encant - elder

Jan 13	Wed 13th Jan 2027 5am – Wed 3rd Mar 2027, 5am EST (UTC -05:00)

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soul animism tom hirons encant poetry

Hosted by	Tom Hirons
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Enquiries to	tom@tomhirons.com
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Our blood is a river of spirits. Our bones and marrow carry the memory of where we have come from, who we once were, and how and where we lived before our estrangement. Before the village. Beyond the edge of our memories within modernity. We carry the memory of Home; we also carry the heartbreak of our Homelessness. These two streams of remembering are the foundations of encant.

encant is an 8-week course on the study and practice of the poetics of an inner animism, in which we reclaim poetry as an energetic and spiritual practice of remembering, true-speaking, awakening and perhaps even spell-making and prophecy.

In the world of encant, a good poem is one that carries potency across space and time; words that cause the spirits to attend. During this course, we'll be exploring how we can create such multidimensional objects, how we can invite them and refine them.

Well, that all sounds fantastic and vague. What does this actually look like?

The course includes:

Eight weekly 2-hour video calls in which we’ll move along a pathway from practices of attention and awakening through the arts of encanting (or composition) and the craft of refinement (or editing), to arrive at practices of transmission - how to speak our words to the worlds beyond and within us.
Three 90-minute community calls, sharing work with peers and building connection with our encant cohort.
One 1-hr mentoring session (or two 30-minute sessions) with me.
Access to course materials, including recordings of the calls and further written and recorded material on the subjects covered, and the encant social space on our Discord, plus a dedicated channel for your group.

This encant group have their calls on Wednesday mornings (10 am UK time) - if an evening session would work better for you, check out the encant (Fir) cohort, who have their calls on the same day as elder, but at 8pm (UK time.) Hopefully, one of those groups will work for your timezone!

NOTE: It's great if you can make all the calls, but nothing terrible is going to happen if you don't. Everything will be available for you to catch up and also you can just dip back in with no stress. This isn't school or college.

I'd love to see you there! Do get in touch if you have any questions, or take the plunge and sign up now!

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Refunds: Cancellations for any reason are hard on the participant and organisers, but we understand the unpredictability of life, and we are keen to run our organisation in a way that's humane  and also sustainable.

If you cancel three weeks or more before the start date of your course, you will receive a full refund of your course fee. No problem.

If you cancel within three weeks of the start of your course, we'll do our best to fill your place. If you can find someone to take your place and let us know when you cancel, we'll just swap them for you and refund your full fee. If we do the searching and fill the space, we'll refund your fee minus a £50 admin fee. If we can't fill your place before the course begins at all, we'll refund your fee minus the lowest end of the sliding scale for your course (ie you pay for the lowest end of the sliding scale and get back anything you paid above that.) 

If you wish to defer to the next run of the course, we'll treat that as a cancellation and put you on the advance notice list for the next run. Refunds are as standard cancellations.

tl;dr - if you have to cancel, do it more than three weeks before the course or make sure you can find a replacement!

If we have to cancel the course for any reason, you will be offered the choice of a deferred place for the next run, or a full refund.

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