May 14-16, 2004
A Workshop for Women. Throngs of female Baby Boomers are entering mid life, unique in history for freedom, education, longevity and wealth. Poised on the brink of a new, exciting stage of life, we hold positions of responsibility and stature. Pumped and primed for personal sovereignty, we’re no longer Maidens. Motherhood is behind us, but we’re not yet Crones. Make way for the Woman in Charge – the Queen!
Donna Henes introduces us to the Queen, the missing stage of Womanhood, an empowering new archetype for mature women of the world. The classic concept of the three stages of womanhood — Maiden, Mother, and Crone — no longer describes our lives and times. Old age no longer follows directly after menopause. Women of a Certain Age are called upon to ascend the throne of conscious leadership, to exercise our power to redeem and transform ourselves, our society, and our planet.
The Queen is capable, accomplished, assured, respected, and in charge. Passionate and compassionate, the scope of her natural ability is vast and her influence great. The dispenser of order, measure, justice, and right relationship, her rule is guided by her keen cosmic perspective as well as the heart-felt promptings of her own intuition.
Turn Your Mid-Life Crisis Into a Crowning Achievement. Join your spirit with other incredible, mature, accomplished women. Meet and celebrate the Queen in Your Self as we share a spirited mythological and, philosophical experience. In a ceremonial counsel of encouragement and support, we will summon, name, and claim the wealth of our experience, our resources, and our best intentions. We will drum up the passions to fuel our potent midlife transition and chant for the persistence to maintain it. Our gathering will culminate with a Crowning Ceremony wherein we proclaim and celebrate our power. We Queens have visions to create, projects to develop, communities to organize, a country to run, and a planet to protect. Long Live the Queens!
Donna Henes is the author of The Queen of My Self, The Moon Watcher’s Companion, Celestially Auspicious Occasions, and Dressing Our Wounds In Warm Clothes, as well as the CD, Reverence To Her: Mythologwwy, The Matriarchy & Me. She also published a quarterly journal, Always In Season: Living In Sync with the Cycles. Mama Donna, as she is affectionately known, has offered lectures, workshops, circles, and celebrations worldwide for 30 years and is the director of Mama Donna’s Tea Garden & Healing Haven, a ceremonial center, ritual consultancy, and spirit shop in Exotic Brooklyn. Find out more at her website: http://www.thequeenofmyself.com