Women's Rites: Girlhood to Womanhood Empowerment Retreat May 14, 2011

Do you have a daughter that you'd like to celebrate and support

as she makes her way into womanhood?

Then, this is for her.

Women’s Rites Kentucky announces a Young Women's Rite of Passage Empowerment Retreat

FREE for 5th grade girls and up

(Funded by Kentucky Foundation for Women)

Through storytelling, sharing, and art, we’ll empower the time of intense changes that young women experience. See photos of last year's retreat below.

Participating girls will be accompanied by their mother or support woman.

Registration Required Transportation Available Upon Request.

May 14, 2011 10am-5pm Black Acre Nature Preserve Louisville, Ky.

E-mail: WomensRitesKY@gmail.com or Call: (502) 432-6324 to inquire or register.

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Want more information? Read on. . .

Girls in the 5th grade and older who have begun to show physical signs of puberty in the past few years are invited to attend the Young Women's Rite of Passage Retreat. We will celebrate this time of intense physical and emotional changes for them in a special way. Young women are invited to come with their mothers, grandmothers, or support person(s). These are the thundering years for young women and they should be supported as they explore what it means to find their way. Adult women who never had this sacred transition honored in their youth are also welcome to attend as maidens. Support persons are available for those who need them.

Let's help create a culture where a girl excitedly tells her mother that her time has come, and her mother gathers older women in the community to pass on some of their knowledge to her to celebrate this event through creativity and sisterhood.

The retreat will include pampering, sharing, spoken word performances, red tent sharing of biological information, art projects (soul collages), celebration, and two shared meals.

The best part of all? It's FREE, thanks to a grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women.

Interested in participating or want more information? E-mail WomensRitesKY@gmail.com or call Jen at (502) 432-6324

Women's Rites of Passage: maiden, mother, and crone

Our culture has largely lost the art of celebrating and honoring the physical changes that a woman goes through in her life, resulting in the disempowerment of women, along with a disconnection between women, their bodies, and nature.

Rites of passage ceremonies are one way that most other cultures acknowledge and honor the sacred transitions of life. Through spoken word, sharing circles, ceremony, and creation of visual art, Women's Rites is a series of three inclusive, non-religious retreats to help girls and women learn more about and celebrate the stages of womanhood through which they are passing. The retreats will center around a girl's first menstrual cycle (the maiden blessingway), the birth of a child or major project (the mother blessingway), and the onset of menopause (the wise woman blessingway). The retreats will be held at Black Acre Nature Preserve, so that participants will be surrounded by unmanicured nature, to promote their connection to the natural world and represent their personal feminine nature as free to go where it grows best.

Interested in participating or want more information? E-mail WomensRitesKY@gmail.com

All content is reserved by Jen Serra Shean. Please do not copy or take images or content from this site without my permission. I can be reached at: womensritesky@gmail.com. The Goddess images by artist Daisy Curley and are not to be copied without her permission, daisygoddess@hotmail.com.

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Girlhood to Womanhood Empowerment Retreat May 14, 2011

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