Over the year, we will gather twice a month in rhythm and attunement to the pulse of the earth through the seasonal festivals.
Our journey together in 2027 begins on 5th February and ends on 5th December.
Here is a breakdown of the year:
Opening Immersion Weekend
5-8 Feb (Includes Shamanic Medicine Drum Crafting)
16 Friday Gatherings
6× Seasonal Herbal Medicine Making (10am-3pm)
5× Handcrafting Gatherings (10am-2pm)
1x Drum Deepening Day (10am-2pm)
1× Descent & Resurrection Ritual Day (10am-4pm)
3× Excursion Days:
Mushroom Foraging + ID (10am-2pm)
Rewilding Skills & Perception (10am-2pm)
Edible Weeds & Plant ID (10am-2pm)
5x Tuesday Online & Recorded Women's Council (6.30pm-8.30pm)
Closing Immersion Weekend
3-5 December
Online Seasonal Shamanic Womancraft Spiral Teachings
The Shamanic Journey: Pre-recorded videos, audio, workbook PDFs—accessible alongside live gatherings.
* With 4-5 week breaks for Autumn (Easter), Winter & Spring School Holidays.
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Braiding Belonging in Depth
Braiding Belonging is for women who feel a quiet stirring—a longing for more: a remembering that fosters deeper connection to themselves, to their truth, and to the world around them.
This journey is for those who:
Yearn to reclaim ancestral wisdom and ways of perceiving the world.
Long to be braided into the seasons and cycles of the land again
Want to carve out more time for crafting and hands-on skills.
Desire to engage in practices that awaken creativity, ritual, and presence.
Seek a deeper connection to nature and their own true nature.
Are ready to show up fully and weave their life with intention and ceremony.
Whether you are a seasoned ceremonialist, folk herbalist, crafter and journeywoman seeking to deepen your evolution of these practices in the arms of community, or a beginner curious to learn, this journey has been braided for you.
Through this year-long journey, we honour the innate human need for connection, creativity, community, ceremony, and a life woven into the land.
Now more than ever, in a world pulled toward speed, disconnection and overwhelm, fractures in our Ancestral Inheritance -that is, the knowledge of being in right relationship with our primal human design, with each other, and with the earth- have left many of us untethered. We have forgotten the rhythms that once sustained us, the ways we were meant to move, create, and belong.
Braiding Belonging offers a different way: a return to connection, creativity, and ceremony as part of daily life, and to belonging as our birthright. This is a journey of returning— to ourselves, to each other, and to this earth.
This journey guides you into a richer, more grounded, and interconnected way of being, where intuition, authenticity, and action flow together in integrity.
See your life and the world around you with new perspective and understanding
Recognise patterns, stories, and structures that influence your way of being, thinking, choices and actions
Cultivate wisdom and skills to support navigating personal, social, and spiritual challenges
Deepen your relationship with yourself, your gifts, and your purpose
Strengthen your sense of belonging within community and the natural world
Develop practices and skills that anchor you in ritual, reflection, and soulful alignment & development
Learn hands-on skills that connect you to land, craft, seasonal rhythms and ancestral wisdom
Build practical community-building and leadership skills through creativity, collaboration and shared ceremony
Step into embodied participation, with devotion, intuition, and clarity
Through this integration of insight, presence, and action, participants emerge resilient, confident, and deeply attuned, ready to navigate life with grounded purpose and soulful authority.
Seasonal Herbal Medicine Making Gatherings
There was a time when every home grew, foraged and worked with our herbal allies. Knowing which herbs soothed throats and what to put in a balm for scraped knees. Herbal folk medicine was not something separate from life—it was woven into it, a necessity of care and connection passed down through hands and seasons.
Our Seasonal Herbal Medicine Making Days are a way of re-membering this wisdom and braiding it back into belonging in our daily lives.
Gathering over four seasons across the turning of the year, we will come together for six of the eight seasonal festivals (sabbats):
Since time immemorial, these waypoints have been the compass of life for our ancestors. They were never abstract or superstitious celebrations, but living thresholds of survival and belonging — moments to pause and attune to the subtle shift of light, the stirring of soil and seed, the migrations of animals, and the ripening or resting of plants. Each Sabbat honoured the primordial dance of earth and sun, anchoring people in relationship and reciprocity with the land.
We work with the ancient framework of these seasonal festivals today not to impose them upon this land, but to use them as markers of pause and presence — an invitation into noticing what is alive and true here, now. Tracking our plant kin through the seasons. At the root of it, these seasonal festivals offer us a doorway of connection to ancestral practice from all lineages: to observe, to work with the land and plants, and to live in deep respect, reciprocity and appreciation of the cycles.
