the women's Journey
A New Chapter for Women’s Journey Programming
A Time of Pause, A Time of Possibility
For years, the Women’s Hero’s Journey® Summer Intensive has been a space of profound transformation, where women gathered to dive deep into their inner landscapes, supported by the wisdom of nature and the strength of community. As with all journeys, there comes a moment to pause, to breathe, and to listen for what wants to emerge next.
In 2025, we are taking this pause to honor the natural rhythm of our work and to create space for something new. While the Women’s Journey, as it has been held in West Virginia, rests for now, we find ourselves in a fertile moment—a chance to reimagine what’s possible for the future of women’s programming.
This is not an ending but a threshold. It’s a time to reflect on the gifts of the past while preparing to cross into fresh territory, with offerings that will continue to nurture deep connection, purposeful exploration, and courageous transformation. Together, we will create new paths forward.
We invite you to stay close, to keep listening with us, as we prepare to share new ways to gather, grow, and embark on journeys that meet the times we are living in. The next chapter is just ahead.
With anticipation and gratitude,
Anna Noack, Kate Pernice, Irene Tobler and The Hero’s Journey® Foundation
“As women, we have been taught either to ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change…Within the interdependence of mutual (nondominant) differences lies that security which enables us to descend into the chaos of knowledge and return with true visions of our future.”
– Audre Lorde
“To display the lantern of the soul in shadowy times like these, to be fierce and to show mercy toward others, both, are acts of immense bravery and greatest necessity.”
– Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The Women’s Heros Journey provided me with a safe, supportive, and challenging environment to heal deeply and have a new visceral experience of my own vital life force. Coming home I feel curious and excited to live and create from this new place within myself and bring more of myself out into my community.ng but grateful for the whole messy, grand process?