Women’s Circle Culture

What is it?

• A structure to connect and communicate with other women in a mindful way.
• A philosophy to help us create safe, supportive sisterhood with other women.
• Information to help us practice healthy ways of communicating with other women.
• A system of sharing, deepening and creating a fierce, loving sisterhood.

Why do we need it?

• The ways we are trained in patriarchy to communicate with other women are competitive and destructive to community building.
• We have been taught to compare ourselves to other women instead of being accepting and nonjudgemental of another woman’s path.
• We don’t understand all the cultural ways we have been taught to think negatively about ourselves and other women.
• We desire meaningful, safe sisterhood with other women but we don’t know how to practice it.
  

How do you practice it?

• By learning about the cultural ways in which we have been taught to compare and compete with other women.
• By practicing new ways of thinking and behaving that center cooperation, communication and compassion for our sisters.
• By bringing our attention, our best intentions and our energy together in mindful ways to support and uplift other women.
• By being willing to share and be open with other women so we can co-create trusting communities of mutually beneficial female friendships.

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Ways to Believe and Practice our ‘Fierce, Loving Sisterhood’

You need to believe in yourself. Developing a healthy self esteem is a radical act.	You need to believe in fairness. Share and share alike is one of our mottoes.
You need to believe in other women. Sisterhood is the foundation of our practice.	You need to believe in diversity. We must learn to value each other through our differences.
You need to believe in healing. We all need to allow for ourselves & each other to grow.	You need to believe in honesty. Genuineness is the heart of who we are.
You need to believe in feminism. Our fierce defense of ourselves and each other is our creed.	You need to believe in joy. We aim to laugh often and find celebration whenever we can.
You need to believe in Goddess. However you define Her within and without.	You need to believe in hope. We must practice believing we can make a positive change.
You need to believe in personal responsibility. We all must practice integrity.	You need to believe in community. We engage with each other to build the web of connection.
You need to believe in possibility. We can all grow into more than we have been.	You need to believe in magick. We can craft our intention and enact our Will in the world.
You need to believe in collaboration. Collective endeavors carry their own innate magick.	You need to believe in our power. Together, we can change ourselves, each other and the world.
You need to believe in compassion. We all must try to see the best in our sisters.	You need to believe. Belief makes, doubt breaks.
You need to believe in empathy. Practicing feeling what another feels makes us more human.	You need to believe in female sovereign space. Surviving girlhood is significant.

Also know this Mystery: we all forget.

We forget what we know.
We forget to practice what we know.
We forget and we need gentle reminders and grace to keep trying.
Finding the balance between giving ourselves radical self-acceptance and always spiraling inward to become our truest selves is a life long learning.
Offering acceptance and love to our sisters while knowing our own boundaries is another Mystery we endeavor to dive into.