Walking the Thresholds Workshops


JUNE 12-15, 2008, Four Quarters Farm
PO BOX 784, Rockville MD 20848-0958

WtT Main Page | Register | Directions | Last year | rialian@his.com


Possible Workshops so far (Schedule still TBD)

Introduction to Herbalism (Stardansr & Orthaevelve): This workshop covers a lot of safety-related material, preparing herbal remedies such as tinctures, salves, decoctions and infusions, wildcrafting and buying herbs and how to work herbal remedies around medications and check for interactions.

Living with Bees (Rialian):
The bees workshop is going to focus on the ideas of how an elf mutated beekeeping to be acceptable to him. In other words, if you are an elf, bees keep YOU. This workshop will focus on symbiosis WITH bees rather than working ON bees. Various elf-mutated hive styles may be discussed.

Fermentation and other bee gifts (Rialian et. al.):
How the bee-elf symbiosis mysteriously increases the amount of honey, mead, and wax in your life without impinging on the ones who have first rights to it...

Seedballs and their uses (TBD):
Some kind of stompy-booted, guerrilla gardening 3lvz thing on making seedballs and doing undercover planting. Learn what a seedball is, how to make one, and how to use it to make the world more like home...

The Matrix and Otherkin Mutations/Uses Thereof (Jarin): This workshop will involve Memory work, trueform work, spirit journeyings and gatework. A prototype of a matrix will be demonstrated, as well as its key components and how they (and other tools) fit together. How to assemble and activate a Matrix of your own. The device presented in this workshop is based upon the Matrix that was present at WtT 2, but is very different in form and intent.

Ethical symbiosis with the land as a form/system of Elven magic (Silvaerin'a): Being able not only to sense what is there, but communicating with it to determine how best to proceed. Working *with* our environments and not against them, creating a symbiosis that is more awake and alive than the sum of its parts.

A discussion around the fire (Foxchilde): Ways to bring our own form of magic (elf, kitsune, fae, wolf, tree, dragon, etc.,) more into everyday life. This workshop is born out of a desire by the presenter to learn from others as well as present his own viewpoints. Friday evening, some central point that is not the party fire.