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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).