Here is the projected course of instruction for my Wicca 101 class, starting this in September.  Each numbered section will be at least one week long, sometimes longer.  It is biased towards a broadly British Traditionalist approach, and also is more shamanic in tone than many such classes would be.  This is because I know my own tradition better than others, and have considerable experience in shamanic practices.  Of course, other people will offer different emphases: that is how we make a tradition our own!

My students should be able to make their way around the larger Pagan community with some sense of what is happening by the time they have finished.  

1. Introduction:

•  The Pagan and Wiccan world view
•  The Three Fold Law and Wiccan Rede
•  Thought, Energy, and Attitude
•  Structure and Spontaneity
•  Magical Etiquette
•  Blue-in-the-heart Exercise (a beginning
exercise in using energy)

2. Purification and Energy:

•  Basic
Purification – fasting, energy methods, smudging, incenses, baths
•  House Cleansing
•  Emotional Cleansing
•  Raising Power and Handling it

3.
The Gods, Goddesses, and Right Relations

•  Introduction to the Gods, Goddesses,
Spirits, Elements, Place
•  Tables
of Correspondences
•  Pagan Prayer,
Prayer Smokes, Offerings

4. Shielding and Safety:

• 
Shielding the self, circle, and room
•  More on the Gods/Goddesses and Spirit world
•  Altars and their Construction
•  A Basic Circle Script

5.
Issues in Ritual

• Purification
• Safety
•
Fear
• Building energy
• Kinds of rituals

6. Spells and Magick

• Structure of a spell
•  Kinds of spells
• Talismans
• Wards

7. Nature,
Crystals and Herbs:

•  Crystals – uses, abuses, common errors
•  Herbs: in healing, when to harvest,
asking permission, giving thanks, leaving offerings
• 
Stones
•  Connecting with the
earth and Nature

8. Psychic Healing:

•  Curing and healing
•  Different kinds, with and w/out direct
involvement of spirits and Gods/Goddesses
•  Set up a healing circle

9. Divination

•  Tarot
•  Runes
•  I-Ching
• Pendulum

10. Trance

• 
Drums, Music, Chanting, Dancing,
• Incorporation, Deity and spirit ‘possession’
•  Trance journey
•  chants

11. Kinds of Pagans
Traditions

• British Traditional
•
Reclaiming
• Faery
• Druid
• Asatru
• Eclectic
• Solitary

12. A Complete
Circle Ritual Conducted by the participants