This exciting new book gives women a route map to help them bridge these gaps and achieve wholeness through reconnection with natural cycles and their own innate wisdom. Jill explores how to reclaim what are essentially feminine sources of wisdom by understanding the child within us, learning ‘emotional housekeeping’, listening to body messages and tuning in to the natural world. She insists on the necessity of taking time out for reflective silence in order to make wiser decisions.

Accessible practical exercises, examples and case studies drawn from long experience lead readers on a journey to regain wholeness and a sense of spiritual meaning in their lives.

The book is essential reading for all women. Its message applies equally at home and at work, and at all levels in organisations. Young women starting out, mature women taking stock and older women seeking new meaning in their lives will all find useful tools and illuminating insights.

Dr Jill Treseder

Jill Treseder feels passionately that women, men and the planet need more of the understanding and behaviour that can be short-handed as ‘feminine’. Jill has been involved in encouraging a more feminine style of management in organisations of all sizes and shapes for the last twenty years. In that time she has been a member of some ten women’s groups meeting to read and critique books; to support each other professionally; to share ritual, healing and sacred drama; to write and to dance; and simply to ‘be’ together. She has been a closet writer since she was seven years old.

Jill is active in the roles of daughter, mother and grandmother amongst others. She lives with her husband in Devon, where she is part of a lively village community.

Jill sees the process of publishing this book and of drawing all these threads together into a coherent identity as part of her own ongoing spiral to wholeness.

A facilitator of personal development groups for many years, Jill runs workshops in Devon and plans to take these to Bristol and London. She has extensive experience as a management development consultant specialising in the people issues of management: communication, managing change, motivation and team working.

The seeds of The Wise Woman Within were sown in childhood, and first germinated when, as a consultant, she started promoting traditionally female principles in an environment dominated by traditionally male values. The discomfort of this set her on a journey to explore the issues of what it means to be a woman; how women “hold their own” in predominantly patriarchal cultures; how we become more whole by re-membering the past, reconnecting with our bodies and grounding ourselves in natural cycles; and how we bring a sense of the sacred back into our lives in a meaningful and acceptable way.

Using her extensive experience of group facilitation, Jill has developed a series of workshops alongside her book.