Registration OPEN for 2026-2027
Dedications:
A Year and a Day
You are invited into our Year-and-a-Day-long magical container for connection, depth, and sacred transformation.
Opening with a weekend retreat in the Northwoods, you’ll spend three days at our own private getaway on Lake Superior.
Sharing food and practices together, we will enter the Portal.
Throughout the year we will gather and connect virtually. In 7 evening workshops you’ll learn about the traditional pagan holiday connected to each season of the Wheel of the Year, and we will all share our collective wisdom.
In November 2027 we will gather once again to close our time together with two days back in the Northwoods, holding space for each other to cross the Threshold once again.
The salvaged threads of our past become the warp and weft of our future.
Will you join us?
When is this happening?
What happens, more specifically?
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We open with calling in the lineages we hold, that live within us, even when we do not have conscious access to them. At our retreat, we meet each other, and the ancestors we brought with us, in spirit. We use somatic and witchy exercises to move with trust into relationship building with our ancestors, in order to receive teachings and guidance.
We also welcome you into a year long practice of Dreamwork. Sharing our framework at our 3-day retreat, we’ll share our dreams throughout the year.
At our retreat we will:
-Identify some of our lineages, and share what stories we have and do not have
-Enter into ritual and guided meditation to meet some ancestors
-Learn and share about Dreamwork
-Commit to an Ancestor practice and/or Dreamwork for the next few months
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What Land do you live on? What Lands do you and your people come from? We will spend the year building relationship and connection with the Earth.
Much of this work also lives in your Body. Using somatic practices and witchy ritual, we invite you to deepen relationship and connection to your Body.
At our retreat we will:
-Share stories of the Lands we come from and live on
-Recieve and share energy work
-Learn spiritual and somatic practices to plant and grow throughout the year
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We will ground our journey in the ancient practice of honoring the energies of the Earth’s seasons.
We will explore the 8 traditional pagan festivals: where they come from, and what can they offer you?
Each virtual Zoom workshop will focus on the upcoming seasonal holiday early enough that you can plan your own practice around celebrating it.
How about some logistics now?
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The actual price of this year-long series is $3,206-$2,856 per person.
We are offering a bonus tier/sliding scale for accessibility, and also various room rates, so please look over the options and choose your access tier mindfully:
Your true-cost registration guarantees your bed choice at our Opening and Closing in-person retreats
We will assign beds to registration tiers A, B, C & G after registration closes
Our retreat space has a total of 6 beds available
You may attend the retreat and stay at your own lodging if you prefer (if you are local, you can stay at home, for example)
Pricing Tiers:
$3,575 at $275/month Private Queen Room
$3,250 at $250/month Private Queen Room
$3,120 at $240/month Shared Room Queen
$3,035 at $233/month Shared Room Bunk
$2,931 at $225/month No-Lodging Full Retreat
$2,600 at $200/month Access Tier A
$2,275 at $175/month Access Tier B
$1,950 at $150/month Access Tier C
$143 or $11/month (BIPOC or Trans/GNC)*
Please take into account your household income, any safety nets (via partnership, family, etc) that you have access to, your debt and care giving responsibilities, investments and land ownership, and anything else that impacts your finances. Worts & cunning’s green bottle sliding scale model is helpful in assessing where you fall!
Please be in touch with Linden if you need to pay less than $11/month, or would like to barter.
*Our lowest payment tier and barter/trade options are prioritized for low–income people who identify as either trans*/gender-nonconforming OR Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.
Thank you for supporting our ability to offer this course to everybody; pay full cost if you can, and more if you are able for those who cannot!
Due to the limited size of this retreat space, we cannot offer refunds. If a participant has an access need that facilitators are not able to meet, we will offer a partial refund based on the number of gatherings remaining.
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In-person events are hosted both inside at accessible locations, and outside on moderately uneven terrain.
Videos and Zoom events include closed captioning.
All practices are trauma-informed and include options and choice.
We encourage participants to show up as they are – we all deserve to connect and learn!
As facilitators we will occasionally name the impact of white supremacy, patriarchy, colonialism, capitalism, etc. but our focus will be on joyful connection to ancestral knowledge and practices.
We will ask you about any access needs you have after you register and pay, but feel free to be in touch with Linden at linden@thevenerations.com if you have questions or requests.
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This workshop series features 2 in-person retreats taking place over multiple days. Retreats are located in Brule, Wisconsin about 45 minutes outside of Duluth in the South Shore region of Lake Superior.
The retreat house features 3 private rooms with a Queen-sized bed, and 1 shared room with a Queen-sized bed and a set of in-wall bunk-beds, for 6 beds total.
The retreat house offers communal dining, and your registration fee includes the cost of 8 meals over the two retreats, plus a breakfast buffet each morning.
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We welcome people of all family histories, lineages, and racial and ethnic identities to this course! If you resonate with the premise of gathering together in community to seek and share wisdom around healing lineage and collective liberation, you’re welcome to join us!
Both Dedications founders, Linden and Carolyn, identify as White folks with settler histories and can only bring who we are to our roles.
In years past, we have offered a BIPOC-only small group, a dedicated time and meeting space for folks in Dedications who identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or people of color.
Depending on the identities and desires of participants, we will offer this again and/or bring additional BIPOC teachers to our virtual and in person gatherings.
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While we spend much of our gathering time outside, we will be sharing air inside. Our indoor meeting space uses both air filters and Far UVC sanitizing lights, but we do also require all participants to test for COVID on the day of the gathering.(We have tests and N95 masks available if needed.)
If you have additional COVID safety needs, please contact Carolyn to dialogue about navigating them.
Meet our Team
Hi! We’re excited to welcome you to Dedications, our annual co-created magical offering. Emerging and evolving each Cycle, we look forward to opening this year’s magical container with you!
Our team consists of Linden and Carolyn — creators and co-facilitators — humans whose combined experience in somatic practice, witchcraft, justice organizing work, and love for the world call us to craft this course — we hope you’ll join us!
When you join Dedications: A Year and a Day you will get:
Opening + Closing in-person retreats in the Northwoods
7 virtual, evening workshops roughly every 6 weeks
Lessons and practices from Witchcraft and Somatic lineages
A magical community of folk to gather with on this journey
A Year-and-a-Day magical portal experience