On each of our Herbal Medicine Making Days, we step into the living classroom of the seasons. In preparation, you’ll be invited to walk your local land, notice what is growing, and forage with reverence. Together we’ll come to know the plants who awaken at each sacred threshold and learn how to craft them into medicines: tinctures, balms, vinegars, salts, syrups, and other medicines. These remedies will not only nourish the physical body but also root us into a deeper relationship with the lands and our plant kin.
As we harvest, craft, and brew, we will also weave seasonal ritual, song, and ceremony — marking the seasonal shifts through embodied practice. Each gathering becomes both practical and sacred, fostering a deeper sense of belonging to the living earth and to the great wheel of time.
* Co-facilitated by Siobhán & Skye. Full bios further below
Ancestral Handcrafting Gatherings
In opposition to cultural belief, crafting and creativity is innate to all humans. Across the year we will sit together for 5 Fridays of handcrafting.
To make with our hands is to remember — to reawaken ways of knowing carried by all our ancestors, who once wove, moulded, stitched, dyed, and shaped the tools and garments of daily life. In crafting, we come into contact with a lineage of survival, creativity, and devotion. Each piece becomes more than an object — it is a prayer woven into matter, a thread between us and those who came before.
Here is a deeper look at each of our ancestral handcrafting days together:
Every ancestor of ours, at some point in history, relied on the skill of handwork to clothe themselves and their kin. To knit is to slow down and take part in a rhythm that carried countless generations through the seasons. Under the gentle guidance of Natasha, our co-facilitator, we will begin this journey as our foremothers once did: with deep intention, curiosity and simple stitches.
Together, you will learn the foundations of knitting (no previous experience required), casting on the beginnings of a beanie — a project you can return to throughout the year, continuing in circle or at home, row by row, season by season. This is not only about creating warmth for your body, but about coming to remember and appreciate the time and energy that it takes for all creation. Stitch by stitch, learning a practice of presence, patience, appreciation and ancestral connection.
Friday 5th MarchClay has always been a sacred companion. Once, these earthen vessels were not only deeply valued for practical uses — to quench thirst and fill bellies — but also sacred vessels, made for ritual, ceremony, and offering.
Together we will step into this ancient practice of ceramics as ceremony. Shaping a sacred vessel, a mug or tumbler, infusing it with prayer, intention, and song as you work.
Tash will then take these vessels to glaze and fire, returning them to you as finished pieces — everyday companions that carry the imprint of your hands and the spirit of our circle. To drink from them will be to remember: you are in relationship with earth, fire, water, and air.
Working with clay in this way is a deep relationship of elemental alchemy — born of earth, softened by water, shaped by hand, and transformed by fire to become something entirely new. What begins as yielding mud becomes a vessel strong enough to hold nourishment, story, or flame. In this way, clay teaches us of transformation: how pressure, shaping, and fire can reveal not only beauty, but resilience and that through shaping clay, we too are shaped in return.
Friday 14th MayRattles are ancient instruments, used in ritual and ceremony across cultures as tools of rhythm, healing, and communication with the unseen. In this workshop, you will craft your own rattle — a medicine tool that will carry your prayers, your voice and support you in working with your Medicine Drum.
As you shape, bind, and fill your rattle, you are not only creating an instrument but forging a relationship: with the materials, with sound, and with the lineage of those who have always used rattles to call spirit, to mark transitions, and to honour the cycles of life.
Friday 20th AugustBasketry is one of humanity’s oldest crafts — weaving reeds, grasses, and fibres into vessels to gather, store, and carry the essentials of life. Though we no longer rely on baskets for survival, the act of weaving reconnects us with those who once gathered food, herbs, and seeds in these handmade containers.
On this day we will introduce the practice of basket weaving through the slow and mindful work of our hands, stitch by stitch. It is a space to lean back into ancestral ways of being and being together, that have been alive in our human history longer than they have been dormant.
Working with locally foraged fibres to weave our baskets within a circle and striving to do so in a culturally sensitive manner, we bring some strands back together. As well as working once again with our hands and hearts to form the beautiful objects that accompany and support us through life and working with materials grown and carefully gathered on landscapes around us, we can, through our work, listen to the living land through the seasons, coming to know the feel of the plants at various stages of preparation, their smell, their texture, their strength, their living pulse as we work with and tend to them. Throughout the seasons, we are invited to develop deeper relationships with these plant beings through the work of our hands and through our maturing attunement.
As we weave our baskets, they begin to fill. They fill with the stories, places and dear ones surrounding us and the quality of our presence as we weave. Each basket is a symbol of reciprocity: the earth holds us, and in turn, we craft vessels to hold what the earth offers. It is all woven in.
Friday 26th NovemberOn this day we will enter the art of dyeing with plants — transforming simple fabric into something infused with the colours, patterns, and spirit of the living earth. Using locally gathered leaves, you will create your own protein fibre scarf or altar cloth — a piece to wear close to your skin or lay on your sacred altar.
