frauengedanken.ch
Text version 3.3 | 23.10.2025 11.35
„Gesellschaftlicher Wandel findet zuerst in den Gedanken statt.“
Arnold Janggen, Anwalt von Frieda Keller (Maria Brendle: *Friedas Fall*, 2024; St. Gallen 1904),
Around the topic of gendered equality, have you ever wondered;
“how do we gender build bridges, de-polarize the continuum, empower creativity, and dissolve the Labyrinth?”
I have. Offering The Work® in a public space, on a public topic, with kindness, is what I do.
I’ve come to love The Work for its reliability, simplicity, and breath.
The Work® came into my life in 2013 when 99% of my life not what I wanted, dreamed of, or desired: at that time I named life “living hell”.
The separation/divorce of the decade, had just begun: I had over 28 professionals helping us sort it out - everyone was involved from the police, child specials, to lawyers, etc.
I was a Canadian, a single mom, looking for work and unemployed in Switzerland… During this time, six close family members passed away in Canada….
Living alone with my daughter in Switzerland, The Work® helped accomplish seemingly impossible tasks, like: to deal and process death abroad, to integrate into Swiss culture, learn the language, help me to feel comfortable in my body, and most importantly it gave me a way to be friendly with me when life around me seem really deeply threatening.
With The Work® I healed my mind from the Stockholm syndrome, post-traumatic stress disorder, and step into life again and again, that I love, cherish and delight in!
The Work® astonishes me for its capacity to awaken deep within me a bridge to step out of re-action and lead from that space of self-authenticity, -kindness, -clarity, connection and -integrity.
These shifts are so intrinsic, kind, soft, and intuitive, there is no added effort involved.
It is my pleasure to pass this tool on and share this experience publicly on the public topic of gender equality.
frauengedanken.ch combines The Work® and gendered topics (real, normalized, hidden, and alive today 2025!) to form a weekly group session and offer the personal experience of self-inquiry.
Physical and mental structures of patriarchy are woven into current day in-ter-actions long before any of us were ever born.
On a daily basis, we human beings (all genders) passively/actively, consciously/subconsciously, in-ter-act in ways that maintain our patriarchal system of knowledge, power, and capacity. By limiting the human experience to internal/external patriarchal patters of interaction, we lose something, whether it be integrity, trust, authenticity, …innovation, clarity, capacity, creativity, liveliness, joy… or even something else (You’ll tell me what you gain from our sessions :-)?
Frauengedanken.ch is an invitation to embody self-love and self-empowerment (and so much more!) around thoughts, habits, patterns, and situations surrounding gendered in-ter-action that confront us in both private and professional situations.
Politics, Frauenstreik, etc. are valuable initiatives that support structural gender equality.
This is my contribution to precisely nurture a space to be curious about and try on how „Gesellschaftlicher Wandel findet zuerst in den Gedanken statt.“ (AJ)
What you can expect
Our Frauengedanken.ch sessions starts with
(1) Relaxing music
(2) An Invitation to drop into your body
(3) A meditation on the question “where is the 1% of gender in-ter-action that triggers me (past/present/future) or that I have not forgiven?”
(4) Filling out a “Judge-Your-Neighbour-Worksheet”
(5) Sharing Worksheets
(6) Inquiring into one worksheet
(7) Sharing insights and realisations
(8) Take aways
(9) Next session
We practice The Work of Byron Katie® / Inquiry Based Stress Reduction®
The Work of Byron Katie® is a meditative practice. It is an innovative self-coaching method that works well alone, in pairs, and in a group. The meditative process takes place in four steps (naming, writing it down, asking for questions, and turnarounds) and is based on four questions. The Four Questions, are:
Is it true? (Yes or no. If no, move to 3.)
Can you absolutely know that it’s true? (Yes or no.)
How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought?
Who or what would you be without the thought?
The Turnarounds are an opportunity for to experience an opposite as equally true or truer.
A statement can be turned around to the self, to the other, and to the opposite.
For example, Emil should understand me turns around to:
I should understand me.
I should understand Emil.
Emil should not understand me.
Professionals, according to their own academic background draw similarities to The Work®.
Having studied Conflict Resolution for over seven years, I appreciate The Work for its phenomenal conflict resolution - stress reduction - clarity - self-empowerment / self-leadership - authentic - wise - kindness to self, other, and life - intrinsic capacities that it sets free.
Group rules
The Work is gentle, lets be gentle.
We rely on a practice of anonymity to keep this space kind, safe, and lush.
(1) Be kind, clear, respectful (to self, other, situations.)
(2) Everything I experience is part of my process.
(3) Respect my and anyone else's desire for anonymity: Speak and share in “I” language, when you do not want to be seen, or named, keep your video off / change your name accordingly, use a pseudonym.
About your host, Tammy Ketura
The qualifications I bring to this event are my academic credentials, certified facilitator of the work of Byron Katie®, and the millions of insights and realizations I gained during my personal development, transformation, healing processes, and working with clients on business and personal issues.
Invitation
This is a space to laugh to cry to dance and to be fully-be-you-ti-full-you as we deeply dive into consciousness, self-respect, self-love, and authentic listening.
You belong here just as much as I or anyone else does.
This space is open and can support everyone curious about their own internal wisdom.
Hesitations
I don’t like spending time on my computer. I invite you to participate audio only. keep your tools screen out of sight. Listening authentically and Hearing your own heart, having your pen and paper available is enough to participate actively.
I don’t like to be in an online room (with or without) strangers. Yes, I understand you. Reality is, even that what we cannot see about ourselves is strange to ourselves. We practice seeing with the heart. This is a practice in joining.
Sounds fabulous and I cannot or only rarely join at this time. Replays will be shared online.
