Name: Hagitude: A woman’s journey to flourish in midlife and beyond
Start: 2025-01-31T14:00:00+11:00
End: 2025-01-31T16:30:00+11:00
Location: Tara Springs Retreat Centre

$Hagitude: A woman\u2019s journey to flourish in midlife and beyond$

Dive Deep with Lucy Mayes & Jane Mallick | 6-Month Transformational Series at Tara Springs
When a book like Sharon Blackie’s Hagitude comes along, it just calls for a communal deep dive.
Experienced facilitators Lucy Mayes and Jane Mallick have come together to create the space, rituals and offerings to support a group of women to explore this powerful book together at the beautiful Tara Springs Retreat Centre in Taradale, on a 6 month journey.
We will gather monthly on the last Friday of the month, starting in January 2025!
Location: Tara Springs, 16 Pennos Road Taradale
Dates: Fridays 2-4.30pm (31 Jan, 28 Feb, 28 Mar, 25 April*, 30 May, 27 June
* (25 April is ANZAC day, so we might change this to a mutually agreeable date for the group)
Investment: $300 - 480 for the 6-sessions. Sliding scale to meet your budget. Includes afternoon tea.
Payments direct to: paypal.me/LucyMayesVIC
If you have any questions please contact either Lucy 0422 243 234 or Jane 0431 836 552
About the Book
Hagitude explores the ways in which we might flourish at midlife and beyond, in the decades that so often are portrayed as a time of decline.
How can we map the territory, prepare ourselves for yet another searing transformation, and move into the second half of life with a new sense of vitality, creativity and vision?
“A book for all the wild women”
“An anthem for all we could be”
“Women have long been told to ‘know our place’. This powerful and inspiring exploration of the female relationship with landscape turns this diktat around, showing us what may be gained from doing just that”
Jane and Lucy will guide you on a journey through the landscape of the book and through your own inner and outer landscape, in community with others, incorporating practices involving movement practices, nature based practices, reflective practices, meditation and circle work.
Session 1: Standing on the threshold (Chapters 1 - 3)
Session 2: The House of Elders Part 1 - Creatrix, guardians and protectors (Ch 4 & 5)
Session 3: The House of Elders Part 2 - Fairy godmothers, ‘Old Wives’, Tricksters and Truth-tellers. Holding the culture to account (Ch 6 & 7)
Session 4: The House of Elders Part 3 - The Wise Woman and the Dangerous Woman: Carriers of deep vision and fire (Ch 8 & 9)
Session 5: Leaving through the hole in the side of the house (Chapter 10)
Session 6: Close – Reflections on the journey
Meet Your Facilitators
Lucy Mayes is a lover of all things planet and people. She’s a trained social worker and experienced facilitator and group worker. In recent years she has been training in nature-based facilitation, and deep women’s circle work. In other parts of her life she works in engagement, partnering, strategy, advocacy and communications with a focus on workplace wellbeing, healthcare and the arts.
Jane Mallick is a passionate yogini, who after a successful corporate career experienced a mid-life crashing menopause. She now shares with women the yogic wisdom that she learnt on her healing journey in her transformational menopause workshops and retreats. As the co-creator of Tara Springs Retreat Centre, she is delighted to welcome women to this deep exploration of our midlife wisdom and to share nourishing movement practices that support women through all stages of menopause and beyond.