FOR MAKING YOUR BIG WILD DREAMS A REALITY
Women’s Moon Circles
Monthly face-to-face Circles held at the New and Full Moon on private property in Canberra AND near Braidwood. In celebration of You, the Rhythm of Life and the Feminine Divine.
New Moon Circle and Ceremony 🌑🌘
Dreaming your Vision
Canberra, inner southside
6pm to 9pm - on a Tuesday
A Ceremony of Visioning and Seeding Intention… coming together to support and celebrate our unique journeys of womaning… your Vision witnessed and empowered in the Circle… turning big wild dreams into reality and stepping into who you truly came to be in this life, for this place, at this time…
Full Moon Circle and Ceremony 🌕
Actualising your self
at the Wilde - NEar Braidwood
6pm to 9pm - on a Saturday
A Ceremony of Actualising your Vision… coming together to support and celebrate our unique journeys of womaning… your Vision witnessed and empowered in the Circle… turning big wild dreams into reality and stepping into who you truly came to be in this life, for this place, at this time…
ONLINE MOON Circles and Ceremony 🌑🌘🌕
Dreaming & Actualising your Vision
Online Zoom - at your house or wherever you are in the world…
6pm to 9pm - Various Days
For women who are too far away or find it difficult to get out of the home in the evenings, there are 6x Women’s Circles for the Moon Online in 2024 (3x New Moon and 3x Full Moon).
Ceremonies of Visioning and Seeding Intention or Actualising your Vision… coming together to support and celebrate our unique journeys of womaning… your Vision witnessed and empowered in the Circle… turning big wild dreams into reality and stepping into who you truly came to be in this life, for this place, at this time…
why circles?
Facilitated by Hollie Wildëthorn; therapist, witch and ceremonialist with 20+ years experience holding space for Magick and Mystery.
Women’s Circles are a radical act in claiming space, voice and Self. Hollie’s Circles are Trauma-informed, emotionally safe space to explore the rhythm of Womaning.
You can expect a guided evening of self-exploration through learning, sharing and witnessing. When Women sit in Circle together, everyone is equal. When Women share experience in Circle , everyone is honoured. When Women come together in safe space, everyone is empowered.
Can anyone come to these Circles?
These Circles are for people who identify as women (including teens). The Circles are not for younger girls. Babes in arms are always welcome.
Potential participants may be required to attend a 15min video interview with Hollie before the Circle to check we are a right fit.
Dates 2024
February 6th | March 12th | April 9th | May 7th | July 9th | August 6th | September 3rd | October 1st | November 5th
New Moon Circle and Ceremony - Canberra
A Ceremony of Visioning and setting intention…
This Circle is held each month, in the Inner South of Canberra, in celebration of the New Moon and the Feminine Divine.
Logistics :
$45 and bring a plate to share in Circle ($25 for Maidens/Concession)
6pm-9pm on a Tuesday evening close to the New Moon
Optional extras include :
✨ 40min Vision Clarification Session with Hollie in the week before
full Moon Circle and Ceremony - braidwood
A Ceremony of actualising
This Circle is held each month, near Braidwood, in celebration of the Full Moon and the Feminine Divine.
Logistics :
$45 and bring a plate to share in Circle ($25 for Maidens/Concession)
6pm-9pm on a Saturday evening close to the Full Moon
Optional extras include :
✨ Camping overnight (arrive between 4 & 6pm)
✨ Catering (dinner 5pm and breakfast 8am)
✨ Have your ‘plate share’ catered
✨ Midglamp Camp Setup (you don’t need to bring any camping gear - we provide luxury bedding in a double swag with shelter and lighting)
✨ Day Retreats on the same or next day
DATES 2024
February 24th | March 23rd | April 27th | August 17th | September 14th | October 19th | November 16th
Three times per year, a NEw Moon & Full Moon Circle held online within the same month…
Come to one or both in the month, or all six! Whatever works for you.
These Circles are for women who are far away, or for those who don’t have ease in leaving the home in the evenings… we still want to Circle with you!
Logistics :
$35 ($15 for Maidens/Concession)
6pm-9pm on an evening close to the New Moon and Full Moon, in March, July & October, 2024
bring something delicious to eat and drink and some other simple items which will be communicated on booking
Optional extras include :
✨ 40min Vision Clarification Session with Hollie in the week before
Moon Circles and Ceremony - ONLINE
Dates 2024
March 11th 🌑 | March 25th 🌕 | July 6th 🌑 | July 21st 🌕
October 3rd 🌑 | October 17th 🌕
Got Questions?
