accidental gods gatherings
online short courses for 2025
Suns, Shields and Roots – Advanced
Sunday 21st September 2025
This Gathering will refresh the baselines of shifting your awareness through and beyond your body and will then expand this to explore specific locations and timelines in greater depth and with greater precision, increasing our fluency and the engagement of our practice.
By the end of this Gathering, our intention is that you’ll be able to ignite your suns individually and as a tree with precision and power, that you’ll be able to find solid grounding through your roots and that you will understand of the functions of all three shields so that you can make informed heart-mind choices about how they function.
**Please do not book onto this unless you have completed at least one of the Basic Suns, Shields and Roots Gatherings and are have practiced the exercises we explored so that you are fully fluent**
dreaming your death awake
Sunday 2nd November 2025
How do you feel when you look forward to death? Do you have a real sense of life as a precious, magical, emergent experience, that inspires every waking and sleeping moment? If not, what would it take to fall in love with living, so that not a moment of this life has passed without celebration?
Death is our ultimate teacher: If we can learn how to live with full awareness, then our death becomes a rite of passage, met with grace, gratitude and integrity.
In this 4 hour online Gathering at Samhain, we will explore how to fall in love with life, and how to prepare for this ultimate (at least for this time around) rite of passage in ways that enrich and enliven each passing day.
This Gathering is for anyone who wants to explore the pathways to a life well lived, in the context of a death well met.
It’s for anyone who comes with good heart. No experience expected or required.
dreaming your year awake
Sunday 4th January 2026
How can we all best ride this wave of total transformation? How can we bring the best of ourselves to meet the unpredictable fluidity of our world with grace and courage? Who are our communities of place, passion and purpose and how do we connect with them?
Dreaming your Year Awake offers a structured space where we can explore these questions alone and in small groups. Using memory, imagination and the More-Than-Human space of a meditative journey, we’ll take time to reflect, back at where we’ve been, to see with clear eyes the ways the old world is falling away and then to imagine into being the new ways of becoming and belonging we yearn for.
Working with the concept of ‘Future Memory’, we’ll each build a future that feels real to us at a core, limbic level, bringing the best of ourselves to this unfolding year in a way that will last long beyond the first flush of resolutions.
This 4 hour online Gathering is for anyone who wants to start 2026 with a clear, strong intent: for ourselves and, through us, for the rest of the web of life. No experience is necessary, though if you began the year at Samhain with Dreaming your Death Awake, we will build on the experience of letting go into potential.
honouring fear as your mentor
Sunday 8th February 2026
We are surrounded by reasons to be fearful. In a world of cataclysmic transition/transformation, when all the myths of our culture are falling away, it’s easy to give way to doomscrolling and prophecies of apocalypse, undermining our sense of self and our ability to show up in the world with the courage, resilience and wisdom that are our birthright. Ultimately, we risk falling into an endless loop where being afraid of being afraid becomes a self-perpetuating cycle.
But Fear is not bad in itself: in the right place and the right time it’s what keeps us alive when we might otherwise rush headlong into danger.
So how do we come to know our fear, embrace it so that it softens into a friend we can engage with rather than the monster lurking in the depths of our shadow-spaces? How can we befriend our fear and make it one of our strongest mentors?
In this 4 hour online Gathering, we will explore how fear shows up for us, and we show up for it, before moving into the resources we have and can build in the material, emotional and spiritual worlds. We will work individually and in small break-out groups and as a wider collective in meditative journeys.
No experience necessary and you don’t have to be a member of the Accidental Gods community to come along – in fact, if you’re curious, this is a good time to get a feel for who we are and how we work.
finding your soul’s purpose
Sunday 22nd March 2026
What is your Soul’s purpose? Do you know what it is you came here to do? Has it become the driver for every part of your life? If you do have a sense of purpose, do you have strategies to stay true to it when the world is clamouring for your time and attention?
In this 4-hour Online Gathering we will explore how we might recognise our purpose calling to us through the fog of daily life.
Individually and in small group break-outs, we will explore how we might recognise our purpose calling to us in this time of radical change. Through meditative journeys we will develop a sense of the values that underpin our lives and the changes we can make to live these in every moment, so that we can tap into these whenever the turbulence of current events feels like its pushing us off track.
