Rae Willingham – Yarra Valley, Victoria
Rae Willingham is a First Moon Circle Facilitator located in Yarra Valley. Rae believes so strongly that creating a positive Menarche (first bleed) for young people will do wonders to alleviate trauma from childbirth and Motherhood. With 4 girls of her own, she has a big stake in removing generational wounding from her lineage and she is determined to break the chains of shame surrounding the female body and cycle.
Lara Williams – Hervey Bay, QLD
Marie-Claude Beauchamp is a First Moon Circle Facilitator located in Dubai. As a Shine From Within youth mentor, qualified co-active coach, First Moon Circles facilitator, and sexologist, I have had the privilege to work closely with other knowledgeable people in the field. I have a teaching permit but I like to keep the value of informal education close to my heart. I am a strong believer in the value of girls’ and women’s empowerment to make the world a better place for all. This has been the core element of the projects I have been involved with; in Canada and in different countries in Africa.
Lizzie Martinelli – Newcastle, NSW
Lizzie Martinelli is a First Moon Circle Facilitator located in Newcastle. As a mother of two young girls, I am so excited to have learnt about the power of the menstrual cycle and to be able to share this wisdom with the next generation – so they are empowered and able to be aware of the magic they hold within.
Juliet Symes – Melbourne, Victoria
Juliet Symes is a First Moon Circle Facilitator located in Melbourne. Juliet is menstrual coach for young girls and teens, a certified First Moon Circles facilitator and graphic designer. She’s passionate about educating girls not only on the changes their body will be going through in adolescence, but how to live practically with their hormonal rhythms, use them to their advantage, and help them form a healthy, positive relationship with their body.
Marie-Claude Beauchamp – Dubai
Marie-Claude Beauchamp is a First Moon Circle Facilitator located in Dubai. As a Shine From Within youth mentor, qualified co-active coach, First Moon Circles facilitator, and sexologist, I have had the privilege to work closely with other knowledgeable people in the field. I have a teaching permit but I like to keep the value of informal education close to my heart. I am a strong believer in the value of girls’ and women’s empowerment to make the world a better place for all. This has been the core element of the projects I have been involved with; in Canada and in different countries in Africa.
Lacey Irvine – Dakabin, QLD
Lacey Irvine is a First Moon Circle Facilitator located in Dakabin QLD. She attended a First Moon Circle with her Daughter in 2022 and was astounded by how much healing was facilitated and how beautifully the event was organized. This inspired her to apply for First Moon Facilitator training a few months later and hold her own circles.
Carmen Reyes – Montpelier, Vermont
JCarmen Reyes is a First Moon Circle Facilitator located in Vermont. Carmen Reyes is a FEMM fertility awareness instructor, Holistic Women’s Health, Hormone, and Menstrual Cycle Coach, Herbalist, and First Moon Circle Facilitator.
Jasmin Slattery – Adelaide, Aus
Jasmin Slattery is a First Moon Circle Facilitator located in Australia. Jasmin Slattery, better known as Jazz, a Developmental Educator and Therapeutic Mentor with a Bachelor of Disability and Developmental Education.
Nicola Darby – Highams Park, London, United Kingdom
Nicola Darby is a First Moon Circle Facilitator located in UK. Nicola is a mum of two girls, wife, daughter, sister and friend. She’s a menstrual educator, birthkeeper, hypnobirthing practitioner, lactation supporter and cyclical living advocate. Her passion and love of supporting girls & women on their life journey runs deep through my body.
Laura Jones – Central Coast, NSW, Australia
Laura Jones is a First Moon Circle Facilitator located in NSW. Laura Jones is a Remedial Massage Therapist & First Moon Circle Facilitator living with her partner and four children on Darkinjung land, on the Central Coast of NSW.
Danni Willow – Torquay, VIC, Australia
Danni Willow is a First Moon Circle Facilitator located in VIC. Danni Willow is a Parent Educator, Aware Parenting Instructor, former Early Childhood Educator and Primary school teacher, a First Moon Facilitator and holder of sacred space for Mother and women circles and mumma to two beautiful souls.
Jade Sherrell – Wollongong, NSW, Australia
Jade Sherrell is a First Moon Circle Facilitator in Wollongong, NSW, Australia. She is married, and the proud mama to two incredible and inspiring girls 9years and 13years, step mum to an adult daughter, and in 2022 became grandma to a beautiful baby boy. Jade is an Holistic Healer and Coach, drawing on Kinesiology/Muscle testing and Emotion Freedom Technique (EFT) in her Naturopathic and Bodywork practice
Candice McLeod – North East, Victoria, Australia
Candice McLeod is a First Moon Circle Facilitator located in North East, Victoria.
