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INTRODUCTION TO
CONFERENCE CATEGORIES
We invite the workshops at the conference to facilitate explorations in these eight categories within each of the track. Each of these categories are explained in detail below.
1. EARTH = BODY = WOM(B)AN
This category invites exploration in the Intersectionality, inter-relationality, and interconnection of Wom(b)en’s Bodies with
the body of the Earth.
It invites the awareness to locate the happenings in the outer as a reflection of the inside, and the inner being mirrored in the outside. We want to call attention to the wounding mirrored in the inside and outside, and, also, the intrinsic power of regeneration, renewal, and rebirth available in, of and to both.
E.g: Locating outer chaos (EarthQuakes, Volcanos,
Raging Fire, Deforestation) in Her body, and
within her personal and relational existence on earth.
2. Goddess (Feminine) in Myth, Culture, and Religion
This category invites exploration of the ways in which depiction of Being a Wom(b)an has transitioned across Myth, Culture, and Religion around the world, and
how it has directly or indirectly influenced, impacted,
and (mis)guided the visibility and veiling, presence and absence, and the expression of roles and responsibilities of Wom(b)en and the Feminine (Goddess) in, from, and across Social Cultural Political Narrative.
E.g: Womb and Animal Goddesses, Bleeding Yoni,
Obedient Wife, Sinful Body, etc.
3. Uses of Erotic, Erotic as Power
This category is based on Audre Lodre’s essay of the same name. It invites a direct inquiry into locating the Erotic as a Source of feminine power within and without through exploration, experience, expression, and embodiment.
How do we make room for the erotic in our daily lives, and how do we navigate this power in the daily engagements of our personal, relational and transpersonal experience of life.
E.g : Unveiling Erotic power in Womens tradition of Adornment and Self-Decoration..
4. Wom(b)ens Mysteries, Rites, and Rituals
This category invites a deeper inquiry into
- the rites of passage rituals connected to Wom(b)en’s blood mysteries,
- how it's significance, meaning, appearance and importance have shifted over the last thousands of years around the world,
- how this has influenced wom(b)ans relationship with herself, her body, her sexuality, her spirituality, and also, other women.
We hope this category to not just support the exploration of rites of passage but also, guides participants in the co-creation of rituals to mark and make this passage possible.
5. Autonomy, Choice, and Consent
This category is about remembering, restoring, and reclaiming a Wom(b)an’s sovereignty in all aspects of her life. Expressing her yes and her no with authenticity, choice, and power within. This category can be applied to all the tracks and hopes that participants are able to explore, engage and express their gain of autonomy, choice and consent on their own terms while holding space and including any pain from the past.
6. Conscious Sisterhood of Menstrual Womb Synchrony
This category invites workshops that support participants to explore, engage, express, and experience conscious sisterhood founded in menstrual womb synchrony. The idea is - When girls/women come together, share, reflect, and spend quality time together their bodies shape-shift, wombs synchronize, bleeding regulates, dreams deepen, feminine power grows, and an intuitive knowing begins to emerge in the personal and collective space that connects all women in and with Nature.
7. Feminine Creative Self-Expression
This category invites workshops that support participants to explore, engage, experience, and express the Wild Dark Feminine creative impulse that is directly influenced by Wom(b)an's blood mysteries, and holds within it a primal, wild, raw, sensory essence that is inclusive of all the polar flavors of life and death. We hope that the workshops that include this category will support wom(b)en to tap into her intuitive instinctual primal creative self-expression energy while releasing her fear, shame, and resistance in it.
8. Cyclic Self-Care of Rest - Rebirth - Activity
This category invites workshops that support participants to explore, engage, experience the importance of cyclic Self-Care, and learn a variety of supportive tools to align the different aspects of themselves (physical, mental-emotional, psychological, relational, creative, spiritual, etc) with the waxing and waning rhythms of light during the Day and in the Night with change in seasons, moon cycles, blood cycles, age cycles, etc