2026 One-Day Workshop Series

Or Register Individually Below – Four One-Day Workshops. $125 Each

Those people caring for children in our compartmentalized culture are often the most isolated and alone. They are also, often, the most stressed and overwhelmed. What if, however, there were, circled around each of our children, fairy godmothers of all kinds—the saints, the ancestors and creatures great and small from innumerable past lives? What if we could summon all of these souls to help us manage both the day-to-day practicalities of modern parenting and the spiritual urgencies that each soul carries into this life?

Together we will explore simple daily rituals that help both parents and children access the help of those on the other side. We will also discover what it means to recognize and care for the long story of a soul. Each being arrives into an incarnational experience with mysterious traumas and vast reservoirs of talents and gifts. How do we help our children become who they already are? What does it really mean if children are our own elders returned? How does this awareness inform our day-to-day choices and offerings as parents?

Perhaps no work matters more to me because it was within the isolation of modern parenting that I first made contact with the dead and discovered what they could do. This day-long workshop will offer us a wealth of practical resources and the beginnings of a supportive community of fellow parents who can have conversations that are simultaneously grounded in real life and the deepest of spiritual truths.

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In a world in which everything feels broken—from our bodies to our relationships to our ecologies—healing has become an urgent concern of so many of us. In a dysfunctional medical system, it can be impossible to access the care that would help us manage our bodies with grace and joy. Amid the violence of capitalism that turns everyone and everything into a product, it can feel hopeless trying to receive the intimacy and care we long for in our communities. On a planet saturated with human pollution it can be hard to know how the natural world might heal and we as a species might survive. How are all of these prayers woven together? What would it mean if we brought our brokenness to the dead—to those ancestors who endured atrocities beyond our imagining, forgotten cultural collapses and genocides, and extinction events of their own?

Together we will summon the legions of the dead who are wiser and more loving and more powerful than we can possibly imagine. We will bring to them our desperation and our despair and initiate the magic we need for miracles of all kinds. We will create daily rituals that help us manage our worries and we will give voice to our deepest prayers. Most of all, we will discover together that with the dead anything is possible.

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“Everyone is psychic,” the psychic Suzan Saxman told me years ago, “But everyone receives messages from the other side in their own way.”

The great novelists, playwrights, musicians, and artists were probably all channeling; their creative efforts were never individual but always collaborations with souls beyond the veil. Call them muses, goddesses, fairies or inspiration…they are all ancestors. Shakespeare could hear the voices of the dead, Bach the music of the stars, Dylan the prophecies of his forbears. My own writing transformed when I consciously began summoning and working with my ancestors to produce my books. What if each of us could access the help of the dead to help us make the art we have always dreamed of bringing into the world?

What does that look like practically in our day-to-day efforts? How do we open that channel of communication? How do we receive these messages and acknowledge them? What might it look like to empower our own intuition and expand our own imagination?

Participants may choose to focus on any self-designated art form: writing, painting, sculpture, cooking, quilting, singing, music making, etc.

Together we will create a new kind of space for our work and summon those on the other side to help us make it happen.

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