Upcoming Classes & Workshops
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Beyond Pathology: Rethinking Madness in Reclaiming Witchcraft (Online)
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?
Join me and Ravyn RoseFox for a workshop where 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.
This 2.5 hour workshop is a provocation for Reclaiming witches to explore how our community navigates mental health, madness, and crisis.
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 spaces
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 experience
Date and Time:
Saturday, September 5th for Turtle Island from 5 - 7:30pm PDT (San Francisco time),
Sunday, September 6th for so-called Australia from 10am - 12:30pm AEST
About me & Ravyn RoseFox:
I met Ravyn about 5 years ago in an Alternatives to Suicide training and then working together to facilitate peer support groups, most often sitting with actively suicidal folks. Peer support is a framework of supporting those struggling with mental health by leaning on the wisdom of our lived experience with mental health and/or substance use struggles.
Ravyn & I bring a combined total of 13 years experience in the peer support field and our own loved experience with madness & psychiatric diagnosis. For me, peer support is the social justice corner of the mental health world, that challenges the over medicalization and pathologization of distress. We’re excited to share some of the tools we’ve learned over the years and facilitate a conversation about how Mad Pride principles could be integrated into Reclaiming communities!
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.
Class Dates & Times
Classes will be held via Zoom on Sundays from 9am - 12pm PDT (San Francisco).
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
Previous Classes
Here is a smattering of some of the previous classes I’ve offered. There are classes I’ve taught multiple cohorts of in the past, particularly Queering the Elements of Magic, and Iron Pentacle: the Queer, the Folk & the Fallen Ones.
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