body speak through gesture, sway and dance what may not yet have words. We then return to stillness, listening for an affirmation that can support what is forming, whether a new project, a deepening vocation or a quiet curiosity asking for attention.

In ceremony, we plant a seed, offered or brought with intention, entrusting it to the earth. As the seed is tended in the days ahead, so too is the intention it carries. Care given outward becomes nourishment for our own unfolding, reminding us that creation begins in darkness and grows through steady, patient tending.

We gather to explore herbal medicine as both clinical support for mental health and medicine of the soul. Drawing on lived clinical practice, teaching and earth-based wisdom, we consider how emotional distress may arise not only through biological, genetic and environmental factors, but also through spiritual unrest, loss of meaning and disconnection from self and nature.

Together we examine how liquid herbal extracts interact with the nervous system, endocrine system and emotional body, and why this form of medicine offers particular support during acute distress, long-term recovery and constitutional care. Attention is given to key herbal allies for low vitality and depression, anxiety and hypervigilance, hormonal mental health across life stages, grief and shock, and nervous system depletion following burnout and chronic stress.

Rather than approaching mental health as something to be fixed, we listen for what it is communicating. Herbs are met as wise companions, supporting integration, grounding and remembrance of wholeness across physical, emotional and subtle realms.

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