This is a report on a three-day workshop where women leader representatives from Visayas and Mindanao met to develop a deeper understanding of women in fisheries so that women can become central to coastal zone management, and can enhance their active participation in implementing the Fisheries Code, and particularly in the Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Management Councils [FARMC]. A unique feature of the workshop was its participative and process-oriented methodology wherein women moved on a reflective journey beginning from an untainted paradise of the bygone days to the prevailing realities, to arrive upon root causes of current issues.