Project Areas of The Druid Network
The sections below describe the project areas of The Druid Network, written by the project manager or co-ordinator. We hope this page, with its brief vision statements, will not only inspire to explore the pages of the various project areas, but also to get involved, contributing your own skills, expertise, energy, ideas and experience.
Where a project area has no hyperlink, it either has no webpages or those pages are not currently operational. Contact details for project managers and co-ordinators are beneath each section.
Areas are listed in alphabetical order.
About Us
This section gives an outline of the nature and aims of The Druid Network, including its ethics and vision, its history and its hopes for the future. It describes the way the Network is run, and the magical Order at its core. It includes the Contacts and Vacancies page, our Constitution and astrological chart, Child Protection document, Disability and Deaf Access, Terms and Conditions of trade, and our statement of office ethics.
Office Team
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Networking Groups and Groves
A resource offered by TDN to connect druid groups and groves around the world - sharing inspiration and creativity.The role acts as a resource for those offering or seeking information on Groves and Groups.
Networking Groups and Groves Co-ordinator : Lynda Ryder
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Articles
A number of articles are presented here by various authors from around the globe. They are organised into interest areas. Subsections include Living Druidry, History, Mythology and Archaeology, Pagan Interfaith and Theology, Druidry and Christianity, Ethics and Politics, Education and Parenting, Crafts and Skills, Sacred Sites and The Sacred, and trancripts of some interviews with Druids.
Articles Pages Co-ordinator : Kevin Emmons
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Bardic Voices
These pages showcase the inspiration or awen of Druid Network bards and bards of the wider Druid community, with poems, prose and art contributed mainly by Druid Network members, but also others within the Druid community.
Bardic Pages Co-ordinator : Phil Ryder
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Beliefs and Definitions
The Beliefs pages are for expressing the many and varied aspects of Druidic belief and non-belief.
The Definitions pages are an attempt to explain and clarify terms in common usage among Druids but which are unknown or have different meanings in the wider world. This will hopefully create a definitive glossary of Druid-jargon for the enlightenment and inspiration of all.
If you have any contributions to make to either of these endeavours please feel free to send them in.
Beliefs and Definitions Coordinator : Volunteer Needed
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Book and CD Reviews
These pages are where we share reviews of the latest releases of books, music, film, TV and almost anything else available on CD, DVD and even MP3 - in fact, everything that is published that comes our way and that we consider of interest to the Druid community. This section is one where we seek to offer recommendations for classic texts and older items which have stood the test of time, as well as offering thoughts on contemporary items. We include purchasing information for all these items. Everything is indexed for ease of reference, and books are indexed by subject, author and title.
We are always grateful to receive submissions of works that you have read, listened to or seen that you would wish to share with others. If you know of a title that you think is of interest that we have not yet reviewed, then please write a review for us.
Reviews Co-ordinator Email
Brazil - Brasil
Emma Restall Orr's visit to Brazil in 2002 was the turning point for the development of Druidry in these lands. Initially coordinated by Claudio Quintino (Crow) - who was appointed by Emma as the Brazilian liaison for TDN -, the Brazilian section of the Druid Network website aims at providing Portuguese speakers translations of the most relevant texts and articles, as well as connecting interested people through gatherings, Druidic celebrations, rituals and courses advertised.
For further information, please contact the current coordinator for Brazil, Gûyratinga: Email
A visita ao Brasil de Emma Restall Orr em 2002 foi um grande marco para o desenvolvimento do druidismo nestas terras. Coordenada por Claudio Quintino (Crow) - indicado por Emma como representante da Druid Network no Brasil - a seção em português do site da TDN tem por escopo oferecer traduções dos mais importantes textos e artigos do site, bem como unir os interessados através dos encontros, celebrações druídicas, rituais e cursos apresentados.
Para maiores informações, contate a coordenadora atual para o Brasil, Gûyratinga: Email
Cymraeg (see Welsh Pages)
Celebrants Directory
The celebrants pages list groups and individuals who offer celebrant serivces for rights of passage. Anyone wishing to join this list is very welcome to get in touch. We are keen to list groups offering celebrant training and hope to expand this area to include celebrant support and study material in the future.
Contact The Celebrants Directory Coordinator
Deity and Mythology
This area of the website explores the gods that Druids revere and the mythologies that lie as an undercurrent to many Druids' religious and spiritual practice. It was created in December 2006 and is still in the early stages of creation.
Deity and Mythology Coordinator : Red Griffiths Haynes
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Druid Directory
The Directory is essential to how we see ourselves as a Network: linking people and groups that are interested, studying, and living Druidry. Each Order, independent grove, or other group that contacts us for inclusion is given its own space to describe itself. We hope in this way to present a wide variety of the ways Druidry is being lived today. Groups are filed by geographical location with a separate section for international groups.
