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Becoming A Woman

Facilitator Training

Help Girls Claim Their Embodied Power Rewriting The Menstrual Story

What is Becoming A Woman?

Becoming A Woman Facilitation Training equips participants to teach this important, healing work to mothers and their daughters with the Shamanic Womancraft method.

The intention of this work is to prepare you as a Menstrual Wellbeing Educator, specifically in the spiritual and shamanic dimensions of the Woman’s Mysteries.

This Facilitator Training Enables You To:

  • Develop the skills and knowledge required to facilitate the Becoming a Woman (BAW) workshop in your community
  • Learn how to offer these powerful gatherings in your own community
  • Help mothers and daughters to heal their red thread and create a new story in their lineage
  • Connect with others who share your commitment to collectively raising empowered girls
  • Gain the opportunity to be accredited as a ‘Becoming a Woman Workshop Facilitator’
  • Deepen your own relationship to your menstrual cycle and the inherent wisdom in holds

Facilitator Accreditation

The ‘Becoming A Woman’ Facilitation Training is an opportunity to learn the Shamanic Womancraft way of teaching this important, healing work to mothers and their daughters within their own communities.

Benefits of Accreditation:

  • Online facilitator listing
  • Promotion of workshops
  • Extensive resources
  • Access to alumni support and collaboration within the School of Shamanic Womancraft Community

What will I learn?

Do you appreciate the potency of this rite of passage into womanhood?

Becoming a Woman Facilitator Training will prepare you to deliver the BAW workshop within your community and embolden you to take action in educating girls in this powerful way. This training may also be used as the basis for a facilitator’s self designed program.

  • Connect with your story of menarche and what it taught you about being a woman.
  • Explore your experience of the menstrual cycle and come to deeply understand how working with the cycle can support us in our lives.
  • Develop skills necessary for holding a safe and sacred space for the purpose of intimacy, connection and trust.
  • Develop the skills required for educating and engaging girls, for answering their questions, for enveloping them into the world of women with joy, reverence and respect.
  • Learn how to work with sacred tools and to deliver the content in this new, ancient way.

Who is the training for?

Do you feel the call to empower girls?
Do you already work with girls and wish to deepen your understanding of menarche and menstruation?
Do you have daughters and seek to honour their transition through puberty?
Do you appreciate the potency of this Rite of Passage into womanhood?

If you feel a yes, then this training is for you.

Becoming a Woman Facilitator Training will prepare you to deliver the BAW workshop within your community and embolden you to take action in educating girls in this powerful way.  This training may also be used as the basis for your own self designed program.

What is the Course Content?

Space Holding

Learn to hold space with a focus on the 9-13 age group, facilitating age appropriate circles and creating a safe space for children and their mothers.

Spiritual Dimensions of the menstrual cycle

Learn about the spiritual practice of menstruation, and how it is more than a physiological experience. Experience how this effects you and how you can teach that to others.

Menstrual cycle physiology

Deepen your understanding and knowledge of the physiology of the menstrual cycle.

Rites of Passage

Learn the importance of Rites of Passage and how they impact our lives.

Ceremony

Learn to facilitate and hold safe ceremonies for girls and their families.

Drum Journey

Experience drum journeys and learn how the drum can be used to facilitate healing and soul retrieval.

The Wheel

Learn the Wheel, the wisdom of the cycles.  Learn about how the cycles of the day, earth, vegetation, life, lunar and menstrual are all interconnected and learn how to teach this in an age focused way.

The Circle Way

Learn how to facilitate safe and held circles and create a space for the healed sisterhood.

“Girls receive mixed messages about what it is to be a woman in this culture. Through the BAW workshop, girls are educated about their bodies, inspired by their connection with the earth and her cycles, empowered through story and shared wisdoms and deeply supported by the women within the circle. In these simple and profound ways they come to know themselves as powerful and important. They develop respect for their bodies and their intuition and they open an ongoing conversation with their own mothers which will support them throughout their lives.”

