The Land Stewards Membership
A monthly membership hosted by Alice McCready and guest experts, to reconnect you to your local landscape and reignite the wisdom of oral traditions from our ancestors in the British Isles, returning us to our rightful places as stewards and custodians of nature.
Teaching Topics:
Land & Water Healing
Plant Lore & Medicine Making
Ethical Foraging
Stars of the Northern Hemipshere
The Otherworld
Animal Teachers
Myth, Folklore & Folksong
Art of Creation
My Why:
I find it strange within Western spirituality that we can often name many deities found in far-off lands, but we often can’t name the trees in our gardens, the stars from our hemisphere and the animals who roam in our last wild areas. I feel that due to colonisation and homogenisation of our native British knowledge throughout history, we have lost that important practise of reverence and familiarity with our natural world, which means we have lost our place as stewards. With our world in climate and social crisis, it feels more important than ever to reweave ourselves back into our local landscapes and the sanctity of our oral traditions and rituals in order to protect nature and innocent life.
I want to be the wizened old crone who takes her grandchild on walks into the forest to teach them the lore of trees, the medicine in plants and our kin in the otherworld. I want the knowledge that has skipped too many generations to bleed back into my veins and permeate through those who come next. I want to honour the land that holds me and teach others to do the same thing. We have gaps in our knowledge in the West, it’s time to come back into apprenticeship with the land, and this is where you can start doing that in an easy and accessible way.
This is for you if:
You have studied different traditions from around the world but want to come back to your native ancestral knowledge.
You feel you have gaps in your knowledge around your local plants, stars, animals, myths and folklore.
You want to develop your intuitive connection to the land and water to help bring healing and balance to where you live.
You are in the British diaspora and want a way to help connect with your native lands.
You want to be a wizened old grandma/grandpa who passes on the lost knowledge from our ancestors to future generations.
You want to learn how to steward and care for your local landscape and your more-than-human kin.
You want to develop your spiritual connection to the web of life and the otherworld.
You want to care for streams, rivers, springs in a practical and spiritual way.
You want to meet like-minded people who want to steward and care for the land and our native spiritual inheritance.
You want to pilgrimage to the sacred sites of the UK.
You want to protect life, innocence, nature and creativity.
Imagine this…
You feel deeply connected to the land, you know the names of the plants by your feet and the birds soaring in the heavens. You speak with trees, deer and spirits that roam and protect the land. You can feel that you are an extension of an animate landscape which you know how to steward and care for. You no longer feel gaps in your knowledge or a disconnection to your cultural past; you feel grounded in your spiritual inheritance. You are walking with the old ways and reigniting oral traditions, passing on wisdom that has too long been absent from the tongues of your ancestors. In your old age, you are the one people call for remedies for a broken heart or a fever; you become the wise old grandparent you wish had passed all of this on to you.
What’s Included:
Monthly Stewardship Teaching Workshop
Every month you will have the chance to join an educational workshop around how to be a steward of nature and work with healing the land and your connection to it.
Monthly Ceremony or Wheel of the Year Celebration
Eight times per year, we will meet for the wheel of the year celebrations, the Celtic and Anglo-Saxon high holy days to honour nature, her stories and the turning of the seasons. On the months where there are no festivals, we will meet for a regular ceremony and sharing space with chances to ask Alice questions.
Stewarding Community
With Like-minded Souls
Within the membership, you will meet like-minded souls who also want to show up as stewards of their local land and spiritual inheritance. There is a dedicated community space for you to share and meet new individuals like yourself.
Plus Bonus Material:
Alice has created a catalogue of practitioners, artists, books and writers who she feels are helping us reweave ourselves back into local landscapes and highlighting the importance of native knowledge and oral traditions. Once inside the membership, you will receive bonus material including this catalogue and a book list.
Upcoming Dates
August 6th
Opening Lammas
Ceremony
7PM UKT
September 10th
Spiritual History of
The British Isles & Europe
With Gabriela Gutierrez
7PM UKT
August 27th
Intro to Stewardship
Workshop
7PM UKT
September 21st
Autumn Equinox
Ceremony
7PM UKT
Join us before August 6th to attend our opening Lammas Ceremony Live!
This ceremony will be hosted by Alice and will be celebrating the Celtic festival of Lammas or Lughnasad, reflecting on what has come to fruition since Imbolc, what dreams have formed or are still forming. How has the season of planting, growing and harvesting been reflected in our inner world. In this ceremony, we will also be delving into which plant, star and animal we will be learning about and working with for August.
Become a Steward Now
LAND STEWARDS MEMBERSHIP
£22 / Month
Anytime access to the video-recorded library and upcoming events, plus bonus material.
Two calls per month, one ceremony and one teaching workshop with a specialist.
Membership community area to meet new people and share your stewarding journey.
On-demand and cancelable anytime!
OR
ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP WITH ONE MONTH FREE
£244 / Annual
Anytime access to the video content.
Two calls per month, one ceremony and one teaching workshop with a specialist.
Membership community area to meet new people and share your stewarding journey.
On-demand and cancelable anytime!
PLUS get one month free!
Your Questions, Answered
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Yes, even if you start much later than our initial start date, you will have a back catalogue of sessions on demand.
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As long as you are part of the membership, you will have access to all the material.
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Yes, of course.
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No, you are very welcome no matter where you are from, just know that the land stewardship practises will be contextualised in the UK.
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Not at all, I would say it would help if you have European heritage or have lived in Europe, as this is where the information is contextualised; however, this is an open space for anyone wanting to learn how to be a steward of the earth.
