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The Call to Water

Just like our waterways, Colorado women are suffering under the physical and metaphorical stresses of systemic and prolonged damming, diversion, pollution and misuse, resulting in internal and external environments that are too hot and too dry.

Women of the Water seeks to provide relief from these sources of suffering while building resilience within ourselves, our families, and our communities to restore Life and prevent future harm.

Our Mission

To bring relief to women riding the waves of life, death, grief, loss, and love by restoring and deepening connections with creativity, intuition, and Nature and using them to well-tend lifecycles, especially endings.

Our Vision

From source to sea

well women flowing freely.

Pathways to Water

The Call to Water

Women of the Water programs and services create safe and brave spaces for women on significant thresholds of life and death and love and loss, to be seen, heard, and held in their experiences.

Together we learn, unlearn, and practice making our grief and longings visible by moving them through our bodies with inspired action and receiving support and guidance from ourselves and others - all in ways that are both restorative and generative.

In the process we become embodiments of, and allies for, well women - wild, willing, and whole sources and stewards of water, circling shoulder to shoulder and eye to eye in generous service to generations past, present and future.

Sourcing Water

The Call to Water

Sourcing Water

Our values create our foundation, the riverbed that contains and guides our lifeforce, or flow.

At Women of the Water we value:

Women's wisdom rising -individually, collectively, ancestrally, and ecologically

the well-tending and completion of lifecycles - remembering the necessity and sacredness of beginnings, middles, and especially endings

Intentional and restorative action - honoring complexity, paradox, humanity, and consequences

Connection in all directions - nurturing right relationships with the energies of north, east, south, west, above, below, and center

The Woman Behind the Women

Lisa Cheney-Philp is a grief practitioner, death doula, creative facilitator, artist and river guide who belongs to the world as one who rewrites history, one who dwells in river canyons and one who dreams of the river meeting the sea. As the founder of Women of the Water, she braids together her skills, training, and lived experiences to help us remember the ways and wisdom of water so we can well-tend experiences of death, dying, grief, loss and love and restore Life for generations past, present and future. Lisa has been embedded in Colorado communities and watersheds for over 20 years and currently calls Fort Collins, Colorado and the Poudre River watershed home with her husband and daughter.

Women of the Water

Women of the Water

Together, let's keep the rivers flowing...

At Women of the Water, we believe in relief for women by repairing harm and building community. Together, we well-tend lifecycles, especially endings, with creativity, intuition and nature as our guides.

The Call to Water

The Call to Water

The Call to Water

Pathways to Water

The Call to Water

The Call to Water

Sourcing Water

The Call to Water

Sourcing Water

The Woman Behind the Women

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