‘Doing it Together’ – Wolf Runner Kate

We are a pack of 17 women running the Winter Wolf Run on Sunday 3rd November to raise money for two causes: the mental health charity MIND and the Women in Power (WiP) Bursary Fund. Please read our full story and donate here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/wip-wolf-run Today we hear from Kate who tells us what she needs from us and the group: ‘I …

‘Muddy and Tear-streaked’ – Wolf Runner Su

We are a pack of 17 women running the Winter Wolf Run on Sunday 3rd November to raise money for two causes: the mental health charity MIND and the Women in Power (WiP) Bursary Fund. Please read our full story and donate here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/wip-wolf-run Today we hear from Su who says that she’s running because: ‘Communities like WiP can be life …

Wolf Runners on their way

‘No Sun without Shadow’ – Wolf Runner Lizzie

We are a pack of 17 women running the Winter Wolf Run on Sunday 3rd November to raise money for two causes: the mental health charity MIND and the Women in Power (WiP) Bursary Fund. Please read our full story and donate here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/wip-wolf-run Today we hear from Lizzie who says that running the Wolf Run is: ‘About community at a …

Wolf Run for Jayne

Ready, Steady, Go… WiP Wolf Run 2019

We are a pack of 17 women running the Winter Wolf Run on Sunday 3rd November to raise money for two causes close to our heart: 1) The mental health charity MIND; and 2) The Women in Power (WiP) Bursary Fund. MIND is a charity whose mission statement is ‘to not give up until everyone experiencing a mental health problem …

Calling a pack of 2019 Wolf Runners!

 The Wolf Run is a 10k mud/obstacle run and we are taking part on SUNDAY 3rd NOVEMBER, in Leicestershire. This one is slightly different and extra special – as a one off, we are raising money for both our bursary fund and the mental health charity MIND – in honour of our Women In Power (WiP) sister and friend, …

Click to connect

from Aisha Making the invisible visible. Now there’s a challenge. What would it be like if we showed up in the world and shared our presence as women in power in the UK? It was a question of joining up all the things we knew and hoped would be and making it happen. We had been well housed in the …

Talking about depression

Trigger warning: This blog explores women’s experiences of depression.   In July, one of our community, Jayne Blackman, died by suicide as a result of severe depression. Obviously, this has affected many of us in many different ways and will continue to for a long time to come. One of the things that emerged was the need to create space …

Sing me up a sisterhood

from Geno I’m sitting in the garden watching the butterflies dancing around the Eucalyptus tree. This time last week Elgiva and I were in the final stages of preparing menus, making cakes and curry and buying food for the Summer Gathering. When Elgiva was in charge of the kitchen last year I clearly remember thinking to myself that there was …

From WiP to the world

On reintegration and reimagination. A dance. A circular dance. Women collect, plan, gather, work, build. New women arrive and are held in a wondrous cauldron while they journey deep into their own core and return bearing gold. And then, industriously and swiftly, the mystery is dis-membered, re-folded, packed, stowed and removed. Day-to-day reality is replaced, though we all know now …

Welcoming and holding our new sisters

  This month, our dear registrar Federica shares with us her experience of being the new Women in Power Registrar… A funny fact about me: great things tend to land on my lap as if by magic. I tend to worry about what I want, who I am, where I am going in life… and then the moment I relax …