Honour and celebrate the Crone, the Wise Old Woman in all of her forms and to consciously embrace our Elderhood.
Winter Woman, Bone Wisdom
What is Winter Woman Bone Wisdom?
Winter Woman Bone Wisdom is a one-day workshop in which we explore the archetype of the Crone.
A space to honour and celebrate the Wise Old Woman in all of her manifestations and to consciously, intentionally apprentice to our Elderhood.
This Workshop Will Help You:
- Challenge the negative cultural narrative of the Crone
- Unpack your worries and concerns, to confront your fears of aging and death
- Consider what kind of elder you would like to be and the legacy you want to leave
- Explore the transformative possibilities of Eldership as your final rite of passage
Why Eldership?
Elderhood in our culture is framed around a negative narrative that idolises youth and productivity. It’s tangled up in a story of loss rather than gain; something to avoid or at least delay if we can.
Elderhood is the Winter season of our life. A time to reflect on a life lived, the joys and the sorrows, our woundings, our gifts and the wisdom that lives deep in our bones.
Elderhood culminates in our final rite of passage but it also reminds us that we still have the time and the opportunity to live well, to live intentionally and leave a rich legacy for future generations.
Let’s begin our apprenticeship to Cronehood now. Together we can learn the art of eldership and reclaim the Crone as the Elder Wise Woman of Power that She is!
“Winter Woman Bone Wisdom is an opportunity to gather in circle, share stories, honour the Crone, and reclaim elderhood as a sacred and valuable stage of a woman’s journey.”
Jane Hardwicke CollingsFounder
“The Crone has lived long enough to see the pattern in the weave of life. Her sacred work is to remind us that we are all woven in. Eldership is an opportunity to step into power, with wisdom, dignity and courage.”
Lynda
“This workshop allows us to dream into and prepare for what is possibly our ultimate Rite of Passage and the Elder we wish to be.”
Participant
“My vision is that Elder Women are fully respected, empowered and visible. Embracing their elder years with meaning, excitement, joy and wonder, rather than with fear and dread.”
Jules
“A beautiful opportunity to gather our stories and weave together our legacies for the grandchildren and those yet to come.”
Julie
Workshop Structure
A Winter Woman Bone Wisdom workshop begins with the creation of a safe container, the sacred circle which holds us all throughout the day. In this co-created space we ground and centre.
We pass the talking bowl, to listen, to share and to reflect.
We honour our sisterhood and allow our stories to weave their magic; weaving us together and back into the bigger Story of which we are a part.
We will start by challenging the negative cultural stereotypes of the Crone and the fears and anxieties that we may have around aging, our health and ultimately our death.
Then we’ll counter those stories by exploring the many and more positive archetypes of the Wise Old Woman.
In this workshop we co-create the wheel of life and chart the changing seasons, energies, feelings and opportunities of each phase.
Then we dive deep into the medicine of the Winter Season and the Crone archetype, her powers and potential, so that you can reframe and celebrate her bone deep wisdom and power.
We will sit in ceremony to contemplate what the Crone means to you, to meet with our ancestors and to seek any wisdoms they may wish to share.
Elderhood is a time to consider how we want to live the rest of our lives and the legacy we wish to leave for future generations.
Winter Woman Bone Wisdom Teachers
Founder of the School of Shamanic Womancraft • Creator of Moonsong, Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy and Autumn Woman Harvest queen workshops • co-creator of Winter Woman, Bone Wisdom Workshop • Grandmother •
My interest in bringing and offering this information is to help how I can in healing the wounded feminine and the wounded masculine of our patriarchal culture.
My mission is to help women reclaim feminine knowledge and wisdom, to help heal birth, menarche, menstruation, menopause and death, for all my relations.
I represent three lineages:
Home birth Midwifery – ancient wise woman practices passed down the generations that I learned from Maggie Lecky Thompson (Australia).
EarthSong (Boulder, Colorado, USA) Shamanic Teachings and Practices – that I learned from James Harvey (AKA BlackBear) and Cedar Barstow.
Shamanic Midwifery – the teachings and insights of the Late Jeannine Parvati Baker (USA).
(Jane Hardwicke Collings is not registered as a midwife with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia.)
Jules was born and raised on her sacred ancestral lands of Avalon in the Summer Country of England and now lives in the Blue Mountains.
Jules has been a Herbalist and Natural Health Practitioner for over thirty years and a Psychotherapist for twenty. She has been co-facilitating monthly Red Tent Gatherings, Moon Circles and Women’s Retreats for over ten years.
Jules is deeply passionate about women’s health, wellbeing and empowerment which she believes is deeply connected to the Ancient Women’s Mysteries
The intention of her work in all its differing guises, is to support herself and other women on their collective journeys to re-member, reclaim, re-wild, embody and celebrate what it is to be Woman.
Shamanic Craftswoman • Workshop Teacher • Counsellor • Circle Holder • Death Walker •
Linda is a teacher of the School’s Autumn Woman Harvest Queen and Winter Woman Bone Wisdom workshops.
Linda sees life as a collection of threads we weave over time. A tapestry of ancestral, familial and cultural stories that we are woven into when we are born and an emergent story that we weave for ourselves.
Stories of hope and fear, gifts and woundings, longings and dreams. As we meet the challenges of menopause,eldership and death, the threads might be feeling a bit threadbare or tangled. These are sacred moments, fullof possibility and potential. She supports us to see the patterns in the weave and encourages us to craft ournext chapters with trust, compassion and intention.
Linda works on Wurundjeri Country, Naarm, Melbourne.
