An 8-week online soul initiation for women travelling the midlife journey of rebirth. August and September 2025.
Possible add-on: Wise Women Stories, a creative retreat on Iona, 9-15 October, 2025.
Birthing Wisdom is a journey of soul initiation for women travelling the transition from menopause into elderhood. Whether in the early days of your midlife metamorphosis or in the middle of your menopausal years, this course provides you with a structure to initiate your Midlife Rebirth and offers guidance as you tread its winding path. During this process, you will have the support of a community of women with whom to share your journey and rebirth.
While this course shares themes and practices that are similar to my one-to-one sessions, Transformative Mentoring, what makes it distinct is that this is a structured program designed to be shared with a community of women as they travel the path of their Midlife Rebirth.
If you’re interested in a personalised, one-to-one journey of discovery and rebirth, built around you and your process, then take a look at Transformative Mentoring here.
Hello friend,
Menopause is an initiation of the soul. Even though it’s not honoured for what it is—one of the most profound transitions in a woman’s life—it deserves to be.
And it’s not just the cellular changes that need to be addressed. The soulful ones beg for our attention too. In fact, many of us walk this transition alone. We should change that.
Let’s build a community where the wise woman is visible and honoured. Her vitality, cherished. Her heart-based wisdom, valued. Her name, spoken with pride. Let’s build a community where she has space to rebirth, in her own time.
I offer this journey for you to creatively explore your soulful identity as a Woman of Wisdom. You’re already doing it. Diving deep into your inner landscape, looking for clues about your authentic self and your soul’s purpose.
Growth and rebirth—they don’t happen in a straight line. It’s always a circle. The transition from menopause to your wisdom years is no different. This is a journey of circumambulation: a “walk around” something holy and sacred. A “circle around” you. A pilgrimage.
I hold space for you to keep walking. I want you to find her. That wise, wild, whole you! The world awaits your return.
In service,
Nicki
Menopause changes us on both the cellular and soulful level. It’s a time where we let go of what is dying to make room for the emergence of something new. Birthing Wisdom is a structured course designed to guide women on their pilgrimage to self, build a relationship with soul, and find purpose. This course is run for a group of women, offering a communal space to process this journey.
This journey has many threads. While each rebirth is unique and organic, there are similar themes and desires that surface at this life stage transition. Jungians Bruce Baker and Jane Wheelwright identified these psychological-spiritual steps for the journey into wise elderhood. These steps heavily inform this course.
Birthing Wisdom is a course with two-fold intentions. It is an inner journey in which a woman births her Wise Woman Elder. It is also a collective of women who support each other on this journey to rebirth. By marrying these two intentions we find something the modern world does not offer. We find a space in which she can rebirth in her own time and share the gifts she finds in the process. We find a space where she is valued, and her voice is spoken and heard.
Here’s what the two-fold intentions look like in practice. We will meet as a group online for two hours, twice a month. We will use these bi-monthly sessions for teaching, learning, meditation, connection, and discussion. Once a month you will meet with Nicki for a one-to-one mentoring session. The time in between sessions is for personal reflection, soul practices, and creative expression.
8 Live, interactive group sessions with Nicki.
2 Private, 60 minute sessions with Nicki.
8 Practical guides, one for each of the 8 modules, outlining practices and exercises to deepen your soulwork.
6 Guided soul encounter meditations with Nicki.
Additional readings and resources that support your soulwork.
There are many paths to birthing your wisdom. I weave some common threads into this journey to help you dive deep into the centre of your truest self.
Story is medicine that offers an invitation to find those lost parts of you.
We will be working with the myth of The Handless Maiden, an underworld story that addresses the feminine life cycle.
We will work with archetypal psychology, searching for the face of the Wise Woman. In our quest to find your unique elderhood, we will explore a variety of archetypes in women over fifty.
This thread invites you to work with a variety of practices to move closer to your soul: meditation, nature connection, soulcentric journaling, and creativity.
This thread explores your soul’s purpose as you move into your wisdom years. We will dive deep into the centre of Self to explore your vision, values, powers, essence, giveaway, task, message, and delivery system.
These are our online group sessions. They will be used for teaching, building community, group guidance, and the exploration of the different stages of soul initiation.
These one-to-one sessions with me will allow you to dive deeper into your purpose and rebirthing process.
Practices are given to you to complete between sessions, including personal inquiry, soul practices, and creative prompts.
Each journey is completely unique. Even within the community of women on your course, you may find that your journey to soul and the shape of your return is different from your sisters. But Birthing Wisdom will provide you with the same structured guidance as you walk the winding path to your own soul encounter. The course has four stages: Preparation, Dissolution, Soul Encounter, and Return.
