Upcoming online event: CRITWITCHCON2026 September 4-6, 2026
Hey, witches, I want to preface this with a big fat thank you to the mods for allowing me to share information about this & future events with the r/SASSWitches community. I am Hayley Jay, part of the CTWC planning team, and while I've lurked here for some time, I'm making an effort to decloak and hopefully share some of my witchcraft plus CTWC events of interest.
Critical Thinking Witch Collective's CRITWITCHCON2026
Sept 4th - 6th, 2026
A Virtual Convention
In 2026 our overarching theme for CRITWITCHCON2026 is "Fallow and Feral: Active Paths of Rest." We're talking at length this year about the importance of rest in trying times, ways to incorporate fallowness into the cycles of our practices, disconnecting productivity from worth, and straying off the path to find meaning in the messy, unstructured places outside of the lines.
Check out the full agenda here!
If you’ve never attended CRITWITCHCON2026, here’s what to expect:
3 days of live (& occasionally pre-recorded) virtual content presented from a wide variety of perspectives, centering around secular, nontheistic, agnostic, atheist, skeptical, analytical, and science-minded witchcraft.
Live Event - $45 plus Eventbrite fees - Stream live with us and our community members in Zoom and Discord! Includes access to the recorded videos post-Con!
Recordings Only - $30 plus Eventbrite fees - Access to the recorded videos and our community in the Discord!
Scholarships available!
Tickets on sale now!
We can't wait to see you there!
https://criticalthinkingwitches.com/events/
About us:
The Critical Thinking Witch Collective (CTWC) was founded in 2021, and has spent five years building a vibrant virtual space, a community of critical thinking witches and seekers of all varieties — centering the secular, nontheistic, agnostic, atheist, skeptical, analytical, and science-minded. Our volunteer organizers strive to foster a safer space where magic and science are respected equally, acknowledging that there can be genuine beauty and meaning in the mysterious and the magical.
The highlight of our year is CritWitchCon. Traditionally held in September (ushering in many a witch's favorite month), the Con is a yearly paid event, showcasing three days of speakers and workshops, with opportunities for contributors and participants to convene in breakout rooms, with both freeform and guided conversations.
The rest of the year we keep connected with Witches’ Brews: free quarterly events typically consisting of a panel, a workshop, and supported breakout discussions. Each Brew has a different theme, encouraging our community members to connect with one another through their craft.
There are challenges in nurturing space for people that value the magical and esoteric as well as the analytical and scientific — sometimes, the largest of which is time zones! We meet these challenges for our community. While our social spaces have been created by witches, are heavily populated by witches, and tend to center witchcraft, how people enact magic in their lives is as diverse as the human condition. As such, identifying as a witch is not a requirement for participating. Our only requirement is our central pillar — critical thinking.
For us, critical thinking means that members of our community are thoughtful about their craft without rejecting or demeaning the paths of others.
…We are mindful of misinformation while remaining open to new information, regardless of how it may or may not intersect with our current understanding.
…We reflect on the differences between history and mythology, data and lore.
…We recognize the identified and potential biases present in historical records, and how they affect depictions of events or cultures.
Even as we welcome the magical and the mysterious, we also respect, accept, and implement the scientific method: we assess and reassess, resisting the status quo while remaining open-minded.
There can be no truly inclusive list of topics that we explore because there are so many people and interests in our community, but much of our shared expertise focuses on DIY (do it yourself); custom practice building; critical discussion on witchcraft, folklore, “woo,” psychological self-awareness, and history; sharing skills and knowledge on green witchery, divination, sigil crafting, spell building, and personal and accessory safety; ancestor relationships, research, and so, so much more.
The Critical Thinking Witch Collective helps us reclaim connection to each other outside of the constraints of time and distance, appreciate the world together, and share folklore and our own magics through the lens of critical thinking.
We look forward to seeing you in the ether!
