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Are you called to offer a path or create our ritual arc for SpiralHeart 2024?

We’re looking for a Ritual Arc and Facilitation Team (RAFT). The RAFT includes those who facilitate community-led paths and members of our Ritual Arc Team (RATs).

We seek RAFT members who affirm Reclaiming’s Principles of Unity — including the latest amendment: “We are an anti-racist tradition that strives to uplift and center BIPOC voices (Black, Indigenous, People of Color)” — and who understand and will lift SpiralHeart’s ongoing commitment to dismantle white supremacy, racism, ableism, and transphobia; and to practice radical inclusion. We expect that RAFT members will align paths and rituals with these practices. See some resources below if you’d like to understand these practices more.

We request that applicants be familiar with our Code of Conduct: https://spiralheart.org/code-of-conduct/

RAT applicants should have attended at least one SpiralHeart camp, have taken Elements of Magic (or have equivalent life experience) and have been in a priestexxing role in a ritual of at least 10 people (includes grounding, casting, invoking, etc).

Path facilitators should have attended at least one Reclaiming Witchcamp. It is recommended, but not a requirement, that path facilitators have taken the 5 Reclaiming Core Classes.

RATs and community Path facilitators are eligible for our deepest scholarship, if they need it.

We look forward to seeing your proposal for a path and/or your application to be a RAT!

RAFT Application

Questions? agenda@spiralheart.org

Selected resources:

Safer and Radically Inclusive Spaces

We call it a Safer Space because no group can promise complete safety and because Witchcamp is supposed to be a container for taking risks more safely, not a place that’s completely risk free.

We hope campers will choose to push their growing edges, which can feel risky. Our intent is to ensure that all are able to take those risks in a supportive and compassionate space, a safer space than what the outside world generally provides.

Radically Inclusive means actively calling in and creating safer space for those who are marginalized in the wider culture (and in Reclaiming). Across Reclaiming, we particularly acknowledge three equity- and justice-seeking groups: Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC); nonbinary and trans folx; ableism-impacted people. Some of us are part of one or more of these groups. Many of us have no physical characteristics that identify us as part of those groups (i.e., don’t assume). All of us carry some level of privilege. White supremacy culture affects all of us. Ableism affects all of us. Transphobia affects all of us.

Across Reclaiming, we are trying to do better in community: as allies and kin to one another across our whole, diverse, beautiful, global community; accountable to one another. A few ways to lift these values:

  • Read (and apply) the proposed Principles of Accountability put forth by a diverse working group following the last cross-Reclaiming BIRCH meeting.

  • Don’t conflate safety and discomfort. For instance, antiracism work and undoing white supremacy culture is often uncomfortable, especially for those of us who are white. Honoring, stating, and using correct pronouns may feel uncomfortable for some but assures a safe and inclusive community for us all. Changing a ritual location because one of us cannot negotiate the physical space or handing out written words for a trance may feel unnecessary or uncomfortable to some but assures safety and inclusion of us all. (These are just examples.)

  • Become familiar with (and join) AIRA: the Ableism-Impacted Reclaiming Alliance. View or listen to this excellent presentation by Reclaiming Witches and AIRA members Maré and sisal, Approaches to trance and ritual [and camp] that honor disabled and neurodivergent participants

  • Anti-transphobia resource: this one includes lots of information, including about pronoun use.

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