The Women’s Quest for Wholeness - Group Program
Perhaps you found yourself at a crossroads...
Or you feel a void within, as if an essential part of you has retreated deep underground…
Maybe you've become aware of an imbalance in your nature through health challenges or life struggles…
Perhaps you’ve decided to step away from patriarchal norms and are searching for ways to reclaim what’s lost, restore balance, and live differently…
Or you may still carry pain from your relationship with your mother—pain you don’t wish to pass on to your daughter…
Then, this women group circle and the quest is for you…
This program of healing and integration is a quest for wholeness and a soulful life. It is an inner journey toward becoming a fully integrated and balanced human being. For women, this transformation only comes through embracing their feminine nature, valuing themselves as women, and healing the deep wounds of the feminine.
Unlike the well-known hero’s journey, the woman’s quest follows a spiral path—flowing clockwise, descending first, with no straight lines. It seeks integration and completion, not perfection. As with all meaningful quests, this path is not easy. Only traces of ancient maps remain to guide us, which is why it should not be travelled alone. The circular nature of this journey requires unfolding within a supportive circle of women.
This inspired me to create of a women’s circle—a space dedicated to retrieving, uplifting, healing, and integrating feminine energy, both individually and collectively, in our contemporary world.
Feminine and Masculine - Beyond Gender
The terms “feminine” and “masculine” are often misunderstood. These archetypal energies are not tied to gender but represent universal qualities present in all humans. Similarly, the Eastern concepts of yin and yang emphasise the importance of balancing these energies, both within ourselves and in our collective experience.
Program Aim
To explore, heal, and integrate the archetypal feminine and masculine forces within.
To embark on a woman’s pilgrimage, rooted in a woman’s way of being in the world, within the compassionate support of other women.
To give birth to the Wise Woman Within.
What You Will Gain
Self-Reflection: Insight into your life’s patterns and shared experiences with other women on a similar journey.
Liberation: Awareness of how patriarchal structures have shaped your beliefs, choices, and actions, and tools to step beyond imposed roles.
Wisdom: Recognition of the guidance in myths and fairy tales, which illuminate key aspects of the individuation process.
Personal Myth: An opportunity to discover your unique story and deepen your journey toward wholeness.
Empowerment: A reconnection with your deep feminine power in a form of perseverance, courage, intuition, and imagination.
Reclamation: Rediscover lost or hidden parts of yourself, realising there’s more to you than you previously thought.
Community: Experience the transformative power of a supportive group of women who connect, share, and support one another.
Integration: Co-created a space to heal and balance the feminine and masculine energies within.
Growth: Cultivate self-awareness, empowerment, and belonging to the earth and the wider community.
Program Description and Structure
This 16-week group program illuminates the essential role of the feminine perspective in the journey toward wholeness. Through guided experiential processes, rituals, discussions, and reflections, you will explore and embrace the embodied feminine, heal wounded masculine aspects, and reclaim your unique gifts.
Each two-hour session will focus on a specific stage of the journey. Facilitator Biliana Dearly will introduce key ideas and questions, and then lead participants through immersive healing processes and reflections.
Session Sequence:
Introduction and guidance for the journey.
Guided experiential process – Life-line.
Separation from the feminine.
The call to adventure.
The road of trials – allies and adversaries.
The Cauldron of Transformation – initiation and descent.
Descent – retrieving the buried feminine.
Severance ritual.
Healing the feminine line split.
Reconnecting to the feminine.
Guided experiential process – Woman-line.
Healing the wounded masculine.
Guided experiential process – Inner Protector.
Restoring balance – the sacred inner marriage.
Ritual – Circle of Stones or Sacred Marriage.
The Return – Personal myth and mandala process, bringing your unique gift back to the world.
The Women’s Pilgrimage
This program is a woman’s pilgrimage—a path rooted in connection: to oneself, to others, to nature, and to the land. The feminine quest is inherently co-creative, focused on building relationships with all forms of life. This journey is vital not only for personal growth and well-being but also because our communities and planet urgently need us to rise.
Let’s rise rooted, like trees, and create forests together.
Who Should Join?
No prior experience or knowledge is required—just an open heart and a willingness to embark on this transformative journey. Whether you feel a deep calling or quiet curiosity, this program welcomes you to join a circle of women seeking healing, growth, and wholeness.
Dates: TBA
Location: Canterbury Community Precinct, 2 Kendall Street, Canterbury VIC
The calling of women today is to embrace and revive the spirituality and creativity that fearlessly honours the mysterious, dark and deep beauty of the unconscious and to guide men out of the confined, restrictive world of provable facts and limited perspectives imposed by society… My role as a woman is not to compete with men in their world—that is easy, yet ultimately fruitless and unfulfilling. Instead, I chose to live fully as a woman, enjoying the whole of myself and my place in the world. – Biliana