Our Programs

What Heathen Women United does, week in and week out, and how you can take part.

Three strands, one thread

Everything we do belongs to one of three kinds of work: education, advocacy, and community. Each depends on the others.

Education without community is a library nobody visits. Community without advocacy leaves the same problems in place for the next woman who arrives. Advocacy without education has nothing solid to stand on. So we do all three, and we try to do each of them properly.

All of our programs are run by volunteers. All of them are free. Most are held online, because our members are spread across nineteen countries, with local gatherings wherever enough of us live near one another.

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Programs

Education

Free Heathen education from Heathen Women United: the monthly Distaff Lectures, Lore Circle reading groups, the First Steps course, and The Distaff journal.

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Programs

Advocacy

How Heathen Women United advocates for women in Heathenry: the Frith Standard code of conduct, frithkeeper training, position statements, and public education.

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Hearth Circles

Hearth circles are small groups of Heathen women who meet monthly, online or in person, with members in nineteen countries. Learn how to find one.

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A year at Heathen Women United

The regular rhythm of our programs. Dates follow the northern seasons; our southern circles keep the tides six months apart.
WhenWhat happens
Every monthA Distaff Lecture, the Spinning Room social, and a meeting of every hearth circle.
FebruaryDisting, our annual assembly: reports, votes, Council elections, and the Naming of Deeds.
March to MaySpring term of the Lore Circles. Spring frithkeeper training. A First Steps course.
June to AugustMidsummer gatherings hosted by hearth circles. A First Steps course.
September to NovemberAutumn term of the Lore Circles. Autumn frithkeeper training. A First Steps course. Nominations for the Council open at Winter Nights.
DecemberMothers' Night, kept together online and in our homes. Nominations close at Yule.
JanuaryCandidates for the Council publish their statements and answer members' questions. Final texts of anything to be voted on at Disting go to all members.