WYRD
Sometimes it walks straight through the middle of the ordinary.
Wyrd Women is a live, experiential space for women at midlife.
For women who can feel something in them that no longer wants to be reduced, explained, or managed into acceptability.
This is not about becoming someone new.
It is about meeting what is already alive.
For now, we are not locking this work into one fixed format.
We are offering paid live tasters and other emerging experiments as the work reveals its shape.
Each taster is a way to enter the field.
To feel how we work.
To sense whether this space is for you.
Next Wyrd Opening
We’ve held two live Wyrd Tasters: 24 February and 18 March.
They revealed something precise:
Most women are not lacking clarity or capacity.
They are lacking spaces where they can be fully seen in their intensity without being reduced, explained, or softened.
The moment that happens, something shifts.
Not through insight, but through being witnessed without interruption, and without judgement.
So the internal editing stops.
That is what we are now designing for.
The next live opening will work closer to this edge:
- Staying with what is present, without defining it too quickly.
- Resisting the urge to make it coherent, digestible, or acceptable.
- Learning how to hold and move with what is actually there.
This is not about understanding your WYRD.
It’s about not collapsing it.
We are preparing the next live experimental tasting.
If you want to know when it opens, sign up below.
We are not growing a list.
We are calling in women who recognise themselves in this.
If that’s you – sign up.
If you know a Wyrd woman who should be here, send this to her.
Let her feel it for herself before deciding.
And to the men reading this, if someone comes to mind, trust that and pass it on.
We are gathering what is already moving.
Wyrd is not Weird
Why this is not a typical "women's space"
We are not singling out women because we feel they need special treatment, or because we are anti-men. We are working with a particular kind of creation energy.
Most women-only spaces, for all their warmth, fall into patterns that blunt the very power they claim to honour:
- Polite. Careful. Consensus-driven.
- Life force traded for safety.
- Authority diluted into explanation.
- Intensity smoothed into comfort.
This is a space for women who feel their creative authority stirring and don’t want it therapised, spiritualised, or softened.
You don’t come here to become someone new.
You come because something old no longer has authority over you.
Wyrd Women is not the crossing.
It’s the moment you stop negotiating with what’s already ending.
Fellow Wyrdo's
Sonja Blignaut
Sonja spent twenty-five years helping leaders navigate complexity and build adaptive capacity. Then she stopped believing adaptation was the point. Now she works at thresholds: those messy places where adaptation ends, and waycraft begins.
Sonja doesn’t neatly fit into categories – part scientist, part artist and part mystic. Her practice is in sensing what’s trying to emerge before it has a name.
She’s spent two decades in the territory where strategy meets uncertainty, working with leaders, teams, and systems that have outgrown their old coherence. Her training is in complexity science. Her gift is reading what’s underneath: the pattern that wants to shift, the thing that’s ready to end, the fire that’s already lit.
She doesn’t coach. She doesn’t fix. She opens gates.
Sonja lives in South Africa. Drinks too much coffee. And loves to disappear into wild places, camera in hand.
For a deeper understanding of Sonja’s work and its impact, click here.
Mirjam van Vliet
Mirjam works with founders, leaders, and creators at moments when adaptation stops working.
Her work is about authorship, helping people stop translating themselves into what’s acceptable, and start building from what is actually alive.
Mirjam has partnered with visionary founders, corporates, and positive-impact organisations to design experiences that don’t just land – they reorganise how people see, decide, and act.
She is known for her ability to name what others feel but haven’t yet spoken, and to hold intensity without rushing to resolution.
Her work isn’t about becoming more adaptable. It’s about becoming more precise.
You can read more about her work here.
FAQs
What is the Wyrd Taster?
A live, facilitated invocation.
It’s a felt introduction to the Wyrd Women work – how we show up, how we work, and what kind of space this is.
It’s not a talk, workshop, or sharing circle.
You’ll experience the work directly.
Is this therapy, coaching, or a healing space?
No.
We don’t fix, analyse, process, or therapise.
We work with what is alive now, at the threshold you’re already standing in.
Do I need to prepare anything?
No preparation.
Just arrive on time, with a willingness to stay present with intensity.
You don’t need to know what you’re “working on.”
Is this only for women at a certain age?
This work is for women at midlife – broadly understood.
Pre-peri, peri, menopause, post-menopause.
If adaptation is no longer working for you, you’ll recognise yourself here.
Why women-only?
Not because women need special treatment.
And not because we are anti-men.
We work with a specific creative and authoring energy that becomes pronounced at midlife in women.
This container allows that energy to surface without being diluted, explained, or softened.
Is this spiritual or mythic?
We use symbolic language where it serves the work.
We don’t spiritualise, bypass, or romanticise.
Everything here is grounded in lived experience and real-time authorship.
What happens after the taster?
The taster stands on its own.
From here, we’ll keep offering low-threshold ways to enter the Wyrd Women field – through further tasters and small live experiments as the work reveals its next forms.