Tanya teaching a circle of women seated around a red rug, beneath stained glass windows

Restoring the art of gathering.

A place to be welcomed into your own humanity.

Why this work matters

We were never meant to do this alone.

In a world that keeps us rushing, divided and trying to hold it all alone, gathering is a quiet revolution.

To slow down enough to feel. To listen to someone whose life is different from our own. To grieve in company, ask for support and discover what we can offer each other.

Through circle, somatic practice, ritual and retreat, we practise these ways of being together. And through the women I train, this work takes root in other communities.

A remembering of an ancient way of being together.

Teach · Training and development

Learn to create the spaces your community needs.

Training for women, facilitators and community leaders who want to hold groups with embodied awareness, skill and responsibility, and for the organisations that work with them.

Six months

DEVOTED

My signature training in the practice and responsibility of group facilitation. For women who already hold groups, or are ready to commit to a deeper apprenticeship.

Explore DEVOTED
  • Six modules
  • Live online circles with each module
  • Two in-person practice days
  • Peer practice pods and ongoing mentorship
In person

The Living Practice

Intimate professional development days for 10 to 14 facilitators.

Themes such as conflict, grief, rage, power and group dynamics.

Enquire about The Living Practice
Commissioned

For Organisations

Training and facilitation for charities, community organisations, education providers and women’s networks.

Embodied leadership, relational responsibility, inclusive practice. Shaped around your people.

Training for organisations

Not sure which is for you? Book a free 30-minute call

Singing bowls, chimes and a frame drum laid out on a rug for a grief ritual

Tend · Grief and ritual

Grief needs a village.

HEARTH

A monthly online gathering to tend grief together through circle, ritual, live music and shared silence. A place for the grief you carry, including what can be difficult to name.

Gather · Community and belonging

Community is something I practise, not only teach.

Places where women can experience connection, rest, ritual and belonging directly.

A candlelit room set for circle, with sheepskin seats and a flower arrangement at the centre

The Matriarchal Way

Monthly Women’s Circle

A different way of being together. Through sharing, movement, ritual and deep rest, we practise relationship, reciprocity and embodied wisdom, and the matriarchal values that make a community able to hold its members.

It isn’t a workshop and nobody is there to be fixed. It’s a place to be among women who are practising care, honestly, with one another.

Retreat · 12–14 February 2027 · Sussex

Legacy: what will be different because you were here?

You have practised, created, nurtured and contributed. The questions you are asking of your life are changing. Legacy is an in-person retreat in Matriarchal Leadership, with Sophie Jane Hardy and me, at Florence House in Sussex.

  • Set down. Fire ritual to honour what is ending, so you can put down what you have been carrying.
  • Listen. Circle, embodied practice and time on the land, to hear the soul of your work.
  • Return. Leave with clarity for your next step, and a circle of women committed to their calling.
Florence House in Seaford, Sussex, the venue for the Legacy retreat
Tanya Forgan smiling, seated on a sheepskin in a bright room

Meet Tanya

Who am I?

I'm a circle facilitator, ritualist, somatic practitioner and teacher. My work is devoted to restoring community, reclaiming the wisdom of the body and remembering the sacred art of gathering. At the heart of it all is a simple conviction: we need one another, and how we gather matters.

Circle gathered on the grass beneath tall treesWomen gathered around a fire pit at duskTanya speaking in circle
Tanya beside a gongWomen laughing together in circle around a flower altarCircle around a candlelit altar beside an open fire

You are welcome

Ways to work
with me

There are many ways in. You might train to hold circles of your own, sit in circle with other women, tend your grief in good company, mark the turning of the seasons, step away on retreat, or work with me one to one. Begin wherever feels right.

Tanya ForganAWAKEN · REMEMBER · BELONG

Restoring the art of being human, together.

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