Jane Hardwicke CollingsSchool Of Shamanic Womancraft Founder

“At menarche we welcome our daughters to womanhood, celebrating and honouring them ready, willing and able to be the support they need as they transition into womanhood. We teach them what we have learned and we guide our daughters with women's wisdom.”

Jane Hardwicke CollingsSchool Of Shamanic Womancraft Founder

“Menstrual shame leads to body shame, body shame leads to low self-esteem, low self-esteem leads to all manner of wounded behaviours including self harm, eating disorders and risky and dangerous sexual decision-making. Menstrual shame is known as one of the main organizing principles of the patriarchy that maintains the oppression of women. Menstrual shame, a worldwide, cross-cultural phenomenon causes all that, and is preventable. We must banish menstrual shame.”

Jane Hardwicke CollingsSchool Of Shamanic Womancraft Founder

How is the Course Delivered?

The training will be delivered on site in group training sessions, where participants will learn and practice the material, develop proficiency in their understanding and delivery of the content and participate in personal and group enquiry processes.

Through these enquiry experiences, participants will develop a deep understanding of the impact of their own menarche and menstrual cycle and how they can bring what they have learned through these experiences to their role in teaching this work.

To graduate, proficiency in delivery of the material and understanding of your own relationship to your menarche and menstruation must be achieved. The training program will offer this opportunity.    

The course is a non-residential live training in Austinmer, Illawarra Region, NSW

  • in person tuition
  • guest teachers
  • Reading materials
  • Practice tasks
  • Assignments
  • Personal enquiry processes
You will be provided with everything you need to deliver the workshop including:
  • complete run sheets for the workshop
  • branding materials
  • online facilitator listing
  • private classroom for connecting with other students
  • ongoing alumni and community support
Graduation of the course will be achieved through satisfactory completion of a final assessment conducted at the facilitator training program.
Prerequisite: attendance of a Moonsong workshop or completion of Snake medicine e-course

Your Guide and Teacher for the Training

We invite you to join us and to learn the Shamanic Womancraft way of teaching this important, healing work to mothers and their daughters.

Arahni Lion

Mother • Shamanic Craftswoman • Priestess • Seer

Arahni walks her own shamanic path of healing and transformation and serves to re-awaken the innate healing wisdom and soul nature within others.

For 20 years Arahni worked in trauma responsive family support services, safe refuges, and schools. She supported young people and women and children in therapeutic work. She designed and facilitated peer prevention programs in sexual assault, domestic violence, alcohol and other drugs and sexual health.

For the last decade, Arahni studied intensively with School of Shamanic Womancraft, a Women’s Mysteries school, and is a graduate teacher of the Four Seasons Journey, guide on the Earth Woman online course and facilitator of Becoming A Woman workshops for mothers & daughters.

Practicing the healing arts of holistic counselling, shamanic womancrafting, intuitive body work and compassionate enquiry, she works alongside those who seek guidance to re-orient themselves through life’s challenges, transformations and transmutations, from the altar of birth to the final rite of death.

Arahni offers positive menstrual education, 1:1 private healing sessions, reclaiming ceremonies, healing rituals, sacred circles and coming of age year-long journeys for mothers & daughters in her community and beyond.

Arahni lives on the lands of the Wodi Wodi people of the Dharawal Nation and acknowledges that sovereignty has never been ceded.

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Muriel

“The main thing that I really got out of this course is that it's not just another course or workshop, it's more a duty of care to share this information.”

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Leah

“The BWFT empowered me to weave the significance of the blood mysteries into my world, my conversations and my being. It reinforced my deep reverence and appreciation for my womanhood and encouraged me to continue the dialogue about the importance of this very significant right of passage.”

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Hope

“The tools and instruction I have been given have prepared me well to teach this work in my community. The inspiration, support and belief I have been shown have given me the courage I was lacking.”

Becoming A Woman Facilitator Training

Interested In Empowering Young Women?

Current 2026 curriculum concludes in June, with the next Becoming A Woman Facilitator Training Group scheduled for 2027.

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