Refugia Village Mystery School Programs
WitchWays + Calling Ourselves Home, the introductory courses in the Foundations Program, are for when
you feel the call.
The Continuing Program of four intermediate courses throughout the year are to nourish your
connection
to the workings and your own magic.
The Cohort Program is to
conjure deep-time magic.
It is to take a
leap of faith
and dive deeper into a community of practitioners.
Foundations Program: The Call
Container
Meta: Hearing the Call
Emphases: Views Learning & Skills Training
Methodologies: Popular Education & Traditional Wisdomshare
Culture: Liberatory & Curious
Values: Consent & Reciprocity
Courses: WitchWays & Calling Ourselves Home
The Foundations Program focuses on learning and cultivating foundational understandings and energetic and spiritual relationships. This foundation supports deeper dives into enduring questions and provocative content offered in the Continuing Program.
WitchWays and Calling Ourselves Home are two separate courses considered a combined introductory prerequisite program* to further study in the Continuing and the Cohort Programs. These support the necessary skills required to navigate the content of the Continuing Program including the ability to ground oneself, to call on an ancestor helper, to work in a study group in order to process intense feelings, etc.
Foundations Program Courses
WitchWays: Elementally Magical
Foundations Course Part One: Basics of Animist Magical Practices
Wednesdays October 18, 25
November 1, 8, 15, 2023
6:30-8:30pm PT
Live and Recorded via Zoom
REGISTRATION FOR THE LIVE COURSE IS CLOSED
Calling Ourselves Home: Ancestral Relationships
Foundations Course Part Two: Connecting With Ancestors
December 2 + 3, 2023
10-12:30pm AND 2-4:30pm
on both Saturday and Sunday
Live via Zoom and Video Recorded
REGISTRATION FOR THE LIVE COURSE IS CLOSED
Continuing Program: The Connection
Container
Meta: Holographic Connection
Emphases: Views Learning & Skills Training
Methodologies: Popular Education & Traditional Wisdomshare
Culture: Adventure & Care
Values: Honesty & Faith
Courses: The Burning Times Never Ended, Longing to Belong, T.A.C.T (Trauma Aware Conflict Transformation), & The Wylder Edge
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.
Putting traumatic events into some chronology helps the participant to engage grief, shame, desire, and longing. This commitment to understanding one’s location in history, memory and action help allow for the movements toward accompliceship in the collective efforts for justice and healing.
It is strongly recommended that each course be taken in a self-organized group of 2-7 people.
Groups may be affinity, collegial, coven, collective or some other form. The recommendation comes from years of observation that taking these courses in groups creates all forms of support throughout the study, strengthens the likelihood of practice (as individuals or as groups), and that learning and self-reflection are enhanced and amplified within a group journey.
Registration is through this website. Registration for The Burning Times Never Ended is here.
There will be a certificate of completion for everyone who has completed this Continuing Program, consisting of all four courses running from January through May of 2024.
This certificate demonstrates completion and may allow the holder to use the Continuing Program body of work for continuing education credits at colleges/universities/other programs which support that. Pursuit of this is entirely the participant’s responsibility.
Connection Program In-Gathering Welcome for all four courses is January 3, 2024
6;30-8pm PT via Zoom.
Continuing Program Courses
The Burning Times Never Ended: A Story of Disenchantment
January 10, 17, 24, 31
February 7, 14, 2024
6-9pm PT
Live + Recorded via Zoom
In-Gathering Welcome January 3, 2024 • 6:30-8pm PT via Zoom
REGISTRATION FOR THE LIVE SESSIONS IS CLOSED
PURCHASE THE SELF-STUDY COURSE HERE
The Wylder Edge: Re-enchanting Ourselves to A World Song
April 17, 24
May 8, 15, 22, 29, 2024
6-9pm PT
Live + Recorded via Zoom
In-Person Intensive (pandemic-dependent) May 23-26, 2024
In-Gathering Welcome January 3, 2024 • 6:30-8pm via Zoom
Longing to Belong: An Unsettling Journey
March 15, 2024 :: 6:30-9pm PT
March 16-17, 2024 :: 9am-6pm PT
Live + Recorded via Zoom
In-Gathering Welcome January 3, 2024 • 6:30-8pm PT via Zoom
T.A.C.T. Trauma Aware Conflict Transformation
April 5 6:30-9pm PT
April 6/7 9:30-12:30 & 2-5 PT
Live + Recorded via Zoom