Women in Druidry Conference
If you were to ask someone to describe an historical Druid, most would overwhelmingly paint a picture of a wise old man with a long grey beard and white flowing robes, but this tells only part of the story.
An elite and learned social caste in ancient Celtic cultures, Druids enjoyed many privileges – such as exemption from taxes and from serving during war – and were accorded a great amount of honor and social power.
They were priests and augurs, teachers and judges, transmitters of history, and holders of sacred memory.
They were educated and deeply respected men, to be sure…
And, they were also women.
As part of an effort to broaden the general understanding and depiction of ancient Druids to include the women who earned this status, as well as to amplify the voices of women who walk a modern-day druidic path, The Coracle and the Sisterhood of Avalon are proud to be hosting the Women in Druidry Conference.
In what we hope will become an annual offering, we have gathered together accomplished women practitioners, leaders, authors, and teachers representing a variety of modern Druidic (and Druid-adjacent) orders and traditions. Together, we will explore Druidic beliefs and traditions, discuss the differences and similarities between these modern pathways, and share some personal experiences and insights about walking a Druidic path as a female practitioner.
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Past Events:
2024 Keynote Speaker
Cerri Lee - Could Animism Save the Planet?
Druid, artist, writer, and ritualist
Cerri Lee describes herself first and formost as a Druid, but is also an artist, sometime writer, gardener, and recently thinks herself a filmaker, though this might be delusions of grandure on her part, it’s only Youtube videos after all. She lives in Sussex in the U.K with her husband Damh the Bard. She has been a druid with OBOD since 1997, running a grove, public ceremonies, workshops, camps and conferences over that time. Her greatest loves (apart from her family) lie in her relationship with the land and the enduring human need to interpret our relationship with the Earth through art of all kinds.
Website: https://www.cerrilee.com
2024 Workshops
How an Ancient Druid Isle Saved My Life
Tiffany Lazic (RP. BAA) is a Registered Psychotherapist, Spiritual Director, and Certified Havening Techniques Practitioner with a private practice in individual, couples and group therapy. She is the founder of the Soul Alchemist Academy offering online courses in personal transformation, energy healing and psychopomp work. An international presenter, retreat facilitator, keynote speaker, and author, Tiffany has been a member of the Sisterhood of Avalon since 2007. She served as Hearth Mother to Kitchener’s Aelwyd am Gwenyen Arian Novice Hearth and currently serves on the SOA Council of Nine as Lorekeeper Matron. In 2022, Tiffany transplanted her deeply entrenched Canadian roots to the welcoming shores of Anglesey, a move that fulfilled a lifelong dream.
Website: https://www.tiffanylazic.com
Your Body as Portal
Fearn Lickfield is a Druid priestess, faery seer, earth diviner, temple tender, magical activist, geomancer, and gardener. She is the director and head teacher of The Green Mountain Druid School, chief of the Green Mountain Druid Order, and founder of Ecstatic Dance Vermont. She holds sacred space for community celebration and ceremony in honor of the earth and waters, the seasons, and for rites of passage. Fearn is the steward of Dreamland Sanctuary in Worcester VT.
2024 Panelists
Peyton Belunek
Peyton Belunek is a Druid, naturalist, and energy worker with a passion for helping people become integrated members of their local ecosystems.
Sharon Bennett
Sharon Bennett has been practicing a nature path for 30 years. The last few years she has been following a Druidry Path and is a member of The Isle of Wight Order of Druids and currently lives in a tiny home on wheels in North Canterbury New Zealand.
Xácia Ceive
Xácia Ceive is a child of the boricua diaspora and lives in Galiza where she has been a caminhante of the Irmandade Druídica Galaica since 2017. As a writer, activist, and principal organiser of Sete Outeiros, she weaves her decolonial and transgender activism into her religious and spiritual practice.
Genevieve Drutchas
Genevieve Drutchas is a psychotherapist turned beekeeper and medicinemaker and a traveler turned rural nester. A lifelong student of the mysteries from an earth-based perspective, she came to Druidry through a path of ancestral healing. She’s most interested in how we find our roots, support each other and heal together in late stage capitalism and patriarchy.
Tiffany Lazic
Tiffany Lazic (RP. BAA) is a Registered Psychotherapist, Spiritual Director, and Certified Havening Techniques Practitioner with a private practice in individual, couples and group therapy. She is the founder of the Soul Alchemist Academy offering online courses in personal transformation, energy healing and psychopomp work. An international presenter, retreat facilitator, keynote speaker, and author, Tiffany has been a member of the Sisterhood of Avalon since 2007. She served as Hearth Mother to Kitchener’s Aelwyd am Gwenyen Arian Novice Hearth and currently serves on the SOA Council of Nine as Lorekeeper Matron. In 2022, Tiffany transplanted her deeply entrenched Canadian roots to the welcoming shores of Anglesey, a move that fulfilled a lifelong dream.
Website: https://www.tiffanylazic.com
Cerri Lee
Druid, artist, writer, and ritualist
Cerri Lee describes herself first and formost as a Druid, but is also an artist, sometime writer, gardener, and recently thinks herself a filmaker, though this might be delusions of grandure on her part, it’s only Youtube videos after all. She lives in Sussex in the U.K with her husband Damh the Bard. She has been a druid with OBOD since 1997, running a grove, public ceremonies, workshops, camps and conferences over that time. Her greatest loves (apart from her family) lie in her relationship with the land and the enduring human need to interpret our relationship with the Earth through art of all kinds.
Website: https://www.cerrilee.com
Fearn Lickfield
Fearn Lickfield is a Druid priestess, faery seer, earth diviner, temple tender, magical activist, geomancer, and gardener. She is the director and head teacher of The Green Mountain Druid School, chief of the Green Mountain Druid Order, and founder of Ecstatic Dance Vermont. She holds sacred space for community celebration and ceremony in honor of the earth and waters, the seasons, and for rites of passage. Fearn is the steward of Dreamland Sanctuary in Worcester VT.
Alva Möre
Alva Möre is a Pagan whose current focus is the Iberian Tradition. She is the co-founder of the Temple of Inanna that she now manages with an international team. Alva is part of the community of the Assembly of the Lusitanian Druidic Tradition.
Jhenah Telyndru
Jhenah Telyndru is an author, speaker, and educator. She is the founder of the Sisterhood of Avalon, a Celtic women’s mysteries organization with world-wide membership. A priestess in the Avalonian Tradition for over 30 years, Jhenah has been following a Pagan path since 1986.
Website: https://www.ynysafallon.com
2024 Conference Host & Panel Moderator
Sydney Bell
Sydney Bell (MSW) is a psychotherapist, speaker, body-positivity advocate, and priestess in the Avalonian Tradition. She believes that by providing spaces to challenge oppressive beauty and health paradigms and instead promote body diversity and radical self-love, we can turn the tide against rampant body dissatisfaction and the negative health outcomes that go with it. Sydney currently resides in Canada.
Website: https://www.sydneybell.ca
