Bring a WomanVision program to your neighborhood or organization! We are available to facilitate these classes and workshops to a group that you arrange – for corporations, women’s organizations, hospitals, conferences, nutrition centers, a circle of friends, and other settings.

We are also available to speak for groups and conferences and to do conference weaving. For more information or to tailor a program to your needs, please contact us at info@womanvis.com or 212-501-3892.

Conference Speaking and Conference Weaving

We are available to speak on a variety of topics at your conference. For example:

• How to Use Ritual as a Tool to Transform Your Life or Work
• The Power of Women’s Circles
• Women as the Keepers of Ritual
• Marking Your Life through the Wheel of the Year

We are also available as conference weavers – Through singing, music, speaking, and ritual we will bring a cohesive feeling of community to your conference. We will dynamically open and introduce the conference and set the tone for the week or weekend. We will gather participants before keynote speakers, weaving that sense of community throughout. And we will close the conference when it is over, leaving participants with a sense of accomplishment and energy.

Sacred Rhythms: Connecting to Your Life

The cycles of women’s lives pulsate with energy, with special connection to the cycles and phases of life. On what part of the spiral do you find yourself right now? Are you ready to start a new project or relationship? Or is a completed cycle coming to an end, making space for a new beginning?

This class will deepen your experience and understanding of your own sacred rhythms. Through movement, sound, writing, ritual and guided journaling, you will identify and attune to your own life-rhythms in work, health, relationships and spiritual path. You will learn to harness and engage the energy of these natural cycles in order to transform yourself and your life.

Planting

Do you trust your woman’s intuition to guide you towards new projects or relationships? What is your style of initiating? How do you know when to begin a new project or relationship?

Growing

Once a new project has begun, how do you sustain it? Are you successful at developing plans that you have initiated? Do you follow your instincts to know what is needed next?

Harvesting

How do you know when a project is ripe enough to yield results? Are you comfortable with owning the successes of your labors?

Releasing

Are you able to let go of projects or relationships that no longer serve you? How do you effectively “let go”, trusting that you will be provided with everything that you need?

Rituals for Daily Living

Why is ritual vitally important to a woman’s life?

How can ritual strengthen your connection to your life?

What keeps you from creating sacred space for you and your family?

This workshop is designed to inspire and fortify feminine spirit. In this woman’s space, you will discover how women have been the sacred keepers of ritual for millennia, and how those rituals have consciously and unconsciously been passed down to you. You will explore for yourself how ritual can help you to assess and move forward with your life, and you will identify the ways that ritual can hold your family and communities together. Ceremonies and traditions from around the world will be considered.

How do you revive, reinforce, or enrich the sacred time that you spend alone? Through journaling and visualization, you will uncover the blocks that keep you from creating sacred space for yourself. Through movement, meditation, crafts, and song you will explore the ways in which you can incorporate rituals into your daily life in order to return to yourself. You will be given practical tools – some traditional and some innovative – for enriching your life and making it more meaningful.

Writing for Yourself

"Dawn and Joanna provide authentic, grounded leadership.  I have been happy to be able to just show up at circle and have their organization, playfulness, and sense of beauty inform the work.” - - - Firebrand

This four-session workshop is for anyone who wants to learn about themselves, connect to their inner wisdom, use creativity for healing, play with images and ideas, and have fun. Using various writing exercises, you will access your creativity, discover your motivations and open up to parts of yourself you’ve hidden away. We will be working with dreams, memories, archetypes, myths, and everyday happenings. This class can be helpful for anything from finding a new character for your novel to working through a troubling life event to seeing clearly who you really are. No writing experience is necessary.

Unveiling Leah and Rachel

Why must women choose between being beautiful or strong?

Together, we will explore the lives of the biblical sisters Rachel and Leah, and how their powerful and mysterious story is relevant to women today. Through storytelling, journaling, movement, and guided visualization, we will uncover these two very different archetypes of woman, mother, and wife in order to become more present to our own lives as women.

This Old Testament story casts Leah, Laban’s older daughter as having “weak eyes” but a strong will and Rachel, Laban’s younger daughter as beautiful and demure. Genesis makes clear that Jacob, married to both sisters, loved Rachel more. Leah bore six of the twelve sons who would later become the twelve tribes of Israel; Rachel bore only two, including Joseph – the most beloved by his father. Looking critically at the differences, challenges, and gifts of these two women, we will then look at our own lives: When do we feel loved, and when do we feel rejected? How has society taught us to compete with and compare ourselves to other women? How can we feel beautiful and strong at the same time? What is or has been our designated role in our family, and how can we break out of those roles? We will begin to vision how the characteristics of these two sisters can live in one woman, rendering her alive and whole.

Revisioning Your Relationship with Food

• Why do you eat?
• What if your struggle with food was one of your
  greatest opportunities to connect to yourself?
• Would you approach food differently?

Explore your relationship and attitudes to what and how you eat in this workshop designed exclusively for women. Through meditation and movement, we will attune to our inner selves to understand how food serves us and why it disconnects us from spirit, from ourselves, and from our deepest desires. Through writing and creative arts we will uncover our eating rituals and how we use food as a substitute for other things. We will begin to envision our food as sacred and discover what we really need in order to feel nourished and satisfied.

“My most sacred moment was realizing that I was getting from food what I was lacking in my relationships. I got to make all of the decisions, and be the controlling one. I was ashamed to be seen with food and was very disrespectful… . I think how the Food workshop impacted my life is that I see food in a totally different way. I'm even different in my relationships after realizing all of this….I released a lot of shame that was preventing me from moving on. I no longer feel the shame. Now I feel empowered….I couldn't believe how comfortable I was. And it was so much fun.