Red Tents by Mary Ann Clements

Red Tents by Mary Ann Clements

A weaving together of voices and experiences of many women to create a shared story about the role Red Tents can play as liberatory community spaces around the world.

This book has a foreword by ALisa Starkweather, founder of the Red Tent Temple movement.

Each Red Tent is a unique reflection of the community of women who create it. But these varied spaces share some things in common:

• The longing for connection and belonging
• The sharing of how we are feeling and who we are in our lives
• The nourishment of ourselves and each other
• The slowing down, the rest, the replenishment
• The simple act of sharing time and space with a group of women
• The opportunity to let go of the other responsibilities in our lives

When women come together, magic happens. We know this to be true from our own experiences. And we have also seen that something else happens too when these communities grow: they can become a beacon to others.

Full of inspiration and practical learning, along with questions and practices to support and stimulate discussion about some of the challenges Red Tents face. Red Tents is written by the founders of the Red Tent Directory, includes interviews with over seventy women from diverse backgrounds who run Red Tents, and provides the practical support women need to establish and sustain a Red Tent in their own community. Themes include:

• Common challenges and how to overcome them
• Building Red Tent spaces that are liberatory and challenge oppression
• Leading together and making your tent sustainable

This book provides you with inspiring, grounded, and tried and tested advice for creating a safer and more inclusive space

Clements, Mary Ann: - Mary Ann Clements is a Feminist Writer, Facilitator, Activist & Coach. She worked with Aisha Hannibal to launch the Red Tent Directory in 2012 and they have run it together since. She believes in the power for women's circles and community to help create change in our world. Mary Ann helps people and organisations explore how the injustice they stand against shows up in them. In so doing she helps them create more space to be part of imagining a radically different future. Healing Solidarity, an online annual conference and hub that she initiated, and now runs it together with a multi-racial Advisory Circle, has engaged well over 3000 people in conversations about re-imagining inter-national development and addressing racism within it since 2018. It builds on her two decades experience in the sector, including seven years as the Director of an INGO. She takes an intersectional feminist approach to all her work which has had a particular focus on disability, mental health and women's rights, She is also a Shadow Work Coach, Action Learning Facilitator, TedX Speaker & Movement Practitioner. She's co-host of the podcast, Change Making Women and is active in the Women in Power UK Community. She also has many years' experience as a Board Member including as Chair of a Women's Refuge in South London.

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ISBN 13	9781910559574
ISBN 10	1910559571
Title	Red Tents
Author	Mary Ann Clements
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Womancraft Publishing
Year published	2021-03-26
Number of pages	298
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