This practice is a slow alchemy. Attuning ourselves to the plants and learning the art of sustainable harvesting. Bundling, binding, and preparing the fabric, setting intention into each fold. The patient alchemy of steaming allows the plants to fully release their medicine.
In this way, eco-dyeing invites us to see plants not only as medicine for the body, but as artists and allies — leaving their stories and essence imprinted upon the fabric of our lives.
The pieces we create become more than cloth. They are garments and altar pieces imbued with the loving, holding, and protective presence of the earth. To wear them is to be protected by this relationship — shielded and supported as you move through your days. They can hold you in ceremony, or accompany you through life’s more challenging seasons and environments, reminding you that you are always held by the earth.
16th March -Drum Deepening Day
A day to deepen our relationship with the drums we have crafted and begin to know them not simply as instruments, but as companions in our practice.
We’ll spend the day exploring rhythm, beat and pulse — learning different rhythms, building confidence in our drumming, and discovering how our own unique way of playing wants to emerge. We’ll weave singing and drumming together, finding the places where voice and drum meet and learning to let the rhythm carry us.
We’ll also journey into the shamanic dimensions of the drum, using its rhythm as a doorway into the unseen and the imaginal. Through drum journeys we’ll explore meeting our spirit animals, connecting with our Inner Wise Woman, and journeying into deeper remembrance of what it means to belong — to ourselves, to one another, and to the living world around us.
This is a day of listening, playing, remembering and becoming more intimate with the drum that will accompany us throughout our Braiding Belonging journey.
23rd July -Descent & Resurrection Ritual Day
Throughout the year, we are accompanied by the seasons — allowing the turning of the natural world around us to support us in meeting our own inner seasons. Through the first half of our journey, we move through Remember and Repair, descending into the places where we have become disconnected from ourselves, from one another, and from the living world.
Then, at the bottom of the Wheel of the Year, we gather for a day of ritualised descent and resurrection.
This is the turning point in our larger spiral journey — the place where we pause at the deepest point before beginning our movement back towards Reclamation, Reimagine and Reweaving.
We will enter this threshold through the ancient story of Inanna’s descent to the Underworld, allowing myth to become a living framework for our own journey. Through poetry, song, drum, rattle, ritual and the wrapping of the body, we will be invited to consciously surrender, descend, shed and remember what lies beneath the identities and ways of being we have outgrown.
And from that place, we begin the movement of resurrection.
Not as a return to who we were before, but as an emergence into something more deeply remembered.
The inner shamanic journeying that accompany The Womanacraft Way is explored more fully in The Online Seasonal Shamanic Womancraft Spiral section below. You can read more about this aspect of the journey there.
Friday 28th May - Mt Dandenong
Mushroom Identification & Foraging Skills with Jess
Once, the ability to identify plants and fungi was not a pastime, but a lifeline. Our ancestors carried this knowledge in their bones — knowing which plants could nourish, which could heal, and which to avoid. This intimacy with the living world was woven into daily life, shaping a way of seeing that was both practical and deeply spiritual.
When we begin to rebuild these relationships, especially with the mysterious and often hidden realm of fungi, our eyes shift. We start to see the forest not as scenery, but as a living, breathing web of kin — full of teachers, allies, and guides. Learning to recognize mushrooms is more than identification; it is an opening into an animistic way of seeing, where every being has its place, its story, and its spirit.
On this guided mushroom identification walk, we'll explore the hidden world of local mushrooms. Learn how to spot different species, understand their unique features, and delve into the crucial role they play in our ecosystem. Whether you're a curious beginner or a seasoned enthusiast, this walk is a perfect opportunity to deepen your knowledge and appreciation for the magical kingdom of fungi. The Fermented Mother will share her expertise, offering insights into identification, foraging ethics, and the incredible symbiotic relationships that sustain the forest floor. Come prepared for an enchanting journey into the woods, where every step reveals a new mystery waiting to be discovered.
Friday 22nd October
Re-wilding Skills & Perception Day with Claire
For generations, our ancestors moved through the world with attuned senses, reading the language of the land, the trees, and the birds as guides and teachers. They knew how to awaken fire from earth, how to listen deeply, and how to walk in reciprocal relationship with all living beings.
On this day, guided by Claire Dunn, we step into that lineage, cultivating the same awareness and skills that once ensured survival, connection, and belonging. Through fire by friction, bird language, and earth-based practices, we begin to see the world through ancient eyes — recognising the intelligence, spirit, and kinship woven through every part of the landscape, and rekindling a way of being that honours our ancestors and the living web that surrounds us. We will feel the alchemy of spark and flame emerge from our own hands, listen with intention to the subtle communications of our feathered kin, and move through the land as part of a living community, cultivating presence, wonder, and a deeper relationship with the earth.
