HOW MUCH SHOULD WITCHES AND OTHER PAGAN TEACHERS CHARGE FOR TRAINING?
Here are my musings on the subject - but others might think differently:
Last year, an experienced witch invited me to a one-day workshop they were running. Without looking too closely at the details, I said yes. I then had a double take when they asked me for a cheque for lb120.
I admit I was shocked - most of the pagan workshops I've been to cost around lb20 to lb40 for the day and I had simply assumed this one would be in that sort of price too. I only work part-time, because I care for my elderly, disabled mum, so I don't earn very much money and even lb40 has to be saved for carefully. I couldn't afford to pay lb120 for something non-essential.
But it wasn't just that I couldn't afford it - I also felt it was excessive. I mean, lb120 might be OK for a day of one-on-one tuition, but a workshop would probably have at least half a dozen people - possibly many more - and with them paying lb120 each, that adds up to a fair amount for a day's work. Perhaps I am being unfair. Perhaps there were high running costs involved, but the event was taking place at a private house, not a conference suite in a hotel, so venue hire can't have been a big part of that.
Perhaps posh food was being put on at lunchtime and perhaps there were valuable materials involved. Perhaps the teaching being offered was unique. Perhaps the end-of-day ritual was going to solve all my problems and open up amazing new opportunities for me. As I said, I didn't go, so I can't say.
And, compared with training for professional skills, lb120 a day is cheap. When I wanted to learn to use the DTP software Adobe InDesign,
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