Our 2019 Summary
Happy new year everyone!
2019 for Quareia was very much about getting ourselves organised with checks and balances by expanding our trustee board to its maximum capacity and solidifying the student Council. We now have good oversight in place to keep an eye on everything from how the donations are used, to how accessible the coursework is, and to provide support and fair access to minority students.
We also spent a lot of time looking at how best to provide face to face events for students that would not damage the lone aspect of study that is so important in the course, while also ensuring that students had a place where they could meet other students and Quareia workers, debate, discuss and explore.
FREE BOOKS AND TEXTS
In 2019 we expanded our free books and texts page to include some of Josephine’s archives of her past work, along with putting up more free books. This will be continued into 2020 and beyond as there is still a pile of work to be tidied up and uploaded. Josephine has committed to put up free downloads of any of her future books and also any of her current books that are not with outside publishers.
QUAREIA TRANSLATIONS
2019 was also the year that our French friends of Quareia headed by Sarabée
embarked on the mammoth task of translating the whole course into French. It will take a few years as the course is so vast, but just like when Quareia was started, each module will go up as it is finished. Sarabée is a professional translator and her work on Quareia is a massive gift to us.
2020 - What We Are Up To
EVENTS - 2020 IS GOING TO BE A BUSY YEAR FOR US.
We have a conference planned in the UK in Sept 2020 with some truly awesome speakers from various branches of magical thought https://www.quareia.com/2020-conference
A student 4 day residential gathering with Josephine organised in the UK – further details to be posted on the Quareia website in spring 2020
And also, a 4 day student residential gathering in May with Josephine in beautiful Slovenia amidst forests and mountains… a great place to go and talk to the forest! Booking is now open and we have 4 places left. https://www.quareia.com/slovenia
The residential gatherings are open to any Quareia student who has completed up to and including Apprentice module 1 lesson 4.
We are also in the middle of organising some one day non residential informal get togethers in the south west UK, where anyone studying Quareia, even if they have just started, can come along, and join in discussions with Josephine. We will be talking about aspects of the training, magical dynamics that students need to think about, along with the many topics that students are interested in. Details will be posted on our events page on the Quareia website.
ACCESSIBILITY FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED
2020 is also the year where we are planning a bit of tidying up on the Quareia website and the PDF lessons, and also to make everything more accessible to visually impaired students. It is a huge job and once we are very clear as to what adjustments are needed, we will be calling on an army of tech volunteers to assist in redoing the PDF’s so that screen reading software can better read the lessons. We are currently in the phase of discussion with a disability access worker to ensure we know what we need to do.
MENTORING
Are now at the phase where some apprentice students have completed the Apprentice section and are now stepping into Initiate training with mentoring by me (Josephine). It is an exciting transition for us, and I have been blown away by the high standard of the work that people have achieved, along with the major magical personal evolutionary leaps that have been made by students. You have all done an awesome job with your training and it bodes really well for the future: together we are forging strong magical paths that will potentially have positive repercussions for generations to come!
PLANETS!
There has been much talk on the net about the huge Saturn/Pluto et al conjunction in this month of January. We at Quareia have taken the reins with this planetary party, and will be using the power of the conjunction to smarten up, get our heads down and ‘shoulder to the boulder’ in service, and work hard while cutting away the dead wood…. A better functional more accessible website, more on the ground events, expanding student engagement, expanding free texts availability, and trying not to go mad from overwork !
I would like to wish everyone a fruitful and productive year ahead – it has been a difficult year for a lot of people around the world, with political shifts, economic hardships and personal disasters. But we have survived, strengthened and grown as a result. Here’s to a strong, creative and magical future!
Josephine McCarthy
