ND with a Cycle - Indigenous Facilitated Moon Time Circles
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Session details
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024, 5-7pm
Welcoming Circle.
Start with Smudge.
We will be starting our first session in circle sharing a bit about our own journeys (if comfortable, option to say pass) as well as learning about what being in circle means (traditional protocols like respect) followed by Introduction into Moontime in Indigenous Cultures and communicating our hopes collectively for this time together in ceremonial space.
End with teaching of lighting candles for oneself in times of need.
Tuesday, Dec 17th 5-7pm
Moontime Bracelet Making Workshop
Start with Smudge.
Our second session will focus on the teachings of Stone Medicines and how they correspond with the Medicine Wheel, while making our own custom Gemstone Bracelets! These gemstone bracelets will be yours to keep throughout your life and our time together in this group, to help you navigate your own experiences with your Moon aka Period. Preparation for the Winter Solstice.
End with Circle, our last one before the new year.
Tuesday, January 14th, 2025, 5-7pm — Guest Speaker — Nickolai Trefry (he/him)
Start with Smudge.
Nickolai is a local Trans-Masc Artist/Author who will be sharing about his personal experiences navigating Moon Time as someone who is both gender diverse and neurodivergent; he is born and raised locally in the KW Region.
Artist Bio: "I am a shy, neurodivergent artist dappling in the arts of 2D/3D animations and modeling on both computer and physical builds from clay. Fantasy and mythology are my curiosity factors and play a key role in my works — including my upcoming, Fantasy/Horror novel I am self publishing this year."
End with Circle.
Tuesday, February 11th 2025 , 5-7pm
Movie Night: Long Line Of Ladies
Start With Smudge.
Tonight we watch an Indigenous Documentary called, "Long Line Of Ladies".
This film follows a 13 year old Karuk girl as she enters womanhood and her first Moon-time, through her ancestral traditions — the Ihuk Ceremony. This Ceremony was dormant for a century due to colonial violence in Karuk Territories during the Gold Rush.
By highlighting reclamation through a communal lead, coming of age ceremony, it highlights the importance of uplifting our youth during such a sacred experience.
End with Circle
Tuesday, February 25th 2025, 5-7pm
Collaging Through Our Cycles
Start with Smudge.
In our sixth session we will be learning about the power of healing through art, specifically Collaging. Collaging has been shown to be a good tool to help heal from traumas as it focuses closely on creating a form of order and teaches us to learn how we used to when we were all born: Sight. Collaging Materials will be provided and an example from Sarah will be shown. Let's collage our way into a new cycle together.
End with Circle.
Tuesday, March 25th 2025, 5-7pm — Guest Speaker (TBA)
Start with Smudge.
Today for our second last session, we welcome our next Guest Speaker (to be announced...) who is someone with lived experience living as a person who is neurodivergent and/or gender diverse, with a cycle AKA period. These guest speakers will be sharing valuable lived experiences with us as well as their own traditional teachings and understandings of Moontime.
End with Circle.
Tuesday, April 8th 2025 5-7pm
Celebration of Cycles and Closing Circle
Start with Smudge.
We did it! We have reached our eighth and final session together in our "Neurodivergent With A Cycle" youth group. In this session we will come together in a Closing Circle to celebrate our completion of our time together. We will share our hopes for the future going forward with this group and how to tell the story of all we learned. Sarah will be doing this through an Interactive Poem Workshop. We will all learn how to create a poem to represent our story of our experiences throughout our time together.
End with West Cost Women's Warrior Song.
