Inviting a nourishing and reciprocal relationship with the Healthy Masculine
Explore Feminine archetypes, and their shadow sides
Be seen & offer witnessing to the Feminine aspects of being human
Improve positive presence in families, friendships & communities
Contribute to balancing the Feminine consciousness
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WHAT: A 4-part live experiential online course for all Genders where “Feminine” qualities are explored and embodied. This all-genders sacred council is rooted in sharing, deep listening, and reflection based on participants’ own experiences and heart-centred explorations, held in a format inviting vulnerability and trust. By exploring, understanding, and welcoming (“blessing”) these feminine energies in ourselves, as well as their meeting point with masculine and nondual archetypes and energies, we can better appreciate and welcome them in our cultures and in other people.
The 4 archetypes that will guide our journey have been selected from the vast field of feminine archetypes because of their relationship to the 4 seasons and the 4 phases of the menstrual cycle, and their potency in connecting all people (whether you have a womb or not) with a cyclical way of being. This is in contrast to the 4 archetypes of the Awakening the Healthy Masculine course, which engaged participants in a more linear developmental journey.
By restoring and “blessing” these archetypal energies, as well as the embodied and cyclical essence of the “Feminine,” within ourselves (whatever our relationship to gender and sexuality) we can better restore wholeness within our families, friendships, and communities.
WHEN: Sessions will take place on:
- The next offering of this course is planned for Fall, 2021
See below for more detailed session descriptions.
WHERE: Live online via Zoom, a free video conferencing software (like Skype for groups). All classes will be recorded and available for you to watch on replay for up to 1 year.
WHO: This course is for all Genders. It is for anyone seeking a healing relationship with the feminine, aiming to re-learn and co-mentor a balanced way of being, with an intention to contribute to a cultural shift away from “right/wrong”, “good/bad” ways of ‘acting’ feminine, and moving into a more authentic, emotionally-connected and life-affirming feminine consciousness.
It is for those who are willing to participate with fierce loving kindness for yourself and others. It is not for offering advice, nor intended to be therapy. These circles are held to provide an opportunity to come together in community to witness, appreciate, explore and bless the many faces of the feminine.
This course will be guided by Madelanne Rust-D’Eye, a group facilitator and somatic psychotherapist (MA Somatic Counselling Psychology, Naropa University 2013) with over a decade’s personal and professional inquiry into the “Feminine” consciousness of the body, and how embodied ways of being and doing are transforming our cultures and communities (www.BodyInformedLeadership.org). Madelanne will not be ‘teaching,’ so much as holding and participating in this scared space for all genders.
WHY: By joining this sacred space, as well as exploring and welcoming four aspects of “the feminine” in your life and body, you will learn how to actively transform old patterns by tapping into your inner wisdom at the levels. You will also:
*Be seen and offer witnessing to the feminine aspects of being human – in community.
* Restore and reconnect with a cyclical developmental consciousness.
* Gain deep connection through sharing life stories & experiences.
* Listen to and learn from each other’s joys & challenges.
* Improve positive presence in families, friendships & communities.
* Restore, welcome, and bless feminine ways of being in yourself and others.
* Access joy and compassion by working deeply within yourself and with others.
* Co-learn with fellow participants how to contribute to balancing the feminine, masculine, and nondual consciousnesses
COURSE INVESTMENT: $297
Includes preparatory readings and handouts, along with invitational guided internal preparations to anchor your participation by tuning in to your own personal explorations, to support your journey. Partial scholarships are available.
Registration Coming Soon
Questions about the course?
Email Madelanne: madelanne@icloud.com
Want more information? Read on…
It is time to call in, remember, and bless what the feminine provides in ourselves and our society.
As a somatic psychotherapist, I have spent over a decade learning and practicing healing modalities that reconnect our human experience with our bodies’ intelligence. In doing so, I have observed the ways that our culture in the West artificially fragments our consciousness into “mind” and “body,” and the personal and cultural wounds that are generated in the process. In order to restore this connection, and to better understand some of the wounding we carry in our personal and collective fields, it is important for people of all genders to re-visit, reclaim, embody and bless the “feminine” aspects of being.
This can be a tender area of inquiry, as the “feminine” has been mightily abused, misunderstood, and marginalised – not only within our cultures and gender politics, but often within our own minds and bodies.
This series will provide opportunities to touch into and share from some of these tender places, and also to learn about four feminine archetypes that can be honoured, welcomed, and blessed within ourselves and our communities. I believe that this is an important and restorative practice, whether one identifies as female, male, transgender, nonbinary, or genderqueer.
