The Menstrual Project

Identities is collaborating with Alexandra Pope to bring the one day menstrual workshop and a leadership programme based on the woman’s cycle to South Yorkshire on a regular basis.

A full day menstrual workshop and 2 leadership weekends were delivered in Doncaster this year, which greatly benefited the participants who attended.  Getting to know your own unique cycle and learning how to cope with the ups and downs it brings each month really does bring a new lease of life. Alexandra is a passionate and soulful facilitator who has transformed the way the menstrual cycle is perceived.  

Alexandra Pope started out as a teacher of English in the UK and then Australia. In her thirties she trained to be a psychotherapist with formal training in Psychosynthesis, and then later studies in gestalt, process oriented psychotherapy and the teachings on soul by Robert Sardello, followed by coaching training with Coach U. For 20 years she had a private practice as a counsellor and psychotherapist in Sydney. Her coaching and leadership work today is mostly informed by a process–oriented approach and care of the soul.

Alexandra explains the applications of her work:
• Menstrual cycle awareness is central to many aspects of a girl’s and a woman’s life and how she ‘does business’ in the world. For example:
• Women’s health—a woman in touch with her cycle, co–operating with its natural rhythm of activity and rest, is practicing preventative medicine, and can use it as guide to her overall well–being. And has the basis for understanding the transition of menopause.
• Girls’ health—positively presented information and knowledge of ‘menstrual signposts’ around puberty, and celebration of menarche, have a profound impact on body image, emotional health and menstrual experiences.
• Sex education—Body Literacy (how to observe and interpret the physiological symptoms of the menstrual cycle) creates the foundation for contraceptive literacy.
• Preparing women for pregnancy and birth—a woman in touch with her cycle will have more awareness of her health and is building her ‘body wisdom’, an inner knowing and authority crucial for pregnancy and birth. In fact we could say that cycle knowledge is the first level of education required.
• Counselling and psychotherapy—the cycle provides both a container for the healing process and a means of deepening insight. A woman at ease with her cycle will tend to have a deeper connection to her feeling life, greater self–confidence and capacity to initiate.
• Coaching and leadership—the cycle gives a woman direct access to and a deeply embodied understanding of the creative process, is a natural inner guide and motivating force and provides a means to deepen her inner authority. It is the woman’s way for creating a successful, sustainable life.

If you would like to sponsor our work around menstrual awareness contact Michelle Swann to discuss in more detail.
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