Facilitators Archives

Lily Owens – Tulsa Oklahoma – First Moon Circles

Lily Owens leads First Moon Circles, helping girls learn about their bodies, connect to their own knowing within, and enter menstruation with knowledge and confidence.

Leigh Patton Smith – Oklahoma City – First Moon Circles

Hello beautiful people, my name is Leigh Smith, and I am an art therapist, educator, and mother who has spent over 20 years walking alongside children and adolescents through many seasons of growth. I currently teach handwork at Back to Earth School, and also lead parent-child playgroups and therapeutic art classes at Peppers Ranch for foster children. My work is rooted in Waldorf philosophy, ritual arts and deep reverence for the rhythms of nature and the soul.

Moonbeam Art Circles are a mondern coming-of-age art circle for girls held in Oklahoma City and surrounding areas. It is a safe and creative space where girls gather in sisterhood to explore who they are becoming through:

Art Making & creative expression
Gentle Rites of Passage & Ceremony
Storytelling, reflection, and lunar wisdom
Building trust, beauty, and belonging
Each circle honors the changing inner world of girls as they grow- physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Together, we create space where every voice is heard, every phase of the moon(and self) is welcome, and every child seen in her unique becoming.

Let’s raise them in heartfelt rhythm-with art, wonder, and wise community.

CONNECT WITH LEIGH

WEBSITE: www.groovybluemoon.com

EMAIL: happyhandsheadheart@gmail.com

INSTAGRAM: @groovybluemoon

Priya Manohar – Adelaide, Australia – First Moon Circles

Priya is an Adelaide-based First Moon Circle facilitator and paediatric speech pathologist offering inclusive, gentle, and culturally sensitive circles for girls.

Angelina DeWeese – California – First Moon Circles

Georgia is a First Moon Circle Facilitator, Somatic Dance Facilitator, and counseling student who weaves embodied wisdom, creativity, and holistic menstrual education into her work with girls and mothers. Through mythic storytelling, cyclical living, and rites of passage, she creates safer, empowering spaces for youth to explore identity, body literacy, and emotional wellbeing.

Allie Bishop – Indianapolis, USA – First Moon Circles

Allie Bishop is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and trauma-informed art therapist who leads heart-centered First Moon Circles. Through body literacy, emotional education, creative expression, and ritual, she supports girls and families to navigate puberty with confidence, connection, and a shame-free approach to menstruation.

Emma Watt – Mildura VIC Australia – First Moon Circles

Emma Watt from Side by Side Tribe is a First Moon Circle Facilitator supporting girls and mothers through menarche with gentle guidance and connection to nature’s cycles. She is also a Reiki Master, yoga teacher, and circle facilitator creating safe spaces for movement, meditation, sound, and self-exploration.

Georgia Todd – New Zealand – First Moon Circles

Giselle Rouvier – Madrid Spain – First Moon Circles

Giselle, a Brazilian mama in Madrid, is passionate about menstrual cycle awareness and empowering girls. Join her First Moon Circles in Madrid or online, in English or Portuguese, to celebrate bodies, build confidence, and embrace the magic of growing up.

Stacey McKenzie – Ballarat VIC Australia – First Moon Circles

I am the Founder of The Yoga Treehouse Ballarat. I am a certified 95 HR Children’s Yoga
Teacher with a specialty in Children’s Yoga Therapy. I am a certified Yin Yoga Teacher, Nutrition Coach & for over 20 years I have been practicing many forms of yoga & meditation for personal wellbeing and health. I am a certified First Moon Circle Facilitator.

MY STORY

Three years ago a friend introduced me to a book called Wild Power, Discover the Magic of your menstrual cycle and awaken to the feminine path to power. I was so excited to learn the wisdom of my own menstrual cycle and at the same time, in disbelief and disappointed that I had not been taught this valuable information earlier. After practicing menstrual cycle awareness for a few more years I realised the impotance of bringing this knowledge to young girls. I want to empower girls to recognise that their bodies are sacred and how to work with their own powerful energies for a more connected cycle experience.

Cara munn – Alice Springs, NT – First Moon Circles

Cara Munn is a First Moon Circle Facilitator located in Alice Springs Northern Territory. Cara has been hosting camps and adventure tours through central Australia for the past 15 years and would love to guide your daughter through her rite of passage on country. Let’s celebrate Her Nature Journey together.

