*“This training will only deepen whatever you already know and believe and certainly it will better your experience in being human.”*

***Web of Life calls to all who are already serving and supporting your Earth honoring community to join this adventure of spirit and connection!***

During difficult times, community is essential. Now is the time to deepen your roots of connections within your Earth honoring Life as an ordained Animist Minister. Web of Life seeks those who serve pagan, queer, intuitive and creative communities who know that human rights and social justice are part of spirituality.

##### **ANIMIST MINISTER ORDAINMENT TRAINING DATES**

**Training begins on Sunday, Nov 17, 2024 in zoom**
**Meetings are 1st and 3rd Sundays- 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. PT/AZ/MST* through Oct 19, 2025**
**(*during Standard time: 9am-11am PT, 10am MT, 11am-1pm CT, noon-2pm ET)**

*Program created and facilitated by Quynn Red Mountain, founder of Web of Life Animist Church.*

**We are all connected in the Sacred Web of Life.**
**Support your Earth honoring community by becoming a legally Ordained Minister.**

Earth Web Media’s [Web of Life church](https://weboflifeanimists.com/web-of-life-church/) was founded to empower and protect the “spiritual” beliefs, social/eco justice practice, healing work and Earth honoring life ways of those who know they are connected in the web of life, and that the variety of these ways are equal to what others call their “religion”.

#### **TOPICS COVERED**

**As an Animist Minister, Your Nature of Service is Unique to YOU and helps you Support, Embody and Promote the following Animistic ideas in the world around you.**
Throughout the year we will approach each topic of Ministry in our live meetings with discussion, introspection and community support exercises.

**Your Ancestry and Personal Agency will guide you as you focus on the following important subjects:**

1. Animism as a multifaceted Life Way- Being in community with Stones, Water, Trees, Earth, Storms, Ideas and all of the Web of Life
2. Earth Prayers and Advocacy for Navigating our Way Forward-Sacredness is Everywhere and is in All Things/Beings
3. Exploring Careful and Protected “Clearing” Practices of Space, Mind, Place and Body
4. Gender We/They Wisdom Protected, Valued and Shared
5. Gratitude for, and building relationship with, Land, Plant and Animal Teachers in Respectful Ways
6. Dispelling Colonized Mind (Internalized Racism and White/Religious/Male/Human Supremacy) in Personal and Cultural Consciousness
7. Demystifying our Relationship with Plants as Nourishment and Medicine for Body, Soul, Culture and Species
8. Enhancing our Relationship with the various Realms of Reality, the Sacred Directions, as revealed to us
9. Offering Gratitude to the Four (or more) Elements and Seasons
10. Honoring and Healing Lineage, Ancestors and DNA Healing
11. Animist ways to support others during trauma, challenge, grief and change
12. Marking and Honoring Rites of Passage (ones we want, and ones we don’t)
13. Strengthening voice and action for Environmental/Racial and Social Justice in volatile times
14. Words and Actions to support community during divisive challenges w/ multiple views
15. Birth, Life and Death Tending through Nature honoring Practices
16. Listening to Sickness and Feeding Wellness in Mind, Body and Spirit of Individual, Culture and Systems
17. Facilitating Physical and Non-Physical World Communication
18. Intuition, Empathy, Divination and how it comes through you
19. Animist Strength, Power, Resilience and Justice for Now and Coming Generations
20. Trance Induction and “Spirit” World Relationship Maintenance
21. Soul Restoration as Necessary Medicine for the Collective
22. Healing our Wounded Relationship with Prayer through Trance, Rhythm, Dance and Song
23. Art is Life- What is YOUR Art? Art shares Truth back to the Community
24. Sharing Ritual and Ceremony grounded in Lineages and Direct Revelation that Supports and Reflects your Community

##### This training is open to Plant Medicine Practitioners

**Plant Medicine Practitioners=**Minister candidates who incorporate Plant Medicine* in their personal path and plan on supporting congregants as they prepare for, and integrate the wisdom of, Plant Teachers.
Participants in this group do not have to be students of Plant Teachers.

**You are invited to check out all details, sliding scale donation info, and application, found here:**
**[https://weboflifeanimists.com/product/animist-minister-ordainment-training/](https://weboflifeanimists.com/product/animist-minister-ordainment-training/)**