PPD Workshops & Speakers

Ekstasis

Workshop

Divination study Group

Our mission is to foster personal and communal growth by providing resources, education, and community in a safe and accepting space for our witchcraft and otherwise esoteric community in East Tennessee.

At Ekstasis we believe witchcraft is for the people. We believe we can use the craft to empower, support, and grow. We work with the energies of the universe to balance injustice, care for the land, and create an earthly plane where all people can thrive. And that includes you!

www.ekstasis.org

Ekstasis on Facebook

Johanna

Workshop

Hymn to Demeter

I have been a practicing Hellenic Polytheist for going on decade. It started as most things, in the myths and stories from Ancient Greece. When I began my path I devoured as much information as possible and found a vast and intricate amount of knowledge about the gods that has often been misrepresented.

As a Hellenic Polytheistic and devotee of Demeter I connect with her on a personal level as a mother. Her hymn has always held a special place with me.

Leila

Workshops

Protection Dolls (for kids)
Magic Poppet (Adults)

Owner of Mystical Soul Coaching, Leila has an academic background in psychology and leadership development, with certifications in mindfulness coaching and meditation teaching.

Leila is a Hellenistic polytheist, a witch, and a Tarot reader. She creates a variety of mixed-media art under the studio name It’s Art, Darling. Leila teaches mixed-media classes and will be facilitating a No-Sew Poppets workshop and a children’s workshop creating Protection Dolls for ages 4-11.

Mark NeCamp

Workshops

Advanced Protection Magick
Spirit Craft: Artificial spirits, Servitors, Thoughtforms, Golems

Mark NeCamp, Jr. is an entrepreneur, public speaker, healer, author, poet, teacher, spiritual alchemist, and modern day student and practitioner of the Art. He teaches classes using magick as a tool for personal growth. He is passionate for how we each can, through the alchemical process, turn our spiritual lead into gold as individuals and as a global community. He is the author of Energy Magick, by Moon Books Publishing and the executive director of The Invisible College, a non-profit created to aid spiritual communities through the creation of social, financial and educational infrastructure.

Advanced Protection Magick
When you do magick, you open yourself up to various psychic energies in order to feel and channel them. This advanced workshop teaches you how to use psychic energy to ward off or banish any harmful influences.
This is a hands-on workshop with several interactive exercises.

Spirit Craft: Artificial Spirits, Servitors, Thoughtforms, and Golems
Magickal energy can be used in a way to create your own artificial spirits. These “living spells” are animated by your will and can do very complex skills. Learn how to make operating systems out of sigils, create sentient symbiotic shields, bring energetic familiars to life, animate objects, golems to protect your home and loved ones.

www.marknecampjr.com

Robb Stabler

Workshop

Cord & Candle Magic

I am Robb- a witch, a Wiccan initiate, mechanical engineer, traveler, and explorer of life to the fullest. I have been a Pagan all of my life. My mom made my first robe when I was 13 and I have never looked back or doubted my Path to the Divine.

I love experiencing new things, listening to people’s perspective on magick, anything that enlightens my spirit and challenges my soul.

I am going to host a short workshop on two of the “Old Ways” to raise power and send it out to the universe. We will be covering two my favorites- cord magick, and a staple in any witch’s hat, candle magick.

I hope to give some new insight to Old School Ways to cause change. May you always push your boundaries and explore the unknown.

Rose Crow

Workshop

Holistic Magic

RoseCrow is a local Intuitive Reader, occult instructor and Founder/High Priestess of the Temple of Ma’at, Knoxville. She runs a private Dianic coven called Priesthood of the Sacred Earth, where the principles of Holistic Magick feature prominently in our work. She has been a practicing Witch and Ceremonial Magician for 35 years.

Her workshop explores the basic principles of a Holistic Magick Practice. Most modern Hermetic systems are heavily based in dualist theology, a seemingly endless battle between good & evil which also creates a disconnect between Above & Below by referring to one as Sacred and the other Profane. In Holistic Magick, we begin the process of deconstructing how we approach all traditional binaries & polarities, so that we can achieve a whole and inclusive practice, whether spiritual, magickal or both.  Our focus is on awakening the Sacred in the Land and Energies around us, uniting Above & Below.

Temple of Ma’at Knoxville on Facebook

Seraphina

Workshop

Plant Spirit Communication

Seraphina is a cofounder and president of Ekstasis, a local nonprofit focused on community and education in the witchcraft community. She been practicing witchcraft for 20 years and identifies as an herbalist, traditional witch, and folk practitioner. Her practice heavily incorporates plant spirits, land spirits, and the movement and manipulation of raw energy.

Outside of her witchcraft practice, she is a mother to a 3 year old, and works in the film industry and at a native plant nursery.

In Communicating with Plant Spirits, Seraphina will show you how she practices communicating with and learning from the plants themselves, and you will get to experience that method for yourself. This class will have both an informational and practical portion, so you can apply your newfound knowledge to your own practice!

Scruffy City Sisters

Community Outreach

Voter Registration & Advocacy table

The Scruffy City Sisters are a community-based organization of LGBTQIA+ Nuns, Guards, and Guardian Angels who use the tools of education, activism, visibility, sexuality, and humor to uplift, support, and bring joy to all people we encounter.

The Scruffy City Sisters work to spread joy and acceptance through our visibility, and, each with their own individual missions, our Nuns, Guards, and Guardian Angels are united in a vison of a strongly united, equitable, and open-minded Knoxville community.

Note: the Sisters will be set up inside

www.scruffycitysisters.org