Indeed, throughout the four days I am with her, I never catch her looking off into space. Well, its not exactly so cleanly divided into women and men. Rather, each of us has some male aspects, some female aspects, to everything we do. Its easier to talk about men and women than it is to talk about male aspects and female aspect, so we will know what she means. For example, women like to understand what they are doing before they try it.
Men like to just try it to see what happens, their understanding growing out of experimentation.
Women don't feel safe trying something unless they know what to expect. Trish has samples of ball and gate valves, so we can see how they work, which way the handles have to point to be open or closed. The first morning, Trish leads us through a meditation, connecting us to the earth, the sea, each other. She asks us to visualize putting all our thoughts about our lives into a bucket on the dock and leaving them there while we sail away. Especially we are supposed to put our gremlins in the bucket.