Friday 8th October
Edible Weeds & Plant Identification with Skye
There was a time when knowing the plants growing around you was simply part of knowing how to live. Our ancestors knew which plants could nourish, which could heal, which could be gathered at different times of year, and how to recognise them by their leaves, flowers, scent, texture and habitat. This knowledge created a deep familiarity with the living world — an ability to notice, recognise and respond to the beings growing alongside us.
On this day, we head out onto the land to continue building — or rebuilding — these practical skills of plant identification and wild food knowledge. Together, we'll learn to recognise a range of local edible and useful plants, noticing the features that help us distinguish one species from another and beginning to understand where, when and how they grow.
But this is about more than simply learning a list of plant names.
The more intimately we know the plants around us, the more our senses begin to open to them. We start noticing who is growing beside the path, who appears after the rain, who returns at a particular time of year, and who has been quietly growing in places we've walked past a hundred times before. What was once overlooked as a weed becomes a familiar being — a plant we recognise, remember and know how to work with.
This day will also continue to the foundations we have been building inn our herbal medicine-making days, deepening our understanding of plant identification, harvesting and relationship so that we can meet the plants we work with from a place of greater knowledge, confidence and respect.
Through learning the plants by sight, scent, touch and place, we begin to cultivate a more intimate relationship with our local landscape — strengthening our senses, expanding our knowledge, and becoming more deeply embedded in the living world around us.
✨ Full bios for each Facilitator can be found further below.
Two Deepening Immersion Weekends
1. Opening Gathering: Fri 5th – Mon 8th Feb
2 . Closing Gathering: Fri 3rd – Sun 5th Dec
Twice throughout the year, we step away from the rhythm of ordinary life and gather for an extended time together on the land of South Gippsland.
These weekends are the places where the work of Braiding Belonging can be lived into more fully.
There is time here to slow down. To be on the land. To sit around the fire. To make things with our hands. To listen to stories, sing, drum, walk, wander and share meals together.
But these weekends are not retreats, and they are not an escape from ordinary life.
They are threshold spaces within the year-long journey — places where we step more deeply into the practices we are exploring together and begin to experience them through our senses, our bodies, our imagination and our relationship with one another and the living world.
There is ritual and ceremony, story and song, craft and time on the land. There is space for conversation and reflection, as well as space to simply be.
The first weekend is our opening.
We gather to cross the threshold into the year together, opening our container and setting our intentions for the journey ahead. We begin to explore ritual, perception and the senses — opening our sensory gates, deepening our capacity to notice and listen, and beginning to sink into the imaginal.
Together in ceremony and reverence, you will also birth our own Shamanic Medicine Drums and make the beaters that will accompany us throughout the year.
The Closing Weekend brings us back together at the other end of the year.
A time to gather what has been lived, witnessed and changed. To celebrate what has emerged, to honour the relationships and practices we have cultivated, and to bring the threads of the year together before we step back across the threshold into our everyday lives.
Throughout these immersions, Siobhan holds the wider arc of the journey, weaving together ceremony, ritual, song and shamanic practice.
Skye brings her knowledge of animistic perception, plant craft, foraging and the soulful mythic languages of story and relationship with the earth.
And Tash will be there to support all our crafting whilst also tending the hearth and the practical heart of our time together — holding the kitchen, tending the shared spaces and guiding us through hand-over-hand craft.
Together, we create a space where belonging is not an idea, but something we practise.
Something we feel in our bodies.
Something we experience through our senses, our relationships, our hands, our voices and our attention to the living world.
This is the work of Braiding Belonging.
Not a peak experience to return home from, but a way of remembering that can begin to find its place within the fabric of everyday life.
Our weekend immersions will be led by Siobhán, braided in with the experienced, wise and embodied support of Skye & Tash.
Shamanic Medicine Drum Crafting
The frame drum is one of humanity’s oldest instruments — a heartbeat of ritual, ceremony, and song believed to be carried across all cultures and lineages in some form. To craft your own is to step into this timeless tradition, creating not just an instrument, but a living companion for your journey.
To craft a drum is to birth a heartbeat — one that will walk beside you as ally, guide, and medicine for life. With the deepest reverence for the journey, Siobhán will midwife you through the sacred process of creating your own Medicine Drum.
As part of this year-long journey, you will have the unique opportunity to choose the animal hide, timber, and size that calls to you, taking you on a powerful journey as these choices will deeply influence the birthing of the drum as well as shape the spirit and medicine of the drum.
This is not just craft but ceremony — a shamanic journey that explores your birth imprint and how you birth creations into the world. Along the way, you will be guided to meet the spirit of the hide, the timber, and the drum itself, awakening a relationship that begins the moment you set the intention and continues to unfold over a lifetime.
Each drum emerges unique, carrying your prayers, your trust, and your medicine. This is why we call them Medicine Drums — not simply instruments, but living companions of transformation and belonging.
