Wise Women Gathering - Australia

Wise Women Gathering - Australia Join us in May for the Annual Wise Women Gathering, a holistic-living + herbal conference for all women. Children's day camp available. Join us in empowerment.
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For too long the feminine has remained quiet and scattered. It’s time to reconnect and reinvigorate the power of the feminine. The Wise Women Gathering is a place for sharing plant wisdom teachings and traditions, exploring the Women’s Mysteries and cultivating community connections. Network with other Wise Women from the area and afar. Learn, share and take part in the power birthed from many wom

en coming together. It is a tradition that has taken place for thousands of years.

30+ workshops, ceremonies, dance, fun activities for kids, discussions, high-quality meals included. Learn more at www.wisewomengathering.com

Fermentation asks us to work with life we cannot see.We prepare the ingredients and create the conditions, but then bact...
03/09/2026

Fermentation asks us to work with life we cannot see.

We prepare the ingredients and create the conditions, but then bacteria and yeasts get involved. Temperature matters. Time matters. The plants or foods we begin with matter. What is happening in the wider environment matters too.

And we have to pay attention.

We smell, taste, watch for bubbles, notice changes and gradually learn the signs that tell us whether something is progressing beautifully or needs our intervention.

There is something useful in this way of working.

So much of modern life trains us to expect predictable outcomes from standardised processes. Fermentation is more relational than that. We participate in a living process, learn its patterns and respond to what is actually happening.

This kind of practical knowledge grows through experience. The more we make, taste, observe and talk with other makers, the more fluent we become.

Next week, Beth Attard brings this living practice into our online series with Fermented Medicinal Sodas, combining fermentation with plants we can grow, gather and come to know.

🔗 wisewomengathering.com/2026-online

The first day of September gives us a convenient line on the calendar for Spring. The living world is usually less tidy....
01/09/2026

The first day of September gives us a convenient line on the calendar for Spring. The living world is usually less tidy...

Depending on where you live, the signs may have been arriving for weeks, or the cold may still have quite a bit to say. Flowers open according to their own timing. Birds shift their behaviour. Sap rises. Insects return. Days lengthen. Some plants race into new growth while others are still waiting for the right conditions.

Our bodies don’t necessarily leap into Spring on cue either. So rather than deciding what this season is supposed to mean, we can begin by noticing what is actually happening.
🌱 What has changed in the light where you live?
🌱 What is flowering, budding, nesting, calling or moving?
🌱 What foods are beginning to appear?
🌱 What does your body want more of as the days change?
🌱 And what, if anything, is beginning to stir in you?

Seasonal living begins here, with paying enough attention to know the particular place and season we are actually living in.

Who gets to be a teacher?It’s a question we think about quite a lot at Wise Women Gathering.Some of our educators have f...
30/08/2026

Who gets to be a teacher?
It’s a question we think about quite a lot at Wise Women Gathering.

Some of our educators have formal qualifications and professional practices. Others have spent decades growing, making, studying, tending, researching, experimenting or developing a particular body of knowledge. Many bring both.

What matters is having something you genuinely know, and being able to share it responsibly.

Across Plant Wisdom, Women’s Mysteries and Holistic Living, that might mean herbal medicine or ecology, women’s health or sexuality, growing food, movement, craft, psychology, ageing, ancestry, creativity, relationships, ritual, community, practical skills, or something we haven’t thought to name yet.

We are especially interested in the places these things meet.

WWG has never been built around a handful of celebrity experts. Each educator brings one piece into a much larger exchange of knowledge, experience and conversation.

Applications to teach at Wise Women Gathering 2027 are open now, and close 1 November.

If there is something you have learnt deeply enough to pass on, perhaps this is your year to bring it to the Gathering.

🔗 https://www.wisewomengathering.com/apply/educators

There are things we can understand by reading about them, and things we only really come to know by doing them.Growing p...
28/08/2026

There are things we can understand by reading about them, and things we only really come to know by doing them.

Growing plants. Making medicine. Fermenting food. Moving our bodies. Sitting in ceremony. Learning to listen. Making something with our hands. Practising a skill often enough that eventually our hands remember what to do.

At Wise Women Gathering, we want plenty of room for this kind of knowledge.

An educator might introduce an idea or share what years of experience have taught her, but then we get to smell the plant, try the movement, make the thing, ask the awkward question, compare what happened with the woman beside us and discover what changes when the knowledge meets our own lives.

Practice also makes room for knowledge to keep developing. We try something, observe what happens, ask better questions, return to it and gradually build our own experience.

This is how so much useful knowledge has always travelled between people.

Someone shows us. We have a go. We keep practising. And one day, perhaps, we are the woman showing someone else.

Some of the most important things you learn at a Gathering never appear on the program. They happen when someone sits be...
27/08/2026

Some of the most important things you learn at a Gathering never appear on the program. They happen when someone sits beside you at lunch and the conversation wanders somewhere neither of you expected.

When a woman shows you how she does something because you happened to ask.
When you keep talking after a session has finished.
When you wander back to camp together, share food, compare notes, introduce someone to someone else, sit near the fire, or find yourself returning to a conversation begun the day before.

Formal teaching gives us access to knowledge and experience we might not otherwise encounter. But gathering gives that knowledge somewhere to live.

We hear how another woman understood the same idea. We discover the question we hadn’t thought to ask. Someone tells us about a book, plant, practice or person that sends us in another direction entirely. We meet women whose lives are very different from our own and get to spend enough time together for curiosity to grow.

