Substack: @WitchAF

I create educational writing on medicinal folklore, animism, poetry, grief, and culturally grounded spiritual practice.

Substack: @WitchAF

I create educational writing on medicinal folklore, animism, poetry, grief, and culturally grounded spiritual practice.

A Wise Woman's Treatise for Troubled Times

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About

I am Dawn Dancing Otter, an educator, ceremonialist, writer, dancer, doctoral scholar, mentor of Irish rites, griefwork, and pathways of belonging as a diasporic Irish descendant. I support people who are ready to explore rites of passage, somatic griefwork, and sociospiritual alchemy with depth and integrity. My approach is evidence-based, culturally grounded, and shaped by research, lived experience, oral tradition, and a deep relationship to the Earth.

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Ways of Knowing

9 Journeys: 1 : 1 Trauma Recovery Coaching

Work one on one with Dawn through 9 semi-monthly or monthly sessions, to reclaim the parts of you that were left behind after trauma, releasing the unacknowledged weight of grief you carry, and calibrating the forward momentum of your personal evolution. (Zoom or Phone Sessions)

Rites of Passage Apprenticeship

For experienced therapists, coaches, or facilitators. Irish rites of passage, revised for diasporic contexts; somatic griefwork; and sociospiritual alchemy in a one-on-one mentorship.

(1-3year containers based on mutual agreement)

Womxn’s Keening Circle

For womxn-identifying people: both education and practical somatic vocalization, and self-expression to explore personal, collective, and intergenerational grief specific to womxn.

(online or in person cohorts)

Womxn’s Keening Facilitator Apprenticeship Program

Group program for Womxn-identifying folk to learn ancestral grief ceremonial facilitation rooted in diasporic Irish rites, folklore, storytelling, and keening ceremonial practice.
(Online and in-person cohorts)