AWC 2025 Sessions & Presenters

Witch Between Worlds: Care, Grief and the Hidden Path

8.00pm Friday 19 September

This workshop blends personal storytelling with collective reflection, creating a space for those caring for others (children, ageing parents, partners etc) to honour their often unseen labour, grief, and magick. Participants will be invited to explore their own lived mythologies of caregiving, liminality, and loss.

• A journal will be required for writing exercises during the session

Sionnan (Presenter)

Sionnan is a witch, ritualist, and community builder with over 30 years’ experience in the Australian pagan and witchcraft community. Founder of The Pagan Fringe, she blends folk magic, lived experience, and practical spirituality in her work. Based in Western Sydney, her magical path is anchored in the liminal spaces between motherhood, elder care, and her own spiritual practice.

Stories and memories: structures and methods used in community archiving

9.05am Saturday 20 September

How do we keep (or not keep) the memories and stories of the Australian Pagan Community and how do we share them (or not) with others? One size doesn’t fit all. This presentation aims to discuss different methods and models of community archiving from decentralised and decolonised personal and family archiving approaches to community and centralised archival models.

Adrianne Harris (Presenter)

Wiccan, witch, activist and archivist. Adrianne has previously assisted in organising several AWC’s along with presenting on topics such as archiving, magical activism and sigil making and interpreting signals in nature. She is currently researching ways that communities keep their memories, stories and records, building on her earlier research into the importance of archival practices in decentralised communities, such as the Australian Pagan Community.

The Night Queen: Shamanic Witchcraft for Today

10.30am Saturday 20 September

This workshop investigates the hidden path of the Queen of the Night and the Society of Diana through the ancient Greek, Roman, and Christian periods. It continues through the suppression of the Night Queen’s followers during the European Witch Trials, to their re-emergence in the late 19th century with Diana’s daughter, Aradia, and the rise of modern Wiccan witchcraft. After providing the historical background the workshop will facilitate astral journeys that re-connect participants with archetypal figures associated with the Queen of the Night and her human protégés, the Society of Diana. Emphasis will be on the importance of cultivating the individual inner journey, dreams, imagination, night flying, and the personal and collective unconscious as sources of knowledge.

Caroline Tully (Presenter)

Caroline Tully is a Pagan and Witch who is also an archaeologist and curator. She has many areas of interest including ancient Mediterranean religions, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Thelema, and contemporary Paganisms, particularly Witchcraft and Pagan Reconstructionism. Caroline is an expert on tree worship in the Bronze Age Aegean, Levant, Egypt and Cyprus, and has strong interests in the Environmental Humanities, nature, landscape, animism, ecology, and ecofeminism.

The Celtic Circles of Stone and Myth

1.30pm Saturday 20 September

Learn about stone formations both in Australia and Ireland and their connection to land they stand on. This workshop will bring in astrological markers and stories of an elder age.

Dolmenstone (Presenter)

Originally from Sligo Ireland, the wonderful Yates Country. Dolmenstone’s
practice is Druidry following the Irish Celtic version keeping as it does with the story myths and landscape of Ireland.
His path brings him to Australia and its wide divergent spiritual views and Aboriginal beliefs and practices.

From Story to Sigil

2.45pm Saturday 20 September

Explore and discuss how to create, build and utilise sigils that tell a story. A useful process and tool for group rituals and spellwork, story sigils tap into the creative side of magical practice. Learn about the story sigil that features in this year’s AWC Spring Equinox ritual.

Gabby Cleary (Presenter)

Gabby is a Wiccan, witch, writer and musician from Sydney. She is passionate about exploring elements of ritual as a way enhancing magical and spiritual practices. She is one of the founders of Applegrove and has presented at many pagan gatherings and AWCs.

Exploring Sacred Archetypes of the Ritual Year

9.45am Sunday 21 September

Asherah (Presenter)

Asherah is a Sydney based witch who has been practising since the late 90s, and has been a member of the Sydney Pagan Community since the early 00’s. She has an eclectic background studying elemental magic, various scrying techniques, reiki healing, Italian folk magic and British Traditional Witchcraft. Asherah enjoys visiting ancient places of worship, magpieing cool stones, creating pieces of pottery and podcasting with her friends. She also volunteers her time with the Pagan Awareness Network and AWC Inc.

The Hidden Path Meditation: Myth, Story, and Witchcraft in Australia

Bec Hearne (Presenter)

11.30am Sunday 21 September

Bec is a Wiradjuri woman and Eclectic Witch

An online circle meditation that explores the myths and stories woven into Australian witchcraft. Through guided journeying and reflection, participants will walk the Hidden Path to encounter wisdom, connection, and the diverse voices that shape practice on this land.

Arthurian Tarot Story

1.45pm Sunday 20 September

David Garland (Presenter)

David is the President and founder of Pagan Awareness Network.