The vision is to create an organisation that has the capacity to integrate the concepts of ecology, creativity, community and spirituality that honours the earth as being a living breathing organisim; we do not see ourselves as separate from it and do not wish to dominate mother earth but instead see ourselves as part of the earth and it as part of us.

• The Women’s Room provides a physical space and place for women to share their wisdom, skills and knowledge built on the premise that we all have valuable life wisdom to share. The Women’s Room is also a conceptual space that informs and connects ohers through space and time with an etheral community conceted by philisophical concepts of community, family, nature, creativity, spirituality and hope for a better future.

• Women and mothers need time to honour their bodies in time with nature’s rhythms not to the manmade clock of work production. Mothers are special as they bring forth the next generation and this role needs to be honoured, valued and supported in society. Women’s motherhood work needs to be valued and acknowledged as vital work. Mothers should not be rushed back into the workforce and pushed away from nurturing herself as she needs time to develop into her motherhood work.

• We acknowledge that family is special and hold bonds that need to be valued and respected. Families come in all shapes and sizes. That families need time away from work life to reconnect and celebrate family life

• We acknowledge that some individuals and communities have unequal access to resources and that this inequality is often systemic and contextual rather than purely based on individual access to economic resourses. Where possible The Women’s Room will support other women who find themselves in these circumstances.

• We believe that art and creative practice is embedded in everyday living and should not be the possession and beholden to the elite classes. That art is able to be practiced by all and that "good"art is an artificial notion. We want to promote art as being an expression of relationship to self, others, community and inner spirituality. We see art and creativity as a reflection of natures creativity that has the power to cross cultural, social and economic boundaries.

• That creative practice is a portal to the spirit world - the divine where connection to self, others and universe, God or Goddess may be achieved. That art has the ability to access the subconcious, primal mind and so can used as a diagnostic tool or healing therapy.

• We want to build bridges and connections between women and others, women and self, women and community, community and community. Intimate and deep connections to others in our society and paths towards deeper connection may not be so clear. The Women’s Room seeks ways to reestablish connections between women and their primal essentail intuitive self, other women and the community. We recognise that participation in community cultural activities develops connections and promotes wellbreing within the community especially activities such as sharing story, song, ritual, mythologies, ceremony, performance, festivals, walking in nature, meditation, developing intuition and creativity.We want to make public and share the valuable processes that women’s gathering together brings such as stories of life experiences, ways of knowing, art works, writings, concepts and women’s wisdom.

• Remember where you have come from, your roots. We all belong to the earth - we are her children. We are primal in nature regardless of our sophisticated tasks or modern culture and that in attempting to cut off from our primal nature we have distanced ourselves from the natural world and natural time. The Women’s Room wishes to preserve, retain and collect women’s wisdom, stories and ways for our daughters and sons for the knowledge and wellbeing of future generations.

• We are more than ourselves and that ourself doesn’t need to be everything. We can learn to be part of a whole and learn to be whole. The group is important and so is an individuals role within the group. There is no need for you to push your voice or ego more strongly than the next person. When we all stive to sing the loudest the song is not so pretty but discordant. Sometimes you need to look at the situation and change your actions accordingly. You may need to change your tone, your song, sometimes its your role to sing low in the group even when you know you have the most beautiful high notes. Individual achievement is important as is acknowledgement of self. When you feel full and content and have filled yourself up or are following your path you can let go of ego and be successful in helping to contribute to what is needed more for others.

• The Women’s Room wants to develop the concept of Earth Wisdom to generate greater public awareness of what this means and how by living in tune with nature’s cycles we can live creatively with the earth for the wellbeing of all. We recognise that women are the bearers of traditional earth wisdom as they contain a constant reminder of nature’s rhythms within their bodies.

• We recognise that Indigenous cultures which have retained close connections to land have valuable knowledge and ways of knowing that are vital to our sustainable living practices in the 21st century.

