What is a Women's Circle?
A women's circle is a gathering where women come together to share, support, and connect in a safe, confidential, and non-judgmental space. It's a modern practice rooted in ancient traditions, designed to foster an ecosystem for diverse and inclusive community, creativity, networking and soulful personal growth.
The Wise Women's circle is a facilitated by Marion Miller, a coach, artist, ecotherapist and mindfulness teacher in her Glen Iris studio. It includes a short talk and teaching, meditation practice, ritual and creative process. You're invited to engage in conversation and heartfelt sharing. All creative materials, worksheets, herbal tea and supper is provided by Marion.
In the circle, women take turns speaking about their experiences, thoughts, and feelings. The focus is on being heard and supported, rather than on giving advice. This creates an empowering environment where women can feel seen, validated, and deeply connected to their intuitive nature, and one another.
Connection to Place
Reclaiming Your Story Through Nature-based Art, Embodied Mindfulness & Ecotherapy.
Our modern world, is often centered around technology, human centric design and comfort, trading the value of silence, solitude, and stillness for busyness, anxiety, and restlessness. Do you ever feel like modern culture is trying really hard to keep us indoors and disconnected from the natural world? It's even difficult to find the time to contemplate that question deeply. Because of this, we may feel there is no hope and that we have lost our sensitivity and ability to listen, feel, and sense the natural world in all it's diversity and vitality.
Nature-based Mindfulness and Ecotherapy exist to help us remember and this introductory online workshop series supports you in re-awaking your profound connection to your inner nature and the world around us. Through the core practices of mindfulness in nature, journaling, depth psychology and creativity, we will explore our somatic, emotional, instinctive, intuitive and creative connection to nature, place ancestors and community. Through mindfulness and ecotherapy we will make an intentional effort to develop a deeper, more compassionate relationship with our local environment.
This Online Ecotherapy Workshop series has Four Modules:
Workshop 1: Awakening Your Senses
This module introduces nature-based mindfulness and ecotherapy approaches to journaling, creativity, and connection. Participants learn to awaken their senses—sight, sound, smell, touch, taste—and drop into somatic and intuitive ways of cultivating wonder, awe, heart connection, and imagination. The core activity involves selecting and engaging with a "sit spot" for daily mindfulness practice, reflection, and intuitive art journaling. This establishes a felt sense of intimacy with both the inner and outer landscape, using the foundations of mindfulness to support mapping the journey ahead.
Workshop 2: Nature, Nurture & Identity
Exploring the bridge between inner and outer nature, this module examines how our personal beliefs, biology, and early environments have nurtured who we are. Through guided somatic visualisation, participants journey back to their childhood landscapes to explore the concept of topophilia (the love of place) and how early soil shapes identity. Engaging in an "Eco-Somatic Threshold Walk" and an earth-material identity art practice, we examine what beliefs belong to the modern culture of hustle, and what wisdom the earth offers to support our restoration, resilience, and harmonising.
Workshop 3: Unearthing Personal Myth
Focusing on "Stories, Ancestry, and Belonging," this module explores how personal narratives, family origins, ancestral lands, and symbols shape our identity and spirituality across deep time. Participants engage in an "ANCESTRAL MAP - MIXED MEDIA PRACTICE" to creatively weave together their heritage, lineages, and the ecological shifts that influenced their lives. We also examine influential childhood stories and recurring family archetypes, with home practice involving the creation of a physical "spirit house or altar" to ritualise and anchor these ancestral connections.
Workshop 4: Rooted in Belonging
This final module brings the journey into the present landscape to vision our collective future. Through a "KNOW YOUR PLACE" sensory audit, participants deepen reciprocity with their immediate local environment, mapping its waters, seasonal shifts, and Indigenous custodians. The concept of a personal "calling" is explored through an "Intention Mandala" and a guided "CALLING RITUAL AND MEDITATION JOURNEY." By creating a visual "Vision for Future Beings," participants integrate intuition, emotion, and somatic resonance in service of a life-sustaining world.
