The Women’s Cycle Map
A full-day, in-person workshop exploring the menstrual cycle, its phases, and women’s life transitions.
Most women are taught very little about their menstrual cycle beyond bleeding, products, and contraception.
Many of us are never given language for how our energy, mood, focus, or boundaries shift across the month, or how those changes connect to bigger life transitions such as puberty, pregnancy, motherhood, and menopause.
The Women’s Cycle Map introduces a simple, shared way of understanding these patterns.
Drawing on women’s wisdom traditions alongside menstrual cycle education, the day is designed to help things make sense, offering context, meaning, and a broader way of understanding change.
What this workshop is
This is a full-day, in-person workshop that supports women to understand their menstrual cycle and life changes in a broader, more connected way than most of us were ever taught.
Many women were given very little education about menstruation. Often it was limited to bleeding, hygiene products, and how not to get pregnant. This workshop begins from the assumption that you may not have thought much about your cycle beyond that, and that is completely normal.
Across the day, a simple framework is introduced to help make sense of:
Why the menstrual cycle has different phases
How those phases can influence energy, mood, focus, and boundaries
How the menstrual cycle connects to wider life transitions such as puberty, pregnancy, motherhood, and menopause
Why times of change can feel confusing or unsettling, even when nothing is actually “wrong”
The workshop draws on long-standing women’s wisdom traditions that have understood the menstrual cycle and life transitions as meaningful rhythms, alongside practical understanding of the body. This lineage-based approach offers context and perspective, rather than rules or techniques to follow.
This is an educational and reflective workshop designed to help women make sense of their experience and feel more oriented during times of change.
Who this workshop is for
This workshop is for women who are curious about their menstrual cycle and life rhythms, even if they have never explored these ideas before.
It may be supportive if you are:
Wanting to understand your menstrual cycle beyond just bleeding or symptoms
Curious about menstrual cycle phases and how they affect energy, mood, and boundaries
Interested in how cycles connect to life stages such as puberty, pregnancy, motherhood, or menopause
Moving through change or transition and wanting language for what you are experiencing
Drawn to reflective, meaning-based learning that is grounded and practical
Many women come to this workshop with little or no background in cycle education. You do not need to have attended women’s circles, workshops, or courses before.
The day is designed to be accessible, steady, and easy to enter, offering clarity rather than complexity.
What you will learn
By the end of the day, many women leave with:
A clearer understanding of how the menstrual cycle unfolds across the month
Language for changes in energy, mood, focus, and boundaries
A broader view of life transitions such as puberty, pregnancy, motherhood, and menopause
Greater trust in their own timing and rhythms
A sense of orientation during times of change
What we explore
Across the day, we explore the menstrual cycle as one expression of a wider pattern that runs through women’s lives.
We look at the cycle as a lived rhythm with distinct phases, and notice how similar patterns show up in seasons, creativity, rest, and renewal. From there, we explore life stages such as puberty, pregnancy, motherhood, menopause, and other transitions, not as disruptions, but as meaningful phases of change.
A simple visual map is used to help hold these ideas together. The emphasis is on recognising patterns and finding language for lived experience, rather than following a system or being asked to do anything in a particular way
Three ideas that shape the day
Cycles have phases, not just events
Most of us think about the menstrual cycle as one thing that happens each month: bleeding.
In this workshop, the cycle is explored as a process with different phases. Each phase tends to support different ways of being. Some are more outward and active, while others support reflection, honesty, or rest.
Understanding this helps normalise change and reduces self-blame when energy or capacity shifts.
Life transitions follow a similar pattern
The menstrual cycle does not sit apart from the rest of life.
Across the day, we look at how the same basic pattern shows up in major life transitions such as puberty, pregnancy, motherhood, menopause, and other periods of change.
Seen through a cyclical lens, these experiences are understood as part of a process rather than something going wrong.
A map can help you orient, but your body is the authority
A shared visual map is used throughout the day to bring together menstrual cycles, life stages, and wider rhythms.
The map is offered as a guide, not a set of instructions. There is no right way to experience a cycle.
Your own body and lived experience remain the reference point.
Meet the facilitator
I am a midwife by profession, but this workshop sits outside my clinical work.
Alongside my midwifery practice, I have spent many years immersed in women’s wisdom traditions that explore cycles, life stages, and rites of passage as meaningful patterns rather than problems to solve. I am a graduate of the Four Seasons Journey, a long-form immersion in cyclical awareness and women’s rites of passage, and I work as a shamanic craftswoman within this lineage.
This work draws on the lineage of Jane Hardwicke Collings and Moonsong, and has evolved through my own experience, study, and practice with women over time.
I hold this workshop as an educational and reflective space, grounded in care, clarity, and deep respect for women’s lived experience.
Why this work matters
Many women move through their menstrual cycles and big life changes without much language or context. When that happens, normal shifts in energy, mood, or direction can start to feel like something is wrong, rather than something that makes sense.
Without a way of understanding what’s happening, times of rest, uncertainty, or change can feel unsettling or lonely. Many women end up carrying these experiences quietly, trying to interpret them on their own.
This work matters because having language and perspective can be deeply steadying. When things are named and held in a wider context, women often meet their bodies and their lives with more trust and less self-judgement. The aim isn’t to fix anything, but to offer orientation, meaning, and a sense that you’re not alone in what you’re moving through.
Format & practical details
This is a full-day, in-person workshop held in a small group setting.
The day includes guided teaching, reflective exercises, group discussion, and optional journaling. No prior knowledge is required.
This workshop is educational and reflective rather than clinical. No medical, midwifery, or therapeutic care is provided.
Format: Full day, in person
Group size: Small group
Includes: Teaching, reflection, discussion, journaling prompts
Bring: Water bottle, Journal, lunch (morning and afternoon tea and herbal tea provided). We will spend the day sitting in circle, so anything you need to sit comfortably is welcome.
Accessibility: Please share any needs when booking. Please note: There is a single step into The Gathering Space, where this is held
How this sits alongside care
This workshop is designed to sit alongside other forms of care, not replace them.
Many women attend while also receiving midwifery care, counselling, or other support, and find that this work helps them develop language, perspective, and a clearer sense of orientation rather than offering answers or treatment.
If you are seeking personalised clinical guidance or ongoing care, you may wish to explore Clinic Pathways or Complete Midwifery Care.
Dates, booking, and waitlist
Workshop dates are released gradually across the year to support small group size, depth, and quality of facilitation.
The next date is Saturday 8 March.
If this date does not suit you, or if you would like early access to future releases, you are invited to join the waitlist.