A professional practitioner training for women who are committed to ushering in a new paradigm

and wish to become a  teacher, leader and guide...

• in the sacred work of the feminine through the mythic map of the Celtic Wheel of the Year.
• in re-connecting women to our relationship of reciprocity with the natural world, the land, our ancestors, the unseen realms and the sacred Cosmic order.
• in re-souling  and re-enchanting the world by weaving ancient Celtic ancestral wisdom with modern scientific knowledge into your life and work. 

An eleven month training that begins and ends with an in-person immersion retreat in the Ox Mountains in Sligo, on the land of the sovereign Queen Medhb.  

JOIN THE RISING 

Women, disrupting the old; birthing the new

Next Stage Celtic Wheel is a mythic map, a methodology and ancient modern medicine for this momentous time of chaos and change. 

Your unique wisdom, leadership and medicine are needed right now to mid-wife a new wiser more beautiful world into being.

Next Stage Celtic Wheel has empowered and emboldened 1,000+ women over the last 12 years to live the rhythms of nature and to resurrect our sovereign feminine nature in sacred union with our healthy masculine nature. 

We are Re-souling, Re-wilding, Re-santifying, Re-enchanting and Re-imagining ourselves and our world

through

Remembrance,

Reconnection,

Restoration,

Reweaving 

and Reunion 

"Ní neart go cur le chéile"

_{There is no strength without unity}

(Irish Proverb)

The Learning Journey  

 This is a comprehensive eleven month-long training, from October 2026 to September 2027, designed around the seasonal rhythms of nature and the creative cycle.

The group will be intentionally small to ensure rich connection and depth of the learning journey

The training will require a consistent time commitment throughout the 11 months, with two in-person immersions in Ireland, visits to sacred sites, monthly online calls, one to one mentoring, peer exchange, personal practice and project work. 

FACULTY & GUIDES

Mari kennedy Lead Teacher and Guide 

The training will be led by me, Mari Kennedy, founder and creator of Next Stage Celtic Wheel. The intention I hold for this training is to embolden and inspire you to bring your unique wisdom, leadership and medicine to the world through this ancestral modern path. 

I have been walking the Celtic Medicine Wheel in ritual repetition since Samhain 2011 - for 14 years; 14 spirals. I remain in 2026, an apprentice to this path of sacred cyclical remembrance. 

This training is an opportunity to apprentice closely with me in this work. 

The  9 modules are designed as journey of  remembrance and restoration that will involve mind, body and consciousness in a relational becoming with the more than human realm. 

The modules are woven as rhizomatic threads throughout the 11 months to gain a rooted understanding of the foundations of the work while deeply honouring the mystical intuitive nature and embodied soul wisdom of this feminine pathless path. 

Ritual making, walking the land, nature land based practices, ancestral medicine, creativity, play, wild craic and contemplative practices are at the heart of this learning journey. 

Module 1:

Foundations 

• Next Stage learning + the pathless path
• The 9 premises of NSCW 
• 3 sources of wisdom, 3 sources of knowledge, 3 ways of knowing
• Next Stage Celtic Wheel and the Return of Goddess Consciousness 

Module 2

EVER PRESENT ORIGINS 

• De-colonising time - Spiral time, circle time, cyclical time, seasonal time, calendar time, relational time, mythic time, linear time, Kairos time, Chronos time - and the return of Goddess consciousness. 
• The origins, history and evolution of the Celtic Wheel of the Year within bigger cycles of time and our evolution. 
• Understanding and clarifying what we mean by ‘Celtic” and ‘Next Stage"
• The waves of ancestors on the land of Ireland 

Module 3:

Ritual + Cosmology 

• Ritual in the Celtic tradition 
• Essentials of Ritual making 
• Nature, animism, Cosmic rhythms and the cosmology of the ancient indigenous Irish.
• The Otherworld (Ceantar /Altar), the circle, the ritual Directions, the Fifth Province(Cúige), the ancestors(sinsir), the three cauldrons (trí choire), Imbas(enlightened wisdom) and Silver Branch Perception
• The land and the sídh, sacred sites and the stars, the druids and the fíli, the tribe and the earth, the numinous and the sacred.

Module 4

NSCW Maps & Materials and 

• The circle and the spiral 
• The 8 festivals/  4 seasons/ 2 halves
• The Sovereign Centre
• The Wheel of the Goddesses
• The Wheel of Permissions 
• Sacred Geometry of the Wheel 
• The NSCW Foundational practices 

Module 5:

Next Stage Sovereignty 

• Our feminine (Yin) nature and masculine (Yang) nature, beyond gender.
• The Patriarchy, the return of the dark Goddess consciousness and women.
• The path of sovereignty - Banais Ríghe : Divine union of feminine and masculine.
• Leading with the feminine, enacting with the masculine.
• Redefining sovereignty and the return of goddess consciousness.

Module 6:

Mythology + Folklore 

• Cycles within Irish mythology + folklore of the seasons.
• The Otherworld, the Ancestors, the Liminal, the Celtic Goddesses.
• Queen Medb Mystery and Medicine 
• Working with Goddess archetypes - the 3 faces of the Goddess 
• Mythology from the women’s perspective.

Module 7

The Rebel Body

• De-colonising the body - Rebel Body, Animal body, Sovereign Body, Cyclical Body, Elemental body, Subtle body. Body as flourishing landscape.
• Cultivating coherence of body, mind, breath, soul, community, spirit, nature and the Cosmos- as facilitator, medicine woman, guide
• Embodying the seasons.
• Inhabiting the inner seasons.
• The 3 cauldrons- inner weaving, inner alchemy.

Module 8:

Facilitation Skills  & Next Stage Business 

• Cultivating Self as instrument
• Facilitation skills and group dynamics in a polarised world.
• Power, polarity, conflict and the shadow. 
• Facilitating on the subtle and energetic level.
• Facilitating women’s groups - feminine shadow
• Next Stage business, new paradigm business  for a time between worlds.

Module 9

The Path of your Dán

• Deep excavation of the unique constellation of gifts you were born to bring into the world. - your Soul's highest path.
• What’s your place in re-souling and re-birthing the world? 
• Clarifying your 'noble vow' as your guiding star. 

  Requirements & Time Commitment 

Prerequisite 

I am opening up applications this year. Applicants are welcome from women with a good understanding and lived knowledge of medicine wheels / nature based wisdom  or cyclical wisdom - from Ireland or other traditions.  

Time commitment  

As a rule I suggest you commit a minimum of 2- 3 hours a week in nature practice, with the material, in peer groups and on your project outside of the in-person immersion and the monthly teaching/practice calls. 

Requirements to receive your certification 

• Full attendance at the two in-person immersion retreats. 
• 90% attendance for the online training + practice calls. Recordings will be available. 
• 90% attendance in your Bean Feasas Groups (peer exchange and practice groups). 
• Completion of a project and facilitation report.