What stories do you carry in your deepest Self? Do they whisper to you that you are not enough? Or do they help you share a generative future? Do they feel real? Are they the stories you want to carry? What happens if you change them? What might you choose to put in their place?
We will explore our own narratives: what they are and how we can shape them. In a mixture of experiential guided journeys, visualisations, and small group sharing, we will dive deeply into the nature of story: our own stories, the stories of the Over Culture, the stories we inherited, the stories we pass on… and the stories we choose to create and explore.
No experience necessary and you don’t have to be a member of the Accidental Gods community to come along.
Falling in love with life
Sunday 17th May 2026
How do you feel when you wake up each morning? Do you look forward to the day with confidence, gratitude and joy? Do you have an embodied sense of life as a precious, magical, emergent experience, that inspires every waking and sleeping moment?
If not, what would it take to fall in love with living, so that not a moment of this life has passed without celebration?
Imagine waking up knowing in the marrow of your bones that it was your birthright to love for life in every moment, waking and sleeping—if you were able to live this reality, not in denial of the collapse we’re all living through, but in celebration of our agency. This is our aim with this online Gathering.
Over the course of four hours, we’ll work individually and in small groups to explore the ways we both do and don’t love life. With meditative journeys, we’ll practice working with the Three Pillars of the Heart Mind which are at the core of the Accidental Gods practice – if you’re familiar with them, we’ll deepen your practice. If you’re coming to this for the first time, we’ll help you find and spark the fires that will sustain you.
No experience necessary and you don’t have to be a member of the Accidental Gods community to come along.
walking the path of the inner warrior
Sunday 21st June 2026
Almost all of us, almost all of the time, exist in a state of internal civil war. Finding the tools that will enable us to declare an inner truce—and then negotiate a lasting inner peace—allows us to find a space of reliable inner safety from which we can reach out to connect with others, both human and More-than-Human so that we become self-conscious nodes in the Web of Life, acting in service to the greater intelligence of the web.
This inner work may be the hardest thing we’ll ever do. Cultivating compassionate self-honesty takes patience, persistence, and deep care. It’s a lifelong practice, not a quick fix, but this is the work of the Inner Warrior, or Spiritual Warrior and in this 4 hour online Solstice Gathering, we will work individually, in small groups and through meditative journeys to build an inner ecology of raw, wild, heart-full courage fit to meet the needs of this moment.
Becoming a Good Ancestor
Sunday 13th September 2026
We don’t own the earth, we rent it from future generations. And just now, we are not leaving a great legacy. But there’s room for us to change -and shift the world with us. As the old system cracks open beneath our feet, we can begin to lay the foundations for the future we’d be proud to leave behind: one built on purpose and passion, being and belonging, connection, courage and compassion.
To get here, we need to have a sense of what’s ours to do, what we each want to leave as our individual, collective and ancestral legacy.
What do we bring in? What can we choose to let go of so we don’t pass it on? What do we support, enhance and grow so that we pass it on not just intact, but vibrant and flourishing?
How do we navigate these times with Integrity, Compassion and Generosity-of-Spirit?
Join us and let’s see what we can do together to build the tools that will see us through the chaos into a world we’d be proud to have shaped.
No experience is necessary and you don’t have to be a member of the Accidental Gods community to come along – in fact, if you’re curious, this is a good time to get a feel for who we are and how we work.
dreaming your death awake
Sunday 1st November 2026
Death is our ultimate teacher: If we can learn how to live with full awareness, then our death becomes a rite of passage, met with grace, gratitude and integrity.
In this 4 hour online Gathering at Samhain, we will explore how to fall in love with life, and how to prepare for this ultimate (at least for this time around) rite of passage in ways that enrich and enliven each passing day.
This Gathering is for anyone who wants to explore the pathways to a life well lived, in the context of a death well met. It’s for anyone who comes with good heart. No experience expected or required – Indeed, because our wheel of the year begins with the start of winter, this is the start of our cycle.
Every Gathering is structured so that you can come to it freshly with no previous experience, but if you want to start on a cycle, then this is the time and the place. We look forward to seeing you there.
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