This is the place to turn inward.
Held within the rhythm of the seasons, these online teachings and shamanic journeys invite you into the inner landscape — the deeper places of perception, imagination, psyche and soul where transformation is taking place.
The in-person gatherings support somatic and relational remembering: remembering through our hands, our senses, our bodies, the land and one another.
The Shamanic Womancraft Spiral supports the inner journey: the places we cannot reach simply through talking or learning, but must journey into, listen to, dream with and encounter for ourselves.
And this is not a linear pathway that we move through once and leave behind.
It is a spiral.
We return to these places again and again, throughout our lives, meeting them from different places within ourselves and through the ever-changing circumstances of our lives. What we encounter in Remember one year may have an entirely different texture when we return to it years later. Repair may reveal another layer. Reclaiming may ask something new of us.
The six threads of Remember, Repair, Reclaim, Reimagine and Reweave, held within the deeper movement of Descent and Resurrection, form a spiral we can continue to journey through — not as stages to complete, but as doorways we can return to whenever life calls us deeper.
As we begin to unravel and tend to our inner landscapes, we remember what has been forgotten, repair what has been fractured, descend into the deeper places where old ways of being can be shed, and begin to resurrect through reclaiming, reimagining and reweaving our lives.
This is why the Seasonal Shamanic Womancraft Spiral is something you can return to again and again and again.
The teachings may be the same, but you are not.
And so each return opens another layer of the journey.
Online Learning & Gatherings
The online journey begins with online, pre-recorded teachings covering the six pillars. Move through these at your own pace, preparing for our live Women’s Council Gatherings, where each pillar is explored more deeply through reflection, ritual, and dialogue.
At the heart of Braiding Belongings Seasonal Shamanic Womancraft Spiral are the Six Pillars of the Inner Shamanic Journey:
Remember – Honouring our origins & ancestral wisdom.
Repair – Healing the fractures of ancestral inheritance.
Resurrect – An underworld journey & emergence of the true self.
Reclaim – Foundational tools for living in connection.
Reimagine – Seeing the world through (new) ancient eyes.
Reweave – Embodying leadership & creating the new world.
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"This is the inner work that seeds the paradigm shift our world longs for — it begins within us, and ripples outward into the collective."
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Online Women’s Councils
Each pillar is deepened in our online Women’s Council, a place for deep reflection, personal storytelling, and witnessing.
Tuesdays, 6.30-8.30pm:
Discover how each Weekend, Gathering, Ceremony, and Online Council weaves together into a full year of Belonging.
Ledger of Gatherings
| Weekend Gatherings |
Crafting Gatherings |
Seasonal Medicine Gatherings |
Wild Excursion Gatherings |
| Ritual Days | Online Women's Council |
Braiding Belonging 2027
| Date | Time | Gathering | Facilitator/s | Location |
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| 5/2- 8/2 |
Weekend | Opening Gathering | Siobhán Skye Tash |
Sth Gippsland |
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Tues 9/2 |
6:30–8:30pm | Online Women’s Council | Siobhán | Online & Recorded |
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Fri 19/2 |
10am–2pm | Crafting: Knitting | Tash & Siobhán | Kalorama |
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Fri 5/3 |
110am–2pm | Crafting: Ceremonial Clay | Tash & Siobhán | Kalorama |
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Fri 19/3 |
10am–3pm | Seasonal Herbal Medicine Making- Autumn Equinox | Skye & Siobhán | Kalorama |
| 20/3- 15/4 |
4 weeks | Autumn Break | - | - |
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Fri 16/4 |
10am–2pm |
Drum Deepening | Siobhán | Kalorama |
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Fri 30/4 |
10am–3pm | Seasonal Herbal Medicine Making – Samhain | Megan, Skye & Siobhán | Kalorama |
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Tues 4/5 |
6:30–8:30pm | Online Women’s Council | Siobhan | Online |
| Fri 14/5 | 10am–2pm |
Crafting: Rattle | Siobhán & Tash | Kalorama |
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Fri 28/6 |
10am–2pm |
Mushroom Identification & Foraging | Fermented Mumma | Excursion Mt. Dandenong |
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Fri 18/6 |
10am–3pm | Seasonal Herbal Medicine Making – Winter Solstice | Skye& Siobhán | Kalorama |
| 19/6- 22/7 |
5 week | Winter Break | ||
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Fri 23/7 |
10am–4pm | Resurrect – Women’s Ceremony & Ritual | Siobhán Skye tash & Debbi |
Kalorama |
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Tue 27/7 |
6:30–8:30pm | 8:30pmOnline Women’s Council | Siobhán | Online & Recorded |
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Fri 6/8 |
10am–3pm | Seasonal Herbal Medicine Making– Imbolc | Skye & Siobhán | Kalorama |
