Land: Loss and Reconnection, with Alley Valkyrie
Upcoming course: 15 November, 2023 to 9 January 2024
A six-week course developed and instructed
by Alley Valkyrie
“The Witch has been created by the land to act for it.”
--Peter Grey, Rewilding Witchcraft
Land is how we live. We live on the land, we live because of land, and when we die we go back into the land.
Yet land, in our modern capitalist dystopia, is often the farthest thing from our mind. Few of us even have access to land—everywhere it is fenced off, paved over, gated, polluted, and destroyed.
How did it come to this? How did the notion of private property come about? Why were so many people displaced from the land through enclosures, the transatlantic slave trade, and brutal colonization?
And what has this done to us?
In this six week online course, writer, artist, and Gods&Radicals co-founder Alley Valkyrie will lead you through the history and meaning of land, illuminate the processes and politics that caused our separation from land, and guide you to spiritual reconnection and political reclamation of the land beneath our feet.
Alley Valkyrie’s course will cover the following topics:
Week One: The Importance of Land
Week Two: Lost Land—Enclosures & Property
Week Three: Lost Land—Displacement and Colonialism
Week Four: Land—Its spirits and Peoples
Week Five: Spiritual Reconnection to Land
Week Six: Political Reclamation of Land
General Information
Course Length and Schedule: The course lasts for seven weeks, from15 November, 2023 to 9 January 2024. A catch-up week is built into the schedule to help participants who may need more time and to accommodate holidays.
Time Commitment: Participants will be expected to devote a minimum of two hours each week (12 hours total over 6 weeks) to the course. This expectation includes time devoted to reading recommended texts, viewing video lectures, and engaging in conversation with other participants.
Cost: Sliding Scale $80-$120. Pay what you are capable of.
Supporters can take this course for free.
Maximum participants: 30
Course Requirements: Participants need have no prior knowledge of the course subject nor experience in academic settings. Physical requirements include internet access, a computer or smartphone capable of accessing recommended readings and live video chat discussions, and each participant will need to create a login (free of cost) for Discord.
Venue: Weekly course conversations will occur on a dedicated Discord server.
Course structure: Each week, the instructor will post a video lecture for participants and assign optional readings. Participants will then discuss with each other and the instructor throughout the week by chat server (Discord).
One live video chat discussion (date and time to be announced) will occur at a time optimized for as many participants to join as possible.
Cancellation/Refund policy: Full refunds of payment are possible up until the end of the first day of the course.
Other policies: In the very unlikely event that a participant creates a hostile environment for other participants or the instructor, and if attempts to address the behavior do not correct the problem, the instructor reserves the right to end a participant’s participation.
Enrollment process: To enroll, select your option below and then add it to your cart. You can then continue to browse or check out by clicking the cart icon (top left in desktop versions, bottom of the pull-down menu in mobile versions).