Online Circle: Creating Community Through Weaving and Hearth Gatherings
SHE-EDE TEAM invites you to a discussion on Creating Community Through Weaving and Hearth Gatherings with Jennifer Eva Sirel-Pillau, exploring how weaving and traditional arts contribute to resilient communities.
Together, we will:
Explore the significance of matriarchal arts
Discuss how we can take action
Connect with those ready to build real change
Have a circle of sharing
This will be a space for collective thought, strategy, and movement-building.
Matriarchal Arts: The Foundation of Resilient Communities
A research-based definition of matriarchy delineates social systems structured to nurture life, cultivate peaceful relations, and prevent patterns of hierarchy, domination, and abuse. "Matriarchal art" implies generative activities, behaviors, and skills that spiritually and practically serve life, local economies, and human self-actualization.
Modern society often molds individuals into compliant worker-consumers, shaped by brand identity and economic servitude. Can we, through cooperation and kinship, reclaim our role as artisans of health, harmony, and relational integrity? Could the modern hearth become a sanctuary where lineage is remembered, despair is consoled, and a resilient future is forged?
Why Are We Hosting This Session?
This gathering aims to revive appreciation for matriarchal arts as a transformative force for community resilience. By weaving together knowledge, skills, and shared traditions, we can reimagine a society where cooperation and balance thrive.
Join us as we explore how these arts can serve as the foundation for a more connected, self-sufficient, and harmonious world.
About the Speaker
Jennifer Eva Sirel-Pillau, mother of two, holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration, a master's degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine, and certifications in Ayurvedic Practice and Craniosacral Therapy. She is certified by the International Academy Hagia, based in Germany, as a Lecturer on Modern Matriarchal Studies. She is a founding member of the Council for the Revival of Matriarchal Arts in Crete, Greece, where Neolithic and Bronze Age egalitarian societies once thrived. Her pen name honors her mother’s Estonian lineage.