This is one of the reasons Wise Women Gathering has always been about more than filling a timetable with good sessions... The meals matter. The camping matters. The conversations between tents matter. Sitting together matters... Because when women gather around knowledge, they also begin building relationships around it.

And what travels home with us is often much larger than whatever we wrote in our notebooks.

Tomorrow night : What makes a space sacred?Is it the objects we place there? The intention we bring? The rituals we repe...
25/08/2026

Tomorrow night : What makes a space sacred?

Is it the objects we place there? The intention we bring? The rituals we repeat? The stories attached to particular things? Or does sacredness emerge through the relationship we develop with a place over time?

Altars appear in many cultures, spiritual traditions and personal practices, taking vastly different forms and carrying different meanings. They can be places of devotion, remembrance, prayer, ritual, connection, creativity or contemplation. They can also offer a physical place for something less tangible to be given our attention.

This Wednesday, Yia Alias brings Altar Consciousness to the WWG Online Sessions, exploring the altar as a meeting place between our inner and outer worlds.

Yia will explore sacred space, symbolism and the ways the objects and environments we create can influence perception, intention and practice. There is also an invitation here to consider what we choose to give meaning to, how we tend that relationship, and what creating sacred space might reveal about our own values and inner authority.

Wednesday 26 August, 6pm

If you attended Wise Women Gathering 2026, this session is included in your Gathering ticket, whether or not you attended Yia’s session at the conference. Check your email for your access details.

For everyone else, you can join us online by purchasing an individual session, which also includes access to the replay.

🔗 wisewomengathering.com/2026-online

What happens to friendship as we change?Midlife can reshape the relationships between women in all sorts of ways. We may...
23/08/2026

What happens to friendship as we change?

Midlife can reshape the relationships between women in all sorts of ways. We may become clearer about boundaries, less willing to abandon ourselves to maintain belonging, or find that friendships formed around earlier versions of ourselves need to change too.

Tomorrow evening, Stephanie Grant and Lucy Allen bring this territory to our online series with The Spell of Sisterhood: Attachment, Midlife Friendship & Belonging.

They’ll explore how attachment patterns and earlier experiences shape adult friendship, alongside symbolic and reflective practices around belonging and sisterhood.

Monday 24 August, 6pm

If you attended WWG 2026, this session is included in your Gathering ticket. Check your email for access details.

Everyone else can book individually, with the replay included.

🔗 wisewomengathering.com/2026-online

An altar gives our attention somewhere to gather.The objects we place there can hold memory, relationship, devotion, int...
20/08/2026

An altar gives our attention somewhere to gather.

The objects we place there can hold memory, relationship, devotion, intention or connection to something larger than ourselves. Over time, the simple act of returning to the same place can change how we notice and relate to what it holds.

Next Wednesday, Yia Alias joins our online series for Altar Consciousness, exploring sacred space, symbolism, perception, purpose and inner authority.

Wednesday 26 August, 6pm

WWG 2026 attendees can join free as part of their Gathering ticket. Check your email for your access details.

Everyone else is welcome to purchase the session, with replay included.

🔗 https://www.wisewomengathering.com/2026-online

Women’s friendship can become surprisingly complicated in midlife.By this point we have usually gathered decades of expe...
19/08/2026

Women’s friendship can become surprisingly complicated in midlife.

By this point we have usually gathered decades of experience of belonging, exclusion, closeness, rupture, loyalty, disappointment and repair. We have learnt things about what friendship means from our families and cultures, from schoolyards and workplaces, from intimate relationships and from the friendships that have held us through enormous changes.

And then we change too.

Relationships that once fitted may become uncomfortable. Our capacity for emotional labour can shift. We may become clearer about boundaries, more willing to name what hurts, or less willing to maintain relationships through habit alone. Children, caring responsibilities, illness, work, ageing parents, menopause, divorce, grief and changing identities can alter both what we need from friendship and what we are able to give.

Sometimes the question becomes: how do we create friendship between women that has room for difference, boundaries, conflict and change, as well as love?

On Monday 24 August, Stephanie Grant and Lucy Allen are bringing this conversation into our next WWG Online Session, The Spell of Sisterhood: Attachment, Midlife Friendship & Belonging.

Together they’ll explore attachment patterns, friendship wounds and the ways our earlier experiences can travel with us into adult relationships, alongside symbolic and reflective practices for exploring belonging and sisterhood.

If you came to WWG 2026, the online sessions are included with your Gathering ticket. Check your email for your access details.

For everyone else, tickets are available individually and include the replay.

🔗 wisewomengathering.com/2026-online

One of the lovely problems of Wise Women Gathering is that there is always more happening than any one woman can get to....
17/08/2026

One of the lovely problems of Wise Women Gathering is that there is always more happening than any one woman can get to.

While you’re learning about medicinal plants in one tent, another conversation is unfolding somewhere else. We choose our own pathway through the weekend, but inevitably there are sessions we wish we could have attended too.

That’s one reason our learning continues online.

This month our WWG educators are still sharing live online sessions so we can keep exploring the knowledge, practices and conversations that move through the Gathering.

If you attended WWG 2026, these sessions are included in your ticket, including sessions you missed at the Gathering. Check your email for access details.

Everyone else is very welcome to join us too. Individual sessions can be purchased, with the replay included.

Because three days together was never going to be enough.

🔗 wisewomengathering.com/2026-online

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