– Ritual Skills –
Magic for Challenging Times
April 16th to May 21st
Magic, according to occultist Dion Fortune, is “the art of changing consciousness at will.”
That’s a definition that can serve for meditation, personal growth, or political change
Never have we needed magic more!
About The Course
The tools of magic and ritual can deepen our awareness, enhance our consciousness, create a sense of belonging and help us face together those things that are too hard to face alone. Starhawk draws on half a century of experience writing, teaching and creating magic and ritual to help us stay grounded and sane in the midst of chaos, design actions and ceremonies that unite our communities in this time of stress and fear, process our grief and despair, and strengthen our will to create a world of justice and compassion.
Participants in this series will learn and hone a variety of the skills needed to create a sustaining personal practice as well as craft and lead rituals in a wide variety of settings. In addition, we’ll explore how we can weave magic into secular situations to help create deeper bonds of connection, enhanced solidarity, and the ability to face repression with confidence and courage.
Magical Tools
- Session 1: Personal Practice for Staying Grounded and Centered – Grounding, tools for releasing anxiety and fear, anti-worry rituals, establishing a personal practice. Shielding, self-protection, and self-regulation
- Session 2: Ritual and Basic Human Needs – Ritual can be a powerful way to meet our needs for a sense of safety, belonging, value, agency and meaning. We’ll look at and experience a variety of ritual forms and tools that meet each of these needs, and consider how to adapt ritual skills for groups of different orientations and purposes, from protests to healing circles.
- Session 3: Magic in the Streets – In this session, we’ll look at some of the magical and ritual skills we can adapt to campaigns, marches, protests and demonstrations—and ways we can support actions and campaigns even if we aren’t able to physically be there. How can we positively prefigure the world we want?
Making Change
- Session 4: Story – Story moves emotion, and a powerful ritual tells a story. So does a political campaign that works! We can base a ritual around a myth, tell a cultural story, or weave in personal stories. This session explores how we can use story in ritual, and how our political organizing, when it works, is a form of story telling that can build solidarity and community.
- Session 5: Priestessing Powerful Emotions – How do we evoke real emotion in ritual? How do we then release and transform them, comfort the bereaved, encourage the fearful, and enhearten the despairing? How do we use these skills at a time when so much is being lost?
- Session 6: Vision and Hope – Our series culminates in a ritual of vision and hope that participants will co-create and co-lead.
Questions?
We are here for you. Please reach out at: support@earthactivisttraining.org
MEET YOUR TEACHER
Starhawk, Lead Instructor
Starhawk (she/her) is the co-founder and executive director of Earth Activist Training. One of the foremost voices in Earth-based spirituality, Starhawk is an author, activist, and permaculture teacher and designer. Her 12 books include such beloved reads as The Spiral Dance, The Earth Path, and The Fifth Sacred Thing. Starhawk drew from 30 years of living collectively to write The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups, which is the basis for this course.
Starhawk has been recognized by the Permaculture Institute of North America (PINA) as a leading figure in permaculture and has been awarded dual diplomas for excellence in education and permaculture site design.
Best known as an articulate voice in the revival of Earth-based spirituality and Goddess religion, Starhawk is the co-founder of the Reclaiming movement, an activist branch of the modern Pagan religion. In partnership with Donna Read, Starhawk is the co-founder of Belili Productions film company, whose most well-known project was a trio of popular films on the Goddess religion.
Starhawk’s work in progressive activism has spanned generations and geographies. As a global justice and peace activist, Starhawk co-founded RANT: Root Activists’ Network of Trainers, and has taught non-violent direct action across North and South America, Europe, and the Middle East. She has been on the front lines of anti-nuclear actions at Diablo Canyon, Livermore Weapons Lab, Vandenberg Air Force Base, and the Nevada Test Site. She has been a witness for peace in conflict zones across the world, including Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Palestine and Israel.
As a teacher of magical activism and permaculture education, Starhawk’s life work takes her across the globe. She currently lives part-time in San Francisco in a collective house with her partner and friends, and part-time in a little hut in the woods in Cazadero, California, where she practices permaculture in her extensive gardens and writes.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
COURSE INFORMATION
- Location: Virtual
- Dates: April 16th – May 21st
- Timing: Wednesdays 5:30-7:30 pm PST
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- Taught by: Starhawk.
- ASL Interpretation: for all sessions
- All live sessions are recorded and closed-captioned.
- Access to resources, documentation, and recorded class content in the virtual classroom.
PAYMENT
- This is a Pay-What-You-Can class with the suggested donation of $30-$180
Live ASL Interpritation
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What Comes Next?
Are you ready for the next step of your learning journey?
Your Learning Journey
Other classes with Starhawk 2025
- Permaculture Design Certificate – In-Person (Jan. 11 – 25)
- Five-Fold Path Facilitator Training – (Feb 12 – March 12) Online
- Restoration Intensive – (March 28 – April 4)
- Social Permaculture Clinic – (June 4 – June 25) Online
- Permaculture For Climate Activists – (Evergreen)
- Advanced Permaculture – (Feb 6. – Oct. 16) Online
- Water Management (Feb. 6 – Mar. 13)
- Site Planning (Mar. 20 – April 3)
- Soil & Animals (Apr. 10 –May 15)
- Food Forests & Forest Ecology (Sept. 11 – Oct. 16)
- Introduction to Permaculture – (Sept. 17 – Oct. 1) Online
- Permaculture Design Certificate – (Sept. 17 – Dec. 17) Online
- Regenerative Land Management -Two-year Advanced Permaculture Diploma Program
Regenerative Land Management (RLM) is a multi-year, advanced permaculture diploma program designed to further your permaculture practice and provide a deep comprehensive training needed to apply regenerative skills in your life!
Go beyond a basic PDC with our Advanced Permaculture course. This year-long course, taught in four modules, covers key design topics:
OUR NETWORK
A core component of this course – and every Earth Activist Training course – is our private forum: Earth Activist Training Online network. This platform is where you will find course resources, your homework, and a network to connect with classmates and other Earth Activist students.
Recordings of each class will be available to you as a resource. You will have access to the course for a year after the course ends should you want to deepen your understanding of the material.
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