How to cultivate your innate wholeness?
The Handless Maiden:
Loss and betrayal are the first steps on an initiatory journey to the underground forest. We will be looking at the ways this story resonates with you.
The Feminine Face of Wisdom: Metis.
What does her story have to say to women who are moving into the wisdom years?
Deepening into Soul:
Meditation, communing with Nature, making art, building a small altar for this journey.
Creative Expression:
Self-Portrait 1.
Over the course of this journey, you will be invited to make a series of four self-portraits using your preferred medium: paint, photography, poetry, writing, sculpture, nature art.
We will focus on the following facets of purpose:
You will receive a packet for personal inquiry at each stage along the journey.
How can we soften the influence of Ego for Soul to lead?
The Handless Maiden:
We will explore the characters in the story as symbolic representations of the parts of the psyche: the sleepy one, the trailblazer, the transformer, the mage, the pregnant one, the predator.
The Feminine Face of Wisdom: The Cailleach.
We will explore the archetype of the Wise Woman Crone. Who is she? What is her name? What’s her offering? What is her role in the Life/Death/Rebirth cycle?
Deepening into Soul:
Your work at this stage is twofold: the practice of letting go and the practice of opening your heart more fully to your soul. We will work with grief and ceremony as well as the art of romancing nature.
Creative Expression:
Self-Portrait 2.
The Handless Maiden:
We will explore the initiatory path of the maiden as she enters and spends time in the large wild forest. This is the realm of the wild woman. What takes root? What does she find?
The Feminine Face of Wisdom: Sophia, Hecate, Hestia.
The art of meditative listening for mystical and intuitive wisdom.
Deepening into Soul: THE SOUL QUEST
Solo time on the land (8 hours).
Creative Expression:
Self-Portrait 3.
The Soul Quest is an act of soulcentric living:
The Handless Maiden:
In the last stage of our study of this myth, we will focus on wholeness and the reunion of the sacred masculine and feminine.
The Feminine Face of Wisdom: Self-Portrait 4
Creative Expression: Writing Your Unique Myth
As your mentor, I’m like a midwife, holding space for you to rebirth your truest self, the most sacred part of you. I’m here to stand guard as you birth your unique wise woman elder.
I offer a unique perspective from years of working with women in various stages of spiritual development. I bring 30+ years grounding in the spirituality of transformation, the study of the feminine life cycle, and a training ranging from the ordained priesthood to a variety of meditative and somatic practices. I’m currently a Mentor for The Purpose Guide Institute, a poet, and an artist.
I believe in your body’s intelligence. That you have a deep intuitive sense about what’s right for you on this journey. My training in Focusing, an experience-based practice of self-reflection and meditation, helps locate that felt sense within.
I am committed to listening to your soul, looking for your lost threads, and helping you weave together your purpose-filled, soul-infused life.
I’ve walked this midlife journey. I know the themes and the patterns. I know its sacred path.
When the course meets:
The course begins on the 10th of August 2025 and ends on the 28th of September 2025. We meet on Sunday from 4pm-6pm GMT.
There are 8 Group Sessions:
10 August, 17 August, 24 August, 31 August, 7 September, 14 September, 21 September, 28 September.
All private sessions with Nicki will be arranged.
The cost of Birthing Wisdom:
The 8-week online program is £575.
This is a one-time Special Launch price.
If you would like to book your place on Birthing Wisdom please book a free 30 minute introductory call with Nicki. This is a chance to get to know each other and answer any questions you might have.
What do I need to participate?
The only equipment you’ll need is a computer or mobile device with an internet connection, a journal, and art supplies of your choice. You will receive the Zoom link to join our call ahead of time.
How much time commitment does the course require?
5 hours per week. Participation of all participants in the practices is required to hold a sacred container for all. Please note that this journey involves an 8-hour Soul Quest out in nature.
How can I best prepare for this course?
Some effective ways to prepare for this journey are to spend time in nature, support and nourish your body, deepen your personal relationships, engage in quiet contemplative practices, read mythology, and be creative.
This program is for those who maintain a level of stability in their lives, are committed to fostering wellness, and are open to discovering wholeness.
Note: this program is not recommended for those with ongoing addiction, severe untreated trauma, or untreated mental illness. If uncertain about your readiness, I recommend working with a coach or therapist for a time before embarking on this journey.
I guide women navigating the soulfulness of menopause to reveal their heart-based wisdom, gifts, and purpose for a regenerative world full of compassion and meaning.
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