Time & Dates

Live on Zoom at 8pm EST
Wednesdays, October 13th to December 15th
except November 24th

Participants

Open to folks of all genders and backgrounds.

This course is for anyone who is interested in diving into a self-focused exploration of their own gender.

Investment

$950 for this Nine Week Course

If this price is a barrier for you, partial scholarships are available. You can apply here. Payment plans are also available at no extra cost. Email ma.george.co@gmail.com to discuss.

All the Dreamy Details

Week 1 ~ Creating Our Sanctuary

Settle in as we gently put aside what we know and create a space to welcome and embrace what we don’t. This process begins with introductions, community agreements, and a good, loving look at what we are bringing into the space.

Week 2 ~ Locating Ourselves in the Present Moment

We will tenderly begin mapping where we are in our gender journey. Locating ourselves in the present moment helps us notice where there’s room for expansion and exploration.

Week 3 ~ Broadening Our Scope

As multifaceted, complex beings who are apart of a lineage, it is key to look at the broader picture. We’ll check in with our progress over time, our past and future selves, as well as our well, bright ancestors to gain deeper insight into our trajectory.

Week 4 ~ Processing Grief Through Ritual

As we unravel and expand, we can bump up against all kinds of grief. Making room and experiencing that grief, processing it as it comes up can create space for more discovery. Brooke Herr will guide us in using ritual to process big, wild grief in accessible, surprising ways.

Week 5 ~ Exploring Expansive Polarity

The gender binary is so prevalent our society, that we base so many archetypes around this understanding of gender. As we dismantle this, we’ll discuss new ways to notice, name, and experience polarity with Laurel Atwell.

Week 6 ~ Tuning In and Attuning the Body

Our body is where our spirit resides. It is full of wisdom, knowing, information that is sacred. With the help of Talya Epstein, we are going to come back to the body, tuning into our soma and practicing communion between our bodies and our spirits.

Week 7 ~ Identity SoulCollage®

As Rebecca Solnit said “We collage ourselves into being.” Our pieces and parts coming together through love and magic. In this very special long class, Madi Hunt will lead us through the SoulCollage® method where we will each make a piece as unique as we are.

Week 8 ~ Release and Expand

Pausing and checking in is a form of devotion and dedication. This week, we’ll reflect and make commitments to ourselves as we prepare to move forward. Practices of self-tending such as boundary making, forgiveness, and compassion will help us thrive.

Week 9 ~ Integration Celebration!

While our sanctuary container comes to a close, your individual sanctuary for gender exploration may go on long after these nine weeks. We’ll work on ways to continue the journey and celebrate all that we’ve done and discovered together!

Bonus! ~ Sanctuary Hours

Spaciousness is a gift I want us all to give to ourselves whenever possible! To help create and facilitate spaciousness in our sanctuary, I will be holding three hours of open space throughout the duration of the course. Similar to office hours, this will be a time to check in and work through any sticky points that are coming up.

Bonus! ~ Discounted Coaching Sessions

For participants of Gender Sanctuary, I am offering discounted one on one coaching sessions from October 15th, 2021 until January 15th, 2022 for $160 per session ($250 value per session). This work can be deep and I want to honor the unfolding by offering additional space holding.

Investment ~ All This for $950

Payment plans are available by request at no extra cost. Email ma.george.co@gmail.com to discuss. There are also partial scholarships available. Apply here before Thursday, September 30th at 11:59pm EST.

Why take this course?

Exploring your gender, no matter what it is, is a revolutionary act! It leads to greater embodiment, a more nuanced understanding of gender in general, and more empathy for those of us who wake up everyday to a gender binary that is aggressive and dangerous.

You’re invited to join me in a gentle dismantling, a wild ride, a true spelunking into the depths. Where you’ll be supported as you dive in and see what treasure is waiting for you at your root. I can’t tell you what it will be, but I think the journey is worth the glory, delight, and revelations that awaits you.

Why am I teaching this course?

I’m teaching this course because I think that Gender Exploration and Excavation could benefit EVERYONE! I also believe this kind of deep dive into gender could help create more embodied awareness and empathy for our Trans and Non-Binary community members who face the oppression and violence of the binary nearly everyday. There is so much to gain by stepping into the magic and widening our understanding of gender beyond the binary.

