First Moon Circles empower young women to feel prepared, informed and positive about menstruation and to embrace their whole selves: body, mind and spirit. They offer holistic menstrual education to empower girls and their families to be period-positive, whilst recognising that the onset of menstruation (menarche) is an important, sacred rite of passage that shapes young women’s lives and wellbeing.
First Moon Circles go above and beyond what is missing in mainstream school education. We are on a mission to heal menstrual shame and create period-positive cultures and communities to nourish, empower and transform the lives of future generations to come.
What puberty and periods are, so their daughter understands how and why their feelings, bodies, and awareness develops at this major developmental milestone.
How to care for their physical body, emotions, moods, skin, thoughts and spiritual selves as they approach their first period, then afterwards, in each of the four different phases of their menstrual cycle.
How to choose the right period products for them based on their preferences, needs and lifestyle, including how to use them, and how to care for their body and the earth.
How to get support from friends and asking for help at home, so your daughter can feel confident to express her needs and advocate for herself and each other #sisterhood.
Learning what’s normal for tween and teens during puberty and adolescence, so parents and child know when to get help, and learn tools and knowledge to support their hormone and menstrual health.
Menstrual cycle awareness: teaching both mothers and daughters about the inner seasons of their menstrual cycle, so they can honour and nourish their cyclical natures.
Experiencing their periods as something sacred and magical, as the true Rite of Passage that it is, where young women are supported and guided through a major transition with love and care.
Parents and participants are supported to open-up conversations to discuss periods and puberty (and who knows what else!) afterwards, having been held in the safe space of circle where this talk is safe and normalised.
If friends attend together, then they gain the added benefit of sisterhood, having this shared experience to recollect about, and to share wisdom with their other friends. Parents are also supported to learn this wisdom alongside their daughter, feel safe and heard and be guided with tools and language to support their child.
And often, mothers can heal a part of their own relationship to their menarche and menstruation, through giving their daughter the support they wish they’d had as a child and learning about their own cycles.
