About Us
Mission
The Sacred Feminine Rising, Inc. (TSFR) is a nonprofit spiritual organization that supports and empowers womyn in accessing the Divine Feminine. TSFR is built on the ideas of belonging, connectedness and respect. We recognize the Divine Feminine is not a single story but a multitude of voices and symbols that reflect the cultures, traditions and experiences of those who worship Her. As such, we embrace cultural diversity in the ways we study, venerate and celebrate the Divine Feminine. We interact with our community to co-create and build relationships as well as educate, inform, and promote a connection to the Divine Feminine as She exists. TSFR is for those who are born biological females and live as womyn. TSFR fully supports the rights of ALL people to live in a way that satisfies their needs.
How the Goddess manifests in her many aspects is our connection and portal to a deeper understanding of the Divine within ourselves. Our focus is on examining how our sacred bodies and life cycles, along with cultural and societal experiences that are unique to womyn, affect our spirituality and our relationship with ourselves and our bodies. We believe that shared experience is a powerful connector; that individuals of every group have a right to seek out and peacefully gather in sovereign space and that support of such spaces allows for the deeper healing that must occur in order to be able to come together to heal our wider communities.
Our community members come from a variety of faith backgrounds, and are united in their desire to commune with the Goddess and with individuals who have shared experiences and who are actively seeking a deeper spiritual connection with their female bodies and selves. As such, we honor and celebrate each womyn as a representative of the Divine by building a spiritual community with like-minded womyn. This takes the form of a yearly festival that brings our membership together in a space between worlds where physical, emotional, and psychic safety prevail. Between festivals, we maintain our connection via newsletters, smaller gatherings, online meetings, and social media channels.
Values
Empowerment: Of self and others; including responsibility to self, community, Goddess, and Earth. We are a community that encourages womyn to recognize the sacred within themselves as a unique manifestation of Goddess.
Safety: a physically, emotionally, spiritually, psychologically, racially and ethnically safe, ability-positive and substance abuse-free space.
Transparency: openness to questions, no secret agendas, integrity in practice, communication and conflict resolution. Access to organizational information. Openness and wise stewardship of financial matters.
Agreements
All members agree that:
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We practice ways that foster personal and collective empowerment.
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We hold space for love, peace, respect, privacy, confidentiality, and spiritual individuality, recognizing each of us is a part of our larger community with personal and collective freedom .
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We maintain the right of all groups to peacefully gather in niche communities including in sovereign female space. This right is maintained with respect for all people and without judgment from within or outside of our community.
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We hold a strong objection to language that disparages, demeans, or denigrates any person.
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We are a space where our girls receive loving, creative, sensitive supervision and guidance to empower them to become the womyn who will be the future of TSFR.
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Holding single-sex spaces (both physical and virtual) in no way diminishes the lived experience of those who fall outside of our parameters for participation.