• That trees, rocks, animals are equal partners in the planet and should be respected equally. We are not seperate from earth, we are these and these are us. We believe that if we but listen to our senses and learn the language of the land that we will learn the earth wisdom. This is what is known as practical wisdom. Listening to the land can only be done when we are still, quiet and contemplative, open to recieving through repition, meditation or walking rather than busy rushing and prescritive living. Listening is a process of trust and cannot be forced only encouraged in time.

• We want to encourage every man woman and child to remember their intimate connection to nature, their spiritual connection to nature, their creative connection with nature and the practical skills and wisdom for living an ethical, spiritual and authentically integreated life.

•  We’ve lost the art of intimacy with ourselves and others. Touch and connection with others is essential to our living soul. We stop ourselves from touching the earth and others witrh bare hands for fear of disease. We need to return to a loving touch.

• That wisdom is contained within the earth and has been known by many societies before ours. That our ancient ancestors that lived close with nature had a different way of knowing, seeing much more in keeping with the land. That we can access this wisdom as it is contained within the DNA of our own cells. We see all humans as tribal in nature seeking out others that stir a sense of belonging. This is not a question of race, gender or culture but acts on a soul level that crosses these boundaries.

• The specialness and connectedness that we seek resides in the ordinary basic actions and reaction in life rather than the falsly elevated commercial values placed on objects and people. There is specialness in the ordinariness of a handmade card, a wobbly childs pot, a raw basic artwork, a song sung with passion, a passerby smiling at you, an aquantence helping you. These are spcial and need to be elevated so high status. We have given over our power to the experts and may have forgotten to think and act in our own best interests.

• The Women’s room seeks to re-establish faith in the self in doing what you need to do for yourself by reducing reliance on "the expert" and that working together in a co-creative group is a healthier model. It is possible to learn what to do when you have a need to learn it. It is ackowledged that some people may be talented at some things but may be seen not so much as "the expert" but this being their expertise.

• We need to remember how to look after ourselves by relearning basic skills. The Women’s Room wants to encourage the development of practical wisdom which includes knowing through the senses, practicle skills such as building, growing, cooking, making and other self sufficientcy principals that are in keeping with sustainable earth practices. We have lost faith in our own abilities and outsource much of our daily duties and cares for self to others and now expect to pay for everything or to be paid.

 

• We need to shift perspective from a thinking place to a feeling place. When we feel connected with others, self and nature where you have a deep satisfaction that you belong to the earth that you share a loving strength with mother nature’s energy, are moved to act with love not fear to live a deeper fully richer life. The Women’s Room acknowledges that there are many portals to gain entry to your essentail, creative divine spiritual self. There is no one right way and dogmatic practice is not the answer as many paths may lead to many portels but the same end - your essential self.

• We want to inspire others to follow thier authentic passionate self. The Women’s Room aims to help women walk on their essential path, to live a life that is authentic to them, purposeful and menaingful. This does not mean that there is a need to chase success and we hold no judgements on what success is but only that when a person is walking their own path that is right for them they are walking a divine path. We all have worhty knowledge, skills, gifts but they can remain hidden if we do not walk on our authentic path - we won’t then have the ability to shine. You must do what you feel you must; be inspired, joyful and passionate.

• The Women’s Room wants to develop the concept of Co-Creative principals as an ehtical and sustainable and just set of practices including principals of fair trade. Science is not the enemy, ,nor is logic - they are partners which can live harmoniously together with deep ecology, ecofeminism, spirituality and co-creation. The essence of both is the same - energy, ether and love. At the minutest level there lies a mysterious force - an energy. It is only the way this energy manifests and is used which causes issue. The Women’s Room chooses to use this energy for love of nature, including humanity. Things do not always have to progress, grow bigger and better for them to be valuable and sustainable. Multinational is not beeter than local. expert is not better than lived experience. A few worthwhile things is better than many mediocre things.

• Acknowledge that life is organic, messy and follows cycles, ebbs and flows. Like compost that rots down and then grows frituful beauty from it. Imperfection is necessary to embrace, that nothing is stable and unchangeable. Encourage to live with imperfection, discomfort and challenge as this is the natural state rather than the falsly mass produced image of perfection as beauty. There is no need to impose a strict linear order as natural patterns will emerge organically and intuitively. "Let nature take its course".