Join me and Playground Ensemble at 7:30pm on Friday, September 4th as we kick off the 21st season with Unchambered, an electroacoustic music show.

My part of the program will include a premier of brand new work titled You of the Cave Beneath the Sea. This piece is a play on a witch chant to Grandmother Weaver, Old Fate Herself, who is said to knit our souls together beneath the sea. In it, Silen plays with morphing filters, granulation, vocoding and other effects to create an oceanic rocking prayer to Grandmother to weave good fates for us.

More info & link to tickets!

Register Here!

Explore Mad Liberation, challenge sanism, connect with Mad Ancestors, and build tools for community care.

How can we better support our mad kin at witchcamps, community circles, and other spiritual spaces? How can we be more aware of the unconscious sanism that shows up, even in communities of witches? How do we define our consensus reality as witches and is there an unspoken “right” and “wrong” way to be altered?

This 2.5 hour workshop is a provocation for Reclaiming witches to explore how our community navigates mental health, madness, and crisis.

During this workshop, we will learn about the history of the Mad Liberation/psychiatric survivor movement, unpack “sanism” in spiritual spaces, and learn about frameworks around madness beyond pathology.

We will engage with madness as an ally, explore our own perceptions and beliefs around altered states (including nonconsensus reality), and learn some tools to better support our friends and loved ones who may be experiencing non-consensus realities.

Throughout our time together, we will:

• Learn about a social justice movement (Mad Pride) lesser known in Reclaiming space

• Explore our worldviews around mental health, altered states, & nonconsensus reality

• Work with Mad Ancestors and listen for their wisdom through trance

• Write, journal, move our bodies as we digest

• Have small group discussions

• Practice tools for consent-based care

Pre-requisites: Elements of Magic or equivalent foundational witchcraft experiences (must be fluent in grounding, coming home to yourself, coming in and out of trance states with choice and intention).

Join me as I guest star on my friend Xander’s project & podcast — Held Together! 

Register on Xander’s Eventbrite Page by clicking here!

Held Together is behind-the-scenes look at how Xander Peer Keller has built, sustained, and been shaped by their CareWeb.

In this Held Together, we will talk about the queerly serendiptious way they met, fell in love, shapeshifted through the different iterations of their relationship, and navigated inter-abled relating. We will talk about finding our queer, nonbinary selves, "de-escalating" relationships (or rather...finding the right shape for them when gushing love doesn't always mean sex), and the magic that connects us.

More about Xander:

Xander Peer Keller (they/them) is a speaker, writer, facilitator, and consultant exploring disability, neurodivergence, chronic illness, and queerness. Their work reimagines care, community, and creativity, showing how interdependence is a source of power rather than weakness. Living with chronic pain since childhood, they once pushed through at great cost—until collapse led them back to their body, their needs, and the power of collective care. Now, they create spaces where honesty, grief, and joy can coexist, where disabled and neurodivergent people are fully seen in both their struggles and their magic. Through storytelling, teaching, and advocacy, Xander invites others to imagine expansive ways to live, connect, and thrive—together.

Join me at the Be Free Healing Center in Fort Collins, Colorado for a Queer Mysteries workshop!

Register on the Be Free website! (Scroll down to find the date of the workshop - September 12th)

Queerness is a force that cannot be snuffed out — it springs forth from even the straightest of families. To the befuddlement of evolutionary biologists looking only for reproductive viability, queerness sits in a mysterious and bold defiance. And yet, it is often left out of spiritual spaces or at best, added as an afterthought — as a third wheel in some otherwise “complete” heteronormative assumption of divine masculinity and divine femininity. But what if queerness was just as holy? What if queerness was a unique and necessary part of a spiritual ecology? Come explore and embrace the sacred nature of queerness! In this workshop, we will center queerness as a Divine Mystery, court it, ask what wisdom it has to offer, and feel for our spiritual role(s) as LGBTQ+ people.

During our time together we will: Engage ritual tools such as grounding, circle casting, calling upon queer allies Trance into the mystery of Queerness and explore the unique gifts we each have to offer Open our channels of expression through writing, movement and song to let our sacred selves flow through Affirm our inherent holiness as queer people. We welcome those who identify as LGBTQ2S+ and those questioning their sexuality or gender identity. If you’re wondering if you’re “queer” enough, you are welcome here!

Register at this link!

Queer Rites of Passage: Cycles of Life and Death is a 6-week virtual Reclaiming core class that will explore the cycles of life and death through myth, ritual, storytelling, trance, and dreamwork—looking and listening to how they speak to us and show us ways to deepen our own practices, become truer to ourselves, and unveil our own myth as a witch. Rites of Passage is designed to unite your creative and magical selves as you cultivate the skills to become your own priestex/ess.

We’ll do all of this through the queer lens, considering the “non-normative logics and organizations of community, sexual identity, embodiment, and activity in space and time" (Jack Halberstam). Queer as in to question the foundation of an existing structure, to look at existing norms, question their impact, and harness our potential for transformation. Queer as in (re)awakenings, (re)becomings, and all the ways we come (back) home to ourselves across life and death, that great circle with no beginning and no end. 

You do not need to identify as queer or LGBTQIA2S+ to participate, but be prepared to proceed along this path queerly! 