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Fri 20/8 |
10am–2pm |
Crafting: Basket Weaving | Tash & Siobhán | Kalorama |
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Tue 31/8 |
6:30–8:30pm | Online Women’s Council | Siobhán | Online & Recorded |
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Fri 3/9 |
10am–3pm | Seasonal Herbal Medicine Making – Spring Equinox | Skye & Siobhán | Kalorama |
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4/9 – 7/10 |
5 weeks | Spring Break | – | – |
| Fri 8/10 |
10am–2pm |
Edible Weeds & Plant ID | Skye | Excursion: Kalorama/Wonga Park Area |
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Fri 22/10 |
10am–2pm |
Re-wilding Day | Claire | Excusrion: Wonga Park |
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Fri 5/11 |
10am–3pm | Seasonal Herbal Medicine Making– Beltane | Skye & Siobhán | Kalorama |
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Fri 26/11 |
10am–3pm | Crafting: Eco-Dyeing | Tash & SiobhánMeg | Kalorama |
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Tues 30/11 |
10am–2pm | Online Women’s Council | Siobhán | Online & Recorded |
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3/12- 5/12 |
Weekend | Closing Gathering Immersion | Siobhán | Sth Gippsland |
15Breakdown of dates
Weekend Immersion Dates
Friday In-Person Gatherings
>Autumn Break<
>Winter Break<
>Spring Break<
Tuesday Online Women's Council, 6.30pm-8.30pm
This journey is guided by women who have walked deep paths of remembering and who carry threads of wisdom, craft, and ceremony. Each facilitator brings their own medicine — woven from hands on lived experience, ancestral remembering, and years of tending to their gifts and craft.
Throughout the seasons, you’ll be met by different women whose gifts add to the many strands of this journey: from the alchemy of plants to the making of sacred tools, from women’s ceremony and crafts to plant identification and rewilding skills. Each woman offers their unique thread, so that together we weave a rich and diverse tapestry of learning, remembering, and community together.
Siobhán Delaney is the visionary and founder of Braiding Belonging. As the roots, midwife, and primary facilitator throughout the entirety of the journey, Siobhán holds the threads of the experience with deep devotion, presence, and integrity. Drawing on her own wisdom while braiding in the diverse skills, knowledge, and authentic voices of the wise women invited to co-facilitate this extraordinary journey.
Braiding Belong with Siobhán
Siobhán is a mother, masterful Space Holder, Midwife of the Soul, and Shamanic Craftswoman & Guide, devoted to supporting a cultural reawakening—helping women and communities return to living in harmony with our innate human need for ceremony, creativity, connection, and community through Braiding Belonging.
With over a decade of devotion walking alongside women—holding space through rites of passage, birthkeeping, circle, and ceremony—she brings a rare depth of skill, devotion, and presence to every container she holds. She has guided hundreds of women through Shamanic Medicine Drum crafting, women’s circles and mysteries, and earth-based connection, creating transformative spaces where the ancestral, the instinctual, and the wild authentic soul come alive.
Siobhán’s work is deeply informed by her own personal practice of weaving herself into the seasons and cycles of the earth, allowing the land to teach and initiate her remembrance. Through attunement to seasonal cycles and wisdom, plant kin, herbal medicine making, ceremony, ritual, song weaving, grief work, and deep listening, she has cultivated a profound capacity to guide women in reconnecting with their own ancestral, creative, and instinctual knowledge. This practice has not only shaped her work but has also been a continual path of growth, learning, and re-membering through hand, heart, body, and soul.
She holds women with unwavering depth and presence, creating a container where they can unravel conditioning, release societal expectations, and awaken to their wild, alive soul, authentic self, and innate gifts. In this space, women are invited to step into their power, reclaim their voices, and awaken their creativity and visionary—reweaving themselves into belonging with the earth and the more-than-human world—for the paradigm shift that we need now.
Seasonal Herbal Medicine Making with Skye
Skye is a mother, a facilitator of Experiential Deep Ecology (WTR) workshops, a co-facilitator of a year-long ritual, storytelling and animist cosmovision course by Josh Schrei called ‘The Mythic Body’, a facilitator of various study groups on practical animism and grief work, a nature connection mentor, folk herbalist, traditionally trained plant medicine ritualist, a naturalist and someone who has spent a lot of time outdoors, in focused ritual practice with the land.
Skye is passionate about:
~ Reclaiming interconnected animist / pan-psychist perception and Gaian deep-time awareness
~ Ritually re-entering the conversation with other-than-human, ancestral and place-based relationships
~ Bioregional grassroots folk herbalism and food foraging
~ Reclaiming mythopoetic imagination, mythtelling, song weaving and soulful dreaming capacities
~ Insects! And wild native orchids! And mushroom season!
