Wonder-Tales Women’s Group 2025
A thorough journey for a small group of women to explore themselves through Fairytales.
This is a Group Process Work, with an emphasis on self-enquiry. Participants can expect to gain extensive knowledge about the Literature of Fairytales in a way that becomes personally meaningful and relevant to their daily life.
Each Fairytale conveys key existential topics which influence each individual woman. Re-discovering these old stories mobilise us to build our emotional resilience, helping us to meet our fears and anxieties in a safe and stimulating way. The purpose of this Group is to use these archetypes to identify our own internal multiple aspects and befriend our complexity.
This is a one-year programme dedicated to the wonder, trials and transformative powers of Fairytales. It is structured in three Terms of 10 weeks, but each Term can be taken separately, as it is a complete process in itself.
Tuesdays from 7.30 to pm 9.00 pm UK Time (Zoom sessions)
Working with fairytales is a wonderful way to explore the psyche through awakening our imaginative forces. It supports our emotional resilience, helping us to meet our fears and anxieties in a safe an enlivened way. Our creativity is encouraged, inspiring us to use our imagination and express new ideas, new ways of being.
For thousands of years, stories told as fairytales have been exploring universal themes such as love, hate, fear, courage, greed, and generosity. Different cultures are explored and through ancient wisdom imbued in these stories ways of realising that dreams can come true and the nuances of our soul are reflected in how life comes to meet us, and in the ways we live our life.
This year’s women’s group will be dedicated to the wonder, trials and transformative powers of fairytales. The year is broken up in three phases. Each participant will be given a fairytale to explore and live out in the creative yet safe setting of the Women’s Group.
We start the journey in the Winter term. In this Phase I, we explore the magical child within. We will be reading classical and well known fairytales, discovering and confronting our souls in the mood of the magical childhood.
Mood: The State of Wonder
Planet quality: Moon/ Mercury
Fairytales: Cinderella, Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty & the Beast, Little Red Ridinghood and Rapunzel.
Dates: 21, 28 January; 4, 11, 18 and 25 February; 4, 11, 18, 25 March (10 Zoom sessions).
In Phase II, as we go into the Spring term, we journey onwards to explore the darker patches of the soul through less well known fairytales. Existential themes and shadow aspects will offer trials and tribulations for us to delve into in the safe container of the Women’s group.
Mood: Overcoming Challenges Through Courage.
Planet quality: Venus/ Mars
Fairytales: Baba Yaga, Blue Beard, The 6 Swans, The Red Shoes, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, The Dandless Maiden, The Goose Girl and Thumbellina.
Dates: 22 and 29 April; 6, 13, 20 and 27 May; 3, 10, 17 and 24 June; (10 Zoom sessions).
In Phase III, as the year goes into Autumn, we will get into a playful mood and let stories that entice imaginative ways of living offer a new sense of belonging and homecoming to our selves.
Mood: Through Play we Come Alive and Find Our Place of Belonging.
Planet quality: Sun
Fairytales: The Princess & the Frog, Mother Holle, The Ugly Duckling, The Skeleton Woman, The Golden Goose, Hansel & Gretel and Rumpelstiltskin.
Dates: 23 and 30 September; 7, 14, 21 and 28 October; 4, 11, 18 and 25 November (10 Zoom sessions).