In this class, we will: 

• Explore and share the living myth/story of ourselves

• Look at nature with a queer lens to listen for the wisdom that life and death offer

• Learn about and practice leading trances 

• Engage dreamwork to deepen into our inner myth 

• Identify spirits, deities, and other allies who are ready and willing to assist us in this lifelong work

• Aspecting, or “draw down” spirits, allies, or beings

• Design our own ritual as a group to support who we are becoming.

This class is taught as a core class in the Reclaiming Witchcraft Tradition. Please note, Elements of Magic is a pre-requisite for this class.

Rites of Passage is the teaching of a lifetime—whether you’ve been practicing witchcraft for a long time or you’re fresh out of Elements of Magic, this class will deepen your relationship with yourself, your queer ancestors and descendants, and your queer community in this lifetime.

We will record sessions to share with students who signed up for the class but may need to miss a session. 

Class Dates & Times

Classes will be held via Zoom on Sundays from:
9am - 12pm PDT (Pacific)
1pm - 4pm BRT (Brazil)
6pm - 9pm CEST (Central Europe)

Classes are participatory, and attendance at all classes is encouraged. They will be: 

Sept 20, Sept 27, Oct 4, Oct 11, Oct 18, Oct 25

Costs & Sign-Up

This class is being offered on a sliding scale of $450-$150 USD and R$600,00-$450,00 Brazilian Reais. The actual cost of the class is $300 USD or R$525,00, but if you are able to pay more, this allows others who might not otherwise be able to access this class to pay less. For payment, please send money via PayPal to Silen Wellington, with the note “Rites”. Silen’s PayPal email is silenwellington@gmail.com.

For support in considering a sliding scale, please look at the Green Bottle Sliding Scale tool.

If cost is a financial barrier for you, please reach out to Silen to make a plan for paying in installments or requesting a scholarship. We are committed to making this work financially accessible.

Join me at the Be Free Healing Center in Fort Collins, Colorado for a Queer Mystery: Ancestors workshop!

Register on the Be Free website! (Scroll down to find the date of the workshop - October 3rd)

Ancestors are about more than our DNA relations – they are also about our Chosen Family, including Chosen Family beyond the grave. Join me in a ritual-based workshop where we honor the Queer Ancestors – those who inspire us, those fore-parents and activists who led the way for our queer selves to shine today.

In this workshop we will:

• Gently pull on the threads of our (potentially complex) relationship to ancestry

• Practice a triple soul alignment as a way of feeling into Ancestors of Blood, Ancestors of Land, and Ancestors of Craft

• Honor the Queer Ancestors through shared altar making, singing, and movement

• Dance and meditate with Queer Ancestors and Queer Descendents (those yet to come) to listen to the messages they have for us

• Explore the Queer Ancestors we want to become.

We welcome those who identify as LGBTQ2S and those questioning their sexuality or gender identity to join. If you’re wondering if you’re “queer” enough, you are welcome here! 

You are invited to bring an item (or two or three) for a Queer Ancestor altar. This could be a photo of a queer ancestor who inspires you, an offering of food, something you find beautiful, or an item that represents the ancestor you want to become.

It is recommended that participants at this workshop have an established grounding practice and some experience with coming in and out of trance (meditative/ecstatic) states. For questions, email: SilenWellington@gmail.com

Join me for an introductory series to designing your own rituals! Come to all three sessions or come to one or two.

This session will be about The Witch’s Circle. In it, we will:

• Work with grounding and alignment as tools for self sovereignty,

• Learn cleansing practices to tend the energy of our space

• Practice sensing and shaping the energy of our auric bodies and circles

• Tap into our creativity to cast circles with intention

Link to register will be posted once available ln the RitualCravt website: https://www.ritualcravt.com/

Join me and the Realm Collective for an hour-long ritual performance where we explore our connections to Ancestors of Blood, Ancestors of Land, and Ancestors of Craft (those who inspire us).

Tickets not yet on sale, but will be posted on the Realm Collective website!

This performance will include guided meditations and practices to feel (with choice and consent) into these webs of connection, as well as music and poetry describing my connection and harvests from ancestry. It will include some of my favorite musical pieces I’ve written over the last year, The Land that Birthed Me (that I wrote in preparation to visit my ancestral homelands in Norway), and How the Light Loves to Fall (a wordless and angelic sonic meditation honoring the stars that fall).

Thinking of ancestors in this three-fold way has been an important part of my practice and was taught to me in the Wildwood Tradition that braids together three souls, three cauldrons, three realms, and three ancestors. To learn more about the origins of this practice, check out this video workshop offered generously for free by my friend and teacher, Fio Gede Parma.

Come honor ancestors, create, and meditate on your relations~

Join me for an introductory series to designing your own rituals! Come to all three sessions or come to one or two.

This session will be about Calling to the Divine. In it, we will:

• Engage our creativity to write, sing, draw the ways divinity speak to us,

• Craft invocations for our own true spirits to come forth,

• Practice calling to the divine wordlessly, with movement and senses,

• Trance to listen to our allies (Be those Elements, Ancestors, spirits or Gods).

Link to register will be posted once available ln the RitualCravt website: https://school.ritualcravt.com/

Join me for an introductory series to designing your own rituals! Come to all three sessions or come to one or two.

This session will be about the Heart of the Ritual. In it, we will:

• Learn some of the basics of spellcraft;

• Engage trancework as a way of listening for the magic we most need;

• Develop tools for ecstatic ritual practice with drumming, song, movement;

• Practice improvisatory ritual and spellcraft.

Link to register will be posted once available ln the RitualCravt website: https://school.ritualcravt.com/