One of my favorite people, Starhawk is a dear friend and mentor. She co-founded the Reclaiming Tradition of Witchcraft and is the author or coauthor of thirteen books. I’m thrilled to be her co-teacher for workshops like Restorying the Future, Making Rituals That Matter, and our 2018 offering, Feeding the Sacred Spark. Here’s what we’ve gotten up to:
Stories for the Future
Stories shape our imagination and our ideas of the possible. How can we use the power of story to help us envision a positive future, and inspire people to want to work towards it? Stir in a little magic–the art of shaping and shifting consciousness, of connecting with the deep creative energies of nature, bending time and opening awareness. We’ll explore our ancestral and personal stories, and the day will culminate in a powerful ritual of collective myth creation.
Making Rituals That Matter
How do we bring magic and myth into the actions that address the crisis of our time? How do we take our spiritual work out into the world in embodied, compassionate, and active ways? How do we create rituals that can bridge barriers, inspire and support social change, and help us heal and renew our hope when things get tough?
Whether experienced or new to priest/essing, join us to take your next steps towards creating tight, effective rituals that flow. We’ll explore the tools of ritual—our bodies, our voices, movement, trance, and story-weaving—to deepen our craft. We’ll learn how to listen deeply to the needs in our homes, workplaces and communities, how to craft intentions that lead to powerful magic, and how to create inclusive, empowering ritual language. Out of our collective wisdom, we’ll weave a ritual that leads to justice and liberation.
Feeding the Sacred Spark
In these troubled times, our bright hopes can easily get buried under the sleet of outrage, fatigue and despair. Yet we desperately need to keep alive the spark of resistance–and more: of vision for a better world and determination to create it.
What stories are we telling and being told, about ourselves, about the world, about what is possible? In this one-day workshop, we’ll reframe them, and look for the allies–spiritual and mundane–who will offer enCOURAGEment and help us transform the world through our visions and actions. We’ll use the tools of magic–ritual, chanting, storytelling, meditation and trance–to feed our creativity and strengthen our will.
This workshop is perfect for Pagans and non-Pagans, activists, artists and writers, and anyone who wants to recharge and stand in their power. The world needs each of us. It’s time to create the just, regenerating world where we all thrive.
More about Starhawk
Starhawk is the author or coauthor of thirteen books, including the classics The Spiral Dance, her visionary novel The Fifth Sacred Thing and its sequel, City of Refuge and her book on ‘social permaculture’: The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups. She wrote and co-directed the documentary Permaculture: The Growing Edge, and travels internationally, lecturing and teaching. Starhawk directs Earth Activist Training, teaching permaculture design grounded in spirit and with a focus on organizing and social permaculture. She holds a double diploma in teaching and design from the Permaculture Institute of North America. On her forty-acre ranch in Northern California, she integrates planned grazing perennial food forests and medicinal herbs in an evolving model of carbon ranching.