A MOVEMENT, NOT A MEETING

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The Women's Circle is a community of like minded women learning more about their bodies, challenging outdated conversations around women's health and discovering new ways to support themselves.

From nutrition and natural remedies to wellness and plant medicine, we believe women deserve to have more knowledge, more choice and more tools in their box. This is education, advocacy and women coming together to change the conversation.

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NEXT CIRCLE

The Cycle Edition: 10 to 11 October 2026

Four game changing phases. Changing hormones. A full day (and night) on energy, mood, movement, nutrition and pain across the female cycle. Circle 1.0 has already happened. This is the next unmissable one, live and open for applications now.

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CIRCLE 2.0: THE CYCLE EDITION

The brands standing with us this time round.

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IN COLLABORATION WITH PAX

The Oxblood Edit,
in full bloom.

PAX's limited-edition Oxblood Mini will be in our Consumption Lounge at Circle 2.0: a safe, legal space to vaporise prescribed medicine and get hands on with their devices.

Discover the Oxblood Edit →
CIRCLE 2.0: MEET THE SPEAKERS

The ladies leading the circle this time around.

Charlotte, Menstrual Health Practitioner and owner of The Period Rebel, headshot in a forest setting
Charlotte
Menstrual Health Practitioner, The Period Rebel

The Four Phases Of Your Cycle, Decoded

We spend up to 40 years with a menstrual cycle and no one teaches us how it works. Charlotte breaks down the four phases, the key hormones behind them, and how they shape your energy, mood and everyday life.

“The Period Rebel is a protest against the belief that having a cycle means we're born to suffer.”

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Dr Callie Seaman
Honorary Researcher

Seed Cycling

Eating with your cycle, not against it: a food first approach to supporting hormones through every phase.

Also confirmed for Circle 3.0, speaking on epilepsy, menopause and medical cannabis.

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Dr. Shabnam Sarshar
Women's Health & Cannabinoid Therapeutics Consultant

Sync Your Cannabis Routine To Your Cycle

Your endocannabinoid system shifts with your cycle, so why doesn't your cannabis routine?

“One of the most clinically relevant systems in women's health, and one of the least discussed.”

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Dr Michelle Nyangereka
Counselling Psychologist & Founder, Our Mothers’ Gardens

Our Mind & Our Cycle

Your hormones don't just change how your body feels, they change how you feel too. Dr Michelle explores how each phase of the cycle can affect your mental health and mood, and how to be kinder to yourself through all of it.

Read Dr Michelle’s bio

Dr Michelle Nyangereka is an HCPC-registered counselling psychologist and member of the British Psychological Society, with 15 years in practice and a private practice based in London. She is the founder of Our Mothers’ Gardens, a UK medical cannabis company focused on women in peri-, meno- and post-menopause, and an established speaker and key opinion leader at the intersection of cannabis and women’s health.

Dr Michelle moved into the UK medical cannabis industry to create the solutions she was looking for herself. While writing her doctoral thesis on intergenerational trauma, she experienced first-hand how trauma, stress and autoimmunity can interact during perimenopause. The ten years that followed became a journey of discovery into the endocannabinoid system and a holistic approach to her own health. She now works to bring that understanding to other women, combining clinical psychology, lived experience and cannabinoid science to support quality of life through midlife and beyond.

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Agnes Mabina
Clinician & Non-Medical Prescriber, Cantourage

Cannabis Forms in 2026

What’s actually available to women now? Agnes walks through the different forms of medical cannabis prescribed in the UK today, and how each one is used day to day.

Read Agnes’s bio

Senior Nurse Manager and Advanced Clinical Practitioner with over 30 years’ experience across urgent and emergency care, occupational health, preventive medicine and high-dependency clinical environments in the UK and internationally. Agnes recently joined the medical cannabis industry as a clinician and non-medical prescriber.

She is highly experienced in leading multidisciplinary clinical teams, embedding governance and safety frameworks, and delivering high-touch, patient-centred care aligned to luxury private healthcare and longevity clinic models. She is known for combining clinical excellence with holistic, preventive and lifestyle-led approaches to optimise patient outcomes and service quality.