The cost is prohibitive to me. Is there another way to come without paying money?
Hollie offers Scholarships and Volunteer places. If these options would benefit you, please mention your situation in your initial interview.
I know Hollie works with Animal Assistants when she does therapy. Will there be animals involved in these Circles?
Sygfa the therapy-hound-in-training is likely to attend our Circles. She is a puppy and is still learning about being in therapeutic space. If dogs are a concern for you (either for fear, grief or allergy) please talk to Hollie in your initial interview. There are a myriad of options to modulate the puppy experience so that you can feel safe and secure in our space.
I know Hollie is a cannabis-friendly therapist. Does this mean I can smoke weed in the Circle?
Many women who work with Hollie use medical cannabis products on prescription to manage anxiety, chronic pain and other symptoms. If your Circle experience requires you to engage with your prescription cannabis, please keep to common smoking expectations and burn (smoke or vape) flower outdoors and away from the main group.
What should I wear?
Whatever feels comfortable and enjoyable for you and your body. Ensure you can move easily and you have appropriate footwear for the on Land Circles. Layers are usually helpful as sometimes Ceremony work can heighten temperatures and you might want to lighten your load. Often after Ceremony your body temperature will drop, so having a shawl or jacket is great support. Some women like flowy dresses and robes, and some like yoga pants and pyjamas, and others like jeans and puffy jackets. There’s no special uniform that witchy women are supposed to wear and you will not be judged for wearing something that’s not typical in the self-help scene. As Self Crafters, whatever you wear is the perfect creative expression of you on this day, in this moment; and everyone else will be equally in their own perfect expression too.
I haven’t had many good experiences with other women. How will I know if a Women’s Circle is the right thing for me?
Circles are an opportunity for growth. The trauma-informed space will be very different to any other experiences you’ve had in self-help groups and with other women. Hollie sets and holds clear group boundaries to ensure everyone can be safe and secure in the shared space. Collaboration and Coregulation are important pillars of this work, along with Choice, Learning and Integration. If you have concerns about being with a group of women, you have an opportunity to talk to Hollie about it in your initial interview.
Is the New Moon Circle the same content as the Full Moon Circle?
Not at all. At New Moon we are setting intentions, looking into potential and utilising the Rhythm of the Cycles to aim at our Vision. At Full Moon we are celebrating that which is actualising, embodying the moon’s intensity and being with a new reality. These Moon Circles are also a completely different format to the Seasonal Online Circles.
Can anyone come to these Circles?
These Circles are for people who identify as women (including teens). The Circles are not for young girls. Babes in arms are always welcome. Potential participants may be required to attend a 15min video interview with Hollie before the Circle to check we are a right fit.
Why do we have to bring a plate?
Sharing food is a custom drawing on connection, togetherness, gratitude and earth-based reverence. It can bring people together and join us in a common experience. Hollie is well aware that for many women the topic of food / eating can be activating (some people use the word ‘triggering’). You’re invited to use the situation as an opportunity for growth and change. You might like to start engaging with the ‘bring a plate’ concept as a way to connect with the Earth and the Season. There is no requirement to cook. A plate of in-season vegetables or a few pieces of fruit is sufficient. This is a shame-free space and all foods are welcome. Bring something you enjoy! You can talk to Hollie about this in your initial interview if you think it will be a problem or you’d like more clarification. If it’s too much to organise our Kitchen Witch Samantha, who looks after our catering will happily create a plate for you for a $20 cost (Full Moons only).
Can I bring a bottle of wine as my ‘share plate’?
We prefer to leave non-prescription substances at home during Circles, to avoid the potential for dissociative risk during and after the event. Ceremony can create an altered state of mind / body and the addition of alcohol / substances can interfere with the integrative process. Integration is a pillar of therapeutic work. If you have any concerns about use of substances, feel free to bring it up with Hollie in your initial interview - or any other time.
I get overwhelmed in big groups. How many people are likely to be there?
There are 13 places available for each session. With Hollie and her apprentice Millie, that makes a maximum of 15 women at any Circle. Smallish groups are important for this model of trauma-informed group work. If we end up with a high number of women interested, we will put on a second group, rather than increase the size.
About Hollie and her team
Hollie Wildëthorn lives on the unceded ancestral land of the Dhurga speaking people of the Walbunja Yuin nation in South Eastern so-called Australia. Her home (and Land where the Full Moon Circles are held) is at the foot of a mountain range that still holds the ancient whisperings of Gondwana.