~ Books! She is a hopeless bookworm
She is in service to the nonlinear, emergent movement toward cultural renewal and ecological healing and, ultimately, collective liberation from the painful delusion of a Self that sees itself as separate and superior to the rest of life on Earth.
Skye & Siobhán will be co-facilitating our Seasonal Medicine Making days together. Skye will also be joining Siobhán, along with Tash for the Opening and Closing Gatherings
Crafting with Natashsa
Natasha, known as Mushroom Mother, is a maker, teacher, and guide devoted to the art of handcraft and ancestral connection. Through her creations and workshops, she honours the wisdom of our foremothers, guiding others to slow down, work with their hands, and rediscover the rhythms of presence, patience, and intention. Her approach celebrates the quiet power of craft—knitting, weaving, and creating as a form of remembrance, connection, and belonging. Inviting participants to step into this gentle, ancestral practice, learning foundational skills while weaving a deeper connection to time, care, and community.
Natasha will also be supporting our Herbal Medicine Days, and our Opening and Closing Gatherings alongside Siobhán & Skye.
Rewilding Skills and Perceptions with Claire
Claire is a writer, speaker, mother, barefoot explorer, rewilding facilitator and founder of Nature’s Apprentice. Claire is passionate about human rewilding and believes that a reclaiming of our ecological selves and belonging is key to regenerating wildness on the planet.
For the last 15 years, Claire has been facilitating individuals to dive deeply into the mysteries of nature and psyche through the pathways of deep nature connection, ancestral earth skills, deep ecology, ecopsychology, soulcentric nature-based practice, village building, dance, ceremony and contemporary wilderness rites-of-passage.
Claire is the author of memoirs My Year Without Matches, which tells the story of her year living wild, and Rewilding the Urban Soul which explores how we might embody wild consciousness within a modern city context. Claire lives beside the Birrarung on the outskirts of Melbourne where she lovingly tends her family, her garden and her own wild heart.
Mushroom Identification & Foraging with Fermented Mother
The Fermented Mother's work is about cultivating connections—between people, their food, and the wild, beautiful world of fungi. The Fermented Mother carries the belief that our well-being is deeply connected to the living world around us. Through her passion for fermentation and foraging, Jess helps people reconnect with this world, turning ancient wisdom into modern practice. Creating space for connection, community and empowering those who attend her workshops.
Its in those moments, when we finally allow ourselves to slow down,
that something ancient begins to awaken within us....
A grief and longing for a time we somehow remember,
though we have not lived it.....
A whisper of our ancestral wisdom still carried on the wind,
songs and stories that still hum under our skin,
still alive within our blood and bones....
A deep re-membering of who we really are- beyond what we’ve been told.
Braiding Belonging is an invitation to honour the stirring and step fully into that remembering, not just as a fleeting glimpse, but as a an apprenticeship to your own becoming. Across the rhythm of seasons and the cycles of the earth, we gather to tend the wild soul, and reconnect to the ancient currents that flow through us. We gather to re-member ourselves whole and deeply belonging.
Braiding Belonging is designed for women at all levels—beginner to advanced—who are drawn to ancestral handcrafting, seasonal herbal medicine, ceremony, and ritual. It is ideal for anyone seeking deeper connection to themselves, the earth, and a supportive sisterhood
No prior experience is required. Each gathering is guided by skilled facilitators who will support beginners while offering depth for more experienced participants.
It is recommended that participants be comfortable sitting in circle, spending time outdoors, camping during weekend immersions, and able to participate in handcrafting and seasonal medicine-making, as the journey is deeply rooted in connection with the land and seasonal rhythms.
Most gatherings are in-person in Victoria, Australia.
All Friday gatherings are held in Kalorama & Weekend gatherings in South Gippsland.
Certain elements, like Women’s Council meetings, are held online and are also recorded so you can catch up if you can’t attend live.
There is also an aspect of online learning through an online student portal.
In-person friday gatherings: typically 5-6 hours (10am–2pm or 9:30am–2:30pm).
Online gatherings: typically 2 hours (6:30–8.30pm).
Expect 2 gatherings per month on average, plus preparation and reflection time for rituals, craft, or herbal work.
There are also two 3-4 day weekend gathering in February & December
Yes! Your commitment to attending each gathering will reflect what you recieve from this journey. Regular participation allows you to:
*Deepen your connection to your own voice, heart, and soul
*Strengthen the bonds of sisterhood within the circle
*Fully engage with the rhythm, medicine and transformation of the journey
However, we are compassionate in our understanding that there may be unforeseen sickness & circumstances which would prevent women from attending.
Please note: If you miss a gathering, there will be no make-up sessions, as the work relies on the shared rhythm and devotion of the group. Online gatherings howeve,r will be recorded and can be watched on replay.
