Hospitality

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(Part of my series on coven life in practice) One of the first questions for coven work has to do with the space. After all, most small Pagan groups meet in someone’s home. There’s a lot that goes into that, both thoughts and actions.  Where I live I wrote a… Continue reading

Coven websites

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(Part of my series on coven life in practice) One thing I’ve thought about a lot is designing a site about the group. I go through and tweak things (or clarify things that come up as having confused someone) periodically, but it’s been roughly the same content for years now. … Continue reading

Planning classes

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(Part of my series on coven life in practice) One of the obvious questions once you start talking about teaching classes is ‘how do you plan that’? I’ve never been a classroom teacher (outside a couple of short semester-break style workshops), but I’ve spent most of my life around educators.… Continue reading

Scheduling

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(Part of my series of posts on coven life in practice) One of the things I’ve thought a lot about and struggled with is scheduling. Don’t we all have that fantasy of a perfect schedule, where we meet on Sabbats, and full moons (and maybe new moons too) and everything… Continue reading