One of the menstruality leadership skills (we lovingly call these skills the ‘dark arts’ of menstruality) we teach is Intentionality.
Conscious menstruation over decades has taught us that intention setting is a vital practice in leadership. When in doubt, we pause, close our eyes and find clarity about what we want, what we are serving and what we are inviting in. Our maxim is ‘do nothing without intention’.
Each year when we dream into the circle that will gather for our biggest and most immersive programme - the Menstruality Leadership Programme - we connect to our longings and intentions for those who feel called to join, so we thought we would share some of them with you today:
One: Your menstrual cycle becomes your medicine
Through learning and living into the developmental power of the inner seasons in your life, you encounter the potent medicine of the menstrual cycle in whatever way you most need it; whether that’s for emotional integration, physical healing, nervous system regulation, connection to purpose or anything else you need.
Two: You trust your relationship to cyclical wisdom
Your connection to your cycle grows your own sense of authority with menstruality - an infinite, timeless, ever-evolving wisdom - so that you feel confident to serve menstruality in your own unique way.
Three: You re-write your first period experience
Your very first period, your Menarche, is a moment of great promise and sensitivity. How you are seen and related to in this moment can have a significant impact on your emerging sense of self and experience of menstruation.
(One of the bonuses on the MLP is our Menarche course, which re-initiates you into your menstrual journey)
Four: You feel enfolded into cycle-aware community
You experience a warm, life-affirming sense of connection and kinship in this circle, and a lived experience of being championed—embedding within you a new strength to meet your developmental edges and claim your authority.
Five: You learn how to face your inner critic
You feel skilled-up and resourced to get to know this pesky, triggering, frustrating force within you and along the way find ways to corral it, so it can actually serve your leadership process.
(Another of the bonuses for the MLP is a two-part inner critic workshop series where we guide you in practices to face your inner critic and free yourself from the self doubt, imposter syndrome, fear of failure and overwhelm it so loves to create. So that you can find the confidence, trust and freedom to do what you’re here to do.)
Six: You embody more personal power
Through understanding the inner architecture of your cycle, you nurture your own growing sense of personal power—of what you are made of and capable of—so that you can be unleashed to more fully serve your Calling and be a force for change in the world.
Seven: You get more comfortable with the Unknown
By leaning into the mystery of your cycle, you cultivate stronger inner ‘muscles’ for trusting the Unknown - you root into the Way of the Feminine.
Eight: You get to receive the magic of menstruation
Above all, we want you to feel the love and affirmation that is possible at menstruation. One of our favourite aspects of the Menstruality Leadership is the deep exploration of the five chambers of menstruation and supporting you to experience the spiritual capacities they can open up within you.
If you’d like to know more about the Menstruality Leadership programme, you can review the curriculum and watch stories from our graduates here >>