For me, my gender is at the root of who I am. A foundational element of me and my life on this Earth. Exploring it with support and openness helps me understand parts of my sexuality, my genius, my voice, my career, my purpose, the roles I consent to and love as well as the roles that are pushed upon me.

Having a deeper understanding of gender is like seeing the Matrix. It relates to everything, it is part of our essence and experience on this planet in these bodies. So much of our society is gendered and for what? I believe the gender binary is oppressive to EVERYONE! It creates norms, expectations, and roles that cannot possibly be in alignment with the majority of people on Earth. This course is an invitation to gently explore this together.

This course is…

~ A brave space.
~ A place of openness and empathy.
~ Built with prayer and magic.
~ A place of non-judgement.
~ An invitation into deeper understanding.
~ A beautiful portal of possibility.
~ Self-focused, an internal deep dive.
~ For anyone who wants to join.
~ Rooted in Trans & Nonbinary Justice.
~ A place for tender community sharing.
~ A place where curiosity and vulnerability are encouraged.
~ A place where we go slowly and resource when we need to.

This course is NOT…

~ Focused on others’ gender.
~ Focused on inclusion. (If you desire that, look here.)
~ Intended to guilt or shame.
~ A place to get political or argumentative.
~ Focused on the history of the gender binary or white supremacy.
~ Designed using an academic approach.
~ A complete education on gender.

What are my qualifications?

~ Many, many hours spent exploring gender as a concept and my own gender in depth
~ 32 years living in a Trans body in a binary culture
~ Experience coaching and holding space for folks of many genders
~ Deep exploration into magic, ritual, Spirit realms, and Gender-scapes
~ Years of self advocacy and discussing gender as a Trans person
~ Experience discussing gender and self-exploration extensively with folks of many genders
~ Experience holding space for and offering my sacred Trans wisdom on gender

My Teachers

~ Dr. Pavini Moray ~ Wellcelium

~ Kamrym Wolf ~ genderdoula.com

~ Marlee Grace ~ The World Needs Your Online Class

See what others have to say ~

“MaryAnn is an insightful, compassionate truth teller and wise companion to those creating their own path as they walk it. They hold what’s true for me without judgment or fixing while challenging me to see potential pitfalls and possibilities outside my limited view. I consistently emerge from our conversations feeling reoriented, grounded and inspired.” — Kathy Bresler, my friend & mentor, Founder of Altar Community

“MaryAnn is a pioneer in what they do. It is through MaryAnn that I deepened my own coaching practice to be holistically inclusive in my space holding, in my language, in my energy and in my heart. MaryAnn has a commanding energy and indeed is a force, guided by their ancestors, spirit guides and other beings of ether. You know you are in the presence of a person who was sent to change the broken bits of our society when you work with MaryAnn.” — Chloe Adriana, my colleague

Questions & Thoughts

How do you know your gender?

What is gender to you?

What magic might your gender hold for you if you sought it?

Do you ever preform gender?

What does it mean to preform your gender?
How does that feel? What does that look like?

Have you allowed yourself to play with gender? To expand or explore it?
What did you find through that experience?

It is my belief that we can never actually know another’s gender. I feel fortunate to know so much about my own. As I mentioned before, for me, gender is at the root of my essence. Intertwined with who I am at my very core, with my Spirit, my whole being. I don’t expect to fully know my own being, much less another’s. This humility, and what I would call “right relationship,” really allows for there to be a flow of curiosity, wonder, and true awe.

Learning about, discovering, and exploring my gender is a blessing and a gift. I am in reverence of my gender. I am blown away by the magic, the grandness, the enormity, the timelessness of my being, and therefore, my gender. And because of that, I often find myself in awe of others’ genders, their gender expressions, their qualities, their beings.

Nature is truly abundant and rooted in variety, so why then wouldn’t we be as well? It is my true desire for this course to thaw the icy, hardened binary enough for us all to catch a glimpse of the fascinating, enchanting glory that swims beneath ~ uncensored gender!