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
Nurture your wild heart. Connect to community. Awaken to the living earth. Interweaving Nature-based Mindfulness, Creative Arts & Ecotherapy.
A Four-Part Online Course for deep connection and natural flourishing
This is a deliberate step off the hamster wheel and an invitation into a living, breathing sanctuary you naturally belong. Over four online gatherings, we move through a transformative blend of nature-based mindfulness, creative art practices, and eco-therapy, we gather to rest, create, and remember the rhythm of our true nature.
This course is for you:
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If you’ve ever felt that quiet, persistent ache that life must be deeper than the current pressures of modernity, meeting endless demands, and performing a version of yourself that feels small...
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If you are weary of the frantic modern hustle, the subtle competition, and the pressure to always have it all together in a disconnected world and want to slow down.
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If you are already doing the deep inner work, but find yourself longing for actual kin—for slow ritual, tactile art-making, real conversation, and an unhurried space to explore your calling with your heart and hands.
Welcome. This is your invitation.
We gather so you can come home to your body, listen deeply to your creative power, and each other.
The Three Threads of Our Journey: Mindfulness, Creative Arts & Ecotherapy
Together, we will dive deep into nature-based mindfulness and ecotherapy to nurture a profound connection to our inner nature and the world around us. Through the core practices of somatic grounding, journaling, depth psychology, and active creativity, we will explore our emotional, instinctive, intuitive, and creative bond with nature, place, ancestors, and community.
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Through Creative Arts: We will re-imagine our personal stories, weaving them back into our ancestral lineage and our deep connection with nature—even if there are only breadcrumbs left on the trail to find our way home.
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Through Mindfulness & Ecotherapy: We will make an intentional, loving effort to develop a deeper, more compassionate, and reciprocal relationship with our local environment and community
This Online Ecotherapy series has Four Circle Gatherings
Circle 1: Awakening Your Senses
This module introduces nature-based mindfulness 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 and reflective 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.
Circle 2: Nature, Nurture & Eco Conciousness
Exploring the bridge between inner and outer nature, this module examines how our personal beliefs, biology, and early environments have nurtured who we are in this world. Through guided somatic visualisation, participants journey back to their childhood landscapes to explore early connections and how place shapes identity. Engaging in an eco-somatic walking practice 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.
Circle 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 living altar to ritualise and anchor your ancestral connections. This can look like a hanging offering for a tree, a threshold in stone or a decorated well of water in the garden.
Circle 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.