Hollie is a Psychotherapist, Clinical Counsellor and Coach with a background in natural and ancestral health, wellness, sacred space and witchcraft, martial arts and functional movement, conscious living and Women's Mysteries. In 2022 she completed the Certificate in Psychedelic Assisted Therapies. She also identifies as a Priestess of the Wild.
With more than two decades working in Feminist Self Crafting, Women’s Mysteries and psychotherapy, Hollie welcomed Millie as Journeywomyn (apprentice) in 2023. Millie supports group work logistics and is learning the nuances of trauma-informed space holding.
Become part of the team
Discounted Rates on Retreats and Circles
Vollies
A limited number of Vollie positions are available for a discounted fee. Vollies must be physically capable to help with setup, packdown, kitchen and gophering.
There are also Vollie positions for farm work at The Wilde in the lead-in to events.
Vollies receive discounted tickets. Contact admin@selfcraft.me
SCHOLARSHIPS
The Scholarship program supports women who do not have the means to attend. Please consider donating to the Scholarship Fund. Scholarships are prioritised for those with financial needs that fit these criteria:
Women of Culturally and Linguistic Diverse Groups
Indigenous women
Women with a DFV story
Women who have recently lost a child or intimate loved one
If you would like to apply for a discounted rate under the Scholarship fund, please send an email. All information you share with us is 100% confidential. admin@selfcraft.me
Offerings at the Institute for Self Crafting
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ONLINE CIRCLES : Weaving the Songs of Self ⭕️ ☸️ 🧶 : Seasonal Celebrations
Trauma-informed, emotionally safe Online Circles to explore the rhythm of Womaning.
Circles follow the Rhythm of the Year, checking in at significant points of the seasons to bring awareness to the Here and Now through the uncovering of Ancestral Wisdom, Cyclical Living and relationship with the Natural World.
From the comfort of your own home, or wherever you are in the world...
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Lunation Annual Planner ☸️ 2024 Diary
This Diary could change your life.
YOUR GUIDE TO AN UNLIMITED, SELF CRAFTED YEAR
The Lunation Annual Planner is the diary for visionary people who desire to create a life that sets you free.
A Planner made for Women who care about all the things. This planner is for anyone who’s annoyed with not having enough space to record appointments and needs of the day, along with important lunar and seasonal information. It’s for you if you’re tired of empty, useless pages in other journals. If your life is full of loose to-do lists, reminders ad goal sheets – this is the solution!
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AUTUMN RETREAT 🍂🍄 : Celebrate the Season with authentic connection
16-17 March, 2024
For women who desire to acknowledge & celebrate the seasons.
🍂 Celebrating the changing Rhythms of the year
🍂 Learning Traditional Crafts
🍂 Creating Ceremony
🍂 Sharing Wisdom
Exploring living, making and staying well in relationship with the natural world. We uncover the herstory of Women’s Mysteries in relationship to Land, Water and Sky, and learn creative practices to reignite those traditions in modern life.
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Equine Assisted Therapy 🐴 1:1 or Family Sessions
On Country, in relationship with the forest, the waterways, the 🐴 Herd and the garden.
Take time out in the beautiful Budawangs and grow your Self Crafted life.
Through the Nature lens, we will work within a Psychodynamic Psychotherapeutic framework, incorporating Process Oriented, Relational and Somatic models of therapy.
Longer sessions on Land are aimed at giving you a full experience of change AND deep integration to achieve the lasting results of well delivered therapy.
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The Way You Were Born 🕸️ Transformative Retreat
2-3 March, 2024
Sacred Patterns of the Wyrd Within : Your Map to Freedom
Understanding your Map of Wyrd... Patterns and Plans laid out at your birth and how to utilise them to create a life that sets you free...
Explore various modalities to understand the way you came into the world, including astrology, moon phase, birth order and birth blueprint.
Create a map for your Vision with plan and purpose.
