Participants can expect to spend time:

·      Working toward a safe and supportive workshop atmosphere

·      Writing

·      Sharing writing

·      Discussing outside reading that sparks creativity: stories, poems, articles, etc. 

·      Learning to identify internal and external systems of silencing

·      Helping one another act to change these systems

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Poetry

Each WWfaC circle begins with a chime, lighting a candle, and a poem to bring everyone present with reverence for language

Contemplative Pace

The pace of a WWfaC circle is an active, quiet one. Women come into the circle and maintain a contemplative quiet, perhaps writing or simply listening until the chime is rung

Talking Piece

A longstanding human tradition has been to use a 'talking piece' or 'stone' in order to slow the pace of conversation and honor each voice equally in a gathering. "Piece in the center," "I'll take the piece," and "Piece is back in the center" order this practice in Zoom spaces.

ReadArounds

Most WWfaC circles invite participants to share their words, if they choose, in large group 'readaround' with 'readback lines,' to mirror back the gift of each woman's words. Invitation, not obligation, always. Passing is always honorable.