WOMEN2WOMEN: A PERSONAL & SPIRITUAL INNER JOURNEY FOR LESBIANS

The impetus for a programme for women who love women actually came from Niels Paulsen and John Smith. They are the godfathers of the workshop. In 2000 they asked me if I would offer such a workshop. I said I would love to, but needed a co-focaliser as I was brand new in the Findhorn Foundation. They asked all of the women in the Foundation who were formerly known as lesbian, but all said that this sexual preference was no longer a part of their lives. So I held the vision and trusted.

Two years later Helle Brok was the answer to that trust. Helle, Suzy Gentle and I created the first Findhorn Foundation workshop for women who love women: Women2Women: A Personal & Spiritual Inner Journey for Lesbians. This workshop ran from 2003-2011. During this time I and the participants were blessed with three inspiring co-focalisers, Helle, Adriana Bijman and Christine Painter.

These weeks were utterly amazing with deeply profound inner work being done by women who love women, for themselves and for the world. And women in every magnificent form attended. There were women who had only been with women, women who had been or still were with men, there were mothers and grandmothers, bisexual women, women in polyamorous relationships and women who had been wrongly born into a male body.
Each and every one a beautiful, courageous divine being!

In the years of this workshop I and the participants experienced a great deal of loving support from the Foundation family, for which I am very grateful. I also, however, experienced (self-proclaimed) homophobic behaviour from some members and questionable coincidences. One example is that the word lesbian was completely omitted from the title and brochure write-up in the first year the workshop was offered. Just as difficulties, prejudice and challenges were, or had been, a part of the lives of almost every woman who attended, so were they part of the life of the workshops too.

Debbie Dinsmoor