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Ashleigh Church
Fitness Coach & Mentor, ACFIT

Train With Your Cycle: When To Push, When To Rest

A digital session, shown on the big screen. Ashleigh shares how your cycle affects your strength, energy and recovery, so you know when to push your body and when to give it the rest it's asking for.

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Share

Real stories, out loud: pain, periods, sex, plant medicine, told by the women living them, not talked about around them.

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Learn

Clinicians, patients and researchers at the same table, unpacking the science and the stigma in equal measure.

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Rise

A community that keeps meeting long after the room empties, owning our health, our stories, and our power.

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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
Audre Lorde
Sophie East, founder of The Women's Circle, laughing while holding a copy of The Women's Circle booklet
THE FOUNDER

Why Sophie started this.

Sophie has spent her career inside the cannabis industry, and just as long watching women get left out of the conversation around it. The Women's Circle grew out of that gap. She's on a mission to strip the stigma from this plant until it's finally seen for what it is: just another tool in our box, sitting alongside everything else we reach for to feel well.

That means changing how we talk about plant medicine and natural wellness, and it means changing how women talk about their own bodies: periods, hormones, pain, sex, all of it, out loud and without apology. Every circle, every interview and every partnership exists to do one thing: help women feel informed, supported, and like the best version of themselves.

"I want this plant seen for what it is: just another tool in our box."

Sophie EastFounder, The Women's Circle

INSIDE THE CIRCLE

What it actually feels like.

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A Women's Circle guest holding up a book on the history and science behind medical cannabis
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REAL LIFE STORIES

Interviews from the circle.

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My agoraphobia faded, my pain became manageable, and I was able to leave my abuser.
Elle CooperMedical Cannabis Patient & Educator
Circle v1.0: The Launch
DK
I feel stable. Clear. Like myself again.
Donya KamaniMedical Cannabis Patient, Author, Mother
Circle v1.0: The Launch
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Change the narrative. Protect the patient. Build the future.
Heidi WhitmanADHD Advocate, Empowerher Network
Circle v1.0: The Launch
BK
From bed bound to reclaiming a full, active life.
Berta KaguakoMedical Cannabis Patient
Circle v1.0: The Launch
KB
Plants over pills: ancient medicine for a modern body.
Kiky BelajevaPsychedelic Medicine Educator
Circle v1.0: The Launch
LF
Lived experience and industry collaboration, at the same table.
Louise FareyClinical Patient Coordinator
Circle v1.0: The Launch
11,000
period products the average woman gets through in her lifetime, and last year, 1 in 5 UK women and people who menstruate said they couldn't afford them.
AHPMA UK & ActionAid UK, 2023
THE CIRCLES

Every gathering, versioned.

v1.0The Launch

The Women's Circle 1.0

Where it started: a room built for honest conversation on pain, periods, and plant medicine, with the women living it doing the talking.

PAINPERIODSPLANT MEDICINE
Held
v2.0The Cycle Edition

The Women's Circle 2.0

Four phases. Changing hormones. A full day on energy, mood, movement, nutrition and pain across the female cycle, with a live panel and Q&A.

HORMONESENERGYNUTRITION10 TO 11 OCT 2026
Up next
v3.0Medical Cannabis & Menopause

The Women's Circle 3.0

Perimenopause, menopause, and where medical cannabis actually fits, without the hand waving. Clinicians and patients, same room, same honesty. This one hasn't happened yet. Is it your circle calling? Get in touch.

MENOPAUSEMEDICAL CANNABIS
In the making
v4.0Sex & Cannabis

The Women's Circle 4.0

Desire, intimacy, and the plant. An honest, unscripted circle on cannabis and women's sex lives.

INTIMACYCANNABIS
In the making
ALSO IN CIRCLE WITH
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MEMBER PERKS

Exclusive discounts, just for the circle.

15% OFF The four VOO Sisters cycle phase drinks: pink, yellow, purple, and teal cans chilling on ice, surrounded by fresh fruit and flowers

Voo Sisters

Four phase functional drinks, crafted by women who get it. The Women's Circle community gets an exclusive 15% off.

