Hey everyone, welcome back to Seeking Witchcraft. I'm your host, Ashley, and today I have on Irene Glass to discuss how to facilitate group ritual with members of different paths. Welcome Irene to the show.

Oh, thank you so much for having me, Ashley. And hello, everyone. If you haven't met me before, I am a community organizer that is primarily located in Western Maryland. I've been leading groups and leading group rituals as a result for 30-ish years now.

So this is a subject that I'm really excited about and passionate about, and it's also one that I just ended up having a lot of experience with. I feel like

there's a funny thing where witches end up specializing, sometimes in an area that they really

didn't plan on necessarily. And as it turns out, I'm a community witch. It's what I really love.

So group ritual, well, that's a big part of it. And I must say, I have had the honor of being in

a number of the group rituals that you have

facilitated and they are quite fantastic if I don't say so myself.

Thank you so much. I'm so glad you enjoy them.

Of course. I'm really excited to talk about this. And when we were discussing this episode in

general, I was thinking about how I think this is going to be useful

for not only those who are interested in public pagan rituals, but also learning how to work

with others in the broader community. For example, I know of at least one listener who had,

she listened to the show and she really enjoyed it and she got more involved with her path.

And then she reached

out and found some local witches who were complete strangers at one point. And they all came together

and they started their own little eclectic coven. But each of the members had completely different

beliefs and paths and interest. And so she would talk about how they were a cohesive covet, even though

one person was an atheist, one person was Wiccan, one person followed Norse deities,

one person was more this and one person was more of that. So it was really cool to hear about that and

just learning how to work with others in a broader context. So I think that

this episode is actually going to be quite generalizable in that sense as well. But Irene is a

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