Women’s Voices in a Healing Circle: Practices to Amplify the Feminine To Balance the World Better

This experiential PDW offers a demonstration and participation in healing circles to learn about the practices women and men have used to sustain feminine qualities in patriarchal contexts where they are systematically under-valued. The organizers of the 2021 Women’s Wisdom Circle and the Nevertheless She Persisted series of PDWs of the past four years, have come together to propose this. Women, men, and people of all genders, across the entire spectrum of management academia are invited to come to learn the healing circle methodology by participating in sharing their stories in a supportive community, with the aim to heal and rebalance the masculine-feminine within and around us. Building on the first person truth-telling in a supportive community, participants go away understanding that there is not one dominant story, but a multitude of stories. The healing circle is designed to help find our joy with community sharing, commiseration, and liberating many truths. We aim to transform systems by bringing a better balance between masculine and feminine, with practices to share and reflect on the untold stories as part of building community. The healing comes from the collaboration, caring, listening and story sharing soft power of the experience, that affirms the feminine. The desired impact is that whatever the attendees do, in personal or professional lives, shifts to be better balanced as in the yin-yang or ardhnarishwar (half-man-woman form of Shiva) ways of being.