Nóra Szőllősi – Budapest Hungary – First Moon Circles

Nóra Szőllősi is a First Moon Circle Facilitator in Budapest, Hungary

Nora is a 37 years old menstrual cycle awareness educator who lives in Budapest, Hungary with her daughter and husband. Her interest in menstrual cycles came after she spent a weekend with other women on a retreat that focused on this subject. She had a huge AHA moment, as she heard and understood the term menstrual cycle for the first time in her life, and she was already in her late 20’s. To say that she got interested is an understatement. She dove into the topic, found international online courses about menstrual cycle, one teacher and wise woman led her to the other.

That is how she ended up doing Claire Baker’s Cycle Coach School and got to know Charlotte Pointeaux. When she started to learn about her own cycle she had the idea of sharing her newly found passion online. That is how the Ciklus mesék IG profile came alive! It means Cycle Tales in Hungarian. People started to follow and the community grew organically but rapidly and now she has more then twenty-one thousand followers.

She’s holding workshops, circles and lectures to women and men about menstrual cycle awareness. By choosing this path as her work and passion she realised that it healed a long lasting transgenerational trauma in her family that was passed on from mothers to daughters. One of the biggest joys in her life is that her daughter is now raised in a period positive environment where she will get to learn how her body works and build trust in herself around it.

She strongly believes that without this foundation and the knowledge that menstrual cycle awareness provides the lives of menstruators wouldn’t be as full as it could be. That is why she is eager to bring this knowledge to the youngest, and help them build a positive connection with their mind and body! Her strengths are honesty and authenticity, she is not afraid to talk about topics that are naturally part of our lives, but still are considered as taboos.

CONNECT WITH NORA

EMAIL: ciklusmesek@gmail.com

INSTAGRAM: @ciklusmesek

Debra Pintley – Macarthur Region – First Moon Circles

Hi, I’m Debra Pintley. Over the years, as a doula and birth educator, I have studied the relationship between a woman’s experience of her menstrual rite of passage and how she experiences birth. This is one of the key reasons I am so passionate about guiding young women through one of their most significant rites of passage: their first period.
Through First Moon Circles, I provide a warm, welcoming space where girls and their parents can learn about puberty, self-care, and menstrual cycle wisdom. These circles are designed to empower young women with knowledge and confidence while fostering a deep sense of connection, ensuring they feel prepared and supported as they enter this new phase of life.

Grace Morrison – Toronto, Canada – First Moon Circles

I am the daughter of a wild naturalist and breastfeeding advocate and am a Circle Holder and a Menstrual Health Coach living in an urban metropolis.

Susie Gow – Murwillumbah & Tweed Heads – First Moon Circles

Susie Gow is a trained First Moon Circle Facilitator in Murwillumbah and Tweed Heads NSW Australia.

Jo Goddard – Brisbane QLD Australia – First Moon Circles

Jo Goddard is a First Moon Circle Facilitator in Brisbane, QLD, Australia. She is the founder of ImHER Women’s Well-being, a space devoted to helping women reclaim their joy, confidence, and connection to themselves. As a pleasure, intimacy, and sensuality mentor, certified Kahuna bodyworker, Reiki Master, and sexological bodyworker, Jo’s work blends deep care with a joyful, down-to-earth approach.

Her passion for supporting women began after her own journey of self-reclamation, and she believes these conversations should start early—long before adulthood—so girls can grow up feeling empowered, informed, and proud of their bodies.

Jo sees First Moon Circles as a powerful way to help young women and their mothers feel connected, confident, and open in talking about periods, body changes, and emotions. She creates a safe, nurturing, and joy-filled space where girls can learn practical cycle wisdom, ask questions without embarrassment, and celebrate this rite of passage as a beautiful part of growing up.

When she’s not facilitating circles or working with women, Jo can be found collecting sea glass along the waterfront at Margate, reading dark fantasy novels, or dancing in the kitchen with her three children while baking something choclatey.

Julia Simon – Paris France – First Moon Circles

Julia Simon is a Paris-based facilitator, author, and women’s coach who has been holding space for women’s transformations for over a decade.

As a mother of two daughters (and lucky human to a cat), she believes every girl deserves to step into womanhood feeling proud, supported, and celebrated. She offers Premières Lunes (First Moon) circles in Paris and is also available to travel across France to offer this special experience.

