The Women's Institute of Maine

Dear sisters,

After a powerful and energizing retreat in Boothbay Harbor,  I am pleased to announce we now have formed an action team to guide WIM now and into the future.  This action team will take on the name, "The WIM Guiding Circle." 

The sacred wisdom circle we've been holding for three months (and were referring to as the Guiding Circle) will seed four new wisdom circles, each autonomous and based in one place - one in Falmouth, one in South Portland, one in Dayton, one in Portland, and a weaving circle based out of Scarborough that will travel to each of the other circles occassionally to "weave" them all together.  

While we always welcome more to our action circle (or any circle for that matter), those who have already made consistently invaluable conributions of heart and spirit to this creation are:  Bonnie-kate Allen, Jackie Belanger, Anni Campbell, Joan Candelmo, Joyce Donald, Tammie Fowles, Jill Hackett, Linda Hogan, Laurie McCammon, and Linda Stilphen.  I also want to express my deepest gratitude (and admiration) to Deborah Knighton Tallarico, Linda Stilphen, and Andrea Ferrante, the owners of the healing centers who have enthusiastically offered to host our three new women's wisdom circles. Their anchoring is an invaluable gift and an important part of our plans. We hope our circles will add to their abundance and further success. 

I wish to thank ALL of these gifted and deeply wise and talented women for helping me to hold and nurture the vision and provide the energy for the Women's Institute of Maine. I am truly humbled by the collective power and insight generated when we all come together in the spirit of service and sisterhood!.......  Wow!  We're really doing it!

Keep it spiraling upwards, sisters!

Warmly,

Laurie McCammon

Founding Collaborator of WIM