Navigating Perimenopause As An Initiation Workshop

A practical, experiential workshop to create understanding, capacity and presence for this major recalibration.

Saturday 27th June 2026 · 2 hours · Online via Zoom · £75 / $100

Perimenopause is the most powerful initiatory force in a woman’s life. It’s here to craft us into our wise woman years, but without a map and the wisdom of elders to guide us, we struggle. This workshop is here to restore that wisdom, and to help you remember how to move through this.

You’ll leave feeling relieved, nourished, and with a much clearer pathway forwards.

Perimenopause crafts us in every way possible so that we can move into our wise woman stage of life.

The capacity we used to have — to socialise, to multi-task, to hold it all together — quietly reduces. There is a deep tiredness that sleep doesn’t fix, because the recalibration we are in takes enormous energy. Some days there’s a fire that wants to burn everything down. Some days there is nothing at all. Our bodies are changing. Our identities are shifting. Old ways of being are dissolving. This is meant to happen — it is our divine design.

As our hormonal cocktail changes, a veil of illusion lifts. We begin seeing ourselves, our lives, and our world with a clarity we couldn’t access before. Those same hormones that attune us to read a baby’s every need — compounded by social conditioning and attachment trauma — can distort into attuning to others before ourselves. Perimenopause ends that. What we need becomes visible. What our world needs becomes visible. Perimenopause helps us to step into the next phase of our lives with our full intelligence intact and our illusions gone.

Perimenopause is not a decline. It’s a highly sophisticated recalibration.

Just as the acorn holds all the information it needs to become an oak tree, we carry within us energies that activate at different stages of life. Perimenopause is a major rite of passage — the moment the energy activates within us, it initiates years of profound change that completes one cycle of life and begins a new.

The whole process, energetically, takes around seven years. The invitation is to go fully into it, so we can come fully out of it. Women who meet it fully actually move through it quicker. Women who resist it — who manage it, suppress it, endure it alone — report that it can drag out far beyond seven years.

When we understand that certain aspects of perimenopause are not signs that something is wrong, but signs that the process is working, we can meet them more fully. That understanding changes everything.

The reason so many of us struggle is not the process itself — it is the isolation, the absence of a map, and the unprocessed trauma that perimenopause stirs to the surface and asks us to finally complete.

That transmission from the wise women in our culture has been broken — because trauma, and a culture that offers women neither the space nor the resources to move through this transition fully, means that genuine maturation remains rare.

This workshop aims to restore this forgotten wisdom, and gives you a map through territory that can be rich, deep and rewarding in ways we can’t possibly imagine.

What You’ll Experience

Perimenopause unfolds as a spiral — not a straight line or checklist — and we’ll be mapping out that spiral together throughout the workshop.

The disorientation and the loss of the woman we were. The decreased capacity for our current life and its patterns. The urge to burn it all down and live alone. The changes in our bodies, our image, our identity. The dissolution of old perceptions and behaviours. The need for deep rest, space, and radical self-care. The refinement happening in our brain and nervous system. And emerging from the chrysalis — ready to thrive in the second half of life.

You’ll leave with a map you didn’t have before, with practices to create more capacity and presence, and having heard from other women walking the same path.

This is not a presentation. It is an experiential and interactive circle.

This workshop is for you if:

• You’re in perimenopause — or at the beginning of it and don’t know how to move through it.
• You know something enormous is moving through you, and you need to understand what it is.
• You’re exhausted by managing symptoms and ready to meet this as the initiation it is.
• You’re doing this largely alone, and you need the company of women who understand.

Whatever’s going on, you’re very welcome in the circle.

And if you can’t make it live, you will be sent the replay the day after. It’s valid to watch for 2 weeks post circle, to preserve the integrity of the circle.

About Melanie

I’m a trauma resolution specialist and Womb Medicine Woman with 24 years of clinical experience. At almost 50, I’m in the final stage of perimenopause, and have been living and guiding women through this transition for several years already.

Investment: £75 Saturday 27th June · 2 hours · Zoom

FAQs

What date and time is the workshop, and what time zone? 
Saturday 27th June, 1pm–3:00pm London. That’s 8am New York · 2pm Berlin · 7pm Bangkok · 8pm Perth. If you’re unsure of your local time, worldtimebuddy.com will convert it for you.

Can I access a replay if I can’t attend live? 
Yes. A replay will be available for two weeks following the workshop at the same investment of £75. You’ll receive the link to watch the day after the circle.

What if I’m not sure I’m in perimenopause yet? 
If something is shifting — in your body, your energy, your sense of self — and you’re in your early 40s onwards, this workshop is for you. Perimenopause can begin earlier than most women expect; it’s a very slow start, but most women actually start to experience it when the disorientation kicks in.

Is this suitable if I’m already deep into perimenopause or approaching menopause? 
Yes. The spiral we move through together guides women at every stage — whether you are at the beginning and barely have language for what’s happening, or you are years in and looking for a map and wondering when it will complete. Wherever you are, you’re welcome.

Will there be time to ask questions? 
Yes. This is an experiential circle, not a presentation. There will be space for questions, sharing, and hearing from other women throughout.

What platform is it on? 
Zoom. You’ll receive the link in your confirmation email after booking.

What’s your refund policy? 
This workshop is non-refundable. If you’re unable to attend, you will receive the replay to watch within 2 weeks.

I’m a healing practitioner — is this workshop relevant for me? 
Yes, if you’re also navigating perimenopause yourself. This workshop is for women in perimenopause. If you’re looking for training, check out the Womb Medicine Woman Training®.