Alongside her circles, Julia leads retreats and programs that guide women back to their inner wisdom, honouring the cycles and milestones that shape a lifetime. She is also the author of Bien vivre le quatrième trimestre au naturel, often referred to as the go-to guide for the postpartum journey, another profound rite of passage for women.

Victoria Petersen – Seattle USA – First Moon Circles

Victoria Rose is a First Moon Circle Facilitator in Seattle, WA USA

Hi, I’m Victoria Rose — and I believe women will change the world, starting with how we raise our daughters.

I host Menarche Circles — sacred gatherings designed to celebrate and educate girls as they enter adolescence. These circles are for young girls and their female caregivers. Whether your daughter is approaching her first period or you’re simply looking to introduce her to cycle wisdom in a positive way, these events offer connection, confidence, and celebration.

I began this work by leading moon circles for adult women, helping them reconnect to their bodies, cycles, and truth. What I discovered was this: when a woman heals her relationship with her inner child, she becomes a powerful guide for the next generation. That’s where my passion lies — in uniting the maiden and the mother within, so we can raise a world of women who know their worth.

Many of us grew up feeling shame around our bodies and cycles. These circles create a new story — one of empowerment, understanding, and joy. Don’t worry if you didn’t have this experience yourself. That’s exactly why I hold these spaces: to support both you and your daughter in reclaiming and redefining this rite of passage.

I bring a deeply gentle, trauma-informed approach to everything I do — shaped by my own journey leaving high-control religion and reconnecting to my body and feminine power. Through ritual, education, and shared storytelling, I help mothers and daughters bond over something truly sacred: becoming women.

Circles are held in Seattle, Washington USA and available for private or small group gatherings.

Let’s raise a new generation to love their bodies and trust their cycles — and reconnect with the women we’ve always been.

Contact:

To learn more or book a circle, reach out via email

@she.rose.victorious on IG & TikTok

Kate Rose – Devon UK – First Moon Circles

Kate Rose is a First Moon Circle Facilitator in Devon, UK

Kate Rose is a mother of two, ceremonialist, yoga teacher, menstrual educator and ceremonial space holder, working with young girls, mothers and women.

Kate currently facilitates a 13-moon Mothers Journeying Group, and offers First Moon Circles in Devon, UK

In her work with young people, Kate weaves holistic and comprehensive menstrual cycle education with Rite of Passage ceremony, to empower, educate and support the next generation.

Kate is passionate about honouring Menarche as a powerful Rite of Passage and her circles provide the knowledge and support that girls need to be positively guided and supported through their journey of Menarche. Kate’s work in the field of Menstruality addresses menstrual stigma and challenges the taboos, shifting the narrative around menstruation, from one of shame to celebration.

Claire Dilliway – West Sussex UK – First Moon Circles

Claire Dilliway is a First Moon Circle Facilitator in West Sussex, UK. Claire is a passionate, empathetic and experienced Nutritional Therapist and Menstrual Educator. She is also a Registered Nutrigenomics Practitioner (DNA testing) and Autonomic Response Testing (A.R.T.) Practitioner.

Her special interests are in: Female General Health, Menstrual Cycle Health and Education, ADHD in Females and Digestive Health.

Claire lives in West Sussex, England, United Kingdom and that is where she both practises nutrition and A.R.T., plus hosts her First Moon Circles.

Having experienced decades of her own ill health and hormonal imbalance symptoms, and now going through the challenges of Peri-Menopause, Claire wants to support females of all ages with their hormonal health. Starting with period education and first moon circles, up to menopause management and beyond, Claire supports females to understand their bodies, their minds, their hormones and how best to support themselves now and in the future.

Claire is friendly, enthusiastic, deeply compassionate, and has a dorky sense of humour. She genuinely wants to help females to live their best lives, for this and future generations and is continually growing and developing her knowledge.

Ellie Moore – Dorset UK – First Moon Circles

Ellie Moore is a First Moon Facilitator in Christchurch, Dorset, UK

Ellie is a First Moon Circle and Women’s Circle Facilitator. Since first learning about Menstrual Cycle Awareness back in 2021, Ellie has been on a journey to connect back with her cyclical nature, as well as helping to share this knowledge and wisdom with everyone she meets.

Ellie combines her experience of working in an SEN school with her experience in menstrual education to provide fun, empowering and positive circles for young girls to learn about their changing bodies and the menstrual cycle.

In her spare time, Ellie loves to be at the beach or in the forest, getting creative through dance and yoga, and spending time with her family, friends and pets.