In this series, feminine archetypes and energies will be explored, not as autonomous or fixed entities, but rather as dynamic states of being which are fundamentally in relationship with their masculine and nonbinary counterparts. One of the moments I enjoy most in these programmes is when we explore a “feminine” archetype to such depth that it suddenly becomes “masculine;” or, when we encounter a point in our journey that is neither the one nor the other. My hope is that, by restoring – and blessing – this part of our humanity, we will regain access to more of ourselves, and will become able to play with our identities and self-expression with ever greater and more compassionate freedom.
By restoring – and blessing – this part of our humanity, we can reclaim parts of ourselves and our cultures and communities that have been marginalised and pushed into the shadows, restoring wholeness in our collective field.
– Madelanne Rust-D’Eye
This 5-Part Series is a rare all-gender space to reintegrate and bless the feminine consciousness within ourselves and each other.
Are you ready, willing and able to participate with fierce loving kindness for yourself and for others?
Course Curriculum
- This course will feature 4 weekly x 2.5 hour online classes.
- The sessions will happen live so that you can interact and engage with all participants
- All sessions will be recorded and available (for participants only) to watch on replay for 1 year.
- The preparatory readings and handouts are included with tuition, along with gentle invitational guided internal preparations to anchor your participation by tuning in to your own personal explorations, to support your journey.
Session 1: Introduction & Maiden
Session Guide: Madelanne Rust-D’Eye
The session begins with a participatory and embodied introduction to the topic of “the feminine” and the need to restore, bless and integrate it at the personal and collective levels. You will share about your call to being here, and your desired outcomes for these group sessions.
During this first Introduction session, Madelanne will discuss the overview of the programme which will include:
- Why she holds these circles, while offering a brief background
- How she will structure her facilitation
- Ensuring the space is about listening & reflecting, not advice or therapy
- Outline the purpose of the weekly readings, and the invitational practices
- Explore the relatedness of “feminine” qualities and archetypes to masculine and non-binary counterparts
Madelanne will then introduce the feminine archetypes you will be exploring, and hold a brief experiential Council to share and reflect with each other in order to establish the group context and intentions for the programme to make best use of our time together.
In each of the sessions, Madelanne will hold Council for the group to share and listen to each other, including:
- Objects that represent each of the archetypes to each of you;
- Dreams that are arising in each participant;
- Where and how you have integrated and blessed each archetype, and how they are supporting you;
- Where and how you may have oppressed or rejected each archetype, and the impacts of that on you.
Madelanne will also facilitate an ongoing embodied practice to reflect on personal experiences and explore the archetypes.
To end this first class we will dive into the first of the four archetypes:
The Maiden – Spring
- Introduction to the Maiden archetype
- Embodied and experiential exploration
- Group Council sharing
Session 2: The Lover
Session Guide: Madelanne Rust-D’Eye
The Lover – Summer
- Introduction to the Lover archetype
- Embodied and experiential exploration
- Group Council sharing
Session 3: The Warrior
Session Guide: Madelanne Rust-D’Eye
The Warrior – Autumn
- Introduction to the Warrior archetype
- Embodied and experiential exploration
- Group Council sharing
Session 4: The Priestess
Session Guide: Madelanne Rust-D’Eye
The Priestess – Winter
- Introduction to the Priestess archetype
- Embodied and experiential exploration
- Group Council sharing
- Reflective closure to the course
Course Guide
Madelanne Rust-D’Eye, MA
Madelanne is a skilled facilitator, experiential educator, and Trauma-Informed, Body-Based psychotherapist. She delights in creating body-informed programming to support safety, connection, creativity, and self-awareness in group cultures. She has a Master’s degree in Somatic Counselling Psychology from Naropa University (Colorado, USA), with specializations in Dance/Movement Therapy and Body Psychotherapy. She believes passionately in the transformational potential that body- and movement-based group paradigms hold for global culture. She developed and teaches Body-Informed Leadership. www.BodyIntelligence.ca
She lives in Findhorn, Scotland, with her partner James Wood, who runs the Awakening the Healthy Masculine course as part of this ongoing series.
Course Investment
The investment for this course is $297.
Your investment includes:
- 4 x 2.5 hour classes
- Preparatory readings and handouts (sent weekly)
- Invitational guided internal preparations to anchor your participation by tuning in to your own personal explorations, to support your journey.
Registration Coming Soon
Partial scholarships are available if needed. Email Jason at MLA to receive the scholarship form: jgeoffrion@mensleadershipalliance.org
Questions about the Course?
Email Madelanne: madelanne@icloud.com
