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Wild Womb: Menstrual Education, Health & Sovereignty Toolkit
Wild Womb Toolkit offers participatory methods for menstrual education in youth work, blending somatics, art and dialogue. It supports menstrual literacy, challenges taboos and inequalities, and promotes cyclical sovereignty through experiential learning.
Aims of the tool
The training aimed to strengthen youth workers’ skills to facilitate inclusive, participatory learning on menstrual education. It promoted co-creation, experiential learning, and embodied practices integrating body awareness, emotional regulation, and critical inquiry.
It fostered confidence in guiding groups, designing adaptive non-formal programmes, and creating safe spaces rooted in dialogue, cooperation, and context-responsive approaches. Through reflection, experimentation, and collaborative documentation, participants developed tools compiled into the Wild Womb Toolkit, empowering them to act as change-makers in menstrual education.
Description of the tool
The Wild Womb Toolkit is a participatory, body-based learning resource designed for youth workers who wish to facilitate menstrual education through a holistic and rights-based lens. It integrates non-formal education principles with somatic practices, creative expression, dialogue, and critical reflection.
The toolkit offers structured yet adaptable session outlines, embodied exercises, artistic prompts, facilitation guidelines, reflection frameworks, and group processes that support co-created learning. It centres cyclical awareness, menstrual literacy, emotional regulation, and collective inquiry, while addressing taboos, stigma, and systemic inequalities surrounding menstruation.
Rooted in experiential learning, the methodology encourages facilitators to move beyond purely informational approaches and instead create inclusive, trauma-aware spaces where participants can connect theory with lived experience. The toolkit supports emergent programme design, meaning activities can be adapted to the needs, energy, and context of each group. It also includes guidance for hosting sharing circles, open space sessions, creative “living lab” formats, and collaborative documentation processes.
The approach is particularly suited to youth work contexts that value participation, empowerment, and social transformation.
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Tool overview
http://toolbox.salto-youth.net/5445
This tool is for
youth workers, educators, artists, social workers
and addresses
Group Dynamics, Intercultural Learning, Peer education, Gender issues
It is recommended for use in:
Capacity Building
Behind the tool
The tool was created by
Symbiotic Roots
in the context of
Wild Womb: Menstrual Education, Health & Sovereignty
The tool has been experimented in
Training
The tool was published to the Toolbox by
Symbiotic Roots (on 18 February 2026)
and last modified
11 February 2026
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