The Enchantress, Forgotten & Misunderstood, Lies Within Each of Us

With Lorraine Grayston & Dawn Russell

Autumn, September 5th & 6th, 2025

Goddess. Enchantress

The Enchantress has been banished from our archetypal understanding of the feminine – Maiden, Mother, Crone. She fits in between Mother and Crone. Having let her children go she is not ready to face death but to truly embrace life with the wisdom of experience and the newfound energy that the release of motherhood brings (mother energy can be found in all that we give birth to, not just children).

Although Cronehood is within her sights, she is not ready to withdraw but wants to actively engage in life and explore the freedom of her individuality and creativity.

So who is she really? In her healthy state, she is the powerful woman within each of us. She is the Deep Feminine, the Dark Goddess who knows and embraces the cycles of life, death and rebirth. She is the Priestess, the Witch, the Herbalist and the Healer. She is in the place of the cycle of life rhythms where we can receive the wisdom of life’s experiences.

She is the aspect of us that stands in her own sovereignty and is connected to the Earth and the realms of other worlds.

She voices her wisdom gained from experience with passion, integrity and compassion, She Enchants and hypnotises us to awaken to our feelings, to stir our emotions and fire our passion. We can then see clearly the beauty and potential of life. She calls us to awaken to our creativity.

To find her, to awaken to her, we must relax into her, surrender to her unyielding power that comes from her “place of no concern” and her connection with the Earth, with the Divine.

When we speak of the Enchantress archetype we are referring to an aspect of a cyclic movement of energy that apples to all women regardless of age. We are all the time going through the cycle of creation: conception, gestation, birth and release, whatever it is we are creating and whatever age!

So we explore the energy and how it expresses (or doesn’t) in women’s lives.

We have had women of all ages (25 to 70) at this workshop and we learn from each other and our experiences of the stages of life and cycles.

The Enchantress Details:

At Emerson College, Forest Row, East Sussex
Emerson College is set in the Ashdown Forest with lovely walks and places to be in nature.

Non residential 
All courses are non-residential. There may be some accommodation available at Emerson college  booked via Emerson (additional fee payable). There are also local B&Bs. Meals available at Emerson.

Dates & Times:
September 5th & 6th, 2026.
Saturday 10am – 5:30pm and Sunday 10am – 5pm.

Fees:
£250 for the weekend (£60 deposit) 

Enquiries & Booking contact Dawn or Lorraine: