Lilith's Fire Circle

    ...ignited by the work of The Lilith Institute, a center for embodied, spiritual, oral, written, visual and emotional teaching and learning.

A Circle of One's Own*

What is Lilith’s Fire Circle?

• It is a sanctuary in which we can create supportive, caring, sacred community
• It is a circle created for us to learn, to hear each other and really be seen by each other
• A heart space which feeds the fire that burns within each of us, the fire in our nefesh/animal soul, our ruach/life force, our neshama/human soul and self.

                              *Thanks to Virginia Woolf for her inspiration

Lilith’s Fire Circle... is a place where our anger can be expressed, acknowledged and recognized, our concerns validated and not dismissed or ignored...Where our fears or grief are heard, accepted and met with compassion…where our ambitions, frustrations, goals and dreams can be freely expressed and heard without judgment, where we can receive encouragement, support and respectful mirroring from others, many of whom have faced similar obstacles and challenges.
 
Let this also be a space where feeling and thinking co-exist and trade places, where linear thinking is not privileged, and embodiment and intuition are valued.   
 
This circle will:

• honor and feed our inner passions, which may not have been valued or understood
• fuel and strengthen the energies that protect our hearts and spirits
  
• illuminate ways we can give expression to the fires of the erotic within us, whether that means the passion underneath our work, our creativity, sensuality or power. As Audre Lorde wrote:

“The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognized feeling… the erotic offers a well of replenishing and provocative force to the woman who does not fear its revelation, nor succumb to the belief that sensation is enough.” – from Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power, Audre Lorde, 1978.

The Lilith's Fire Circle...

...is a place where we never have to make ourselves small for the comfort of others... where we can truly find and BE our fullest selves, without censorship, without our inner critic overtaking our inner wisdom…
This is also a space where we can appreciate our differences, where we celebrate rather than disparage or fear them, as Judy Grahn describes eloquently on her Commonality Institute website.  
One of several dimensions of The Lilith Institute, and of Mishkan Shekhinah, founded as a sanctuary devoted to the Sacred Feminine, Lilith's Fire Circle expands our work of 24 years. Our overarching mission and vision, the red thread or leitmotif running through all our work remains much the same: bringing out women's authentic voices and fullest potential. 

- Kohenet D'vorah J. Grenn, Ph.D.

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Lilith's Fire Circle Goals:

- continue planting seeds for spiritual change, social action and greater cross-cultural understanding;

- critically examine existing patterns of thought, behavior and language through new, non-patriarchal lenses, acting as a catalyst for personal and cultural transformation;

- facilitate an ongoing exchange of ideas across diverse spiritual traditions;

​- encourage women to recognize their potential to be change agents in their own lives, and so in their communities and the world.

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