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NEW MOON CIRCLE in Canberra 🌑 ☸️ : Dreaming Your Vision
6th February | & | 12th March | & | 9th April | & | 7th May | & | 9th July | & | 6th August | & | 3rd September | & | 1st October | & | 5th November | & | 3rd December, 2024
Monthly face-to-face Circles held on the Tuesday closest to the New Moon
A Ceremony of Visioning and Seeding Intention… coming together to support and celebrate our unique journeys of womaning… your Vision witnessed and empowered in the Circle… turning big wild dreams into reality and stepping into who you truly came to be in this life, for this place, at this time…
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Gentle Giants Gathering 🐴 DAY RETREAT
24th February | or | 28th April | or | 21st June | or | 20th July | or | 2nd August | or | 27th September | or | 19th October | or | 8th November, 2024
Exploring Horse Connection and Togetherness
Join our herd for a day and learn the principles of realationship
🐴 come into close contact with an equine friend
🐴 learn how to change your personal state to affect relationship
🐴 develop a respectful bond between you and your horse
🐴 sense what it's like to be trusted by a gentle giant
🐴 connect with a group of supportive, nurturing women who accept you just as you are - a women's circle with so much more
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SUPERVISION : for allied health professionals
Monthly sessions in a six week program
Group Supervision for practitioners who desire to enhance their trauma-informed capacity in the health and wellbeing space. Share case concerns, seek guidance, request business and planning advice, etc.
Appropriate for herbalists, naturopaths, body workers, coaches, acupuncturists, nurses etc.
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The Shape of Self Love 🦹🏼♀️ Transformative Retreat
3-4 August, 2024
Embrace your Body, Embrace Your Divine Self
Exploring body image, clay shaping and the feminine form throughout the ages
🦹🏼♀️ Learn about the herstory of women's shapes through the feminine divine.
🦹🏼♀️ Explore self image and body positivity in a supportive, trauma-informed intimate group
🦹🏼♀️ Using clay from The Wilde, shape a Goddess figure of your own
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WOMEN WHO DREAM Wildly ✨ Day Retreat
27th April, 2024 | or | 14th September, 2024
Weaving Dreams into Reality, Empower the Witch Within
Making Magick to bring your Vision into the living world
Exploring your Big Wild Dreams and the Vision you bring forth into the world. This session will delve into spellcraft for actualisation; how witches make dreams into reality.
✨ making magick
✨ making connections
✨ making herstory
✨ making dreams real
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MOTION MOVEMENT : 8 week women's program
An 8 week Movement Program for women who desire to feel strong, inside and out.
Exploring (both physically and metaphorically) the depths and width of movement, what it takes to carry heavy things, challenges of life and lineage, the inner and outer landscape... at The Wilde.
Sessions run for two hours, weekly.
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WINTER RETREAT ❄️ 🌱 : Celebrate the Season with authentic connection
22-23 June, 2024
For women who desire to acknowledge & celebrate the seasons.
❄️ Celebrating the changing Rhythms of the year
❄️ Learning Traditional Crafts
❄️ Creating Ceremony
❄️ Sharing Wisdom
Exploring living, making and staying well in relationship with the natural world. We uncover the herstory of Women’s Mysteries in relationship to Land, Water and Sky, and learn creative practices to reignite those traditions in modern life.
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FULL MOON CIRCLE @ The Wilde 🌕 ☸️ : Actualising Your Vision
24th February | & | 23rd March | & | 27th April | & | 25th May | & | 20th July | & | 17th August | & | 14th September | & | 19th October | & | 16th November, 2024
Monthly face-to-face Circles held on the Saturday closest to the Full Moon.
A Ceremony of Actualising your Vision… coming together to support and celebrate our unique journeys of womaning… your Vision witnessed and empowered in the Circle… turning big wild dreams into reality and stepping into who you truly came to be in this life, for this place, at this time…
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NATURAL WARRIOR WOMAN UNEARTHED 💪🏼 DAY RETREAT
23rd March | or | 17th August, 2024
Empower Wild Femininity, Embrace Your Strength
💪🏼 Own your Warrior Self
💪🏼 Learn to move well, with the body you have right now
💪🏼 Connect with supportive women who accept you exactly as you are - women's circle with so much more
💪🏼 Play with the principles of warriorship
💪🏼 Transform your understanding of exercise
💪🏼 Practise natural and functional movement
💪🏼 Embody the Strong is Beautiful philosophy
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SPRING RETREAT 🌷🌿 : Celebrate the Season with authentic connection
28-29 September, 2024
For women who desire to acknowledge & celebrate the seasons.
🌷 Celebrating the changing Rhythms of the year
🌷 Learning Traditional Crafts
🌷 Creating Ceremony
🌷 Sharing Wisdom
Exploring living, making and staying well in relationship with the natural world. We uncover the herstory of Women’s Mysteries in relationship to Land, Water and Sky, and learn creative practices to reignite those traditions in modern life.
