RED TENT

The Red Tent is a soft, hosted space for conversations, circles, listening, and shared reflection around bodies, cycles, fertility, pregnancy, birth, postpartum, family support, and community resilience. Rooted in women-centred knowledge and care traditions, it also welcomes all genders, including non-binary and gender-diverse people, into open and respectful dialogue on care, embodiment, belonging, and how communities can more fully support life’s thresholds.

Red Tent spaces will be held every morning from 11:30 to 13:00 by Jela Ravnjak, Katrina O’Fearna & Luise Bähr.

Red Tent Collective

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Pronouns: she/her

This space is held by an informal collective of traditional birthkeepers, body workers, educators, and wisdom holders connected through community care, women-centred knowledge, and regenerative culture. Together we bring experience in circles, embodied practices, intergenerational dialogue, family support, and community-based approaches to birth, care, and belonging. 

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JELA RAVNJAK, LUISE BAHR,
& KATRINA O’FEARNA

Opening the Red Tent: Cycles of our Lives & Belonging

Day One: July 14 2026
An opening circle to welcome people into the space and introduce the intention of the Red Tent. We explore cycles, rites of passage, and embodied knowledge, and reflect on why these themes matter not only personally, but for the wellbeing and resilience of community life.

Birth, Postpartum, and the Village Around the Mother

Day Two: July 15 2026
A participatory circle on fertility, pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and the wider field of care around mothers, babies, and families. The focus is on how communities can better support these thresholds of life in practical, relational, regenerative ways and strive because of doing so.

Circle as Medicine: Healing in Community

Day Three: July 16 2026

A gentle embodied workshop on how nervous systems can soften, regulate, and build trust through slow presence in community. Through circle, pairs, and consent-based practices of touch, rest, listening, and relational care, we will explore how simple acts of tending the body can create belonging, strengthen connection, and support more resilient cultures of care in our communities.
 

Elders, Intergenerational Wisdom, and the Transmission of Care

Day Four: July 17 2026
An intergenerational circle held with Sabina Santovetti (Dancing Goddess / She-EDE), drawing on her studies and first-hand experience of matriarchal and mother-led societies around the world, women’s knowledge, and the living transmission of care across generations. A space to explore what older ways of organising life, belonging, and community can still teach us today

"I love to be among people who seriously believe that a new world is possible. At the gatherings, I meet the passion of young people and the thoughtfulness of elders who have thought deeply about how it is possible and why it is difficult."
2025 Gathering Participant