Kindred Womancraft

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 with 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.

Sky & Siobhán will be co-facilitating our Seasonal Medicine Making days together.

Knitting 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.

Ceremonial Clay with Hayley

Hayley Paige Soar, known as Woman of the Earth, is an intuitive artist, ceramicist, and maker of sacred objects based in the Dandenong Ranges, Victoria. She creates one-of-a-kind ceramics, ritual tools, jewellery, and artworks infused with intention, elemental energy, and archetypal symbolism. Through her practice, Hayley bridges the sacred and the everyday, crafting objects that are both functional and medicine, inviting ceremony, remembrance, and transformation into daily life.

Basket Weaving with Shelley

Shelley Krycer is a visual artist, crafts person and Steiner educator based on Wurundjeri country who draws inspiration from and uses creative practices as ways to listen to and deepen relationship with the living earth. Alongside her painting practice, Shelley came to basket weaving more than a decade ago. When she did, she found that her hands had a sense of ‘returning’ to something that they had long known. They wove and wove, and continue to weave, with a sense of remembering and learning with each stitch. Working as she does primarily with wild harvested and home grown plant materials and apprenticing herself to what Robin Wall Kimmerer refers to as the ‘Honourable Harvest’, brings  to her practice additional layers of foraging, earth tending and deep listening as an ongoing, living relationship with the natural world. Shelley has been teaching art and facilitating workshops over the past 22 years and sharing basket weaving workshops over the past 10. Shelley is continuously moved by the depth of presence, nourishment, connection and joy that sharing these processes and practices in circles brings.

Eco-Printing with Eva

Eva is a seasonal small batch nature inspired maker, exploring biophilia through craft and foraging.Specialising in eco-printing and upcycling fabrics using foraged botanicals, as well as utilising food waste to craft precious pieces.Eva has been on her natural dyeing journey for over 5 years preserving wedding bouquets into long lasting treasured fabrics such as silk robes. Harnessing Australia's treasure trove of tannin rich eucalyptusLet her welcome you to the rabbit hole of natural dyeing! Each piece created, the spirit of nature whispers. Be warned this journey is highly addictive.

Mushrrom 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.

Rewilding Skills 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.