Courses

Treadwell’s hosts classes and courses, presented by experienced and gifted practitioners at our invitation. Booking in advance is essential, and is made with payment. For most courses we have a non-refundable deposit. If you sign up to a course but discover doesn't suit you, you can just let Treadwell's know after the first class and we will gladly issue a full refund. We have an archive of past courses, and you can also subscribe to our mailing list.

04 September 10 (Saturday) Your Own Hypnosis and Trance-Induction: Intermediate Level Mark Smith This three-hour afternoon intensive is for those who have attended one of Mark Smith's introductory workshop evenings and want to go further. Magical technique -- in ritual, meditation or concentration -- needs to work on the patterns of the unconscious mind. Mark Smith is magical practitioner who is also a clinical hypnotherapist, and  the practical exercises through the afternoon mean you can immediately apply the methods learnt here. Mark is a professional clinical hypnotherapist, professional drummer, gym addict and chaos magician. This course is held due to popular demand from his introductory workshops. Price: £15.00 Time: 2.00 pm to 5.00 pm

06 September 10 (Monday) Learning the Tarot: Foundation Course for Beginners Diana Taylor Learn how to read and work with the tarot card tradition with a gifted, experienced teacher. In an active lively class, you progress from basics to more complex classic tarot, grounded in mystical symbolism. Includes homework, handouts, and backup support. By the end of the course students can do basic readings for others and use tarot in meditation. Bring a Rider-Waite deck or similar. Tutor: Diana Taylor has been reading tarot for 14 years following her training in the Western tradition, and has continued her studies with teachers such as Rachel Pollack. Eight Mondays, with breaks for bank holidays. You can look over the course outline and learn more about the tutor, Diana Taylor. Price: £160 (£80 deposit, balance due on first night) Time: 7.15 pm to 9.15 pm

07 September 10 (Tuesday) History of Western Magic: Eight Week Lecture and Seminar Course Christina Oakley Harrington Sorry, this is now Sold Out. Spanning the millennia from Stonehenge to Emerald Tablet to Grimoires, Golden Dawn, Crowley, Wicca and Chaos, this course traces both historical development of Western magic, and the core ideas in Western Esotericism. Students will come away with a solid knowledge of the roots underpinning the main magical traditions today. This course is for those with a desire for a solid foundation in Western Magic with a historical basis. Each evening will consist of an illustrated lecture (50-minutes) and a seminar discussion. There will be reading assignments, handouts, and an extensive reading list. Applicants need to comfortable reading academic and popular prose, and be prepared to do about four hours of reading weekly. Tutor: Christina Oakley Harrington, PhD, is a former university lecturer in history and religion, also a longstanding practicing pagan. To enrol: email Treadwell's with 'History of Magic Course' in heading, to receive email application form. Price: £160 (£80 deposit, balance due on first night) Time: 7.15 for a 7.30 start

10 September 10 (Friday) Some Secret Place: Pagan Ritual Evening Peter James Mahoney & friends Monthly pagan ritual evenings for solitary witches and solitary pagans  looking to explore group ritual. Made up of some talk, some small group discussion on devotion, ceremony, spirituality, and relationship with deity. It is suitable for people who have, or are developing, a spiritual life in witchcraft and/or paganism. Group size is small - maximum 17 people.  You can come once, regularly, or intermittently. Email Peter with any questions or for more information. (NOTE: not suitable for people who are unfamiliar with the ideas of paganism. Absolute beginners can contact Treadwell's for suggested resources. We are happy to help!) Price: £7.00 Time: 7.15 for a 7.30 start

16 September 10 (Thursday) Your Own Hypnosis and Trance-Induction: methods for magicians, pagans and shamanic workers Mark Smith Sorry this is now Sold Out. Mark Smith leads an evening workshop on methods of hypnosis to induce using trance states and to work on the patterns of your unconscious mind in your magical practice. It\'s an evening in which a magical practitioner who is also a clinical hypnotherapist will share techniques you can use to enhance visualisations and pathworkings and to intensify your ritual workings -- whether you work in chaos magic, Shamanic journeying, general meditation or witchcraft. it will go through the three levels of trance; trance induction and deepening including visual (sight), auditory (sound) and kinaesthetic (touch). Plus fractionation techniques, fixation techniques and progressive relaxation. Practical exercises through the evening mean you can immediately apply these methods. Mark is a professional clinical hypnotherapist, professional drummer, gym addict and chaos magician. A rare opportunity from someone with a remarkable blend of experience and skill. Price: £7.00 Time: 7.15 for a 7.30 start