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SUPERVISION : for Women's Circle Facilitators & Event Weavers
Monthly sessions in a four month program
Group Supervision for Women who desire to enhance their trauma-informed capacity in Women's Mysteries work. Share case concerns, seek guidance, request business and planning advice, etc.
Appropriate for Women's Circles facilitators, workshop holders, retreat and event organisers...
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Bush Adventure Program 🌿 during Term
Bush Adventure Program for young people … 👧🏽👦🏼👶🏻🧒🏾
A five week program, held every second week at The Wilde. 🌈☀️
Exploring bush skills, natural movement, living with the seasons, traditional crafts and healthy relationships. 🌿🔥🐝
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Self Crafted Life Portal ✨ online courses
Online Content, Courses and Community. This is where you can find previous classes and content created by Hollie, and meet other like minds who love what you love.
Price $19 p/month
Other options include smaller subscriptions add-on purchases and a free access, depending what you’re into.
An ever-growing safe space for anyone who believes that we are the people we've been waiting for. Self Crafted Life is a network with unlimited potential and a key to a sustainable and beauty-full world.
You're invited to join us...
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SUMMER RETREAT ☀️ 🌾 : Celebrate the Season with authentic connection
18-19 January, 2025
For women who desire to acknowledge & celebrate the seasons.
☀️ Celebrating the changing Rhythms of the year
☀️ Learning Traditional Crafts
☀️ Creating Ceremony
☀️ Sharing Wisdom
Exploring living, making and staying well in relationship with the natural world. We uncover the herstory of Women’s Mysteries in relationship to Land, Water and Sky, and learn creative practices to reignite those traditions in modern life.
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Self Crafted Life Program 🦹🏼♀️ 1:1 Sessions
An anxiety-informed Psychotherapy, Counselling and Coaching Program for people who are ready for a better life.
Attend to both your inner and outer reality, and be the best version of yourself, every single day.
🦹🏼♀️ beating anxiety and/or depression 🦹🏼♀️ changing the thoughts that aren't serving you 🦹🏼♀️ integrating trauma and/or grief 🦹🏼♀️ holistic wellness : mind, body and Self 🦹🏼♀️ dealing with your mother/father/boss/neighbour... issues 🦹🏼♀️ thinking, moving, eating, doing well, in order to live well
10 session program with extras and choices for ongoing support
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SHAPESHIFTING : THE WYRDING WOMAN’S PASSAGE 🦹🏼♀️ Transformative Retreat
6-7 April, 2024
Witchcraft and Warriorship : Moving through Life’s Archetypal Journey
Exploring the Wyrding Warrior Woman archetype in the modern world… daughter, enchantress, queen, wise woman, witch…
Delve into stepping through life's stages, from edge walker (never quite fit in) to woman of power (She Who Is Empowered).
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SELF CRAFTED WELLNESS EXPANSION PACK 🤸🏼♀️ COURSE BUNDLE
Deep dive into the Wellness layer of the Rhythm of Life map and create a health plan that sets you free
$14 MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION
Enter the world of Self Crafted Wellness and build health from every direction.
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40 Day Planner Challenge ☸️ for Your Big Wild Dreams
This course could change your life.
A transformational journey of discovery disguised as a diary.
Could you trade 10-20 minutes each day, for 40 days, to spend a little time with me (online) and your Planner, to turbo boost your Sacred Productivity and make your Big Wild Dreams real..?
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VISION CLARITY SESSION 1:1 🧿
The Vision Statement is our foundational element in working with the Lunation Annual Planner… A Vision Clarity Session is for anyone who's been working on your Vision Statement, and just not sure if it's going to work for you.
Sessions are booked individually when you’re ready to work on your VIsion.
Face to Face or Online
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WOMEN WHO DREAM WITH HORSES 🐴 immersion program
A year-long immersion Group Program with on-land Retreats, Online Circles, face to face events, Priestess of the Wild Ways integration and loads of content through the year.
Full wholebodied Immersion $7600
Waist-high immersion $4000
Ankle-deep immersion $2400
Payment Plans, Vollie positions and Scholarships available.
Dates : cycle begins end of January each year
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First Know Thyself 🔮 Transformative Retreat
9-10 November, 2024
Speaking to the future through the lens of the Whole Self.
Crafting Wild Femininity through Tarot, Oracle and Inner Exploration
🔮 Understand the oracle and divination through a herstorical context
🔮 Explore the journey of the Tarot through your own personal story
🔮 Learn to read with the Rhythm spread ☸️
🔮 Right realationship with symbols and sigils
🔮 Fundamentals of creating your own oracle system