A hardcopy form of the Directory was published by the British Druid Order in 2001. (http://www.druidorder.demon.co.uk/bdo_publications.htm).
Directory Coordinator: Bocan
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Dutch Pages
Currently this area has no co-ordinator.
Environment
Living in sacred relationship with our environment is essential to Druidry. The Environment section of the website aims to inform and inspire about wider environmental issues outside the home. (For home and lifestyle greening, take a look at the Ethical pages.)
We have articles written by lots of different thinkers about the forms Environmental action might take, and ideas for the future. Our Campaigns section holds pages with details of several current issues, in which we are aiming at an information-giving style to empower not harangue! We also have pages of Weblinks that might be useful or interesting to those interested in environmental issues, and an Events page with related listings.
Environment Co-ordinator : Nick Griffiths Haynes
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Environmental Projects
Environmental Projects is a new section, investigating what the Druid Network itself could uniquely add to the huge amount of work for the environment going on out there: practical work, awareness, work at the spirit level ...
All contributors are welcome to this developing aspect of the network.
Contact the Environmental Projects Co-ordinator
Español (see Spanish Pages)
Ethics and Ethical Living
This is our guide to living with consciousness by questioning both the nature and volume of our own daily consumption and re-assessing our role as individuals in transforming the fundamental inequalities in today's world economy. It is about challenging governments and industry to adopt greener policies by voting with our pounds/euros/dollars and ensuring that we demand products which neither exploit or pollute.
This area therefore includes articles and ideas on every aspect of daily living, helping us to have less impact on our own environment, in order that our choices make a difference in the wider environment. These pages are designed to inspire ourselves to ask "what is really important: our convenience or the future of the planet?"
We are also gathering articles on ethics in terms of honour and behaviour that is not related to consumerism, but to how we craft our relationships and attitudes.
Events
Events pages list meetings, workshops, courses, camps and more : a broad spread of events that have even a slight Druidic connection. Find out what's on next week, next month or even next year, or read reviews of past events. You can also submit details of events so others can know of it. There are two main pages for Britain and Europe and for North America with links to Events pages in other areas.
Events Coordinator: Chris Funderburg (Bocan)
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Forums
Our forums offer a secure password protected area within which members can discuss issues that either interest or concern them. The ‘General Forum’ is also accompanied by more focused forums that concentrate on specific areas, for example; the bardic arts, ovatic skills, environmental issues and contemporary druidry. It is planned that these areas will change and grow as use of the forums dictates.
Our aim is to provide a discussion area within which members feel comfortable and we constantly strive to make them as accessible, friendly and easy to use as possible. To this end we have minimal rules and ever-watchful Guardians to whom you can always turn for help.
Forums Coordinator : Phil Ryder
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Forums Administrator : David Orr
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French - Français
Les pages francophones du Druid Network donnent aux francophones l’opportunité d’accéder aux diverses bases de données du Druid Network. Vous pouvez donc y lire en français, des articles, écrits par différents druides francophones, des interviews. Vous pouvez y trouver des bases données sur les ressources en cd, en livres, magasines et autres, traitant de thèmes chers au druidisme. C’est aussi un espace agenda avec les rendez vous dans les régions francophones (Québec, Belgique, Suisse, etc.) et un répertoire des groupes existants et pratiquant dans notre langue. N’hésitez pas à surfez à votre aise, sur cet espace druidiquement international.
The French-speaking pages of The Druid Network give French speakers the chance to have access to various databases of The Druid Network. Thus, you can read there articles written by French-speaking druids and interviews, all in French. There you can find databases about the resources on CDs, in books, magazines and more. They deal with hot topics in druidry. It is also an datebook area with the meetings in the French-speaking regions - like Quebec, Belgium or Switzerland and so on... - and a directory of already existing groups speaking our language. Feel free to surf on this 'druidicly international' area when you feel like it.
Coordinatrice française: Caillu Brigana
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Globally Local
These pages are coordinated by members in various areas around the world, some in non-English languages.
Brazil - Brasil
Dutch
French - Français
New England and Atlantic Provinces (USA and Eastern Canada)
North America (Canada, Carribean, Greenland, Mexico and USA)
Northeastern Woodlands (USA)
Oceanic (Australia, New Zealand and the Islands)
Ohio Valley (USA)
Pacific North West (USA)
Rockies and Sierra Nevadas (USA)
Southcentral Woodlands (USA)
Southern Plains (USA)
Spanish - Español
Welsh - Cymraeg
Westview (Western Canada)
Interfaith
We live Druidry as a deep spiritual tradition, and find that we have a lot in common with others who live deeply inside their religious and spiritual traditions. This section includes articles, projects and links to other interfaith sites. By interacting with people of faith and spiritual conviction we can help improve understanding and tolerance, and also place Druidry within the public's perception as a valid path.
