DATES on Thursdays: 4 May, 1 June, 6 July, 7 Sept

Booking here is essential as spaces are limited to 8.

This event is by DONATION OR FREE.

Time: 11am to 2pm

Facilitator: Roberta Giovedi

ABOUT THIS WORK

A series of creative workshops to support mothers and women, exploring the themes of motherhood and creativity in various, inclusive contexts.

Mothers’ Circles are an invitation for new mothers, experienced mothers, mums of toddlers, multiples or older children, expecting mothers, at any stage of the pregnancy. Women who feel the call of becoming a mother and are trying to get pregnant naturally or are undergoing fertility treatments. 

These gatherings have the purpose of identifying, processing and healing old wounds coming from our experience of motherhood, womanhood and even passed on by our ancestors.

Mother Circles are designed to create a safe space for mothers to connect with people walking the same path who share our inclination to go deeper. Together we can rekindle that spark to facilitate healing, carve out our purpose as women and mothers. We will identify and heal any wounds that the journey to becoming a motherhood might have left us with. We will connect with Nature in our beautiful sacred woodland, make fire and drink cacao.

We will explore topics like how we have been socialised as women in this world, the menstrual cycle, how being a mother affects our relationships, our untold birth stories, the journey of "feeding our babies", exploring our inner-mother power, rituals we can create in our life to support our well being and energy as mothers, and much more.

ABOUT ROBERTA:

Roberta is a body therapist, birth educator, shamanic practitioner and an energy worker and have run women's circles for 13 moons. Her journey into motherhood inspired her so profoundly, that she created “Mothers’ Circle”. She designed this circles to fill the gap she found in our society, to re-connect mothers to those who are walking the same path and have the same inclination to go deeper, identifying possible wounds that the motherhood journey might have left and together rekindle that spark in each other.

WHERE

Meet at The Planetary Healing Community Woodland, Cockburnhill Road, Balerno, EH14 7JB. Bus 44 / 44A. Stop at the third bus stop after the roundabout. From there, enter Cockburnhill Road and walk for approximately 15 minutes and at the V junction turn right and walk for 2 minutes.

If you are driving, please ignore the SAT Nav at the very end as it takes you to the other farm, park at Cockburnhill Road near Pirnie Ha' house (which is the only house on the right). From there, go straight ahead until you reach the V junction, where you will need to turn right and walk for another 2 minutes. Upon arriving at the woodland gate, there are 7 small bridges to cross before reaching the Hut, which is situated at the end of the woodland. Along the way, you will pass by the Yurt and the composting toilet.

PARKING

There are about 6 car spaces in front of the woodland reserved for elders, those with mobility difficulties and parents with children. Please try to arrive a bit earlier and park at Cockburnhill Road, just after Pirnie Ha’ house. The woodland is only 2 minutes walking as you turn right from there.

IMPORTANT INFO

If you have any questions before or on the day regarding this event, please text: 075 0885 8482

If you need any other support or have any concerns please contact our office on email holistic@planetary-healing.

LIFTS: If you need a lift from the village to the woodland, please text us the day before your event on 075 0443 8763 and we can organise a volunteer. Otherwise it is a beautiful 15 minutes walk in the countryside.

WEATHER: For rainy days we have the HUT where we have a wood burner stove. We hope to be outdoors too and we also have pop up gazebos when needed.

EMAIL REMINDER: You will get an email reminder of your event 3 days before it. Please make sure you add holistic@planetary-healing.org to your email address book or safe senders list. This way you won't miss out on any important updates we have for you.

NOTE: On your arrival, please feel free to let us know your preferred pronouns (e.g. he/him, she/her, they/them) and what name you would like us to refer to you by.

CANCELLATION POLICY: Space is limited, so if for any reason you need to cancel, please let us know asap, so we can free up the space for others on the waiting list. Due to the amount of work involved, tickets are non-refundable.

DONATIONS: When you make a donation, you are supporting the continuation of our charitable work in the future. If you cannot make a donation because of your financial circunstance, you can access this work for FREE. We aim for this work to be accessible for everyone and we thank our funders for their support. If you need support with transportation costs, please contact us.

WHAT TO BRING: Please come in warm clothes ready for all weather. Layers are recommended and outdoors footwear. We will provide tea and cups. If your group is 3 hours or longer, please bring a packed lunch

PHOTOS: Occasionally we take group pictures for promotions and funders, if you would prefer not to be in the picture, please communicate this to the facilitator on arrival.

CAR SHARE: We recommend car share and lifts between friends and participants as much as possible. Whenever you see a friend walking at Cockburnhill Road, check if they are coming for our programme and kindly offer a lift.

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