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The Call to Water

Our Vision

All women and water

well and free

from source to sea.

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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 communities, and our watersheds, so together we can

restore the flow of Life.

Pathways to Water

The Call to Water

Our Mission

To restore the flow of Life by bringing relief and resilience to women and water.

Together, we:

grow our capacity with restorative, creative, intuitive, and nature-based practices,

holistically well-tend lifecycles, especially endings,

hold brave, safe spaces to creatively express our grief and longings out loud and in relief, and

learn to lead with water as stewards and guides on and off the river.

Along the way we become Women of the Water,

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.

May it be so. Aho!

Sourcing Water

The Call to Water

Sourcing Water

Our Values

At Women of the Water we value:

the ways and wisdom of women and water - respecting their free-flowing, creative, and intuitive natures

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 community-based grief practitioner, death doula, creative facilitator, artist, shamanic practitioner and river guide who belongs to the world as one who rewrites history by well-tending endings and one who dreams of the Colorado River returning home to the sea. Lisa has been embedded in Colorado communities and watersheds for over 25 years and has been growing roots in Fort Collins and the Poudre River watershed since 2021 with her supportive husband, Joel, inspiring daughter, Juniper, and super-snuggly rescue dog, Sunny the Schnauzer.

Women of the Water

Women of the Water

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

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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