Interfaith co-ordinator: Mark Graham
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Interfaith Webpage Co-ordinator: Mark Rosher (bish)
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Learning Druidry
Taking the first steps into a tradition can often be daunting, so this project has been put together to help those who wish to learn more about the 'how' of Druidry.
Here, visitors will find information on both distance-learning and direct-learning courses, together with reviews of those courses. In addition, we are preparing a variety of articles, lessons, ideas and discussions from different authors will be presented to aid folk in their own journeys.
Learning Druidry Co-ordinator : Emma Restall Orr (bobcat)
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The Lightning Tree (Younger Members of the Network)
The Lightning Tree is an area of the Network created for and by young people. Here you'll find FAQs, reviews, inspirations and ideas, whether you're exploring Druidry for a school project, keen to contribute, or simply interested in the tradition.
Lightning Tree membership is free and individuals are encouraged to get involved as much as they wish. There are plans for gatherings in the future, and a more active teen scene at the Druid Network's annual Druid Camp.
Contact the Lightning Tree Co-ordinator : Email
The Druid Network has a working policy on ensuring an environment which is both respectful and protective for younger members of the Druid community.
Contact the Child Protection Officer for The Druid Network : Email
Members
This area is open to members only and provides opportunities for meeting others who are of like (and unlike!) mind in a safe and secure space.
The area includes access to shared member details as well as a forum for community, discussion and debate.
Members also have the opportunity of joining the Order of the Yew.
Membership Coordinator : Sue Bouvier
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New England and Atlantic Provinces (USA and Canada)
The New England and Atlantic Provinces section provides contact information for Druid Network members as well as other Druids in the North Eastern United States and Eastern Canada. There is a listing of local Druid events and contact information. We have a Bardic Voices page sharing the creative inspiration of members from the New World. We are always looking to add to our list of contacts and help expand and connect the Druid community.
NEA Members/Pages Co-ordinator : Kevin Emmons
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North America (Canada, Carribean, Greenland, Mexico and USA)
Stretching nearly from the Pole to the Equator, North America is a vast and varied land defined by surrounding oceans, mountainous backbone, great shoulders of open plains, dense woodlands, endless ice and tropical beaches. Its flora and fauna, including the humans who call it home, share that character of rich diversity. The North America pages form a hub of the Network that affirms at once the unity of the many geocultural regions, and their varied autonomy. Together they seek to begin to portray the long search for the meaning of Druidry as it exists across the vast expanses of this great continent.
For information about the area in general, email the office :
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As yet, the following of the many North American potential regions, have project co-ordinators and webpages:
New England and Atlantic Provinces
Northeastern Woodlands
Ohio Valley
Pacific North West
Rockies and Sierra Nevadas
Southcentral Woodlands
Southern Plains
Westview
Northeastern Woodlands (USA)
Northeastern Woodlans Co-ordinator : Oakwyse
Oceanic Pages
The Druid Network Oceania pages have been designed to provide information for Network members in the region, as well as to provide information for other people interested in the activities of the Druid Network.
This section of the site provides information on local Druidic and pagan groups, articles on and by pagans in the region, a short list of upcoming events, and even some discussions of differing ethical issues.
Contact the Oceanic Members/Pages Co-ordinator
Ohio Valley (USA)
In the Ohio Valley Region, we're working to connect area druids with each other, with druid groups, and with the land around us. We're striving to provide links to various resources - books, businesses, parks, forests, festivals, and more, that can be of use to those walking a druid path. Our hope is to become a valuable networking resource to all druids in the region. In working toward building community locally, our members are working with and supporting appropriate local charities, as well as reaching out to pagan and pagan-friendly groups.
Ohio Valley Members/Pages Co-ordinator : Darren Sycamore
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Order of the Yew
These pages hold the online home to the magical heart of the Druid Network. A community woven from the dedications, energy, intentions and commitments of its members, the Order is the source-spirit of the Network. Within these pages, one will find further information on its intention, how one can join as well as dedications and inspirations of its members. The Order is only open to those who have subscribed to The Druid Network.
Coordinators : Emma Restall Orr (Bobcat) and Rob Wilson
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Pacific North West (USA)
The Pacific Northwest region is located in Washington, Oregon and Northern California (USA). Our purpose is to provide valuable information and a sense of fellowship to both solitaries and groves throughout the area. Our long-term goal is to build a spiritual community.
