I shared a new essay reflecting on Matthew Fox’s Trump and the MAGA Movement as Antichrist - those of you who read my writing know that I do have a tendency to wrestle with the problem of evil and Fox’s new book was another round in the ring.

But I am sending this out because I’ve added an addition to the fall schedule because I persist in thinking it is needed if we are going to get through the years ahead:

If six people register, pay-what-you-can - I’ll run it!

THE GROUP GROUP

an online discussion group gathered to support the participants in building community groups of various kinds,

designed to support lay people, community members and clinicians in building healthy, boundaried, well-designed non-clinicial community groups.

I don’t see how we get through this with out re-imagining community.

DREAM, ART AND IMAGE

STARTING OCTOBER 28

Facilitated by Elizabeth Honer and Martha Crawford

10 sessions, Wednesday evenings

This is also an additional session of a workshop that filled up quickly and we are accepting applications for the next round:

We will explore some of the richness of visual dream work: How dream aspects can show up in composition, color, shape, perspective, etc. We will also explore the act of creating such imagery from dream material, and how this is its own process of relationship and analysis, worth doing in its own right.

No artistic background required!

DREAM WORK AND TAROT

STARTING NOVEMBER 3rd

Facilitated by shea in the catskills and Martha Crawford

6 sessions, Tuesday afternoons at 4:00 Pacific, 5:00 Mountain, 6:00 Central, 7:00 Eastern

What do dream work and tarot have in common? Are they discreet or complimentary practices?

How might spontaneously produced symbols that emerge in night dreams relate to the synchronicity of pulling arcanum from an oracle deck?

Both offer the opportunity for contemplative and creative practice, but they are community and collective processes too.

6 sessions, Tuesday afternoons at 4:00 Pacific, 5:00 Mountain, 6:00 Central, 7:00 Eastern

COMMUNITY RESOURCES

if we have worked together and you are building a pay-what-you-can community group

or offering a service

and you would like me to spread the word, please feel free to use this boost request form.

Beth Howard’s Patreon: Planting by the Water Signs
Planting by the Water Signs is a Patreon podcast and community coven led by Beth Howard and Tanya Turner, two Appalachian socialist witches delivering magic with hillbilly charm every full and new moon. Free to join and paid tiers for more content and seasonal herbal and magical care packages. (Beth’s tree dream zine was in the autumn seasonal care package!)

Personal Readings with Gogo Khayela
This is a divination practice in the Sintfu tradition which is called kuhlola/kubhula (too look into or focus on) using various indigenous approaches and tools. This is a deeply spiritual practice, it requires our reverence and openness. Please come prepared with your authenticity and questions.

https://likhambi.as.me/schedule/88270dbd

Asking Good Questions with shea in the catskills
What makes a good question? Good question! A good question is one that matters to us + that makes us feel something when we hear it. This is a skill that we can develop + refine through practice. In this workshop, we’ll use the four elements as entry points into working with what’s alive for us in a way that helps us generate + refine questions that get to the heart of the matter.

& shea’s Admin Services: (which I highly, personally recommend) You know your systems are working for you when they're coherent with how you want your work to feel—for you + for the people who engage it. This is something AI can't do. shea enjoys creating systems that make others' creative, esoteric + intuitive work shine.

Relational Technologies Virtual Workshop with Elena Solano
We are living in a time of change, reorientation and collapse. Skillful relational strategies are needed to build something new with one another. In the workshop, we’ll discuss relationship technologies and sit together with creative prompts and practices. Bring your imagination, a notebook, art supplies, a tarot deck and/or anything else you’d like to use during our time in the workshop. Offered twice a month—get details + registration info.

And finally, if you’ve had a dream about the climate crisis, about our currently political circumstances, about Artificial Intelligence, or had a visit from a dead loved one in a dream - please consider sharing them at my new project: Collectivedreaming.org

I’ve also started a newsletter specific to Collective Dreaming if you are interested in staying apprised of the developments there, including an upcoming podcast on community dream work!

A busy week!