Candice McLeod is a Certified Yoga Therapist, Hatha Yoga Teacher & First Moon Circle Facilitator living a simple and gentle life on Dhuduroa (Yackandandah) Country, in Victoria’s North East. Most days are spent weaving between the ebbs and flows of single Mamahood alongside her 4-year-old boy and their giant puppy, whilst earnestly tending to the seeds of her soul-work.
Danielle Davern – Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Danielle Davern is a First Moon Circle Facilitator located in Melbourne, Victoria.
Coming from a background in Environmental Science and Education, Danielle Davern is a qualified and practicing Primary School Teacher who loves to weave her knowledge of the natural environment into her teachings. She is highly knowledgeable and passionate about all things menstrual cycle related and since becoming a certified First Moon Circle Facilitator she loves creating safe and nurturing spaces to prepare and empower children about their menstrual cycle. She ensures each participant in her circles leave knowing how amazing their bodies are and feeling a strong sense of sisterhood within their immediate community. She also has two incredible daughters that motivate her to create a period positive culture so that all people who menstruate can thrive and live without limitation or shame.
Kath Kovac – Dalton, NSW, Australia
Kathryn Kovac is a First Moon Circle Facilitator located in Dalton NSW.
I live and work on the lands of the Ngunnawal people in a small town called Dalton, one hour from Canberra. I run women’s circles, menopause workshops and menstrual cycle awareness workshops for women and girls, teach tai chi and meditation, and love to play guitar, drum and ukulele, make art, sew, knit and crochet. I also run a weekly radio show called the women’s room.
Jo Newsham – Christchurch, NZ
Jo Newsham is a First Moon Circle Facilitator located in Christchruch, NZ.
Jo is on a journey of empowering women of all ages about the power of connecting with their inner seasons and cycles.
Alex Washington – Inner West Sydney, Australia
Alex Washington is a First Moon Circle Facilitator located in the Inner West of Sydney.
“I believe First Moon Circles are special because they provide a unique environment for young people to prepare for menarche (the first period). They are helpful in providing information that parents themselves do not have or are not able to impart on their children, and are empowering as they acknowledge this rite of passage in a positive way.”
Sussana Christine – Melbourne VIC Australia
Sussana Christine (she/her) is a Menstrual Cycle Coach and Circle Facilitator bringing cyclical awareness and menstrual understanding to her clients and community. Through her coaching work, Sussana supports people who menstruate, to create an intuitive relationship with their body, its natural rhythm, and live their most vibrant, feels amazing life. In her work, Sussana brings her lived experience of being disconnected from her body and its needs, as well as her personal healing journey and learning experiences of the wisdom and wonder of living in alignment with our menstrual cycle.
Charlotte Pointeaux – Southern Highlands NSW Australia
Charlotte Pointeaux is the creator of First Moon Circles and the Facilitator Training. She is a Cycle and Embodiment Coach, trained Youth Mentor, Teacher, Podcaster and has 13 years experience in the education industry. She is mother to three little girls and hopes passionately that they grow up knowing that periods are powerful and they can live the life of their dreams.
Charlotte digs deep from personal experience to show girls how to celebrate all that they are, and all that they’re becoming. She loves empowering young people in the way she wished she had been when growing up: with positivity, being heard, accepted and celebrated just as she was.
Charlotte created the First Moon Circle Facilitator Training to initiate passionate people into holding their own menarche circles for girls, and to share in her vision for inclusive, empowering, and holistic period education to become mainstream, so that people can support themselves emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually at the start of the menstrual journey and throughout their lifetime. She also coaches women to find harmony, health and happiness within their own cycles.
Charlotte holds First Moon Circles in her home region of the Southern Highlands NSW, holding seasons circles in Mittagong NSW, and also available to host private circles to celebrate individual girls and their friends as they approach or experience their first period.
To enquire about a circle with Charlotte, you can find out more information and contact her at:
https://www.charlottepointeaux.com
Angela Nicole – Albury, NSW Australia
Angela is a Mentor & Empowerment Coach for Tweens, Teens & Women, and a First Moon Circle Facilitator based in Albury-Wodonga on the NSW-Victoria border in Australia. She is the […]