16 October 10 (Saturday) Healing with Herbs, Seventeenth-Century Style: An Afternoon Course Julie Wakefield Learn and make plant-based remedies from the 1600s at this lively practical day course. First is a look at the sources: Culpeper and Gerard's herbals, and the recipe books of gentlewomen, and then you will recreate some of the remedies yourself and sample a few of them. And what about magic? We will look at 17th-century astrological herbalism and the plants used at that thime in folk magic (said to be used in cursing, even!), and those plants used by people for protection. Your tutor is Julie Wakefield, a London-based freelancer who gives lectures and museum events on subjects related to historic medicine; she has worked at the Museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and the Old Operating Theatre & Herb Garret, where she gained her knowledge of the historic use of natural ingredients in medicine. She studied History, and History of Art at Newnham College, Cambridge and has worked in a number of other museums including the National Maritime Museum. Handouts and samples are all included, and you can take home your potions at the end. (Note: If you are pregnant you will not be able to the remedies). Price: £25.00 Time: 1.30 - 5.00 pm

20 October 10 (Wednesday) Dark Night of the Soul: Pagan Spirituality in the Encounter with Despair Tonya P. An evening mini-workshop exploring the well-known phenomenon of the 'dark night of the soul' from a pagan perspective. The spiritual or magical life inevitably leads, one way or another, to an experience of loss, desolation, despair. Essential for the individual's journey, it is nevertheless a painful period. Tonight brings a pagan perspective, drawing on the insights of ancient and contemporary practitioners. Price: £7.00 Time: 7.15 for a 7.30 start

27 October 10 (Wednesday) Learning the Tarot: Foundation Course for Beginners Sue Merlyn Farebrother This intensive, engaging class offers a solid grounding in classic tarot. The mystical symbolism, the key archetypes and the card meanings are all taught in a vibrant class, by a tutor with 30 years experience. Classes have diverse activities: lecture, discussion, pair-work, meditation, and practice sessions, so that you will finish the course able to do basic tarot readings and use it in personal work. You receive handouts and back-up support, and homework and memorisation is expected. Bring a Rider-Waite deck or similar. Tutor: Sue Merlyn Farebrother has been reading tarot for 30 years, and teaching for over ten. Also an accredited psychologist with a Master’s in Cultural Astronomy, she brings intelligent acuity to her teaching – and a wonderful dry sense of humour. This is her fifth year teaching at Treadwell’s. You can look over the course outline and learn more about Sue Merlyn Farebrother. Eight Wednesdays. Price: £160 (£80 deposit, balance due on first night) Time: 7.00 pm to 9.30 pm

02 November 10 (Tuesday) The Path of Witchcraft: Religio, Mystes, Gnosis Treadwells A series of seven evenings exploring central mysteries of this art. Some call it spiritual, some call it sorcerous. Seven evenings of talks, questions, discussions and challenges on what it means to follow the crooked path, the winding way, down into the witch traditions. Covering numerous approaches, with visitations to the realms of the cunning folk, Cochrane, Gardner, Chumbley, Valiente, Starhawk, Sanders and Jack Parsons. Sorcerous Origins (History), Rites of Power and Praxis (The Circle and Ritual), Horned Skulls (God), Blooded Crescents (Goddess), Impeccability (Philosophical and ethical commentary), Gnosis (Initiation), Silence of Oaths and Sigils, Transgression, Tradition. Enrolment on this course is open to applicants who have been following a pagan or magical path for a minimum of 3 years. For application form email info@treadwells-london.com, noting 'Witchcraft Course'. Limited to 14 places. Price: £140 (£70 deposit, balance due on first night) Time: 7.15 for a 7.30 start