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Bang On Period

Period pants that actually work, no leaks, no stress. The Women's Circle community gets an exclusive 30% off.

CODE: COMING SOON
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Less than 1%
of global healthcare research and innovation funding goes toward women's health conditions beyond cancer, despite women making up half the world's population.
McKinsey Health Institute & World Economic Forum, 2024
JUST FOR FUN

Which day of your cycle are you on?

Slide the moon along a typical 28 day cycle and get a little fact for that phase. Every body's cycle is different, this is just a pretty bit of fun, not a tracker, and nothing you do here is saved.

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YOUR CIRCLE, YOUR VOICE

Quick one: what do you reach for on your period?

Tap as many as apply and watch the count go up. No sign up, no names, just curious what the circle actually uses.

Tap as many as apply, then cast your votes.

JUST FOR FUN

Period trivia: how much do you actually know?

Ten quick questions. Pick an answer and we will tell you straight away whether you got it right.

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IN THE NEWS

What's making headlines right now.

A hand picked roundup of current stories in women's health, medical cannabis, and endometriosis, refreshed by the team from time to time, not a live feed.

ENDOMETRIOSIS

Updated guidance may accelerate endometriosis care

New clinical guidance lets doctors diagnose and treat endometriosis based on symptoms and imaging rather than requiring surgery first.

UW Medicine · Mar 2026 MEDICAL CANNABIS

Endometriosis patients see sustained relief from medical cannabis

A two year British study found medical cannabis gave endometriosis patients lasting pain relief and quality of life gains, with over a quarter cutting their opioid use significantly.

NORML · Aug 2026 MEDICAL CANNABIS

Weekly medical cannabis research radar

A rolling index of newly published cannabis and clinical research, helping patients and clinicians tell early findings apart from established evidence.

CED Clinic · Sep 2026 WOMEN'S HEALTH

Top headlines in women's health from August 2026

A monthly recap covering remote pregnancy ultrasounds, new guidance on reducing ovarian cancer risk, a promising menopause treatment, and maternity care deserts across the US.

Contemporary OB/GYN · Sep 2026
MORE PLACES TO TURN

A few trusted resources beyond the Circle.

We're a community, not a clinic. These are independent charities and organisations we rate for further reading, support and advocacy. Always speak to your GP or a specialist for medical advice.

ENDOMETRIOSIS

Endometriosis UK

The UK's leading endometriosis charity, with a helpline, support groups and trusted information for anyone newly diagnosed.

Visit site → HORMONE HEALTH

Women's Health Concern

The patient arm of the British Menopause Society, offering fact sheets and a nurse led helpline on periods, perimenopause and menopause.

Visit site → RESEARCH

Wellbeing of Women

A UK charity funding research into the conditions that affect women across every life stage, from periods to pregnancy to menopause.

Visit site → PCOS

Verity

The UK's patient support charity for women living with polycystic ovary syndrome, running local groups and an online community.

Visit site → PATIENT ADVOCACY

PLEA

Patient Led Engagement for Access, a patient run organisation working to improve fair, informed access to medical cannabis in the UK.

Visit site → EVIDENCE & RESEARCH

Drug Science

An independent scientific body publishing evidence based research on drugs, including medical cannabis, free from political or commercial influence.

Visit site →
SUPPORT THE MOVEMENT

Help us grow the circle.

The Women's Circle is being built independently, with no big backers behind it. Every pound raised goes toward better interviews, expert guests, a dedicated podcast, more events and reaching more women online, plus the filming, kit and travel it takes to keep this movement growing.

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A LITTLE LOVE, ON TAP

Need a little love right now?

Tap the heart for a bit of encouragement. Tap it again whenever you need another, there are fifty of them in here.

Tap the heart to begin.

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No names, no sign up, just fifty little reminders whenever you need one.

Want to be part of the next circle?

Get in touch today. Tell us your story, ask a question, or just come say hello. Every circle starts with one honest conversation.

Get in touch → sophie@thewomenscircle.uk
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