Women’s Rites of Passage

Initiated Woman Gatherings

The Call of Initiation for Girls & Women

Join Dr Mendy Neralic for seven weekly gatherings, to welcome you into a clan of diverse women, all working towards the call to initiation.

These gatherings will provide space and time to learn, return to, and support you through practices, rituals, stories, and dialogue.

They are experiential - an opportunity to engage with practices and ideas, and gather and explore resources that will act as balms and fortifiers for your past, present, and future efforts to return to unfinished passages, re-story your experiences, and re-emerge through the passages.  Think of these gatherings as a time to activate the Initiated Woman within, support personal and collective efforts for healing and change, and enrich your daily, creative, and soul life.

Details

  • During these gatherings, Dr. Mendy will guide you through the archetype of the Initiated Woman by sharing methods, practices, and experiences to enhance your personal and collective connection to the Initiated Woman as an inner guide— and to do this in dialogue, connection, and community with others.

  • The lack of knowledge about the archetypal journey of initiation has left girls and women without proper guidance and resources to support them as they travel through the ups and downs of life. These gatherings will offer a template for the development and nurturing of core skills, qualities, and attitudes, helping to bolster confidence, create inner strength, and tap into source creativity and intelligence—fortifying these journeys and the quest for awareness.

  • Women who wish to understand the archetypal cycle of growth and initiation into womanhood across the lifespan. It’s for women who want to tap into the core qualities of being Initiated Women so they can continue to explore, weave, and nurture this seed wisdom into their daily lives, relationships, and communities.

Join the Waitlist

JOIN THE WAITLIST TO BE THE FIRST TO KNOW ABOUT THE NEXT GATHERING DATES IN MID 2025.

The Syllabus

Session #2 | Breath & Body

We begin by exploring the breath and body to gather disparate thoughts, energies, and histories and return to earth and matter. We explore the archetypal Initiated Woman and how she shows up to guide our journeys and introduce the idea of ‘being called’ and remember that threshold moments place us on the “journey” of the fool, the heroine - the archetypal cycle of life, death, and rebirth— the Great map that guides us on our quest of transformation.

Session #3 | Mind & Heart

We build knowledge about the dynamic relationship between what we know and don't know about ourselves and our world, and explore themes and practices in ways of seeing, knowing, our public self, secrets, and hiding. We discover how to discern your voice from the voice of the culture, dismantle received ideas, know the inner critic, practice listening and speaking with your voice, uncover truth and lies, and carry this voice in relationship. We play with tenderising the heart to tap into a Greater Source - developing questions and telling stories to help lead us toward a new theology with the gravitas to hold the great Mystery—beyond new-age spirituality and patriarchal dogma.

Session #4 | Depth & Soul

We connect with a sense of inner strength, power, and vitality, and locate our core - and experiment with how we can operate from there. We see how the mind works best when it is holistic—with reason and logic, imagination, and symbols, all acting in friendship with each other to navigate the everyday and mundane, and mystical and unknown. We reframe intuitive wisdom as a power. We will work with a dream and play by dialoguing with each other and the dream elements and characters. We will explore ritual as theatre— acts that bring the symbolic and inexplicable into the world.

Session #5 | Creativity & Expression

We are encouraged to explore creativity and art, beyond what we commonly think of as such, to ensure we live a creative life. We each discover "our project", and learn to recognise the Inspiritrix when they come. We reframe practice and discipline as bringing forward a healthy inner masculine force that supports and encourages you in this endeavour, while your feminine nature anchors into the archetypal flow of personal and collective rhythms and cycles. We begin planning for the closing ritual and collaborate in this creative act.

Session #6 | Story & Ceremony

We prepare for Life after Liminality -  What are the lessons you’ve learnt? Skills acquired? What’s been solidified? We'll work with the Stages of Change. We explore how we can continue to build community, virtuous friendships, and networks so we can continue the work. We explore how to bring the archetypal Initiated Woman into your communities and ask, How have you embodied/ can you embody that Initiated Woman to support others?  We will work with in dialogue with a myth or folktale.

Session #7 | Closing Ceremony

We then close our work in ritual.

Bonuses & Supplements

Recordings

Each Zoom gathering will be 1.5-2 hours and will be recorded and available for all paid participants who cannot make it live or who wish to re-watch the videos at their own pace.

PDF Workbook

A downloadable PDF workbook will provide additional information,  journal prompts, and bonus content to deepen the experience.

Recorded Practices

Supplementary resources will be sent out via email, including breathwork, meditation, visualization, movement, and yoga practices,

Session #1 | OPENING CEREMONY

We open with a simple ritual where we will set our intentions to make meaning together.