R E F U G I A
VILLAGE MYSTERY SCHOOL
& DREAM TEMPLE
Visionary Learning & Magical Kinship for The Great Turning
from rain crowe
Refugia Village Mystery School conjures faith in itself as:
an ancestrally-guided portal for radical magics in perilous times
a teaching house for liberation cosmologies & animist witchways
a refuge for the long returning memory of devotion to the holy
a temple for self-discovered spiritual wisdoms & rootedness in whole time
NEW & UPCOMING
offerings + courses
Foundations Program: The Call
The Foundations Program focuses on learning and cultivating foundational understandings and energetic + spiritual relationships. These introductory two courses cultivate necessary skills and support deeper dives into the enduring questions and provocative content offered in the Continuing Program.
Foundations Program Courses
WitchWays:
Elementally Magical
Foundations Course Part One
Wednesdays Oct. 18, 25, Nov. 1, 8, 15, 2023
6:30-8:30pm PT
Live & Zoom Video Recorded
REGISTRATION IS CLOSED: THE E-COURSE WILL BE AVAILABLE IN JANUARY 2024
Calling Ourselves Home:
Ancestral Relationships
Foundations Course Part Two
December 2 & 3, 2023
SATURDAY & SUNDAY —
Four Sessions
Total
10-12:30pm AND 2-4:30pm PT
Live and Zoom Video Recorded
All Videos and Course Materials available by December 5th on Course Webpage
REGISTRATION IS OPEN
Continuing Program: The Connection
The Continuing Program moves the participant through an arc of mythopoetic and actual story:
from some histories of disempowerment and disenchantment, through presencing the complexity of privilege and marginalization as it relates to home and belonging, through engaging human and ancestral conflict transformation to grow collective power, and into re-enchantment by way of non-appropriative animist frameworks for living in the matrix of the world.
Each course works the whole cloth of the program arc while focusing on a particular bundle of fibers of that cloth. The witch hunts, capitalism, Christian settler colonization, white body supremacism, and speciesism-all are part of a legacy of entitlement, estrangement and enslavement. Group registration strongly recommended.
Continuing Program Courses
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The Burning Times Never Ended
Remembering Resistance and a Story of Disenchantment
This course examines Middle Ages Europe through the lens of Silvia Federici’s book, Caliban and the Witch. The anarcho-feminist, academic text argues how the witch hunts and the emergence of capitalism are entwined. It contains condemnation of patriarchy and supremacism, and gives the broad strokes of a story still alive.
January 10, 17, 24, 31, February 7, 14, 2024
6-9pm PT
Live + Recorded via Zoom
In-Person Intensive January 11-14, 2024
(pandemic-dependent)
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Longing To Belong
An Unsettling Journey
A facilitated ritual learning container for the conjuring of enduring questions about home, people, place, history, identity, and belonging.
Participants call upon a willingness to explore with vulnerability, response-ability & compassionate courage; to wonder aloud and to contemplate in connection to the well-in-spirit, wise and loving ancestors.
March 15-17, 2024
9am-6pm PT
Live + Recorded via Zoom and In-Person
(pandemic-dependent)
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T.A.C.T. - Trauma Aware Conflict Transformation
In This Together
This course is for you if you need a boost, some language, some connections, or a foothold on approaching conflict with more confidence.
This journey might lend itself to your groups, organizations, and networks as well.
April 4-7, 2024
9am-6pm PT
Live + Recorded via Zoom + In-Person
(pandemic-dependent)
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The Wylder Edge
Re-enchanting Ourselves to a World Song
The Wylder Edge is the counterpoint to the Burning Times Never Ended and the emphasis is on a return - through ancestral connection for guidance and support, specifically to intuitively conjure one’s own non-appropriated animistic spirituality and magic. The course works with prayer, blessing, and offering as relationship -tending to the Holy Wyld, and how our alliance with and allegiance to the beyond human is paramount to leaving a living world for the descendants.
April 17, 24, May 8, 15, 22, 29, 2024
6-9pm PT
Live + Recorded via Zoom
In-Person Intensive May 23-26, 2024
(pandemic-dependent)
Dream Temple Ritual
Customized, facilitated group dreaming ritual online or on land for collective guidance, divination, healing and revelation.
Services
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Facilitation
Group process: innovative, customizable container design, agenda development, strategic planning, board retreats, conferences, decision-making, council creation
Conflict transformation: innovative, customizable container design, mediation and accountability processes, trainings, generative repair, strategies and tools for supporting group social health
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Consultation
Group guidance: How to form containers for group processes and conflict transformation
Collapse Resiliency: assessment of physical, social, spiritual systems and resiliency design packages, single conversation support session for you/your group
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Counseling & Mentorship
Spiritual counseling: support with general/specific struggles + life goals, daily practice development, personal trance design, divination
Ancestral connection: development of intuition and psychic skills, heritage recovery, relationship tending, lineage healing
Personal mentorship: continuing encouragement, support, reflection and guidance, professional development, integrity/elder circle creation, and more
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Officiating
Officiant services: customized rituals by request, rite of passage, union, dissolution, birth, death, dream temple, councilway, heart circle, lantern walk, ecstatic dance, and more
REFUGIA
Refugium is an ecological term that refers to regions in which a diverse population of organisms can survive through a period of unfavorable conditions. From Latin, literally meaning a safe haven, these robust, and often hidden places, nourish the genetic source materials needed to regenerate.
Refugia are physical, digital, and energetic spaces encouraged by rain crowe and the Village Mystery School for the protection of emergent earth cultures. They are nodes in the mycelial network of sanctuaries to home wisdomways. They are star temples in a constellation devoted to feeding the holies.
Conjuring, linking, and making magical relationships of mutual aid and solidarity is a core intention of the schooltemple’s mission. The vision is one of beyond our lifetimes; a beauty-making effort for those who will continue to ride out the tempest of global systems collapse.
