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Awaken the Wild Woman Within

A monthly one-day, in-person retreat exploring the Wild Woman archetype through somatic practice, mythology and SandDreaming™, drawing inspiration from Clarissa Pinkola-Estés’ Women Who Run With the Wolves as a guiding thread.

"The wild woman carries the medicine for all women”
Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Monthly Wild Woman Retreat Days

What Emerges Over Time?

A Return to Instinct

Women begin to trust their inner knowing again. What once felt confusing or self-doubting becomes clearer. Decisions are less about approval and more about alignment. The “too much” or “too sensitive” parts are reclaimed as intelligence.

A Shedding of False Skins

Conditioned roles, inherited expectations and internalised narratives start to loosen. There can be grief, anger or reckoning, but also relief. Women recognise where they have been living from survival or compliance and begin to live from authenticity.

A Reclaimed Creative and Soul Life

Something generative awakens. This might look like creative expression, boundary-setting, life changes, deeper sensuality or simply a stronger presence. The psyche reorganises around vitality rather than depletion.

Awaken the Wild Woman Archetype Within You

 

Each month we gather for a full-day, in-person retreat to enter a myth or fairy tale as a living map of the feminine psyche. These stories illuminate instinct, exile, desire, grief, rage, sensuality, power and renewal, not as theory, but as lived experience.

You won’t just listen, you will respond.
Through embodiment, image-making and individual sandplay, you will allow the story to meet your own life. Symbol and sensation will reveal what words alone cannot, and the day will gently integrate what has surfaced so it can root into your everyday world.

Why come more than once?

Because this is a slow rewilding. Each story reveals a different layer of your psyche. Over time, patterns become clear, instinct strengthens and something more coherent and alive begins to take shape within you.

Come once and you’ll be stirred.
Come regularly and you’ll begin to transform.

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Are you sensing that the life you’ve built no longer fully fits, yet you’re unsure what wants to emerge in its place?

 

Are you carrying unexpressed grief, anger, longing or desire, with few spaces safe enough to explore what’s truly stirring beneath the surface?

 

Are you craving depth, meaning and connection with other women who are also navigating midlife thresholds and inner change?

 

Are you longing for a calm, respectful community of like-minded women?

 

IF SO, THE AWAKEN THE WILD WOMAN WITHIN MONTHLY RETREAT WAS CREATED FOR YOU. 

Hi! I'm Monique.

I WILL BE GUIDING YOU INTO THE SYMBOLS, STORIES AND ARCHETYPAL DIMENSIONS OF THE WILD WOMAN — and supporting you to discover how they are already alive within your own life.

 

I’m a psychotherapist, teacher and guide devoted to the reclamation of women’s instinctual and symbolic lives. For many years I have worked at the intersection of somatic therapy, attachment work, Jungian sandplay and expressive arts, holding spaces where women can move beyond insight alone and into embodied transformation.

My work is grounded in a deep respect for the nervous system, the language of symbol and the initiatory nature of midlife. I believe the myths and fairy tales we are drawn to are not random; they mirror the thresholds we are living. When approached slowly and somatically, they become maps for descent, reclamation and renewal.

These monthly retreat days bring together everything I have devoted my professional life to: sandplay, embodiment, depth psychology and the power of women gathering in intentional space. I create environments that are steady, protected and psychologically attuned, where you can meet yourself honestly, without performance and allow something deeper to unfold.

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What Others Have Experienced

"Monique has an incredible gift for creating safety, nourishing experiences and fun. I can't recommend her as a facilitator enough.  It's such a pleasure to have the opportunity to tap into her depth of knowledge and experience."

 
Betsy Hanson

"I love Monique's deep knowledge, wisdom and passion for this work. The way she delivers the content with such authenticity and presence creates such deep safety."

 
Julia Wilson

"La Loba"

$220

1-Day Retreat

  • Time:  10am - 5pm
  • Where: Private Studio, Diddillibah, SE Qld
  • When:  Sunday, 14 June 2026
  • Limited places available: small, intimate circle to protect the field
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"Bluebeard"

$220

1-Day Retreat

  • Time:  10am - 5pm
  • Where: Private Studio, Diddillibah, SE Qld
  • When:  Sunday, 19 July 2026
  • Limited places available: small, intimate circle to protect the field
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"Vasalisa"

$220

1-Day Retreat

  • Time:  10am - 5pm
  • Where: Private Studio, Diddillibah, SE Qld
  • When:  Sunday, 9 August 2026
  • Limited places available: small, intimate circle to protect the field
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