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30 November 2021 16:34![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
haptalaonSo the top of my birthday list this year is a copy of Ritual Facilitation by Shauna Aura Knight; Knight's whole thing is blogging and publishing on the art of ritual/group leadership As Its Own Skillset, and I wish there was more of this kind of thing about. I don't think I know another book like it
? You just look at pagan publishing, an infinity of beginner books and googlable lists of candle colours, & think about your longing for like. Not new age publishing, but a theology curriculum.
"I want to set up a coven where I live (there is no local coven; and no local opportunities to learn skills from a mentor; I nevertheless want to do group initiatory ritual and so I need to develop the skills independently); what are my steps to accomplishing that?"
& I suppose one could sort of put together their own thing; blending theatre techniques, and the best tidbits of spellcraft, and some books for managers or political organisers, but yeah, it's frustrating. To know where one wants to be, and to know one needs to be good - to be able to deliver on a promise - but having none of the intermediate steps.
(like, I could definitely put on an Event, but I really don't want to...I do not want to take on a group of people, until I know a way to pass on techniques and secrets that is bedrock, until I know I can run events where people will leave knowing that they touched the divine; to be ready on the spiritual plain, rather than just the secular. Because I've met too much of the latter in my time, and like, it's ok? but it muddies the ground for finding people who really know their stuff. And I don't want to make that claim until I know it to be true).
? You just look at pagan publishing, an infinity of beginner books and googlable lists of candle colours, & think about your longing for like. Not new age publishing, but a theology curriculum.
"I want to set up a coven where I live (there is no local coven; and no local opportunities to learn skills from a mentor; I nevertheless want to do group initiatory ritual and so I need to develop the skills independently); what are my steps to accomplishing that?"
& I suppose one could sort of put together their own thing; blending theatre techniques, and the best tidbits of spellcraft, and some books for managers or political organisers, but yeah, it's frustrating. To know where one wants to be, and to know one needs to be good - to be able to deliver on a promise - but having none of the intermediate steps.
(like, I could definitely put on an Event, but I really don't want to...I do not want to take on a group of people, until I know a way to pass on techniques and secrets that is bedrock, until I know I can run events where people will leave knowing that they touched the divine; to be ready on the spiritual plain, rather than just the secular. Because I've met too much of the latter in my time, and like, it's ok? but it muddies the ground for finding people who really know their stuff. And I don't want to make that claim until I know it to be true).
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Date: 1 December 2021 15:08 (UTC)Um. Other stuff in my collection:
- Pagan Consent Culture (Christine Hoff Kramer)
- Spiritual Mentoring: A Pagan Guide (Judy Harrow)
- Wicca Covens (Judy Harrow, and useful for some group development work.)
- Inside a Magical Lodge (John Michael Greer, has some useful comments on building an egregore and related topics.)
- Gathering the Magic: Creating 21st Century Esoteric Groups (Nick Farrell)
- Coven Craft: Witchcraft for Three or More (Amber K and Azrael K, has good practical 'what do you need to make an ongoing group go' lists.)
- Magickal Connections: Creating a lasting and healthy spiritual group (Lisa McSherry)
- Esoteric Orders and Their Work (Dion Fortune)
Also Circle of Eight: Creating Magic for your Place on Earth by Jane Meredith - she's Australian, and it's also got some good ideas for group work, bringing a group together, as I remember it.