Most months of the year, I offer a stand-alone streaming workshop on a Friday night. This series has been a ton of fun to teach and I’m excited to offer it again for 2025. All Friday Night Workshops will be recorded for folks who can’t make the Zoom in person, and sent out for download after the workshop concludes. Workshop fees are $15 each. Sliding scale ticket options of $5 and $10 are available for folks who face financial obstacles to attending the workshop.
Patreon supporters attend the series for free (and have access to a folder that includes all past workshops – as of this writing, there are 19 workshops available to download). If you’re interested in learning more about becoming a Patron, here’s the link.
A complete listing of this event series as well as my other classes, workshops, sermons, and more is always available on the Events page of this website.
Friday, January 31st, 7 PM Eastern: Managing the Miasma
The collective unconsciousness of the culture we are part of is an ever-present influence. When that culture is in turmoil, as now, the impact to our minds and magick can be highly detrimental. Explore techniques for keeping a clear mind, sharp will, and safe home when the miasma gets messy.
Friday, February 21st, 7 PM Eastern: Pagan Community ~ Navigation, Connection, and Building a Better Culture
The message from the mystics of the Pagan world has been clear: build community. Become more connected. Additionally, meaningful interpersonal relationships are arguably the most powerful predictor of personal happiness. But how do you get started? Once you’re part of a community, how do you become less isolated? Explore community dynamics, balancing activism and generosity with limited resources, sharing space with people you find challenging, and more with a longtime Pagan community organizer and event coordinator.
Friday, March 21st, 7 PM Eastern: The Ethical Witch
Establishing a code of ethics within spiritual and magickal practices is vital to safe, stable development. Explore the intersection of ethics, magick, and the mundane. Learn ways to express your spiritual ethos in your relationships and approaches to managing complex ethical situations.
Friday, April 18th, 7 PM Eastern: Pagan Pilgrimage
The growing season is spiraling outward before us, beckoning us on to new adventures and experiences. Learn approaches to travel that incorporate the sacred, create opportunities for deeper connection, and respect the Spirits of Place where we visit. Explore options for pilgrimages locally and regionally, ways to bring the spirit of pilgrimage to festivals and conferences, and how to incorporate the spiritual growth and revelations of pilgrimage into your practice when you get home.
Friday, May 30th, 7 PM Eastern: Better Witches, Better Witchcraft
The most skilled and effective mystery-weavers and magic-workers have some traits and practices in common. Although some people do have a natural predisposition toward skill with magic, it is also something that can be learned. This workshop will explore practices, techniques, and patterns that enhance our magical abilities, bring us into contact with other skilled practitioners, and benefit our spiritual growth.
Friday, June 27th, 7 PM Eastern: Revivalism and the Modern Pagan
Many faith paths within the greater Pagan world draw inspiration, practices, and mythology from pre-Christian civilizations. Although the shining echoes of those cultures offer illumination, they also bring up challenges: how can we adapt ancient paths from far-off landscapes ethically, safely, and respectfully into our own contemporary lives? Explore the techniques of revivalism with a modern Heathen witch.
Friday, July 25th, 7 PM Eastern: Building Resilient Pagan Communities
Along with providing spiritual union, opportunities for magical development, and social connections, Pagan and metaphysical groups, covens, groves, and chapters face challenges from the outside. Our communities are targeted by extremist organizations seeking to recruit and antisocial individuals seeking power over others. Additionally, some Pagan groups use holdover practices that are inaccessible or unwelcoming to the very people we are most hoping to help. Explore tools and techniques for increasing accessibility, identifying red flags, building policies that make predation more challenging for those who seek to do harm, conflict resolution, and more.
Friday, September 19th, 7 PM Eastern: The Animist Pagan
Nature is a physical, observable manifestation of the sacred in our lives. Although Christian Supremacist culture enforces the idea that relationships with a deity or deities are most important, most pre-Christian cultures honored a rich spiritual polyculture of Beings with deities as only one thread of a much larger tapestry. The relationships with the fauna and flora around us, and the spirits of the stones, rivers, and mountains of our region form a strong web of spiritual connection. Explore ways to incorporate animism into your Pagan practice and reclaim the interconnected web of relationships that inspired and supported our ancestors.
Friday, October 24th, 7 PM Eastern: Season of the Underworld
For many pre-Christian civilizations, the end of the agricultural year signified a shift from the world of the living to the world of the dead. Although contemporary culture compresses this season into a single date – October 31st – our spiritual forebears considered the entire dark season to be the time of the Ancestors. Explore the myths, folklore, ceremonies, and practices of the Underworld season and learn ways to incorporate more ancestral connection into your spiritual practice.
Friday, December 19th, 7 PM Eastern: Witchcraft for Gatherings
The winter holiday season often includes gatherings of friends, families, and communities. These celebrations can be joyful, but can also generate tension, reveal conflicts, and fuel discord. Learn magickal techniques for supporting harmonious group events from small family dinners to large community affairs.
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