Eight Winds 2011
Presenters, Presentations and Schedule
To view the tentative schedule for Eight Winds 2011 click here.
Emerald
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Hellenic ADF: It’s Greek to Me!
With its Pan-Indo-European focus, ADF attracts members
interested in cultures from across the IE spectrum. While the Celts and Norse
still hold a strong majority within ADF, the ranks of Greek-focused members and
Groves have been steadily growing. This workshop seeks to provide an overview
of how we can blend ADF ritual structure and cosmology with authentic ancient
Greek practice to create a viable Hellenic brand of Our Own Druidism.
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Erynn Rowan Laurie
Erynn Rowan Laurie is the author of Ogam: Weaving Word Wisdom and
A Circle of Stones: Journeys and Meditations for Modern Celts, along
with many other essays, poems, and articles. She has been a practicing
Pagan since 1984 and is a founding figure in the
Celtic Reconstructionist Pagan movement. She lives on the Salish Sea
among cedars and mist.
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Three Cauldrons: Theory and Practice
Join author Erynn Rowan Laurie for a workshop on the early Irish Cauldron
of Poesy poem. We will be discussing the poem and its meaning and background,
and practicing some breath and meditation techniques based on the concepts
expressed in the poem.
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Melissa Burchfield
Melissa is the winner of the 2010 Wellspring Bardic Chair and the Bard
of Three Cranes Grove, ADF. She serves ADF as the Members Advocate,
as Archivist of the Bardic Guild and as a DP Mentor. She performs
musically at local venues in her hometown of Columbus,
OH. She is also working through several study programs, including those
of the bardic guild and liturgists guild, and is walking the Initiate
Path.
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Music in Ritual
Music is a well-documented tool for creating group mind
and raising energy, but too few Druids in ADF and beyond know how to use it to
it’s fullest potential. In this workshop, we will discuss the brain mechanics
(briefly) behind why it works to help us better understand this important
ritual device. We will discuss the basic uses of music in ritual, including
placement of various pieces, appropriate song choice and theatrical
presentation. The bulk of the workshop is centered on actual exercises building
on one another from grounding and centering using the “Druid’s hum,” to toning
as a means of raising/moving energy for magical workings such as gate opening,
healing and charging a magical object and ending with basic trance using
vocalizations (and maybe drums!).
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Ceisiwr Serith
Ceisiwr Serith is the author of The Pagan Family, Deep Ancestors, and A Book of Pagan Prayer.
A pagan for over thirty years he has presented workshops at numerous
pagan festivals and delivered papers at Celtic conferences
at UCLA, Berkeley, and Harvard. He currently lives along the seacoast
of New Hampshire, where he is the Grove Organizer for Nemos Ognios, a
protogrove of the druidic organization Ár nDraíocht Féin.
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The Waters of LifeRitual drinks are found in many cultures, but it is in
the Indo-European traditions that they really shine -- the mead of inspiration,
the ale of sovereignty, nektar, homa, soma -- and not
only in ritual, but in myth as well, even to the structure of the cosmos.
This presentation will survey the drinks found in the various Indo-European
cultures, in both myth and ritual.
Proto-Indo-European Religion
A presentation on the religious tradition ancestral
to those of most of the swath of land from Iceland to India. The
concentration will be on cosmology, ritual, and human actions. Other
topics may come up as time permits.
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Rev. Kirk Thomas
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The Irish Sacred King
The office of the
sacred king in late prehistoric and early medieval Ireland carried great
significance in a religiously cosmological sense both for his people and his
kingdom.
This workshop will explore these themes through the folklore, tales, and selected monastic writings of early medieval Ireland, often contrasted with similar works from related Indo-European cultures. |
Jen Hoover
Jen H. has been an ADF member since 2002. She is a member of the
Artisans Guild and Ancient Iberia SIG, volunteers with ADF Publishing,
and currently serves as Senior Druid of Sierra Madrone Grove. She
spends most of her spare time spinning, knitting, weaving,
and dreaming up new textile projects.
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Hands-on weavingParticipants
will use scissors and an index card to create a simple loom, and then weave a
small piece that could be used as an altar cloth for a travel altar or sewn
into a pouch. I want to do this workshop because (1) weaving is awesome and (2)
weaving is a common motif in IE myth. I have found that understanding the
structure and process of weaving has given me deeper insight into the meanings
of myths and lore relating to weaving. I'd love to share some of those stories
and insights with others, and of course play around with yarn! This workshop
would be appropriate for grown-ups and kids from about 8 years and up.
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Rev. Sean Harbaugh
Rev. Sean W Harbaugh and I'm ADF's
Northwest Regional Druid. I've been a Pagan for going on 22 years now
and a member of ADF since November 2003. I currently also serve ADF as
the Chief of the Gael Kin, Deputy Chief of the Council of Senior
Druids, Member of the ADF Clergy Council, Member of the ADF Grove
Organizing Committee, and a Non-Officer Director on the ADF Mother
Grove.
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Evolution of North American Neopagan Druidry from RDNA to ADF.A presentation on the history and evolution of North American Neopagan Druidry from RDNA, it's
off-shoots, and the eventual evolution and foundation of ADF. The
presentation will also include an NRDNA Ritual. The purpose of this
presentation is to explain the evolution of American Druidry from its beginnings
at Carlton College, the prominent figures in early American Druidry, and how this 1963
protest movement laid the foundation for the eventual formation of ADF.
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A. Donald
I've been a practicing pagan for roughly 15 years and was thrilled
when, having moved to Idaho from Scotland, I was given the opportunity
to join and take part in Ár nDraíocht Féin. I hope to eventually go
through the clergy program but for now I'm happily
working on my Dedicant Path work and a podcast documenting that
journey.
I've been doing simple 'Ceilidh' dancing since secondary school and have been formally doing Scottish Country Dancing with The Thistle and Ghillies Scottish Country Dancers for 3 years. |
Scottish country dance
Scottish country dancing, performed to Jigs, Reels and Strathspeys is a
great physical and mental workout and a valuable way to build community
ties and connect to Scottish culture as a while.
I plan to teach the basic steps, a couple of very simple but fun Ceilidh dances and one or two slightly harder Scottish Country Dances for folk to enjoy as part of a wonderful weekend. There are branches of The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society ALL over the U.S. and Canada and hopefully some of you will enjoy it enough to contact a local branch and keep learning! |
Jenni Hunt
Jenni lives and teaches junior high school language arts and computer
applications in Tucson, Arizona. She has been a very active member of
ADF since 1995, having served as Non-Officer Director and ADF
Preceptor, member and officer of the ADF Bardic,
Liturgist, and Scholars Guilds and Clergy Council, and member and
friend of several groves and protogroves across the country. The past
year has been a bit of a hiatus for Jenni as she pursued a National
Board Certification in English language arts, but now
that her work on that project is completed and the waiting for results
begun, we hope her muse returns and the poetry begins to flow again.
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Writing Poetic Invocations
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