Pacific North West Members/Pages Co-ordinator Email
Peace Projects
In Druidry we seek to live at the very deepest level of connection with ourselves, other beings and the world. This section of the website explores how we can live soulful peace, and how we work with the collision between our inner practice and the violent conflicted world. The pages offer practical suggestions and support as well as a space to extend discussion on these issues.
Peace Co-ordinator: Cathi Davis
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Rites and Rituals
The Rites pages offer gentle guidance and inspiration to celebrate the unfolding year. With notes exploring the eightfold cycle and the elements of ritual, a tapestry of seasonal rites is being created, spun from threads of rituals shared by the Network's Groves and other contributors.
Rites that honour and mark the cycles of our live such as weddings, the naming of children, the honouring of the dead, the closure of partnerships, and rites that bring healing, enabling us to walk our paths with truth and clarity, are also offered here.
Rites and Rituals Coordinator : Robin Herne
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Rockies and Sierra Nevadas (USA)
The Rocky Mountains Region covers Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and Southern California. Though the region's most obvious feature is its mountains, it also includes desert, high plains, and striking canyons.
The Rockies and Sierra Nevadas Region is rich with traditions, both living and past: a diversity of life, surviving parched deserts, harsh snowy alpine ecosystems, and colorful wildflower meadows, and those who actively practice or who seek a practice that honors the role that we play in a complex web, both individually and collectively.
The Rockies and Sierra Nevadas webpages seek to serve as a source of inspiration, information, and engagement with a larger community. These pages will also inform about resources, events and gatherings, groups, as well as revealing much about the unique traditions of place that make this region what it is.
You needn't identify yourself with any particular spiritual path to enjoy these pages. All that is asked is that you have true intentions, a recognition that we are all part of a larger community, and that honour and ethical living can be bound in each act that we carry out.
Southcentral Woodlands (USA)
Spanish Pages - Español
El conjunto de información que ofrece la sección de habla hispana de "The Druid Network", tiene como misión primordial brindar documentos, artículos, literatura en poesía o prosa druídica antigua o moderna, de la Awen de autores druídicos de antaño o contemporáneos, y cualquier tipo de expresión como eventos, talleres, actividades diversas o grupos dentro de la formación y espiritualidad druídica, tanto para España como para las zonas, áreas y países hispanoamericanos y para todos aquellos interesados en el Druidismo, estén donde estén ubicados, pero que hablen o entiendan español. Cualquier seguidor sincero de nuestra Espiritualidad puede colaborar con sus propias aportaciones y estaremos gustosos de entrar en contacto con ellos para que el Druidismo en el Mundo Hispano se configure como una espiritualidad digna de ser tenida en cuenta. También nos complacerá responder a preguntas e interrogantes sobre Druidismo que los lectores de estas páginas deseen hacernos.
The information that offers the Spanish section of The Druid Network has the fundamental mission of offering documents, articles, literature in poetry an old or modern Druid prose, of the Awen of ancient Druid authors or contemporaries, and any type of expression, like events, seminars, and diverse group activities within the Druid spirituality and formation for Spain, Latin America and all the hispanic people who are interested in Druidism, neverminding their location. Any sincere follower of our path may colaborate with their own writtings and we will be proud to contact them in order to make Druidism in the Hispanic world a spirituality to take in mind. We also like to answer questions about druidism to all our readers.
Spanish Members/Pages Co-ordinator : (in transition)
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Sacred Places
This area is dedicated to Sacred Places throughout the world - although, primarily, it concentrates on the British Isles. There are pages on Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Sites and many other places. Full details are given on the area index page. If you wish to see other sites listed apart from those already there and are willing to contribute please let us know.
Sacred Sites co-ordinator : Email
Southernern Plains (USA)
Southern Plains Co-ordinator : Judith Prueitt
Subscribe
Information about subscribing to the Druid Network, including online subscription and forms for subscribing by post.
Subscriptions Coordinator : Sue Bouvier
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Welsh Pages
Tudalennau Cymraeg Rhwydwaith Y Derwyddon
The Welsh pages are currently in hibernation awaiting someoneone inspired to give them new life. If that someone is you then please contact the office [at] druidnetwork [dot] org( office)
Westview - Western Canada
Westview is the branch of the Druid Network that services the Western Region of Canada (British Columbia to Manitoba). Our goal is to provide a place for Canadian Druids to ask questions, meet each other and share resources through the Druid Network.
Westview Members/Pages Co-ordinator : Athelia Nihtscada
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