Welcome to our new site. We're still sorting the odd glitch. Let us know if something isn't working perfectly. Our first blog gives a bit of background to the March 21 event.

 

Women on Fire is designed to link up the women of the world who make brilliant things happen. It promotes women as decision makers, especially in the many areas that have a direct effect on the wellbeing of all life on earth. It aims to embolden, uplift, inform and inspire women in all circumstances to live their power - but without the loss of lovely, feminine tenderness.

 

Lack of confidence makes many women retiring. It can also make us brash, which in the long term inhibits easy, effective collaboration. So we are also developing confidence-building events where competition among women - feared, imagined or for real - can be gently dismantled.

 

We offer something for the individual and for organisations and networks. If you've visited this site before you'll notice some big differences. We've made it much easier for you to tell us what you're doing, what you're lacking and what's happening wherever you are in the world. Use us as your noticeboard. See YOUR NEWS

 

We filmed our thoroughly inspirational launch event at Westminster last year, and now have a 55-minute documentary plus full length, unedited speeches from many of our speakers including Camila Batmanghelidjh, Elisabet Sahtouris, Scilla Elworthy, Hafsat Abiola-Costello and Polly Higgins. You can BUY these here. 

 

We'd love to see you at one of our events. They're not just for women - men only TINDERBOX actually excludes women - but they all address the feminine, receptive side of men and women that includes instinct and intuition, the qualites of listening, of care and of nourishment.

 

Our next event - for women and men - is Earth to People at King's College, London on the evening of March 21st. The subject is our fundamental relationship with the earth. It's in the format of a Q & A session, with answers from visionary founder of Women on Fire, Judith Seelig. You're invited to send us questions in advance or to ask them on the night. We've posted some opening questions in EARTH TO PEOPLE where you can also read something to stimulate your spirit of enquiry. 

 

Because women as decision makers constitute our one underused resource in addressing all the crises of our time: ecological, economic, social and spiritual. We want to encourage women to develop self-confidence without feeling challenged by patriarchal certainties. We want to offer instinctual wisdom as a partner to reason, and wise women to accompany wise men. See LETTER TO MEN and Q & A.

 

The project began with shaman/visionary/healer/changemaker Judith Seelig. Yeah, that's a long list of credits but how she functions is so unusual and so changeably varied that it's hard to encapsulate. The translation of vision into reality is in the hands of Lucia Bardoul. Lucia trained as an accountant, spent many years in business and now provides gentle guidance and razor-sharp insight into people's career potential. There's also a group of men and women from different backgrounds who meet to develop the branding of something that's so unusual it almost seems unbrandable. Everyone's time and resources are gifted. We pay professionals for all the techie stuff. And we have the enthusiastic, often practical, support of many women and men who love and respect the fire in us. The same fire sparks in them too, so you could say the fire is running Women on Fire.

 

All this grew out of stillness, and it is that which makes Women on Fire really different. All action from the stillness of non-action. The active masculine principle arising naturally from the receptive feminine. Doing born of being. Creativity flowing not from a bunch of enthusiastic women but through them.

 

Having the vision held by a shaman makes us unusual, if not unique. This is someone who holds the vessel steady and true to course even when the boat is rocked or the wind abruptly changes direction. You might know very little about shamanism. So we asked Judith to write an introduction. See THE SHAMAN EXPLAINS