Your journey fee covers:
*All in-person and online gatherings listed in the Braiding Belonging Journey Guide & Calendar
*All materials provided for the listed crafting workshops
*Many Herbal Medicines to take home each Seasonal Medicine Making Gathering
*Access to the online portal with resources and recordings
*Support from facilitators and community connection with other participants
*Braiding Belonging WhatsApp group for easy communication, gathering updates, connection and resource sharing
Friday gatherings: Most Friday gatherings are BYO lunch.
Seasonal Medicine Making Gatherings: Participants are invited to bring a meal to contribute to a shared potluck lunch, deepening connection and community.
Weekend gatherings:
Our first evenings together will be shared potluck, bring a plate. Breakfast & Lunch will be self-catered, Dinners will be catered for. * Some lunches may also be catered to allow journey women to be fully submerged in the process on that day.
Weekend gatherings are held in natural, immersive settings. Participants are responsible for their own sleeping arrangements, which can include tents, swags, or campervans. Please reach out if you will need assistance organising this.
Yes—babes in arms (before crawling) are warmly welcomed at all gatherings, though it may affect your full participation in the journey. Once little ones are crawling or more mobile, it can become tricky to hold the depth of the space, so we ask that they don’t attend at that stage.
For our weekend immersions, we encourage you to arrange local accommodation for your support person and baby nearby. This way, your little one can be brought to you for breastfeeding as needed, while you remain fully immersed in the circle. But please reach out and we’ll do our best to support you in making it work.
Early Bird & The Three Tiered Pricing options
These pricing tiers are designed to reflect a more feminine-led and community-centered business model. The aim is to make this journey as accessible as possible whilst still sustainable for Kindred Womancraft. The three tier options seek to both honour your financial circumstances whilst fostering reciprocity and community support.
For women whose savings and income are limited — such as students, single mothers, pensioners, and those in transition.
Examples include women studying, currently in part-time or low-income roles, or recently retired.
For women and families with a standard income who have the freedom to invest in themselves.
Examples include women working full-time or part-time, running a small business, balancing family responsibilities, or supported by a partner, household members or family.
For women and families with financial stability who can afford to pay it forward. The additional $800 contributes towards reducing the enrolment fee for another woman, helping make this journey more accessible to someone who might otherwise struggle to afford it.
Examples include women with established careers, dual-income households, women with long-term financial security, women who don't financially need to work, those with substantial savings, or those with the means to comfortably invest in themselves and others.
With deep gratitude, contributions at this tier invest in the ongoing work of Kindred Womancraft, supporting the sustainability of future programs, workshops and offerings.
Launching a journey of this size requires the support and investment of the community. Every enrollment is received and celebrated with deepest gratitude.
Deposit
Your enrolment deposit is non-refundable. This helps us hold your place and plan a meaningful experience for everyone.
Cancellation before 31st October
We will refund the program fee minus your deposit.
Cancellation between 1st November & 31st December
If we are able to fill your place with another participant, we will refund all payments made, minus your non-refundable deposit.
Cancellation from 31st December and once the Journey Begins
We are unable to offer refunds from 31st December onwands. Any unpaid fees must be paid in full.
Please make sure you feel genuinely committed to this journey before enrolling.
Braiding Belonging is a year-long commitment, and your place is held specifically for you within our small circle of women. Because places are limited, if you withdraw and we are unable to fill your space, the financial commitment to the program remains.
*By paying your deposit and enrolling in Braiding Belonging, you agree that from 1st November 2026 onwards, your enrolment is a financial commitment to the full program fee. If you withdraw after this date, you remain responsible for all outstanding payments, regardless of attendance.
Your integrity in honouring this commitment and completing your payments is what allows me to keep this work sustainable and to continue creating the space, resources and care that Braiding Belonging requires.
Extraordinary Circumstances
We understand that life can bring unforeseen challenges. In exceptional circumstances, we are open to discussing your situation on a case-by-case basis.
Why We Have This Policy
Running Braiding Belonging requires careful organisation and confirmation of minimum enrolment numbers. This policy ensures we can honour every participant, maintain the integrity of the program, and keep it sustainable for everyone involved.
As this is the first time this journey is running, times, dates, facilitators, or locations may be subject to minor changes. Participants will be notified in advance.
Full participation is essential to receive the depth of this work. As our journey relies on shared rhythm and presence, missed sessions cannot be made up.
* Participants are responsible for personal safety, health and wellbeing.
* Inform facilitators of allergies, medical conditions, or special needs prior to gatherings.
Participants must honour the circle, facilitators, and each other, respecting boundaries, confidentiality, and the integrity of the journey.
Photos or videos may be taken for promotional purposes with participants' consent. Please let us know if you do not wish to be photographed, videoed or have ou image shared online.
All materials, rituals, and teachings are copyrighted for personal use only. Sharing intellectual property without permission is prohibited.
Participation is at your own risk. Facilitators are not responsible for personal injury, loss, or damage during in-person or online gatherings.
